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Musical comedy The Toreador is presented at The Gaiety Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 675 performances. 
Al. G. Field's Greater Minstrels play at The California Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.Harriet Helen Gould Beck is born in Elkton, Missouri, USA. She will achieve fame as country music fan dancer Sally Rand.
The musical comedy The Maid Of The Mountains, with music by Harold Fraser-Simpson and J.W. Tate, is playing at Daly's Theatre, London, England, UK, during a run of 1352 performances.Gil Robbins is born in Spokane, Washington, USA. He will become a singer, guitarist and songwriter with 1960s folk group The Highwaymen, whose recording of the Civil War anti-slavery song Michael [Row the Boat Ashore] will become an unexpected international pop hit in 1962.
Mel Torme and The Dave Lambert Singers record Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered with an orchestra directed by Pete Rugolo, for Capitol Records in the USA.
Hank Williams And The Drifting Cowboys play at The High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
The revue An Evening With Beatrice Lillie is presented at The Booth Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 276 performances. As well as its actress-singer star, the show features piano duettists Eddie And Rack. 
The Ice Capades Of 1953 present their version of the Lerner and Loewe musical Brigadoon at Chicago Arena, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Three Flames are playing during a five year engagement at The Bon Soir, New York City, USA.Popular singing duo Mickey And Sylvia open their own night club, The Blue Morocco in New York City, USA. Headline act on the first night is King Curtis.
Mike Porco, owner of Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, takes Bob Dylan to join the Musicians' Union.Ray Charles begins a week of shows at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA, supported by Maxine Brown plus Don And Juan.
Sammy Davis Jr. plays the third night in a week of shows at The Empire, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
John Lennon of The Beatles reveals in an interview that he was turned on to Rickenbacker guitars by jazz harmonica/guitar virtuoso Toots Thielmanns.
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Rich Little is playing during two weeks at The Imperial Room of the Royal York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.The film Dateline Diamonds featuring The Small Faces, Kiki Dee and The Chantelles goes on general release in the UK.
The musical Fiddler On The Roof, starring Zero Mostel, is performed at The Majestic Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run continuously (but at three different theatres) until 1972 notching up 3,242 performances.
During their Sounds Of Ireland tour, The Irish Rovers' are playing a week of shows at The Place Des Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Big Brother And The Holding Company play the second of six nights at The Generation Club, New York City, USA.First generation San Francisco hippy band The Grateful Dead play in the Field House, Cincinatti, Ohio, USA.
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The 101ers, including singer and guitarist Joe Strummer, play at The Nashville Rooms, West London, UK. Support band The Sex Pistols. Also in the audience are Mick Jones and Paul Simonon, who will later form The Clash with Strummer.
Sugar Babies - The Burlesque Musical, starring Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney, is presented at The Mark Hellinger Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1208 performances.The Stranglers play a gig at The Rainbow, Finsbury Park, London, UK, as a protest against the arrest of their singer, Hugh Cornwell, on drug-related charges. Robert Smith of The Cure plays guitar with The Stranglers during this show.
XTC play at The California Theatre, San Diego, California, USA. This proves to be their last live gig ever.
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Bruce Springsteen ends a brief Australian tour with two nights at the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, Melbourne, Australia, Oceania.Chariot play at Dingwalls, Camden Lock, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Split Crow.
LUNA SEA play at Moda Hall, Osaka, Japan, Asia.
On his Storm Front tour, Billy Joel plays at The Memorial Sports Arena, Los Angeles, California, USA.Uriah Heep begin a brief Greek tour with a show at The Milos Club, Thessaloniki, Greece, Europe.
Police raid the 1900-acre YFZ Ranch in Eldorado, Texas, USA, and remove 183 people - including 137 children who are believed either to have been sexually abused or to be in danger of being sexually abused by a religious cult. The raid will inspire the song The Blind House on the 2009 album The Incident by Porcupine Tree.
An OM-45 Deluxe Martin Guitar, serial No42125, formerly owned by the 'King of Cowboys' Roy Rogers, is sold at auction by Christies in New York City, for $460,000. Rogers bought the guitar in 1933 for $30 at a Californian pawn shop.
Spoon play A tv marketing campaign to re-launch the fruit drink 5 Alive premieres in the UK using the long-lost album track I'm Alive by one-hit wonder Don Fardon as its soundtrack. The campaign revives 68-year old Fardon's career.
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