Showing all 6 Facts found
Click to filter results
Tommy Christian And His Orchestra are playing during a three-month engagement at The Mounds Country Club, East St. Louis, Illinois, USA, operated by the notorious St. Louis gangster William Patrick 'Bow Wow' McQuillan.
Ginger Rogers makes her Broadway theater debut when the musical Top Speed opens in New York City, USA.
On Christmas Day, for reasons never conclusively established, sharecropper Charlie Lawson murders his wife and six of his seven children at their farm on Brook Cove Road in Germanton, North Carolina, USA, before shooting himself in the woods nearby. This terrible tragedy will inspire the 1930 song The Murder Of The Lawson Family by The Carolina Buddies
Billy Horton of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based doo-wop vocal group The Silhouettes is born.
The musical Woof, Woof opens at The Royale Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for 46 performances.