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The musical Fiddler On The Roof, starring Zero Mostel, is performed at The Majestic Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run continuously (but at three different theatres) until 1972 notching up 3,242 performances.
The rock musical Your Own Thing is presented at The Orpheum Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 937 performances.
The musical Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, is performed at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,847 performances.
The controversial hippy musical, Hair is playing at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1750 performances.
The rock musical Hair (which includes a scene with a fully nude cast) is presented during a run of 1,997 performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe. The cast includes Marsha Hunt, Paul Nicholas, Sonja Kristina and Jimmy Winston.
Ten Years After play the last of four nights at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by Spirit.
Slim Harpo and The Illinois Speed Press play the last of five nights at The Whisky A-Go-Go, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Fleetwood Mac play at The Angel Hotel, Godalming, UK.
The Liverpool Scene play at The Country Club, Belsize Park, London, UK.
Spooky Tooth play at Mothers, Erdington, Birmingham, UK.
Taste play at Farx, Southall, Middlesex, UK. The band includes guitarist Rory Gallagher who will go on to greater success as a solo performer.
The Rolling Stones are in Olympic Studios, London, UK, working on the title song for their album Let It Bleed with producer Jimmy Miller.
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For the second consecutive day, Jimi Hendrix jams with Roland Kirk at Ronnie Scott's Club, London, UK, and the pair continue later at Hendrix's Brook Street home.
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Pacific Gas And Electric play at the MPLS Labor Temple, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, supported by Savoy Brown.
A package tour featuring Gene Pitney, The Marmalade, Joe Cocker, The Iveys and the Mike Cotton Sound comes to an end at The ABC, Blackpool, UK.
Textile mill worker Austin Wiggin Jr of Freemont, New Hampshire, USA, gets his three untutored daughters to record an album under the name The Shaggs, entitled The Shaggs' Philosophy Of the World. It will enter music biz mythology as one of the most magnificently awful albums ever recorded.
The Incredible String Band play at The Rex Theatre, Cambridge, UK.
Janis Joplin and The Kozmic Blues Band play at The University of Toledo Fieldhouse, Toledo, Ohio, USA.
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Tonight's broadcast of The Smothers Brothers tv show in the USA is cancelled following a row over on-air censorship of folk diva Joan Baez who had dedicated the song The Green, Green Grass Of Home to her husband David Harris, currently serving time in jail as a draft resistor. On the same show she and The Smothers Brothers perform the Bob Dylan song I Shall Be Released - another evident comment on her husband's plight.
Jethro Tull play the last of fhree nights at Eagles Ballroom, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Stevie Wonder plays at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon, UK, supported by The Foundations and The Flirtations. Emcee for the evening is radio deejay Emperor Rosko.
British pop idol Cliff Richard spends the first of three days on a promotional visit to Italy, Europe.