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The 300-strong audience in a local theatre on The Bowery, New York City, USA, cheer blackface entertainer Thomas Dartmouth 'Daddy' Rice so enthusiastically that he performs his song and dance routine, Jump Jim Crow. The song will cause a sensation and is considered a forerunner of the Minstrel Show tradition, based largely on mockery of black Americans.
Mr. Chauncey Olcott is appearing in Old Limerick Town, described as "his best play" at Haverley's 14th Street Theatre, New York City, USA. The show will run for a total of 56 performances.
Burlesque troupe The Blue Ribbon Belles are appearing at The Star Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Charlie Grima, drummer of Roy Wood's Wizzard, is born on the Meditteranean island of Malta.
Klaseeje Van Der Wal, bass player of internationally successful Dutch one-hit wonders Shocking Blue is born.
The Delta Rhythm Boys are playing during a week at The Coliseum, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
Neal Hefti And Frances Wayne And Their Orchestra are playing at The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Frank Sinatra stars as the footloose and frequently unemployed private eye Rocky Fortune in another episode of his radio series of that name in the USA. This episode is entitled Carnival Worker.
Rock?n?roll movie Shake, Rattle And Rock (aka Shake, Rattle And Roll) goes on release in the USA with performances by Fats Domino and Big Joe Turner.
Sam Cooke, performing You Send Me, and Buddy Holly And The Crickets doing That'll Be The Day, appear on the Ed Sullivan Show in New York City, USA.
To Know Him Is To Love Him by The Teddy Bears reaches No1 in the Billboard Top 40 Singles chart in the USA. The group includes young guitarist and songwriter Phil Spector.
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee record the album Blues Is A Story in the offices of World Pacific Records, Los Angeles, California, USA.
After a show in El Paso, Texas, USA, Chuck Berry meets Janice Norine Escalanti - a fourteen year old Apache Indian girl who, apparently unknown to Berry, is working as a prostitute. That night they begin the drive to St Louis, Missouri, USA.
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee record the album Blues Is A Story in the offices of World Pacific Records, Los Angeles.
A five-and-a-half-hour, six group marathon entitled Big Beat Session, is headlined by The Beatles at The Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wallasey, England, UK, Europe. Also on the bill are Rory Storm And The Hurricanes, Dale Roberts And The Jaywalkers, Derry And The Seniors, Kingsize Taylor And The Dominoes and Steve Day And The Drifters. The evening also features the first of a 'Mr. Twist' competition.
The John Coltrane Quartet plays at The Kurhaus, Scheveningen, Holland, Europe.
The Classics, with Neil Young on guitar, play at Westworth Hi Club, Winnipeg, Canada.
Billy Eckstine is playing during a lengthy engagement at The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Frank Sinatra plays at The Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji and his group play the eighth of nine nights at The Cafe Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play the second night of a week-long engagement at Le Jazz Hot, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, USA.
The Rolling Stones play at The Agrodome, Vancouver, Canada.
When Fontella Bass arrives in London, England, UK, Europe, to promote her hit single, Rescue Me, she is delayed for two hours because officials cannot find her work permit.
Pop singer Jimmie Rodgers suffers traumatic head injuries after the car he is driving is stopped by an off-duty police officer near the San Diego Freeway in Los Angeles, California, USA. Rodgers will sue the police for brutality, and they will counter-sue for slander, but neither case will go to trial. In 1973 Rodgers will accept a $200,000 settlement from the Los Angeles City Council, after it votes to give him the money rather than incur the costs of further court action.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd, Move, Amen Corner, Nice, Eire Apparent and The Outer Limits play two shows at the Central Hall, Chatham, Kent, UK.
The stage musical Cabaret is presented at The Palace Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 336 performances.
Neil Young marries Susan Acevedo in Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles, California, USA.
James Taylor writes the song Sweet Baby James in 1969 as he drives to Richmond, Virginia, USA, to visit his new-born nephew James Richmond Taylor. The song's third verse describes the conditions of the drive, beginning with the line, 'Now the first of December was covered with snow...'
Ringo Starr of The Beatles is filmed at several locations around London for a BB2 documentary to be shown as part of the arts series Late Night Line-Up.
Bukka White plays the first of three nights at The Matrix, San Francisco, California, USA, with Charlie Cockey.
Country Joe McDonald plays at the Community Center, Point Reyes, California, USA.
During a show by Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour in Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dylan's mother, Beatrice, takes the stage.
The musical Your Arms Too Short To Box With God is presented at The Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run on Broadway for 429 performances. The musical is based on the Biblical Book of Matthew.
The Runaways play at The Cirque Royal, Brussels, Belgium, Europe.
Magnum, supported by IQ, play at The Theatre Royal, St. Helens, England, UK, Europe.
Suicidal Tendencies play at Electric Banana, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
On their Listen Like Thieves Tour, INXS play at The Fox Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Franz Ferdinand play a second night at Alexandra Palace, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Editors and The Rakes.
Billy Joel plays at The Sears Centre, Hoffman Estates, near Chicago, Illinois, USA.
During her The Sun Comes Out World Tour Shakira plays at The Ahoy, Rotterdam, Holland.
Arcade Fire play the first of two nights at The O2 Arena, London, UK.
When Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band play at Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA, they are joined onstage by Bruce Springsteen.
At the suggestion of the United Nations, Stevie Wonder [currently the United Nations Messenger of Peace] pulls out of an imminent fundraising show for the Israeli military. Wonder was scheduled to perform for the Friends of the Israel Defence Forces, in Los Angeles, California, USA, on December 6, 2012, with proceeds to go to Israeli soldiers and their families. In a statement, Wonder explains, 'Given the current and very delicate situation in the Middle East, and with a heart that has always cried out for world unity, I will not be performing at the FIDF Gala.' He also adds, 'I am and have always been against war, any war, anywhere'.
Touring in support of their fifth album, Moms, Menomena play at The Postbahnhof, Berlin, Germany, Europe.
Fiona Sally Miller, a multi instrumentalist and field recordist from Brighton, UK, begins a month of daily swims in icy cold water off the coast of Britain to highlight the plight of lesbian women in South Africa who are subjected to the horror of 'corrective rape', allegedly to teach those women the error of their ways.
Suggs, frontman of Madness, stars in Suggs - My Life Story, at The Garrick Theatre, London, UK.
Marina And The Diamonds play at The Limelight, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
Tune-Yards play at The Mystic Theatre, Petaluma, California, USA.
On the Second European leg of their Decades World Tour, Nightwish play at The Sant Jordi Club, Barcelona, Spain, Europe, supported by Beast In Black.
Music businessman and media entrepreneur Robert Francis Xavier Sillerman dies aged 71, following a respiratory illness. In 1993 he had formed SFX Broadcasting, and then built SFX Entertainment — a concert and stage performance promoter that was sold to Clear Channel in 2000 for $4.4bn.
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