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Pharmacist Dr. John Pemberton of Atlanta, Georgia, USA, begins selling a carbonated drink of his own devising as a patent medicine. He will go on to found The Pemberton Medicine Company, which will find global success after a name change to The Coca-Cola Company. This universally-available fizzy drink will inspire several songs including Rum And Coca Cola by The Andrews Sisters and and the somewhat more salacious Coca Cola Douche by The Fugs. It's also worth noting that the hit single I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing by The New Seekers, was based on a 1971 Coca Cola advertising jingle - I'd Like To Buy The World A Coke.
Blues vocalist and guitarist Johnnie Temple records Lead Pencil Blues, The Evil Devil Blues, Jacksonville Blues, Big Boat Whistle, Morning Prayer Blues and Cypress Grove Blues for Vocalion Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Wardell Gray Sextet records Bright Boy, April Skies, Jackie, Farmers' Market, Sweet And Lovely and Lover Man, for Prestige Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Jack Teagarden Sextet comes to the end of a six-month season at The Royal Room, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Johnnie Ray hits No1 in the UK singles chart with Yes
Tonight Josephine. The song was inspired by the story that Napoleon Bonaparte once turned down the romantic approaches of Empress Josephine using the words, "Not tonight, Josephine".
Flamboyant American pianist Liberace wins £8,000 damages in the High Court, London, England, UK, Europe, against UK newspaper the Daily Mirror, which had published an article implying that he was homosexual.The Associated Press reports that Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret, the co-star in his fifteenth movie, Viva Las Vegas, are having a love affair.
A Hard Day's Night by The Beatles returns to No1 in the Australian pop singles chart, having been briefly deposed by The Animals with House Of The Rising Sun.
As a result of his recent trouser-splitting antics onstage in Croydon, P.J.Proby is banned from performing in all ABC Theatres in the UK.
Calne-based band The Pack have an afternoon performance at The Marquee Club, London, England, UK, Europe, along with Jonathan King and Cilla Black. In the evening, they play at Wimbledon Palais with Dusty Springfield, Hedgehoppers Anonymous, Jonathan King and Chris Andrews. The band finishes the day by spending the night at Chris Andrews' flat.
Police in Grand Prairie, Texas, USA, arrest three members of Jerry Lee Lewis' band and a teenage girl when more than two hundred illegal pills are found in the band's Cadillac.
In Los Angeles, California, USA, Joan Baez writes a two-page letter to her friend Wendy Hanson, the personal assistant of Brian Epstein (manager of The Beatles) in London, England, UK, Europe. The letter, which includes details of Baez' recent romantic life, will not be posted until Jan 12.
Being entertained by a groupie, Pete Townshend of The Who misses the flight to Adelaide, Australia, Oceania, for this night's gig at Centennial Hall, which is delayed by more than an hour.
John Lennon and George Harrison of The Beatles fly to Rishikesh, India, Asia, to spend time with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at his Ashram.
The single Young Girl by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap is awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
Bob Dylan releases the single Lay Lady Lay in the USA on Columbia Records. It will peak at No7 during an 11-week run.
Police in London, UK, visit Glitterbest, the offices of Sex Pistols? manager Malcolm McLaren to investigate a reported break-in.
The Sex Pistols start another British Tour at The Lafayette, Wolverhampton, England, UK, Europe, under the pseudonym The S.P.O.T.S (an acronym for Sex Pistols On Tour Secretly), hoping to avoid council censorship.
Ahmet Ertegun, President of Atlantic Records, recommends that the controversial Rolling Stones' song Some Girls should be re-edited, to remove racist and sexist lyrics in the song.
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Surgical Penis Klinik, aka SPK, release a new single, Factory / Slogan, on Industrial Records in the UK.
The Top Ten Singles on WABC Music Radio in New York City, USA, for this day are as follows :
1. Sexy Eyes - Dr. Hook (Capitol)
2. Call Me - Blondie (Chrysalis)
3. Funkytown - Lipps, Inc. (Casablanca)
4. Lost in Love - Air Supply (Arista)
5. Ride Like the Wind - Christopher Cross (Warner Brothers)
6. Stomp! - The Brothers Johnson (A+M)
7. Another Brick In the Wall, Part II - Pink Floyd (Columbia)
8. Don't Fall In Love With a Dreamer - Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes (United Artists)
9. You May Be Right - Billy Joel (Columbia)
10. Hurt So Bad - Linda Ronstadt (Asylum)
1. Sexy Eyes - Dr. Hook (Capitol)
2. Call Me - Blondie (Chrysalis)
3. Funkytown - Lipps, Inc. (Casablanca)
4. Lost in Love - Air Supply (Arista)
5. Ride Like the Wind - Christopher Cross (Warner Brothers)
6. Stomp! - The Brothers Johnson (A+M)
7. Another Brick In the Wall, Part II - Pink Floyd (Columbia)
8. Don't Fall In Love With a Dreamer - Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes (United Artists)
9. You May Be Right - Billy Joel (Columbia)
10. Hurt So Bad - Linda Ronstadt (Asylum)
Julian "Jules" Knight [aka Julian Kaye], baritone vocalist with Bitish crossover classical group Blake, is born in Sussex, UK.
Esquerita, an outrageous Baton Rouge-based she-male who fashioned a successful recording career largely by impersonating Little Richard, dies of AIDS in Harlem Hospital, New York City, USA.
Tommy Hammond, co-owner of Taking Home The Hits music store in Alexander City, Alabama, USA, is fined $500 for selling pornography. The merchandise in question is 2 Live Crew's albums Move Something and Live Is What We Are, which are defined as pornographic by the state's obscenity statutes.
At an auction to raise funds for UNICEF, the bed used in the movie, In Bed With Madonna, is bought for $7,700 by a fifteen year old Dutch girl.
During a gig at the National Ballroom, Kilburn, London, UK, Nicky Wire of Manic Street Preachers states that he hopes Michael Stipe of R.E.M. "goes the same way as Freddie Mercury".Michael Jackson goes on tv to deny child sex allegations which have been made against him.
A Celebration Of 21 Years Of Virgin Records is held at The Virgin Manor, Shipton-On-Cherwell, Gloucestershire, England, UK, Europe. Richard Branson is there in person, and artists performing include Bruce, Baker And Moore, Soul II Soul and Cracker. Jonathan King is also in attendance. Journalist Johnny Black's diary entry about the event is attached here.
While serving a four-and-a-half year sentence for sexual assault, in a prison in New York, USA, Tupac Shakur writes a letter to his then girlfriend, Madonna, ending their relationship, because of the racial and social tensions inherent in that relationship.
Rapper Eazy-E, who founded NWA and the Ruthless Records label, is unexpectedly hospitalized with a violent cough at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA. He is diagnosed with AIDS, and dies a month later due to its complications.
The Pretenders release their seventh album Viva El Amor, on Warner Bros in the UK.
R. Kelly issues yet another public denial that he is not the man who appears in the pornographic videotapes which have embroiled him in a major sex scandal.
It is reported that Jacque Hollander, a former employee of James Brown, is suing him for $100m compensation, claiming that he raped and battered her at gunpoint in 1988. Hollander had previously brought charges against Brown in 2002, but the case was dismissed as frivolous
Static-X guitarist Todd Salvador (aka Tripp Eisen) is arrested in California, USA, after being caught sleeping in a car with an under-age girl. He is released on bail of $100,000.
The judge in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial in Santa Maria, California, USA, allows the prosecution to introduce previous allegations against Jackson as evidence, even though the singer was never charged with a crime.
R. Kelly shoots a video clip for his fourth single, the reggaeton song Burn It Up, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
British pop hunk Peter Andre collapses while out jogging near his home in East Grinstead, West Sussex, UK. Attending paramendics diagnose a torn ligament in his chest.Ms Dynamite, N-Dubz producer Fazer, Essex Devlin and Skepta, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra take part in Urban Classic at The Barbican, London, UK, as part of the celebration of the the Barbican's 30th birthday.
The trial of former BBC Radio 1 deejay Dave Lee Travis on 13 counts of indecent assault and one count of sexual assault relating to 11 women, begins at Southwark Crown Court, London, UK, Europe.
Sinead O'Connor posts a confessional statement on her website to the effect that she is seeking a new manager because their relationship became untenable when they began an affair behind the back of his wife.
Sir Elton John speaks on the telephone to a man he believes to be President Putin of Russia. Sir Elton hopes to arrange a meeting with the President to discuss gay rights. However, it becomes apparent within a day that the pop star had been duped by Alexei Stolyarov and Vladimir Krasnov, a pair of well-known Moscow-based pranksters
Photos of a completely naked Justin Bieber strolling around at his villa in Bora Bora, French Polynesia, Oceania, in the Pacific Ocean, are posted up on the internet.
It is announced that Sir Cliff Richard has been questioned again by South Yorkshire police in relation to allegation made against him that he sexually assaulted a young boy in the 1980s.
It is revealed that Taylor Swift has sent a bouquet of flowers to Right Said Fred, and has given the group a co-writing credit on her song Look What You Made Me Do to acknowledge that its chorus was inspired to some extent by their 1991 hit I'm Too Sexy.
Nelly plays at Cliffs Pavilion, Southend, England, UK, Europe. It is later alleged that after the show, Nelly sexually assaulted a fan, and police begin an investigatiinto the incident.
Seungri of the K-pop group Big Bang, in Seoul, South Korea, Asia, is charged with providing prostitutes to foreign investors in his new business.
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