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Sugar Babies - The Burlesque Musical, starring Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney, is presented at The Mark Hellinger Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1208 performances.
The musical 42nd Street is presented at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will subsequently move to the Majestic Theatre and then to The St. James Theatre, before finally closing in 1989, having racked up a total of 3,486 performances.
Bob Marley, suffering from terminal cancer, is undergoing treatment at the Issels Clinic in the Bavarian Alps, Germany, Europe. He will remain at the clinic until May 1981.
Sixteen people die off the coast of Cornwall, UK, when the Penlee Lifeboat, Solomon Browne, goes to the aid of the coaster Union Star after its engines fail in heavy seas. The lifeboat had managed to rescue four people but then both vessels were lost with all hands. The 2008 song Solomon Browne by singer-songwriter Seth Lakeman is about the Penlee lifeboat disaster.
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