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The Great Fair, largely an agricultural event, opens for two weeks at Tanforan Park, San Francisco, California, USA. The event also includes 'Grand musical concerts daily'.
Carl Sigman is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He will find success as a songwriter [primarily a lyricist] with credits to his name including It's All In the Game, Answer Me, Till, The Day The Rains Came and What Now My Love.
English popular singer and actor Anthony Newley is born in the borough of Hackney, London, England, UK, Europe.
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.Chuck Berry, Shirley And Lee, The
G-Clefs and Buddy And Ella
Johnson, play the fourth night of a week at the Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.
When the package tour The Biggest Show Of Stars for 1957, featuring Buddy Holly and The Crickets, Paul Anka, The Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, The Bobbettes, The Drifters, Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers, LaVern Baker, Jimmy Bowen, Sam 'The Man' Taylor and Clyde McPhatter plays in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA, the white acts are unable to perform because of local segregation laws.
The Biggest Show Of Stars Of '60, featuring Bobby Rydell, Chubby Checker, Bo Diddley, Hank Ballard, Duane Eddy, The Olympics, Dion, Marv Johnson and The Bobbettes,plays at Freedom Hall, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra and The John Coltrane Quartet play at the Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey, California.
Two artists - Ricky Nelson and Col Joye - tie for the No1 pop single position in Australia, Oceania, with the same song, Yes Sir, That's My Baby.
Lonnie Johnson and Victoria Spivey play the last of thirteen nights at Gerde's Folk City, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Acker Bilk And His Paramount Jazz Band play at St. George's Hall, Bradford, England, UK, Europe.
Gene Krupa opens for a week at Baker's Keyboard Lounge, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Folksinger Dock Boggs records Down South Blues, New Prisoner's Song and Harvey Logan for Folkways Records at his sister Laura's home in Guest River, Virginia, USA.
Harry Belafonte is playing during a month of shows at The Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The Rolling Stones, Inez and Charlie Foxx, Mike Berry and The Mojos, play at The Gaumont, Doncaster, UK.The Seekers and Yana are playing during a season at The Pavilion, Bournemouth, England, UK, Europe.
Teen movie Muscle Beach Party opens at cinemas in Finland, Europe. The movie stars Frankie
Avalon and Annette Funicello, and features music by Dick Dale And His Del-Tones, Frankie Avalon and Little Stevie Wonder.
Bud Dashiell comes to the end of a month at The Ice House, Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, USA. Also on the bill are Carol Hedin and Aerial Landscape.
The New Yardbirds, later to re-name themselves Led Zeppelin, play the second of two nights at The Manglerud Club, Oslo, Norway, Europe, bringing their Scandinavian tour to an end.Session saxophonist J.T.Brown aka Nature Boy Brown dies in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He worked with The Rabbit Foot Minstrels before moving to Chicago, Illinois, USA, where he became a popular , working with Roosevelt Sykes, St. Louis Jimmy Oden, Elmore James and others.
Deep Purple's Concerto For Group And Orchestra is performed for the first time ever at The Royal Albert Hall in London, England, UK, Europe.
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After a day of tour rehearsals and excessively heavy drinking, at Bray Studios in Windsor, England, UK, Europe, Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham is driven to the home of guitarist Jimmy Page, The Old Mill, where he collapses into sleep and has to be carried up to bed.
Singer-songwriter and guitarist Anna Calvi is born in Twickenham, London, England, UK, Europe.
On his Midnight At The Lost And Found tour, Meat Loaf plays the second of two nights at Wembley Arena, London, England, UK, Europe.
On his Born In The USA tour, Bruce Springsteen plays the first of two nights at The War Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, New York State, USA.
On his Seriously Live! World Tour, Phil Collins plays at The Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA.The Red Hot Chili Peppers release their fifth studio album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, in the USA on Warner Bros Records.
Madonna exposes her breasts in front of 6,000 people during an AIDS benefit show with Jean Paul Gaultier at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA. Also appearing as catwalk models in the show are singer Anthony Kiedis and bassist Flea of The Red Hot Chili Peppers.Guns N' Roses and Metallica play the twenty-first show in a co-headlining 25-date US tour at The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, California, USA, with Faith No More as the opening act.
Christina Aguilera throws one of several pre-marital hen parties at Cabo Wabo's in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
On her Howard Morrison dies from a heart attack in his sleep, aged 74, in Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, Oceania. He is best-remembered as the founder and leader of New Zealand's first all-Maori pop/rock'n'roll group, The Howard Morrison Quartet.
The 15th Hideout Block Party features Andrew Bird, Mavis Staples, Booker T. Jones and others, at The Hideout, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Mumford And Sons release their second album, Babel in The UK, Scandinavia, Spain, Italy, Eastern Europe and South America.
On her Ringo Starr, former drummer of The Beatles, is presented with the French Medal of Honor, being appointed a Commander of France's Order of Arts and Letters in a ceremony held outside the Oceanographic Museum in Monaco, France, Europe.
On her Anti World Tour Rihanna plays at the Global Citizen Festival, Central Park, New York City, USA.1900 |
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