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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.
Songwriter, singer, film producer, publisher and market analyst Sam Coslow dies aged 79 in Lawrence Hospital, Bronxville, New York City, USA. Among his best-known songs were True Blue Lou (written in 1929 with Leo Robin and Richard Whiting for The Dance of Life); Sing You Sinners (1930, with W. Frank Harling); Just One More Chance (1931, with Arthur Johnston); Thanks and The Day You Came Along (both written with Arthur Johnston for 1933's Bing Crosby picture Too Much Harmony); Learn To Croon (1933, with Arthur Johnston, for the Bing Crosby film College Humor); Cocktails For Two (1934, with Arthur Johnston, for Murder at the Vanities); and My Old Flame.
Argentine forces invade and occupy the British-owned Falkland Islands and South Georgia, setting in train a series of events which will lead to The Falklands War, during which the British government will send a naval task force to retake the islands. The 1983 song Shipbuilding by Elvis Costello, best-remembered in a version by Robert Wyatt, is about the wider implications of this war. Other songs dealing with the Falklands War and its implications include Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits, Another Man's Cause by The Levellers, Island Of No Return by Billy Bragg and Southampton Dock by Pink Floyd.
Country-blues singer and guitarist Cliff Carlisle dies aged 78 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.