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Impresario and jazz pianist George Wein is born in Boston, Massachusetts. Described variously as “the most famous jazz impresario" and "the most important non-player... in jazz history", he will found the most well-known jazz festival in the United States, The Newport Jazz Festival, and follow-up with the Newport Folk Festival.
Having formerly been convicted of truancy by a juvenile court, Eleanora Gough, later known to the world as Billie Holiday, is paroled and goes to live with her mother Sadie in East Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Fiddlin' Powers And Family record a second version of Ida Red for Edison Records in the USA. Chuck Berry is said to have based his first hit, Maybellene, on Ida Red.