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Larry Wayne Fischer is born in Los Angeles, California, USA. Despite suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (not to mention attacking his mother with a knife), he will find international cult celebrity status under the name Wild Man Fischer after being discovered by Frank Zappa and releasing his debut LP, An Evening With Wild Man Fischer, in 1969.
Singing cowboy Tex Ritter plays the fifth night of a week at the St. Charles Theatre, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility, Washington, USA, and will subsequently be used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, Asia. Songs inspired by the creation of plutonium include The Plutonium Song by Malvina Reynolds, Uh-oh Plutonium by Anne Waldman and Plutonium by Alice Chambers.
