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The musical Your Arms Too Short To Box With God is presented at The Lyceum Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run on Broadway for 429 performances. The musical is based on the Biblical Book of Matthew.
The Police play at the Nashville, Paris, France, Europe. While in the city, the band's leader, Sting, takes a stroll through the red light district and comes up with the idea of writing a song entitled Roxanne, about falling in love with a prostitute.
Police are called in to calm an angry crowd when The Clash are confronted at the Belfast Europe Hotel in Belfast, Northern Ireland, because the group's gig at the Ulster Hall has been called off at the last minute because insurance documents have not been secured.
A Corvair turbo-prop plane crash in a swampy wood near Gillsburg, Mississippi, USA, takes the lives of Lynyrd Skynyrd members Ronnie Van Zant, Steven Gaines and Cassie Gaines.