7th June

The musical comedy Wonderful Town, starring Rosalind Russell, is playing at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 559 performances.

Jazz piano giant Thelonious Monk has his first studio recording session, for the French record label Disques Vogue, in Paris, France, Europe. During the session he records Round Midnight, Evidence, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Well You Needn't, Reflections, Wee See, Eronel, Off Minor and Hackensack.

At the Pythian Temple studios in New York City, USA, Bill Haley and His Comets record Shake, Rattle and Roll plus A.B.C.Boogie. Their version of Shake, Rattle And Roll has its lyrics radically changed because the original by Big Joe Turner is considered too risqu

Alan Turing, widely considered the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, commits suicide at his home in Wilmslow, Cheshire, UK. A post-mortem examination establishes the cause of death as cyanide poisoning. When his body was discovered, an apple lay half-eaten beside his bed, and this was believed to be the means by which the fatal poison was consumed. The song The Apple [2013] on the album The Big Other by Fiction, is about Turing, who had been horrifically persecuted for his homosexuality.