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The Noel Coward-composed musical Sail Away is presented at The Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 167 performances.The musical Milk And Honey, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, is playing at The Martin Beck Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 543 performances.
The stage musical How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, starring Rudy Vallee, is playing at the 46th Street Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,417 performances.Elvis Presley continues filming studio scenes for his next movie, It Happened At The World's Fair, in MGM Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Homesteaders, a folk music group including future star Judy Collins, record Roll On Columbia, Cape Cod Girls and other tracks for Riverside Records at Plaza Sound Studios, New York City, USA.
Phil Everly heads the bill on a package tour at The Globe, Stockton, UK. The show was supposed to star The Everly Brothers, but Don Everly collapsed after a suicide attempt in London's Savoy Hotel. Other acts on the bill include Frank Ifield, Ketty Lester and The Vernons Girls.
The Swinging Blue Genes (later to become The Swinging Blue Jeans) play at The Cavern, Liverpool, UK, supported by The Undertakers.
R'n'b vocal group The Flamingos play the second of thirteen nights at The Peppermint Lounge West, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
John Lee
Hooker, T-bone Walker, Willie Dixon, Helen
Humes, Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee and others play in The
American Folk Blues Festival in The Konzerthaus, Vienna, Austria, Europe.
Dave
'Baby' Cortez plays the fifth of seven nights at The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.
In her first solo recording session for Columbia
Records in New York City, USA, Barbra Streisand records Lover Come
Back To Me, Happy Days
Are Here Again, Right As The Rain and When The Sun Comes Out.
Bobby Rydell plays the sixth of ten nights at The Montecello Supper Club, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA.
Little Stevie Wonder steps out on a club stage for the first time at The Latin Quarter, Detroit, Michigan, USA.Neil Sedaka performs Next Door To An
Angel, on daily tv pop show American
Bandstand, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Michael Balzary is born in Melbourne, Australia. He will find fame as Flea, bassist in The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
US President John F. Kennedy is advised that the CIA has obtained
photographic evidence of a build up, by Russia, of medium range
ballistic missiles on the island of Cuba. Kennedy convenes a meeting of the nine members of the National Security Council and five other key advisers. The decisions taken by the Council will initiate the Cuban Missile Crisis. Until the resolution of the crisis two weeks later, when Russia agrees to remove its missiles from Cuba, the world will live in fear of imminent nuclear war. The 1964 Phil Ochs song Talking Cuban Crisis depicts the responses of one ordinary American to the crisis.