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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.Paul Ash And His Orchestra record Kiss Your Little Baby Goodnight and Oh! If I Only Had You, for Columbia Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The modern style jukebox is born when Bertram C. Kenyon, Wilmur W. Boa, and Clifford H. Green apply for a patent for a coin-operated phonograph with a record changing mechanism. As a result, the Automatic Musical Instrument Co (AMI) will introduce the first coin-operated, electrically amplified, 20-selection phonograph based on a mechanical ten-record system that plays both sides of each disc.
Time
magazine reviews Earl Carroll's
recently-opened Broadway musical review Earl Carroll's
Sketchbook, saying "a large and lovely group of girls attired
in summery yellow dresses crowd out upon the stage, lie on their
backs on an imitation grass terrace, raise their legs high in the air and wave them slowly to & fro. This revel sets the pitch
for the rest of the entertainment, which fulfills every standard -
anatomical, luxurious, careless - that is associated with Producer
Carroll."
The first weekly radio show of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Music And The Spoken Word, is broadcast live from Salt Lake Tabernacle on Temple Square, Salt Lake City, USA, in the USA. The programme will go on to become the world's longest-running continuous network broadcast, carried on over 2,000 radio and television stations and cable systems. (1929).
Peter Geoffrey Richardson is born in Hinckley, Leicestershire, UK. He will find success as viola player with Canterbury Scene prog-rock band Caravan and with the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
Earl Bostic And His Orchestra (including John Coltrane) are playing at The Cobra Club, San Diego, California, USA.Although having been diagnosed as schizophrenic, Woody Guthrie is released from Bellevue hospital, New York City, USA. He goes home and almost immediately attacks one of his children.
Webb Pierce records I Haven't Got The Heart for Decca Records in Castle Studio [founded by Paul Cohen] in The Tulane Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The 
Frances Love, wife of Mike Love, later to find fame with The Beach Boys, gives birth to their first child, Melinda.Bill Haley And His Comets play the eleventh night of a three-week season at the El Cortez Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
A new musical production, Money, starring George Coe, David Rounds and Barbara Quaney, is playing at Upstairs At The Downstairs, New York City, USA, during a run of 214 performances. The show's book and lyrics are by David Axelrod and Tom Whedon, while the music is by Sam Pottle. 
The Who, The Eyes Of Blue and
Joy And The Sorrows record Them, On And On and Just That Kind Of Guy, for MGM Records in New York City, USA.
Joy And The Sorrows record Them, On And On and Just That Kind Of Guy, for MGM Records in New York City, USA.
Fats Domino is playing during a series of dates at The Flamingo, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Civic Center Arena, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
On their 
On his Serious Moonlight tour, David Bowie plays the first of two nights at The Civic Center, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
The Cure release a new single, In Between Days, on Fiction Records in the UK. It is the first single from their sixth album, The Head on the Door.
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Nirvana play at Green Street Station, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Kurt Cobain, having broken his guitar the night before, performs the entire set without one.
On his 
The 
The 
Company Of Wolves, Close Enough and Catharsis play at The Channel, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
John Kay And On the HIStory World Tour, Michael Jackson plays the second of three nights at the Wembley Stadium, London, England, United Kingdom, to an audience of 72,000.
Twisted Sister play a benefit gig at The Electric Factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, hoping to raise at least $100,000 to cover the costs of a liver transplant for their seriously ill soundman Charlie Barreca.
Alanis Morissette, supported by Jason Mraz, continues her Jagged Little Pill Acoustic tour at Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego, California, USA. 
The Ozzfest featuring Black Sabbath and others, plays at The Tweeter Centre For the Performing Arts, Mansfield, Massachusetts, USA.
Kelly Johnson, lead guitarist and singer of all-female HM band Girlschool, dies of cancer of the spine, aged 49.
Paul McCartney plays an unannounced mini-concert from the top of the marquee of the Ed Sullivan Theater, New York City, USA, where he is taping a performance for The Late Show With David Letterman. Nearby street corners are closed off as fans are drawn to the area by Twitter messages and word of mouth.
Christina Aguilera is seen on the streets of Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, filming a new music video.
During his 
Harry Connick Jr. begins a two-week season at The Neil Simon Theatre, New York City, USA.
On their Fallen Empires tour, Snow Patrol play at Gurtenfestival, The Gurten, Bern, Switzerland, Europe.
Guns N'Roses play at The Exit Festival, Petrovaradin Fortress, Novi Sad, Serbia, Europe.Singer-songwriter Emily Maguire releases the album Bird Inside A Cage on Shaktu Records in the UK.
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