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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.
British comedy duo Flanders And Swann are performing their show At The Drop Of A Hat during a run of 215 performances at the John Golden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
Beatnik Fly by Johnny And The Hurricanes reaches No1 in the Canadian pop singles chart.
Bill Brown, guitarist in a later line-up of country-rock band The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, is born in North Carolina, USA.
R'n'B quintet The 5 Keys are in King Records Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, recording Girl You Better Stop It, Stop Your Crying, Wrapped Up In A Dream, Will You, and I'll Never Stop Loving You.
R'n'B quintet The 5 Keys are in King Records Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, recording Girl You Better Stop It, Stop Your Crying, Wrapped Up In A Dream, Will You and I'll Never Stop Loving You.
Robert Sweet, drummer of Christian heavy metal band Stryper, is born in Lynwood, California, USA.
Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Billy Fury, Joe Brown and Georgie Fame, play the first of six nights at The Empire, Newcastle, UK.
The Coasters, The Isley Brothers and Dave 'Baby' Cortez play the seventh night in a two-week season at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
A US rock'n'roll package tour, The Super Show, featuring Tommy Sands, Jerry Lee Lewis, Dion And The Belmonts, Neil Sedaka, Johnny And The Hurricanes, Freddy Cannon, Jimmy Clanton, Marv Johnson, plays at Freedom Hall, Sydney, Australia.
Sixty-nine demionstrators are shot dead by police in what has come to be known as The Sharpeville Massacre, in Sharpeville, Transvaal, South Africa. Ewan MacColl's song The Ballad Of Sharpeville will tell the story. This horrific event will also be memorialised in jazz bassist Mario Pavone's 1988 album Sharpeville.
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.