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The Steven Sondheim musical Gypsy, starring Ethel Merman, is performed on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 702 performances.
The musical Irma La Douce is running at The Plymouth Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It runs at The Plymouth for more than a year before transferring to The Alvin Theatre.
Patsy Montana is playing during a four-week stretch at Harrah's Club, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA.The Chordettes are playing during two-weeks of shows at Beverly Hills Country Club, Southgate, Kentucky, USA.
The Max Roach Quintet, Abbey Lincoln and Mal Waldron play during a two-week residency at The Jazz Gallery, New York City, USA. The gigs provide a showcase for Roach's Freedom Now Suite, which powerfully advocates civil rights.
Stan Kenton plays during a four-week season at The Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, showcasing his 'New Era In Modern American Music'.
Country-gospel quartet 
Folk music's elder statesman Pete Seeger is found guilty of contempt of Congress, in relation to his testimony to the Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives in Washington DC, USA - popularly known as the McCarthyite Communist Witch Hunt. Seeger is sentenced to ten concurrent one-year terms in prison, but immediately lodges an appeal
Nat King Cole records Goodnight Little Leaguer, Take A Fool's Advice, The First Baseball Game, Because You Love Me and Make It Last in Capitol Recording Studios, 151 West 46th Street, New York City, USA.
Furry Lewis records Frankie And Johnny, Goin' To Kansas City and other tracks for Bluesville Records in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Joe Cole is born. He will become a roadie for Black Flag and The Rollins Band, as well as a close friend of Henry Rollins. His book, Planet Joe, will document his experiences tourng with Black Flag and the Rollins Band.
Tony Bennett records My Heart Sings, You Took Advantage Of Me, More Than You Know and other tracks at Columbia Records studio, 30th Street, New York City, USA.
Jazz trumpeter Booker Little has the second of two sessions recording tracks for his Candid Records album Out Front at Nola Penthouse Studios, New York City, USA.Mafia boss Carlos Marcello is extradited from New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, to Guatemala, South America, as an illegal immigrant. His family-owned Jefferson Music Company dominated the juke box, slot machine and pinball trade in the New Orleans area. Marcello is known to have used his Mafia contacts to try to persuade Frank Sinatra to use his friendship with the Kennedy family to negate the deportation order. He is also known to have close ties with the Ku Klux Klan.
Teen pop idol Fabian Forte returns to his old school, South Side High in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, to collect his graduation diploma on which he
scored a B+ average.
Jackie De Shannon records Heaven Is Being With You, for Liberty Records. The song is written by Gerry Goffin, Carole King and Cynthia Weil.
Bill Duncan And The Harmony Mountain Boys record Handle With Care, Slippin' Banjo, Country Home and other tracks in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, for King Records.
The musical Milk And Honey, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, is playing at The Martin Beck Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 543 performances.
The stage musical How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, starring Rudy Vallee, is playing at the 46th Street Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,417 performances.