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While attending a bar room fight in the Charles Starkes Saloon, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, police officer James Brady is shot dead. A man named Harry Duncan is arrested. Although protesting his innocence until the end, he will be convicted and hanged on July 27, 1894. It is said that the saloon owner, Charles Starkes confessed on his deathbed that it was he who had killed Brady. The incident will inspire the murder ballad Duncan And Brady, which has been recorded by Lead Belly, Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, Judy Henske, Tom Rush, Hoyt Axton, The New Riders of the Purple Sage and others.

Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues is born in Dean Street, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.

The Beach Boys release a new single, Add Some Music To Your Day, on Brother Records in the USA.

The Yardbirds, with Eric Clapton on lead guitar, play at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, UK.

The Beatles are in Granville Studio, Fulham Broadway, London, UK, rehearsing for a filmed appearance on tv show Shindig! in the USA.

The Rolling Stones, supported by The Shangri-Las, play at Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, California, USA.

Tom Paxton plays the last of three nights at Main Point, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA.

Marvin Gaye records My Love For You for Tamla Records, in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails is born in Mercer, Pennsylvania, USA.

Paul McCartney of The Beatles is given an oblong gold watch with a black leather strap as a birthday gift by the group's manager, Brian Epstein.

Bob Dylan is featured on the cover of KRLA Beat magazine in Los Anbgeles, California, USA.

The Small Faces play in The Dorothy Ballroom, Cambridge, England, UK, Europe.

BBC tv acquires the British exhibition rights for the film of The Beatles At Shea Stadium.

The Kinks play at The Empire, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.

Jim Morrison of The Doors participates in the second night of a poetry reading at Cinematheque 16, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

The Ramones play at CBGB’s, New York City, USA.

David Crosby and Graham Nash play at Erie County Fieldhouse, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA.

Bob Dylan plays at Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Europe.

The Police play at The Coliseum, New Haven, USA.

WEA Records in the UK is fined £6,000 by the BPI (British Phonographic Industry) for unethical practices.

Elizabeth Woolridge Grant is born in New York City, USA. She will find fame as Lana Del Rey.

R.E.M. play at The Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, California, USA.

The Derby Folk Festival, a two-day event, concludes at The Assembly Rooms, Market Place, Derby, England, UK, Europe. Artists appearing over the two days of the event include Steeleye Span, The Albion Band, Alan Hull, Gordon Giltrap, No Right Turn, The Oyster band, Stanley Accrington, Sally Wakeford, Ramsbottom and Six Hands In Tempo.

OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark) play at The Liesure Centre, Crawley, England, UK, Europe.

Bob Dylan plays the second of four nights at Wembley Arena, London, England, UK, Europe, towards the end of the Temples And Flames tour. George Harrison is in the audience.

On his Sleeping With The Past tour, Elton John plays at The Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California, USA,

Alice Cooper plays the last of four sell-out shows at the Fox Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Popular rock songwriter and singer Cazuza dies of AIDS, aged 32, in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, South America.

On the Pump tour, Aerosmith play at The World Music Theater, Tinley Park, Illinois, USA.

David Bowie plays the final gig of the North America leg of his Sound And Vision tour at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA, with Joe Satriani.

Heart play at The Coliseum, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, supported by The Black Crowes.

George Michael confesses, in UK tabloid The Sun, that he took ecstasy after Wham! split up in the mid-80s. 'They were perhaps my darkest days,' he admits.

Procol Harum play in Hanover, Germany, Europe.

Neil Diamond plays at The Pepsi Arena, Albany, New York State, USA.

A series of wildfires begin burning across Southern California. Seventeen fires burn from Santa Barbara to the US-Mexico border, killing nine people and injuring 85, many of whom are firefighters. 3,200 buildings are destroyed along with 522,000 acres of land and forest. The song Grapevine Fires by Death Cab For Cutie is about those fires.

The Levon Helm Band plays one its regular Midnight Ramble Sessions Vol 3, in Helm's barn in Woodstock, New York State, USA. Guest musicians taking part in the session include Larry Campbell.

On their Circle Tour, Bon Jovi play at The Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, New York State, USA, supported by Soraia.

Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse release a new album, Dark Night Of the Soul, in the UK.

Lily Allen's new single Hard Out Here debuts at number 9 on the UK Singles Chart, giving Allen simultaneous UK top ten hits with Hard Out Here and Somewhere Only We Know, the latter being the number one single that week.

Elbow play at The O2 Academy, Newcastle, Newcastle, England, UK.

On their On The Road Again tour, One Direction play the first of three nights at Barclaycard Arena, Birmingham, England, UK, supported by Jamie Lawson and Augustana.

Rock drummer Jimmy Copley dies of leukemia, aged 63, in Bristol, England, UK, Europe. Copley was best-known for his work with Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Jeff Beck, Graham Parker, Upp, Paul Young, Magnum, Roger Glover, Ian Gillan, Go West, Killing Joke, Tears for Fears, Seal, Tony Iommi and Paul Rodgers.