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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.Jose 'Chepito' Areas, percussionist of Santana, is born in Leon, Nicaragua, Central America.
As part of Operation Crossroads, the United States detonates an atomic bomb underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll in the Micronesian Islands of the Pacific Ocean. Grace Slick will be inspired by this event to record her 1984 song Bikini Atoll, describing how the atomic blast might have seemed to a pair of lovers on the Atoll.