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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 rock musical 
Hugh Masekela plays during a week of shows at Red Foxx's Club, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, USA, with The Les McCann Trio.
Jazz organist Brother Jack McDuff records Come And Carry Me Home at Island Studios, London, for Blue Note Records.
John Denver plays a live set on the Skip Weshner Show on KRHM-FM radio in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Mary Hopkin releases a new single, Knock Knock Who's There, in the UK on Apple Records. Two days earlier, the song had come second in the Eurovision Song Contest. Although it will peak at No2 on the UK chart, Hopkin is known never to have liked the song, claiming to have found it humiliating to sing at the Song Contest.
Yes play at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, England, UK, Europe, backed by a symphony orchestra.
Jimi Hendrix, working with drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox, begins recording sessions in the USA for a new album, tentatively entitled The First Rays Of The New Morning Sun. On this day, he records Midnight Lightnin' at The Record Plant, New York City.
Jazz trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff records the album Never Let It End, in Walldorf Studio, Frankfurt, Germany, Europe.
Spencer Dryden plays his last gig as drummer with 
Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young release the album Déjà Vu in the UK.
Barry Gibb of The Bee Gees records One Bad Thing and Happiness at IBC Studios, London, England, UK, Europe. The tracks are intended for a proposed solo album which will never be released.
The WDAS Soul Spectacular is staged in the Convention Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, featuring Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, Wilson Pickett, Kool and the Gang, Chairmen Of The Board, The Moments, Judy Clay and The Five Stairsteps. When fighting breaks out in the audience, two girls are hospitalised with gunshot wounds, and three boys with stab wounds.Producer Phil Spector sets to work in Room Four, Abbey Road studios, London, England, UK, Europe, on The Beatles' tapes for the album that will become Let It Be.
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