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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.
Joan Baez makes her UK singles chart debut with her version of the civil rights anthem We Shall Overcome.
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The Kinks, The Yardbirds and Goldie And The Gingerbreads play another show in their 21-date UK tour, at The Granada, Kingston-on-Thames.
Frank Sinatra records Forget Domani for Reprise Records at United Western Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Marvin Gaye spends the last of three days recording Little Darling (I Need You) for Tamla Records, in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
A package tour featuring Billy Fury, The Pretty Things, Dave Berry and The Cruisers, Brian Poole And The Tremeloes, The John Barry Seven and The Zephyrs, plays at The ABC, Carlisle, England, UK.
Marianne Faithfull marries art gallery owner John Dunbar at a Registry Office in Cambridge, UK.
Miwa Yoshida is born in Ikeda, Hokkaido, Japan, Asia. She will find success as a singer-songwriter and vocalist for the globally-successful band Dreams Come True.
Elvis Presley's seventeenth movie, Girl Happy, is released to cinemas in Norway, Europe.
James Brown records I Got You (I Feel Good) for King Records in Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida, USA.
The Rolling Stones play at The Jack Russell Stadium, Clearwater, Florida, USA. On the same day, Keith Richards tapes the guitar lick which will be used in (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction.
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Donovan plays at The North Pier, Blackpool, England, UK.
New Orleans vocalist-songwriter Chris Kenner records Get On This Train, I'm The Greatest, They Took My Money and The Life Of My Little Baby, all co-written with Fats Domino.
Having completed the filming of battlefield scenes on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, UK, for their second feature film, Help!, The Beatles check out of the Antrobus Arms hotel in Amesbury, and return to London to complete studio filming in Twickenham.
The Battle Of The Beat 65 takes place at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, featuring The Three Bears, The Con-Rods, The King Bees, The Rickoshades, The Rabble, The Satellites, The Addix, The Aliens, The Mundanes, The Missing Links and The Griefs.
The Moody Blues play at The New Central Ballroom, Aldershot, England, UK.
The Who play at The Two Red Shoes ballroom, Elgin, Scotland, UK, supported by The Alex Sutherland Sextet.
Doc Watson and The Danny Kalb Quartet [later known as The Blues Project] play the first of fifteen nights at The Gaslight Cafe, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
The Alex Harvey Soul Band plus Long John Baldry And The Hoochie Coochie Men play at The Marquee, Soho, London, England, UK.
Bob Dylan plays at the City Hall, Newcastle, UK.
An as yet un-named group plays at Kensington Youth Centre, East Ham, London, England, UK. During the evening, they decide to name themselves The Small Faces.
The Searchers play at The Town Hall, Kidderminster, England, UK.
The stage musical On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Burton Lane, is playing at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 280 performances.
The stage musical Man Of La Mancha is playing at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of almost two and a half years.