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It is said that on this day, Bendictine monk Dom Perignon was making wine and could not rid it of bubbles. He tasted his accidental creation and exclaimed, "Come quickly! I am drinking the stars!" Thus, according to legend, champagne was invented. This moment was the inspiration for the Fredericke Loew song The Night They Invented Champagne which was introduced to the world at large via the movie musical Gigi in 1958, sung by Gigi (Leslie Caron), her grandmother, Mamita (Hermione Gingold) and Gaston (Louis Jourdan)
The musical comedy The Wild Rose is presented at The Knickerbocker Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 136 performances.
Musical fantasy The Storks is playing at The Dearborn Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Comic opera King Dodo is presented at The Studebaker Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The show is billed as featuring "100 superior singers".
The musical revue Music Box Revue [1922-23], with songs by Irving Berlin, closes at The Music Box Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, after having run for 330 performances.
Calvin Scott Stoneman is born in Galax, Virginia, USA. Under the name Scotty Stoneman he will sing and play fiddle, banjo and guitar for many years with popular country music group The Stonemans.
Earl Bostic And His Band are playing during two weeks at The Blackhawk Club, San Francisco, California, USA.
As a supporting act in the Webb Pierce Package Tour, Elvis Presley plays in the Municipal Auditorium, Camden, Texas. Also on the bill are Johnny Cash and Wanda Jackson.
Duane Eddy plays the first night of a week at The Beachcomber Bar, Wildwood, New Jersey, USA.
Jazz guitar virtuoso Wes Montgomery records One For My Baby, Repetition, Twisted Blues, Cotton Tail and Somethin' Like Bags at Plaza Sound Studios, New York City, USA,for Riverside Records.
Liberace and Barbra Streisand come to the end of a season at The Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The Top Ten Records Survey on WQAM FABULOUS 56 Radio in Miami, Florida, USA, is as follows ...
1. Please Don't Talk to the Life Guard - Diane Ray
2. Blowin' In the Wind Peter, Paul And Mary
3. Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh Allen Sherman
4. Little Deuce Coupe Beach Boys
5. Judy's Turn to Cry Lesley Gore
6. Devil In Disguise Elvis Presley
7. Marlena/Candy Girl Four Seasons
8. Birthday Party Pix ies Three
9. Wipe Out The Surfaris
10. More Kai Winding
1. Please Don't Talk to the Life Guard - Diane Ray
2. Blowin' In the Wind Peter, Paul And Mary
3. Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh Allen Sherman
4. Little Deuce Coupe Beach Boys
5. Judy's Turn to Cry Lesley Gore
6. Devil In Disguise Elvis Presley
7. Marlena/Candy Girl Four Seasons
8. Birthday Party Pix ies Three
9. Wipe Out The Surfaris
10. More Kai Winding
After a funeral service in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, the body of country singing star Jim Reeves is returned to Panola County just before dusk, to be buried in a site that will become his memorial.
The Yardbirds, with Eric Clapton on lead guitar, play at The Fender Club in Churchill Hall, Harrow, London, UK.
Slim Whitman spends the second of two days recording tracks including You Belong To My Heart, In The Misty Moonlight, Silver Threads Among The Gold and My Heart Cries For You in Sunset Sound Studios, 5652 East Daniels Avenue, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Bob Dylan finishes recording the album Highway 61 Revisited in Studio A, Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, USA.
Hugh Masekela and Jimmy Smith are playing during a ten day season at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Ten Years After play the first of three nights at The Scene Club, New York City, USA.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Carolina Coliseum Arena, Columbia, South Carolina.
On their Worldwide Texas tour, ZZ Top play at Tingley Coliseum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, supported by Jay Boy Adams and The Outlaws. The tour features an onstage menagerie of typically Texan live animals such as a longhorn steer, a black buffalo, two vultures and two rattlesnakes. Various Texan plants, such as yucca, agave and cacti, also decorate the stage, which has been built in the shape of Texas.
Phil Collins marries Jill Tavelman, his girlfriend of the past four years, at the register office in Guildford, England, UK, Europe, followed by a blessing in the parish church at Shalford. Musical entertainment at the reception is provided by a band comprising Collins, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant and Gary Brooker of Procol Harum. Guests also include Julian Lennon.
Paul Young plays at the Saenger Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, supported by Nik Kershaw.
The Broken Family Band plays at The Spitz Club, London, England, UK, supported by Absentee.
System Of A Down begin their first tour of the USA in five years at Long Beach Arena, Los Angeles, California, supported by Mars Volta and Bad Acid Trip.
Nightmare, the fifth album by Avenged Sevenfold enters the Billboard 200 albums chart in the USA at No1, with 163,000 sales.
The three-day long Osheaga Festival 2013 comes to an end in Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Over the course of three days, acts appearing include Mumford And Sons, Vampire Weekend, The Cure, Phoenix, Ellie Goulding, Beck, Two Door Cinema Club, and Jimmy Eat World.
Vance Joy releases a new single, First Time, as a digital download on Liberation Music in Australia, Oceania.
Zachary Swanson of Hebron, Wicomico County, Maryland, USA, is attacked by Paul Martin Hurst and Cary Lee Edwards, both members of the Juggalos, a loosely-organised cult of followers of the band Insane Clown Posse. As a result of the attack, motivated by his wearing of a Juggalos tattoo which Hurst and Edwards felt he had not earned, Swanson suffers fractures to his nasal area and face, brain bleeding, swelling around his eyes, eleven broken ribs and a liver laceration. Hurst and Edwards are arrested soon after.
On their Reflektor Tour, Arcade Fire play at Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
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