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The musical revue Boys And Girls Together, with music by Sammy Fain, is playing at The Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 191 performances.While flying an Airspeed Oxford for the Air Transport Auxiliary from Blackpool to RAF Kidlington near Oxford, renowned aviatrix Amy Johnson goes off course in adverse weather conditions. Reportedly out of fuel, she bails out as her aircraft crashes into the Thames Estuary and her body is never recovered. The 1976 song Flying Sorcery by Al Stewart is one of the best-known numbers inspired by Johnson's exploits, but others include Amy by Horatio Nicholls [1930], Johnnie, Our Aeroplane Girl sung by Jack Lumsdaine [1930] and Queen Of The Air [2008] by Peter Aveyard.
At the age of 19, singer and actress Carol Channing makes her first appearance on stage in New York, in Marc Blitzstein's 'socialist opera' No For An Answer, when it opens at The Mecca Temple, New York City, USA.
Grady Thomas is born in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He will find
success as a founding member and vocalist of Parliament/Funkadelic.
The musical Pal Joey, starring Gene Kelly, with music by Rodgers And Hart plays at The Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 374 performances on Broadway.
Sonny Brown's Orchestra plays for 'an old-time dance' at The Uptown Ballroom, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Popular singer Rosita Serrano, with Kurt Hohenberger And His Solisten-Orchester, records Bei Dir
War Es Immer So Schon, in Berlin, Germany, Europe.