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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.
Paul McCartney is undertaking three weeks of recording sessions at Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.
To celebrate their 11th wedding anniversary, John Lennon buys a heart-shaped diamond and 5000 gardenias for Yoko Ono. She buys him a Rolls Royce.
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Mi Amigo, the ship that was home to UK pirate station Radio Caroline for sixteen years, sinks in the North Sea.Twenty eight year old Texan Joseph Riviera, pulls out a gun in the New York offices of Elektra/Asylum Records, and demands to see either Jackson Browne or The Eagles, because he wants them to finance his trucking business. He is over-powered by police.
The musical 42nd Street is presented at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will subsequently move to the Majestic Theatre and then to The St. James Theatre, before finally closing in 1989, having racked up a total of 3,486 performances.
Bob Marley, suffering from terminal cancer, is undergoing treatment at the Issels Clinic in the Bavarian Alps, Germany, Europe. He will remain at the clinic until May 1981.