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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.
In London, The 
Irish blues band Them, with vocalist 
The Tamla Motown Revue package tour featuring The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, The Miracles and Martha And The Vandellas, plus UK band Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames plays at the Colston Hall, Bristol, UK.
In an effort to launch a new teenage dance craze, The Jingle Jump is launched with a tv ad on WNEW TV 5 in New York City, USA.
A new type of tremolo device for stringed instruments is patented in the USA by Jack L. Matthew and Albert Punturi of Detroit, Michigan.
Ray Davies of The Kinks files papers to create Ray Davies (Entertainment) Ltd., which will manage his songwriting income, not only from Kinks releases but from an increasing number of other artists. In the evening a launch party is held for The Honeycombs' latest single, a cover of the Ray Davies composition Something Better Beginning.
The Beatles release a new single, Ticket To Ride/Yes It Is, on Odeon Records in Germany, Europe.
The stage musical On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Burton Lane, is playing at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 280 performances.
The stage musical Man Of La Mancha is playing at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of almost two and a half years.