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The Steven Sondheim musical Gypsy, starring Ethel Merman, is performed on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 702 performances.Blind Willie McTell suffers a stroke and is admitted to Milledgeville Hospital, Georgia, USA.
The Coasters, Milt Buckner, Tiny Topsy and The Jesse Powell Combo play the sixth night of one week at the Howard Theatre, Washington, D.C., USA.
A protest meeting takes place in Wellington Town Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, Oceania, against an upcoming international rugby test match between New Zealand's All Blacks and South Africa because South Africa has banned Maoris from playing in the New Zealand team. This racist action inspires New Zealand's all-Maori Howard Morrison Quartet to write and record the sardonic protest song, My Old Man's An All Black (based on the Lonnie Donegan hit My Old Man's A Dustman).
Blues harmonica star Little Walter Jacobs records Blue And Lonesome in Chicago, Illinois, USA, for Chess Records.