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Jazz cornettist Rex Stewart, who will work with the Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson bands, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
John Lee Hooker is born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA.
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Bobby Draper releases a new single, Rockin' Daddy/I've Got A Woman, on Mercury Records in the USA.
At Chess Studio, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Chuck Berry records Sweet Little Sixteen, Reelin' And Rockin', Johnny B. Goode and other tracks. Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys will enjoy Sweet Little Sixteen so much that he will be inspired to use its melody as the tune for their 1963 hit Surfin' USA.
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George Hamilton IV, with Chet Atkins as producer, records I Will Miss You When You Go for RCA Victor Records in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Gerry And The Pacemakers play at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
Brenda Lee plays the seventh of ten nights at The Deauville Hotel, Miami, Florida, USA.
Paul And Paula play at The Empire, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe, with Shane Fenton And The Fentones.
John Lee Hooker releases a new single, I'm Leaving, on Vee-Jay Records, in the USA.
The Beach Boys play at The Prom Ballroom, St Paul, Minnesota, USA.
The Squires, including guitarist Neil Young, play at River Heights Community Club, Winnipeg, Ontario.
Filming begins on The Cage [aka Menagerie], the pilot show for the sci-fi series Star Trek. The show will not only become hugely popular, but will inspire numerous songwriters to compose songs based on the series. Among the most memorable are Where's Captain Kirk?, a 1979 UK hit by punk band SpizzEnergi [covered by R.E.M. in 1992] and Star Trekkin', a UK chart-topping single in 1987 by The Firm. The 1977 album Future Games by Californian psychedelic rockers Spirit is peppered with Star Trek references and audio samples. Even the so-called spokesman of his generation, known to have adapted lines from an episode of Star Trek for his song All Along The Watchtower.

Tommy Quickly And The Remo Four play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, supported by The Mob.
Yesterday by The Beatles returns to No1 in the Cashbox magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA, having been briefly deposed by The Toys with A Lover's Concerto.
Buckaroo, an instrumental by Buck Owens, reaches No1 in the Billboard Country Singles Chart for the first of two weeks.
The Rolling Stones are recording tracks for the album Between The Buttons at Olympic Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.
Canned Heat begin a twelve-day European mainland tour, taking in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Holland, Sweden and Denmark, Europe.
Joni Mitchell makes her Carnegie Hall, New York City, USA, debut.
Folk singer-songwriter Peter Sarstedt appears on UK tv show Today.
The album Hey Jude by The Beatles enters the Billboard albums chart in the USA where it will peak at No2.
John Lennon spends the second of five days in Record Plant East Studios, New York City, USA, recording tracks for his album Rock'n'Roll, which had been abandoned when producer Phil Spector unexpectedly quit the project. The band on these sessions includes guitarists Jesse Ed Davis and Eddie Mottau, pianist Ken Ascher, bassist Klaus Voormann, drummer Jim Keltner and percussionist Arthur Jenkins.
Split Enz and The Sports play at Kempsey Returned And Services League, Kempsey, Australia, Oceania.
Freddie Mercury of Queen celebrates his birthday by flying all his closest friends to New York City, USA, on Concorde for a five-day party in his suite at the Berkshire Hotel.
Gary Moore plays at The Playhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, Europe.
The Damned play at Coventry Polytechnic, Coventry, England, UK, Europe, supported by Lost Loved Ones.
On their World Service tour, Spear Of Destiny play at The Apollo, Manchester, England, UK, Europe.
The city of El Cerrito, California, USA, declares this to be John Fogerty Day in honor of one of their hometown heroes, the founder of Creedence Clearwater Revival.
LUNA SEA play at Moda Hall, Osaka, Japan, Asia.
Santana play at Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Englewood, Colorado, USA.
Bowling For Soup play at De Montfort Hall, Leicester, England, UK.
The Flaming Lips release a new compilation album, Latenight Tales, on Another Late Night Records. The album features their favourite songs by other artists.
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead play at The Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA.
In a BBC Radio 4 Today interview, Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz, criticises the upcoming Live8 concerts as "too Anglo-Saxon" and says they will do nothing to promote positive images of Africa.
The Vans Warped Tour, plays at the Idaho Center Amphitheater lot, Boise, Idaho, with a bill including My Chemical Romance, The Offspring, Fall Out Boy, The Transplants, MxPx, All-American Rejects, Dropkick Murphys, Thrice, Atreyu and Senses Fail.
Brian Wilson plays at The Bank of America, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Foo Fighters and Weezer play at The Smirnoff Music Centre, Dallas, Texas, USA.
The White Stripes play at The House Of Blues, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.
James Gurley, guitarist for Big Brother And The Holding Company, dies of a heart attack in Palm Springs, California, aged 69
Bad Company play at Wembley Arena, London, England, UK.
Yes play at Orfeo Superdomo, Cordoba, Argentina, South America.
The Rolling Stones' guitarist Ronnie Wood and Shingai Shoniwa of The Noisettes are among the guests at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards in London, UK.
On their Come Around Sundown tour, Kings Of Leon play at The Nurburgring, Nurburg, Germany, Europe.
Louise Mensch, MP for Corby, Northamptonshire, UK, Tweets that she has proposed Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page for a knighthood in the next Honours list. The MP is married to Peter Mensch, manager of artists including Metallica, Muse and Snow Patrol.
Several buildings at Willie Nelson's Luck Ranch, near Austin, Texas, USA, are destroyed by tornado-force winds.
James Bay plays a sold-out show at Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.
Florence And The Machine play at the Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, supported by Grimes.
Ariana Grande, Coldplay, Justin Bieber, Black Eyed Peas, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Take That, Robbie Williams, Pharrell Williams, Little Mix, Liam Gallagher and Parrs Wood High School Choir take part in the One Love Concert at Old Trafford, Manchester, England, UK, Europe. The concert is a memorial and fund-raiser for those killed and injured in the bombing at Ariana Grande's recent concert (May 22) at Manchester Arena in Manchester.
On their 113-date Concrete and Gold tour, Foo Fighters play at the AccorHotels Arena, Paris, France, Europe.
On their 107-date End Of The Road World Tour, Kiss play at The TD Garden, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
On their 50th Anniversary Tour, Hot Tuna play at Crystal Bay Casino, Crystal Bay, Nevada, USA.
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