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The town of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, is incorporated as a city. The City of Boston will inspire the numerous songs including Boston by The Byrds, Boston Tea Party by Alex Harvey, Boston Rag by Steely Dan, Roadrunner by Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers and Boston (Ladies of Cambridge) by Vampire Weekend.

Pauline Hall, The Great Rauschle, Lizzie Evans And Harry Mills, Sam Marion And The McCoy Sisters, The Automobile Girl and The Lefevre Saxophone Quartette are appearing at The Orpheum Theatre, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.

Boogie Woogie piano pioneer Clarence 'Pine Top' Smith records Driving Wheel Blues for Brunswick/Vocalion Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA, but the track is never issued.

Mal Hallett And His Orchestra record Moonlight On the Highway, Let's Have Another Cigarette, Life Of The Party and Turn On That Red Hot Heat for Decca Records in the USA.

The Trolley Song by Judy Garland enters the Billboard magazine Top Ten Best-Selling Retail Records chart in the USA at No4. Don't Fence Me In by Bing Crosby remains at No1.

Country singer Bob Newman records A Lonesome Truck Driver's Blues, and Turtle Dovin' at King Recording Studio, 1540 Brewster Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

It is reported that despite injuries to four band members in a bus crash, Al Smith with The Broomdusters records Chop Chop Boogie and Hot Rod Special for Meteor Records at Bill Putnam's Universal Recording, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Maybellene by Chuck Berry peaks at No5 on the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA. On the same day, I Hear You Knockin' by Smiley Lewis enters the Billboard R'n'B singles chart. Meanwhile, over in London, rock'n'roll fan Sidney Turner is fined £3 10s for 'creating an abominable noise' by blasting out Bill Haley's Shake Rattle And Roll, much to the annoyance of his neighbours, for two and a half hours during an otherwise quiet afternoon.

Chuck Berry releases a new single, Jaguar And Thunderbird, on Chess Records in the USA.

The Top Ten Singles on radio station KAKC, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, for the weeking beginning on this date is as follows :
1. The Beatles - She Loves You
2. Barbara Lewis - Puppy Love
3. The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand
3. The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There
4. Lesley Gore - You Don't Own Me
5. Diane Renay - Navy Blue
6. The Rip Chords - Hey Little Cobra
7. Dale And Grace - Stop And Think It Over
8. Al Hirt - Java
9. The Four Seasons - Dawn (Go Away)
10. Elvis Presley - Kissin' Cousins
10. Elvis Presley - It Hurts Me

The Rip Chords perform Three Window Coupe on weekly tv pop show American Bandstand in Los Angeles, California, USA.

The Soul Agents play at The Flamingo Ballroom, Illogan Highway, Pool, between Redruth and Camborne, Cornwall, UK.

Roger Miller records King Of The Road for Smash Records, in their Quonset Hut studio in Music Row, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

The Devons (formed by Chuck Girard formerly of The Castells) record This Bike Of Mine and Honda Bike for Decca Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Thou Shalt Not Steal by Dick And Dee Dee peaks at No5 in the Canadian pop singles chart.

Joni Mitchell performs Favourite Colour, Born To Take The Highway, Blow Away The Morning Dew and Me And My Uncle on the tv show Let's Sing Out, hosted by Oscar Brand in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

In Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Elvis Presley buys a brand new Oldsmobile Toronado.

Elvis Presley is filming scenes for his next movie, Speedway, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, USA. The film also stars Nancy Sinatra.

Patrick Sky plays the first of three nights at he Straight Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA. On this night he is supported by Mount Rushmore and Freedom Highway.

The Music Explosion release a new single, What You Want / Roadrunner, on Laurie Records in the USA.

George Harrison of The Beatles drives his house guest, Bob Dylan, to Heathrow Airport, in his Mercedes.

After playing at a New Year's Eve Party at St. Michael's Hall in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA, famed polka musician and recording artist Frankie 'Gee' Grybosh is struck and killed by a car.

Ringo Starr of The Beatles and his wife Barbara Bach are involved in a dramatic car crash when Ringo has to swerve his Mercedes on a wet carriageway to avoid a lorry. The car hits two lamposts, and the couple are treated for their minor injuries at Roehampton Hospital in South-west London, England, UK, Europe.

The double A-side single, 1999/Little Red Corvette, becomes Prince's most successful UK single so far, peaking at No2 in the UK singles chart. (1985).

Hardcore rapper Stretch, a close friend of Tupac Shakur, is shot and killed during a high-speed automobile chase in Queens. In the chase, Stretch is shot at least four times, before crashing his minivan at the corner of 112th Avenue and 209th Street in Queens Village just after 12:30 A.M.

Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter Rich Mullins dies when his jeep rolls over on I-39 north of Bloomington, Illinois, USA. When a passing semi-trailer truck swerves to avoid the overturned Jeep, Mullins, is hit by the oncoming vehicle and dies instantly.

Lisa 'Left-Eye' Lopes of TLC dies, aged 30, when her Mitsubishi 4WD crashes near Juticalpa while on holiday in Honduras, Central America.

Percy Miller, aka Master P, label boss of No Limit Records, and his younger brother Silkk The Shocker (real name Vyshonn Miller), are arrested on gun charges when their car is pulled over by police outside UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Harold Kalin of The Kalin Twins, best-remembered for their 1958 hit When, dies aged 71 in Waldorf, Maryland, USA, from injuries sustained in a car crash.

Death Cab For Cutie release their fifth album, Plans, in the USA.

Jesus Take The Wheel by Carrie Underwood is awarded gold status by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.

Casey Calvert, guitarist and vocalist of Hawthorne Heights is found dead of 'combined drug intoxication' in the band's tour bus just prior to the band doing a sound check before a show at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC., USA.

Herman's Hermits play on The Stan Colella Stage in Chevy Court at The Great New York State Fair, Syracuse, New York State, USA.

After arriving at the venue at the head of a motorcycle parade, Steven Tyler plays at The House Of Blues, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

James Blunt plays at Chevrolet Hall, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, South America.

Popular singer Rayce is hospitalised after being seriously injured when hit by a Dangote truck at Sango-Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria, Africa.

Sergeant Chris Harris, of Norfolk And Suffolk Roads Policing Unit, posts a Twitter message directed at Ed Sheeran, criticising him for the lines, "I'm on my way, driving at 90 down those country lanes", in his latest single, Castle On The Hill. The message reads, "Know you want to get home but please slow down."

On their 51-date The Joshua Tree Tour 2017, U2 play at The Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, supported by Beck.

On her 39-date LA To The Moon tour Lana Del Rey plays at The Toyota Center, Houston, Texas, USA.

On their The M A N I A tour, Fall Out Boy play at The Honda Center, Anaheim, California, USA, supported by Machine Gun Kelly and L.I.F.T.