October 9, 1972 (Monday)
- Written by Gerome Ragni, who had scored a Broadway success with the musical Hair, the rock musical Dude: The Highway Life, opened at the Broadway Theatre, Dude was universally reviled by the critics and closed after 16 performances, having lost $800,000. Martin Gottfried described t as "incoherent, childish, and boring".
- Born: Etan Patz, American boy whose disappearance in 1979 remained a mystery for more than 30 years, in New York. In 2012, a man who had lived in the neighborhood would confess to the crime, although there was no physical evidence to corroborate his statement.
- Died: Miriam Hopkins, 69, American film and TV actress
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“Especially when the October wind
With frosty fingers punishes my hair,”
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