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Eldie And Bracy's Variety Company presents an evening of song, dance and other entertainmernts at The Theatre Royal, Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia, Oceania.
Hi Henry's Minstrels are playing during a half-week-long engagement at The Park, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.Stein’s Academy orchestra plays a selection of musical items including The Strollers, The Mirror Dance, Steel King and An Arabian Scour in Beach Park, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
The 3-act musical comedy The Girl Who Smiles is presented at The Longacre Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
The musical revue Hip-Hip-Hooray is playing at The Hippodrome Theatre, 
Charles Hemphill is born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA. he will find success as soul/r'n/b vocalist Sonny Charles, noted for his work with Checkmates Ltd and The Steve Miller Band, as well as his achievements as a solo performer.
Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra with vocalist Frank Sinatra performs at The Canadian National Exhibition, The Fairgrounds, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The musical comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with music by Jule Styne, and starring Carol Channing, is presented at The Ziegfeld Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 740 performances.
Hank Williams And His Drifting Cowboys play at Himmelrich's Grove, Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania, USA.Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson plays the twelfth night of two weeks at The Blue Note, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The musical revue New Faces Of 1952, is presented at The Royale Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 365 performances. The revue is perhaps best remembered because it features Eartha Kitt making her Broadway debut with the spectacular song, Monotonous, based on real events in her life.
The musical comedy Wish You Were Here, is presented at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 598 performances.
The Steven Sondheim musical Gypsy, starring Ethel Merman, is performed on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 702 performances.
Folk music makes one of its rare ascents to the Billboard No1 slot in the USA with Michael by The Highwaymen.
Brook Benton, The Drifters and Betty Carter play the last night of a week at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys acts as producer for Rachel And The Revolvers at Harmony Recorders Studio, Los Angeles, California, USA. The band records The Revo-lution and Number One, both songs written by Brian Wilson and Gary Usher.
The stage musical She Loves Me with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick is playing at The Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 301 performances.
Jazz saxophonist George Braith records Mary Ann, Home Street and other tracks in Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for Blue Note Records.
The government of Indonesia bans Beatles-styled haircuts. The Beatles are regarded as ambassadors of Western Decadence and improper moral values.
Jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine records Can't Buy Me Love, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles, for Blue Note Records at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
The highest new entry in Cash Box magazine chart of the 100 Best-selling Singles in the USA is I'll Make All Your Dreams Come True by Ronnie Dove, entering at No70.
Wayne Newton plays the sixth of seven nights in The Marine Ballroom, The Steel Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.Jerry Reed records the Bob Dylan composition, Don't Think Twice It's All Right, in RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
It is announced that Roy Orbison is suing his manager, Wesley Rose, for $500m of unpaid royalties.
George Harrison of The Beatles is interviewed at his home near London, England, UK, Europe, by Mukunda Goswami about his involvement with Radha-Krishna Temple and the Hare Krishna Mantra.
Sting plays at the Sanger Performing Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. 
Elton John is undergoing six weeks of rehab treatment for bulimia and also for his drug and alcohol addictions, in the Parkside Lutheran Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
On his Sound And Vision tour, David Bowie plays at MTK Stadium, Budapest, Hungary, Europe, with Kim Wilde as his special guest.
Bow Wow, Omarion and Bobby Valentino play in The Scream Tour in Miami, Florida, USA.
Bob Dylan's 32nd studio album, Modern Times, reaches No1 in Australia's ARIA Album Chart.
Umphrey's McGee play in the North Coast Music Festival, Union Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Moby plays a DJ set.Mitchell Musso and Robert Randolph And The Family Band play on the Stan Colella Stage in Chevy Court at The Great New York State Fair, Syracuse, New York State, USA.
Puddle of Mudd frontman Wes Scantlin is arrested following an allegedly drunken altercation with a flight attendant during a Jet Blue flight from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California, USA. Scantlin's arrest causes the flight to divert and make a landing in Austin, Texas. Scantlin will counter-claim that he was wrongfully arrested, and that police roughed him up in the process.
Neon Trees play at Los Angeles County Fair, Los Angeles, California, USA, with special guest Cher Lloyd.
EDM producer Deadmau5 reveals in a Twitter posting that he has sent a Cease And Desist Order to the Disney organisation for having allegedly having used one of his tracks - Ghosts 'n' Stuff - without permission. This action follows in the wake of Disney attempting to stop Deadmau5 from registering a mouse-head logo which they describe as "nearly identical to our trademarks."
Composer Max Richter releases his 8-hour-long musical work, Sleep, on Deutsche Grammophon Records.
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Richard Neville, controversial counter-culture editor, writer and broadcaster, dies aged 74 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania. He had been diagnosed with early-onset dementia in his mid sixties.
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