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The stage musical Man Of La Mancha is playing at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of almost two and a half years.
The Righteous Brothers are playing during a month-long engagement at The Sands, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.After strangling his mother to death and stabbing his wife, engineering student and former US Marine Charles Whitman kills fourteen people and wounds 32 others during a random shooting spree from the top of a tower at The University Of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA. The incident will inspire Harry Chapin to write his 1972 song Sniper. Other songs referring to Whitman include Psycho by Leon Payne, Down There By The Train by Tom Waits, The Ballad of Charles Whitman by Kinky Friedman and The Tower by Insane Clown Posse.
R'n'b and jazz guitarist George Benson begins recording his album The George Benson Cookbook with producer John Hammond.
Having crashed his motorcycle at the end of July, Bob Dylan is recuperating at the home of his doctor, Ed Thaler, in Middletown, New York State.