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Avant-garde jazz drummer and recording artist Sunny Murray is born in Idabel, Oklahoma, USA.
Popular singer Belle Baker, marries Elias H. Sugarman, editor of music trade magazine Billboard, in The York Democratic Club, New York City, USA.
Ben Pollack's Pick-A-Rib Boys record You Made Me Love You, The Snake Charmer, If It's The Last Thing I Do and I'm In My Glory for Decca Records in the USA.
Harry Sosnick's Orchestra records Moon At Sea and Here Comes The Sandman for Decca Records in the USA.
Benny Goodman records Whispering In The Dark for Verve Records in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
Ella Fitzgerald records Rock It For Me with The Chick Webb Band for Brunswick Records in New York City, USA. The song includes the lyric "today the rage is rhythm and rhyme, so won't you satisfy my soul with the rock and roll", one of the earliest uses of the phrase 'rock and roll' on record.
Sophie Tucker and Harry Sosnick record Some Of These Days and The Lady Is A Tramp for Decca Records in the USA.
Chick Webb And His Little Chicks record I Got Rhythm, In A Little Spanish Town and I Ain't Got Nobody for Decca Records in New York City, USA.