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Geronimo is photographed at the wheel of a luxury roadster during a press show at a ranch located southwest of Ponca City, Oklahoma, USA. In 1972, the image will inspire singer-songwriter Michael Martin Murphey to write Geronimo's Cadillac, because, "the two images together, Geronimo and a Cadillac, just struck me as a song title. It was every irony I could ever think of about our culture in two words. Their attempt to make of him what we would define as a civilized person. That was the reason they put him in a Cadillac in the first place. He was actually in jail at the time." (For the record, the vehicle in the photograph was a Locomobile, not a Cadillac). An entirely different song with the name Geronimo's Cadillac (1986) will be recorded by German rock duo Modern Talking.
Apache Indian chief

Judy Garland makes her film debut. At this point she is still known as Frances Ethel Gumm of The Gumm Sisters, who begin filming in Hollywood, California, for a movie short called The Big Revue in which she and her sisters perform In the Good Old Sunny South.



Unchained Melody reaches No1 in the Sheet Music Sales Chart in the UK. The position is achieved by amalgamating sales of versions of the song by Jimmy Young, Al Hibbler and Liberace.
The Treniers, The Chas McDevitt Group, The Hedley Ward Trio and Terry Wayne play at The City Hall, Sheffield, UK.





David Ruffin collapses in the parking lot after The Temptations play the last night of a week at The Club Venus, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is taken to St. Joseph's Hospital and examined for a possible perforated ulcer.



The Who, The Scaffold and Spooky Tooth perform at the St John's College Ball, Cambridge, England, UK, Europe.

The Grateful Dead play at California Hall, San Francisco, California, USA, under the pseudonym Bobby Ace And The Cards From the Bottom Of The Deck.



Ted Nugent plays in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, supported by The Scorpions and Def Leppard.
Psychopathic serial killer Henry Lee Lucas is arrested by Texas Ranger Phil Ryan, initially for unlawful possession of a firearm. He will, however, eventually be convicted of eleven homicides. Lee's crimes are thought to have provided the impetus for the 1996 cover version of the traditional murder ballad Henry Lee by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, featuring P.J. Harvey.


Former R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry turns up at band rehearsals in Atlanta, Georgia, and tells the group that he has now become a fully qualified sushi chef.




Jazz guitarist
Alison Moyet releases her eighth studio album The Minutes, on Metropolis Records in the USA.

Concrete and Gold tour, Foo Fighters play at The Sportpaleis, Antwerp, Belgium, Europe, sopported by Wolf Alice.
On their 113-date


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