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The first rock'n'roll instrumental hit arrives when jazz keyboardist Bill Doggett enters the Billboard Top Ten Singles Chart in the USA with Honky Tonk. Doggett's innovation will inspire a wave of rock'n'roll instrumentals that will last well into the mid-60s.
Banner Thomas, who will find success as the bassist of Molly Hatchet during the band's earliest and most commercially successful years as a recording act, is born in Orange Park, Florida, USA.
Little Richard is in Master Recorders studio, Los Angeles, California, USA, working on the tracks I Got It, Send Me Some Lovin' and She's Got It.
Fats Domino, Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers, The Harptones, Joe Turner, The Cleftones and The Penguins play the last of nine days as part of Alan Freed's Second Anniversary Rock And Roll Show at the Paramount Theatre, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.