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While in the army, he boxed 100 exhibition bouts. Louis died of a heart attack in Paradise, Nevada on April 12, 1981. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. He has an arena named after him, the Joe Louis Arena where the Detroit Red Wings play.
He was laid to rest at the Flushing Cemetery, Section 9 in Flushing, Queens, New York City not too far from his home in Corona, Queens. His tombstone is a red granite, emblazoned simply Satchmo Louis Armstrong with a beautiful white trumpet figure laden on top. Buried with him is his last of four wives, Lucille Armstrong who died in 1983. Inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2007 and the Long Island Hall of Fame in 2008.