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The musical play A Country Girl, or Town and Country, with music by Lionel Monckton and additional songs by Paul Rubens, is performed at Daly's Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 729 performances.
The musical comedy The Wild Rose is presented at The Knickerbocker Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 136 performances.
The Chicago Opera House, Chicago, Illinois, USA, is offering a bill including Elizabeth Murray ("The Lady With The Ragtime Walk'), Helen Blaine ("Singing comedienne") and Ethel Robinson ("The pocket edition of May Irwin").
Musical comedy The Bohemian Girl is playing at Chase's Theatre, Washington DC, USA. It is described as having, "Fifty electric fans in continual motion" plus "Ice cream and ices served free at every performance".
Musical comedy The Girl From Kay's is playing at The Apollo Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a lengthy run.
James C. Morton And Frank F. Moore are performing Alexander's Ragtime Band at The Columbia Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, as part of The Lew Kelly-Behman Show.Thomas Lesslie Garrett is born in Dallas, Texas, USA. He will find success as record producer Snuff Garrett working with Bobby Vee, Gene McDaniels, Gary Lewis And The Playboys, Johnny Burnette, Sonny And Cher, J.J.Cale and others.
Jeffery Hanlon is born in Blackpool, UK. After moving to Manchester and changing his name to Jef Hanlon [to sound more like Jet Harris of The Shadows], he will go on to become one of the most successful music promoters in the UK, working with Johnny Mathis, Chuck Berry, Gary Glitter and many others.
The musical Hazel Flagg, with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Bob Hilliard, is playing at The Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 190 performances.The Ballads And Blues concert is held at The Royal Festival Hall, London, UK, featuring such artists as Ewan
MacColl, Ken
Colyer And His Jazzmen and Isla Cameron.
Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong record an album of duets entitled Bing And Satchmo, in New York City, USA.
The Roy Haynes Trio records Down Home, Sweet And Lovely and other tracks at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Leon McAuliff And The Cimarron Boys are playing during six days of gigs at The Chestnut Inn, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
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.
Dionne Warwick releases a new single, Make the Music Play, on Scepter Records in the USA. The track is composed by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
The Rolling Stones play at The Ricky Tick Club, Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK, Europe.The Squires, including singer-guitarist Neil Young, play at The Proteen Club, Winnipeg, Canada.
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You Do It by Gerry And
The Pacemakers enters the Billboard Singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No9.
Nina Simone plays the eighth night of a two-week season at Annie's Room, London, England, UK.
The stage musical 
The 5th Dimension are playing during eleven nights at The Cave, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Spirit, Pyewacket and Stillborn Time play the second of two nights at The Sound Factory, Sacramento, California, USA, with lights by Jerry Abrams Head Lights.The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Athletic Park, Wellington, New Zealand.
The Cult play in an anti-heroin campaign show at The Royal Festival Hall, London, England, UK, Europe.
On their Southern Accents tour, 
On her Moment Of Truth World Tour, Whitney Houston plays at Marcus Amphitheater, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
On her Rhythm Nation 1814 tour, Janet Jackson plays the first of two nights at The Frank Erwin Center, Austin, Texas, USA.
On the Walking In Memphis by Marc Cohn peaks at No13 on the Billboard US pop singles chart. The song will provide a hit again for Cher in 1995 and for Lonestar in 2003.
New Orleans city council votes unanimously to change the name of New Orleans International Airport to Louis Armstrong International Airport.
The Dave Matthews Band play their longest concert ever, timed at over 3h 30min at the Lucca Summer Festival, Lucca, Italy, Europe. The concert will later be released as a three CD boxed set.When Paul Weller headlines the Hop Farm Festival in Kent, England, UK, Europe, he is joined by Roger Daltrey of The Who during the encore for a performance of Magic Bus.
Gene Simmons of Kiss throws an honorary first pitch before the game between the Dodgers and the New York Mets at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California, USA.
At the year's half-way mark, it is announced by Nielsen SoundScan that Adele's album 21 is the year's biggest selling album so far in the USA, with 2,517,000 units sold.
Florence And The Machine release a new single, Spectrum [Say My Name], as a digital download.
Bula Quo!, a comedy/adventure movie starring Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi of Status Quo goes on general release in the UK.
The Dave Matthews Band plays the second of two nights at The FirstMerit Bank Pavilion, Chicago, Illinois, USA.Demi Lovato celebrates the release of her new single, Cool For The Summer, by performing and jumping in a pool at KIIS FM's Summer Pool Party in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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