1732 – Composer Franz Xaver Brixi was born.

1837 – Composer Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev was born.

1905 – Composer Sir Michael Kemp Tippett was born.

1932 – Freddy Martin formed a new band and was hired to play the Roosevelt Grill in New York City. Merv Griffin later became Martin’s lead vocalist.

1941 – The Andrews Sisters recorded “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.”

1968 – Newark, NJ, police confiscated a shipment of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s album “Two Virgins”. The album featured a nude cover.

1975 – U.S. District Court Judge Richard Owen ruled in New York, that John Lennon and his lawyers will have access to Department of Immigration files pertaining to his deportation case.

1975 – The Allman Brothers Band were named “Outstanding Community Organization” by the Georgia Department of Corrections.

1979 – The trial of ex-Sex Pistol, Sid Vicious for the October 1978 murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, opened in New York City. Vicious died of a heroin overdose, thereby not living to hear the verdict.

1980 – Larry Williams was found dead in his home in Los Angeles, CA. The gunshot wound to the head was never confirmed as the result of a murder or suicide.

1983 – The musical “Annie” closed on Broadway at the Uris Theatre after 2,377 performances.

1993 – The musical “Gypsy Passion” closed after 55 performances.

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