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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.
Peter, Paul And Mary and The Henry Mancini Orchestra play the third of six nights at McCormick Pace, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Nameless Ones play at The Kinema Ballroom, Dunfermline, Scotland, UK, supported by The Red Hawks.
Six-year-old Elian Gonzalez leaves Cuba in a boat with his mother and twelve others to seek asylum in the USA. The boat does not make it and his mother dies, but Elian is rescued by fishermen and taken to live with relatives in Miami, Florida. He later became the subject of a major news story when he was ordered back to Cuba to live with his father. US marshals had to seize Elian and send him back to Cuba against the wishes of his relatives. The incident will inspire Manic Street Preachers to write their song Baby Elian.
Jazz vocalist Sylvia Syms records God Bless The Child, More Than You Know and other tracks in Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Gerry And The Pacemakers, Gene Vincent and Karl Denver play at The South Pier, Blackpool, England, UK.
The Watts Riots, six days of racially fueled violence begin in a small southern suburb of Los Angeles, California, USA. Over the coming days there will be 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40m worth of property damage. The 1967 Jimi Hendrix song, House Burning Down, and the Frank Zappa song Trouble Every Day, will be inspired by the Watts Riots.
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, featuring Eric Clapton, play at The Pontiac Club, Putney, London, England, UK, Europe. Shortly after this gig, Clapton unexpectedly disappears to Greece for a two-week holiday.
Elvis Presley continues location filming for the movie Paradise Hawaiian Style, in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
TV show Shindig, in the USA, features The
TV rock show Where The Action Is, in the USA, features The Dixie Cups performing Iko Iko and Ian Whitcomb performing This Sporting Life.
MOR singing group The King Family play in Warwick, Rhode Island, USA. The group was starring in a musical variety series on ABC tv in the USA, that featured The King Sisters and their extended musical family. 
The Who play at The Blue Moon, Cheltenham, England, UK, supported by The Silence, whose members include Dale Griffin and Pete 'Overend' Watts, both of whom will go on to play with Mott The Hoople.
Patti Page opens for two weeks at The Copa Room of The Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
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.