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The musical Fiddler On The Roof, starring Zero Mostel, is performed at The Majestic Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run continuously (but at three different theatres) until 1972 notching up 3,242 performances.
The rock musical Your Own Thing is presented at The Orpheum Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 937 performances.
The musical Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, is performed at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,847 performances.
The controversial hippy musical, Hair is playing at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1750 performances.
The rock musical Hair (which includes a scene with a fully nude cast) is presented during a run of 1,997 performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe. The cast includes Marsha Hunt, Paul Nicholas, Sonja Kristina and Jimmy Winston.
David Bowie plays at the bandstand in Croydon Road Recreation Ground, Beckenham, England, UK, Europe, as part of a free festival designed to raise money for a permanent base for the Beckenham Arts Lab project, which had started life as a folk club in the backroom of the nearby Three Tuns pub. The performance inspires Bowie to compose his song Memory Of A Free Festival.
The Fat Mattress album, by the band led by Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding, is reviewed in UK pop paper NME.
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Johnny Winter, Paul Butterfield and The Flock play the second of two nights at The Kinetic Playground, 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Move play at Scene 2, Scarborough, England, UK, Europe.
The second day of The Woodstock Festival is held in upstate New York, USA, featuring John Sebastian, Keef Hartley, Canned Heat, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Mountain and Santana.
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Pioneering British jazz-rock band Jon Hiseman's Colosseum play the second of three nights at The Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA.
Jethro Tull play at The Catacombs, Houston, Texas, USA.
The Jackson 5 makes its live debut as a Motown act, at The Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California, USA. Headlining act for this show is The Supremes.
Nina Simone and Ten Years After play a gig in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Earth play the last of seven nights at The Star Club, Hamburg, Germany, Europe, supported by Junior's Eyes and The Tremors. Soon after returning to the UK, Earth will announce that they are changing their name to Black Sabbath.