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The Chet Baker Quartet has a recording session in Paris, France, for the album Chet Baker In Paris.
Sadako Sasaki, a girl who lived in Hiroshima, Japan, at the time of the 1945 atomic bombing by the United States, dies of leukemia, aged 12, having spent the last days of her brief life folding origami cranes in the belief that anyone who folds 1000 paper cranes would be granted a wish by the Gods. In her case, she simply wished to live but managed only 644 cranes before the illness finally consumed her. Sadako's tragedy will inspire the songs Song For Sadako Sasaki by Oguz Altinbas, One Thousand Paper Cranes by Maggie Stiefvater [2012], Sadako's Song by Mary Hulefield [2012] and Sadako Folding Cranes [2013] by Laura Veirs.
Charges of illegal gambling against Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie and Illinois Jacquet are dropped during a court hearing in Houston, Texas. Fitzgerald's manager, Norman Granz, maintains that the charges were racially motivated, because local police did not want mixed audiences at concerts in the city.