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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.
Shawn Elliott is appearing during one week at The Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami, Florida, USA, promoting his new Roulette Records single, The Joker.
Cilla Black plays the seventh night of a two-week season at The Forty Thieves Club in Bermuda, Caribbean.
John Coltrane plays the last of four nights at Leo's Casino, Euclid Quad Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Shortly before The Beatles land at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, Minnesota, USA, en route to Portland, Oregon, for a concert, one of the engines on their Lockheed Electra aeroplane catches fire. John Lennon is frightened enough to quickly write a few messages which he encloses in a film canister for safety.
Count Basie, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Smith and Carmen McRae play at Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
James Brown, Solomon Burke and Joe Tex play at The Arie Crown Theater, McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, including Eric Clapton, play at The Galaxy Club, Woburn Park Hotel Addlestone, Surrey, England, UK.
Cyril Knowles plays his first match for English football team Tottenham Hotspur. Knowles' glittering career at Tottenham will inspire the 1973 hit single, Nice One Cyril by The Cockerel Chorus. The song is derived from a chant sung by Tottenham supporters which, in its turn, had been derived from a tv advertisement for Wonderloaf bread.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet plays at Stratford Music Festival, Stratford, Ontario, Canada.
During a month-long tour, Johnny Cash plays at Mockingbird Hill Park, Anderson, Indiana, USA.
When The Beatles play at Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon, USA, Carl Wilson and Mike Love of The Beach Boys visit the Mop Tops in their dressing room, and the audience includes famed beat poet Allen Ginsberg, who will write a poem about the event.
The New KB Band plays at The Kinema Ballroom, Dunfermline, Scotland, UK, supported by The Red Hawks.
On their first British tour, The Rolling Stones play at The Futurist Theatre, Foreshore Road, South Bay, Scarborough, England, UK.
Lead guitarist Mike Maxfield quits top Merseybeat group Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas to concentrate on songwriting.
Patti Page is appearing during two weeks at The Copa Room of The Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The stage musical Man Of La Mancha is playing at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of almost two and a half years.