What Happened – May 9

It was on this day in 1955 that the television show Sam and Friends premiered.  Running twice a day on a local NBC station in DC, this 5-minute program featured puppets lip-syncing to various comical songs. The host was a character named Sam, but it was a lil’ frog who ended up stealing the limelight. The show lasted until 1961, but Jim Henson’s puppets…renamed “Muppets”…would continue on to this day.

 

The first event that Wiki mentions occurring on this day in history is “1457 BC – Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC) between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh. It is the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail” and the latest is “2006 – Estonia ratifies the European Constitution.

A few other things that also happened on this day are:

1937 – Edgar Bergen & his dummy Charlie McCarthy make their radio debut.

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1980 A freighter collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa FL, resulting in a collapse of the main span. 35 people, in cars as well as a Greyhound bus, fall 150 ft. into the water and die.

 

Happy birthday to Billy Joel, Candice Bergen, Steve Katz, and Tom Petersson.

 

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