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Truly Shattuck, The Harmony Four, Madame Doria and others, including Mlle. Christina's Dog Monkey And Cat Circus, play at The Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
Musical comedy The Girl From Kay's is playing at The Apollo Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a lengthy run.
The comic opera King Dodo is presented at The Athens Theatre, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.Blues vocalist Ida Cox And Her All Star Orchestra record I Can't Quit That Man, Last Mile Blues and other tracks in New York City, USA, for OKeh Records.
The movie King Of Jazz, starring Paul Whiteman, Bing Crosby and others, opens in theatres in France, Europe.
Marlene Dietrich stars in the Lux Radio Theater presentation Song of Songs with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr on the CBS network in the USA.Blues vocalist Rosetta Howard records the Big Bill Broonzy song Plow Hand Blues for Columbia Records in Chicago, Illinois.
Stevie Wright, lead vocalist with Australian 60s hitmakers The Easybeats, is born in Leeds, UK.
The movie musical Mr. Music, starring Bing Crosby, Peggy Lee, Groucho Marx and The Merry Macs, has its first New York City showing in the USA.
Maree Lee of 
The musical comedy Wonderful Town, starring Rosalind Russell, is playing at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 559 performances.
The musical Irma La Douce is running at The Plymouth Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It runs at The Plymouth for more than a year before transferring to The Alvin Theatre.
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.
Musical comedy The Gay Life is presented at The Shubert Theater, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 113 performances.
Brenda Lee plays the sixteenth night of a pre-Christmas season in The Congo Room of The Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Female saxophonist Vi Redd is playing during a month-long engagement at The Sugar Hill, San Francisco, California, USA.
CBS-tv in the USA broadcasts the documentary
TV rock show Where The Action Is in the USA features James Brown performing Papa's Got a Brand New Bag.
Otis Redding plays the first of three nights at The Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by the Grateful Dead, Johnny Talbot And De Thangs, and Country Joe And The Fish. Janis Joplin attends the gig.
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 Amboy Dukes [including the mad axeman Ted Nugent] play the first of two nights at The Kinetic Playground, 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, as support to The New York Rock'n'Roll Ensemble. Also on the bill is blues harmonica master Charlie Musselwhite.
Two early bootleg albums appear in record racks in Chicago, Illinois, USA. They are the appropriately titled Stealin' by Bob Dylan and Liver Than You'll Ever Be by The Rolling Stones.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band plays the last of four nights at The Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA, with Buddy Miles and Quatermass.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band plays the last of four nights at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA, with Buddy Miles and Quatermass.
Malice, later to be known as The Cure, perform live for the school Christmas Concert at St Wilfrid's Comprehensive, Crawley, UK.
The Stillettos play at the 
George Melly and John Chilton's Feetwarmers are playing during two weeks at Ronnie Scott's Club, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe.Bob Dylan plays the last of five nights at the El Rey Theater, Los Angeles, California, USA. In his Never-ending Tour schedule this is concert No936.
Wiltshire band Blackbud play their first ever gig, at the Black Cat at The Riverside, Bradford-on-Avon, England, UK, Euroope.Jazz trumpeter Mick Mulligan, best known as leader of Mick Mulligan And His Magnolia Jazz Band, dies aged 78, having recently suffered a stroke, in Chichester, Sussex, England, UK, Europe.
Belle And Sebastian play the second of three nights at Barrowland, Glasgow, Scotland.
District Court Judge Steven Merryday of Tampa, Florida, USA, denies a request by Christopher Federline for a restraining order against Britney Spears, and closes the case.
This bizarre tale began two days earlier when A temporary restraining order against Britney Spears was lodged - allegedly - in the District Court of Tampa, Florida, USA by Christopher Federline, brother of Spears' ex-husband Kevin Federline. The legal action is reported to have claimed, among other things, that Christopher Federline slept with Britney while she was married to his brother and he was thus the biological father of her son Sean Preston.
Cheryl Cole makes an appearance in long-running British tv soap opera, Coronation Street, portraying herself.
When New Model Army play at The Palladium, Koln, Germany, Europe, they are joined onstage by Hugh Cornwell.1900 |
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