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The Sousa Band is playing during a lengthy engagement at Willow Grove Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
Chu Chin Chow, billed as 'A Musical Tale of the East in Fourteen Scenes - Company of 300' is playing at His Majesty's Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 2238 performances.
Robert Sandall is born in Pinner, London, England, UK. He will become one of the UK's most respected rock and pop music critics, writing for The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times and others, but also co-presenting BBC Radio 3's Mixing It and contributing to the Late Junction programme.
Blues vocalist Eddie Mack (aka Mack Edmondson) records Last Hour Blues, Seven Day Blues, Good Time Woman and Keyhole Blues for Savoy Records in New York City, USA.
B.B. King plays the third night of a week at The Flame Show Bar, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Tommy Edwards records his second version of It's All In the Game at Metropolitan Studios, New York City, USA. At the same session he records Please Love Me Forever and Love Is All We Need.
Paul Anka plays the seventh of ten nights at The Three Rivers Inn, Syracuse, New York State, USA.
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce presents Bing Crosby with a platinum disc to commemorate sales of 200 million units from the many singles and albums he has recorded. [The figure of 200 million sales is, however, the subject of some debate]
The Silver Beetles, later to become The Beatles, play at The Neston Institute, Wirral, UK.
Monty Sunshine's Jazz Band plays at The Civic Hall, Croydon, England, UK, Europe.
Jan And Dean release a new single, Heart And Soul, on Challenge Records (owned by singing cowboy Gene Autry] in the USA.
On a record-breaking night at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, UK, The Beatles play to 900 ecstatic fans.
Neil Sedaka plays the fourth night of a week of shows at The International Club, New York City, USA.
Brenda Lee plays the sixth of what is planned as fourteen nights at The Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA. She will, however, dislocate her neck on the 12th, necessitating cancellation of the remaining dates.
The Springfields, including Dusty Springfield, make a live appearance on UK radio show Easy Beat.
The Chet Baker Quartet plays in Paris, France, Europe.
Influential country music performer Wynn Stewart, considered one of the progenitors of the Bakersfield sound, marries Dolores Morris between shows at a chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Bob Dylan has a recording session at Columbia Studios in New York City, USA, working on tracks for the album Another Side Of Bob Dylan, including Mr Tambourine Man.
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Gordon Baker And His Orchestra play during five nights in the Pump Room and Roman Baths, Bath, England, UK, Europe. These shows are part of the Bath Festival.
Elvis Presley continues with filming of his next movie, Frankie And Johnny, at Goldwyn Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Shadows play the third of seven nights at The Hippodrome, Birmingham, England, UK.
The Yardbirds pre-record a session for BBC radio's Ken Dodd Show, in London, England, UK.
The Steve Miller Blues Band plays the first of two nights at the California Hall, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by The Sparrow, who will go on to find fame as Steppenwolf.
Judy Garland celebrates her 45th birthday by having dinner with Tom Green in the Pump Room of the Ambassador East Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Jazz pianist Erroll Garner is playing during a three-week season at The Tropicana, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
George Harrison and Ringo Starr of The Beatles play golf in Monterey, California, USA.
Bobby Vee begins a week of appearances at The Social Club, Greaseborough, England, UK, Europe.
Love play the last of three nights at The Kinetic Playground, 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, supported by The Chicago Slim Blues Band.
Bob Dylan, John Lennon and George Harrison are in the audience at Madison Square Garden when Elvis Presley plays his first concert in New York City, USA.
After being open for just sixteen days, Alexandra Palace, London, UK, is destroyed by fire and has to be closed to the public.
On his Natty Dread Tour, Bob Marley plays the first of two nights at The Quiet Knight Club, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Love You Inside Out by The Bee Gees reaches No1 in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart in the USA.
Frank Sinatra plays at The Fabulous Fox Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
On her Heart Of Stone tour, Cher plays at Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Greenwood Village, Colorado, USA.
U2 frontman Bono holds discussions in Brussels, Belgium, Europe, with European Commission leader Jose Manuel Barroso and other world leaders, asking for their support for Africa and the momentum gained by the Live8 concerts. "Put down your national flags," he tells them. "Look up from the numbers and look to the future. People are dying for the most stupid reasons."
Twenty five songs, including My Generation by The Who and At Last by Etta James, are added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress, in order to preserve them for posterity.
Band Of Horses play at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, UK.
Orange County Deputy Coroner Mitchell Sigal reports that The Reverend Tholomew Plague, drummer with Avenged Sevenfold, died in December 2009 of multiple drug intoxication at his home in Huntington Beach, California, USA, aged 28.
Foo Fighters play at The Greenfield Festival, Flugplatz, Interlaken, Switzerland, Europe.
Halfway through Calvin Harris' set at The Electric Daisy Carnival at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, the event is shut down as dangerously high winds roar through the speedway.
Jennifer Lopez and Jimmy Fallon perform Tight Pants, live on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in New York City, USA.
Comedian and actor Rik Mayall dies aged 56 at his home in Barnes, South London, UK. He and his co-stars from the tv show The Young Ones scored a UK No1 single performing a charity single, a parody of the Cliff Richard hit Living Doll.
Holly Lerski plays at The Sidewalk Cafe, New York City, USA.
On her 1989 World Tour Taylor Swift plays at PNC Arena, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, supported by Vance Joy.
On her Revival tour, Selena Gomez plays at The Philips Arena, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, supported by DNCE and Bea Miller.
Lady Antebellum release a new LP, Heart Break.
On their 51-date The Joshua Tree Tour 2017, U2 play at Bonnaroo Music Festival, Great Stage Park Manchester, Tennessee, USA.
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