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The musical comedy Annie Get Your Gun, by Irving Berlin, is presented during a run of 1,147 performances at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
Again by Mel Torme on Capitol Records enters the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart. It will peak at No7 during an 18-week stay on the chart.
A three-year-old girl named Kathy Fiscus falls into an abandoned well and, despite rescue attempts, dies of suffocation in San Marino, California, USA. Within ten days Jimmie Osborne will be inspired to write and recorded the song The Death Of Little Kathy Fiscus in the style of the classic 'event ballads' of the 1920's. It was Osborne's 5th single release and within eight months it sold over a million copies.
The musical comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with music by Jule Styne, and starring Carol Channing, is presented at The Ziegfeld Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 740 performances.