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The musical comedy Annie Get Your Gun, by Irving Berlin, is presented during a run of 1,147 performances at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.Entrepreneur Sam Phillips signs a lease on a building at 706 Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, which he will establish as the Memphis Recording Service. In the early 1950s it will become the home of Sun Records, with artists including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis.
That Lucky Old Sun by Frankie Laine on Mercury Records reaches No1 in the Billboard magazine Best-Seller Chart in the USA.
The musical comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with music by Jule Styne, and starring Carol Channing, is presented at The Ziegfeld Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 740 performances.