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A Musicale is held at the YMCA Hall, Richmond, Virginia, USA, featuring the Second Baptist Quatette.
Delta blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player J.D. Short is born in Port Gibson, Mississippi, USA.
The musical comedy The Billionaire, with music by Gustav Kerker and lyrics by Harry B. Smith, is presented during a three month run at Daly's Theatre, New York City, USA.
The Blind Boone Concert Company, billed as "the celebrated negro pianist and company of vocalists", is playing at Park Congregational Church, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Louis Armstrong And His Hot Five record the Kid Ory composition Muskrat Ramble in Chicago, Illinois, USA, for OKeh Records. At the same session they also record Cornet Chop Suey, Georgia Grind, Heebie Jeebies, Oriental Strut, You're Next and Don't Forget To Mess Around.
Daddy Stovepipe and Mississippi Sarah record The Spasm, If You Want Me, Baby, Strewin' It Out and 35 Depression for Bluebird Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Count Basie Sextet plays the seventeenth night of a six-week engagement at The Brass Rail, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Jonathan Leonard Friga is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He will find success as multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Cain, best known for his work with Journey and Bad English.
Jazz vocalist Billy Eckstine plays the twelfth night of two weeks at Ciro's, San Francisco, California, USA.
Popular singer Jo Stafford marries bandleader/arranger/composer Paul Weston at St Gregory's Catholic Church in Los Angeles, California, USA. The service is conducted by Father Joe Kearney, a former guitarist with the Bob Crosby band who left the music business, trained as a priest and served as head of the Catholic Labor Institute.
Hank Snow records On That Old Hawaiian Shore With You, I Just Telephoned Upstairs and Chattin' With A Chick In Chattanooga, in RCA Victor Studio No1, 155 East 24th Street, Manhattan, New York City, USA.
The Fontane Sisters enter the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA with Rock Love, which will peak at No13.
Julius LaRosa is appearing at The Tradewinds, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Anita O'Day records The Party's Over, Peel Me A Grape and Spring Will Be A
Little Late This Year for RCA
Records in Los Angeles, California, USA. (1962)
Hey! Baby by Bruce
Channel peaks at No2 in the Canadian pop singles chart, kept
off the top spot by Gene Chandler's
Duke Of
Earl. (1962)
Canadian folk singer Bonnie Dobson makes her New York City, USA, debut with an appearance at Folk City. The gig is recorded and tracks will appear on the Prestige Folklore Records album Bonnie Dobson At Folk City.
Hey! Baby by Bruce Channel peaks at No2 in the Canadian pop singles chart, kept off the top spot by Gene Chandler's
Duke Of
Earl.
Little Frankie and 
The Newbeats and The Palace Guard play the second of two nights at Dave Hull's Hull abaloo, 6230 Sunset, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The musical comedy The Happy Time is presented at The Broadway Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 286 performances. The show features music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb.
The Ralph Sutton Quartet plays at Sunnie's Rendezvous, Aspen, Colorado, USA. The band includes celebrated trumpet and cornet player Ruby Braff.
Buffalo Springfield record the Richie Furay composition Can't Keep Me Down at Sunset Sound, Los Angeles, California, USA. The track will not be released but will subsequently be recorded by Poco as Do You Feel It Too?.
Merle Haggard releases a new single, The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde / Today I Started Loving You Again, on Capitol Records in the USA..
Archie Shepp has a second session of recording tracks for his Impulse Records album The Way Ahead at RCA Studios, New York City, USA.
Tiny Tim plays during six nights at The Hook And Ladder Club, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Led Zeppelin play at The Konserthuset in Stockholm, Sweden, Europe. After the concert they are interviewed by Johan Zachrisson on Sweden TV1. While in Stockholm, the band is also presented with Gold Disc awards for Swedish sales of Led Zeppelin II.
Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66 spend the second of two days filming an appearance for Engelbert Humperdinck's ATV series in the UK.
Elvis Presley is rehearsing in Houston, Texas, USA, for his upcoming performances at The Annual Texas Livestock Show.
Serial killer Wayne Williams is found guilty of the murder of two adult men. Williams is also believed to have been the perpetrator of an additional 23 of the 29 child murders known as The Atlanta Child Murders, although a subsequent controversy will hold that Williams did not commit all of the crimes. The songs Annie Christian by Prince and Wrong Man by Deep Purple will be inspired by Williams' story.
On their Love And Pride tour, hitmakers King, play at The Winter Gardens, Margate, England, UK, Europe.
Blues artist Alvin Youngblood Hart is stopped in Chicago, Illinois, USA, by police who assume he is a criminal.
Snow Patrol begin an eight week period of recording a new album in Dingle in southwest Ireland, Europe.
Lifehouse release their fifth studio album, Smoke And Mirrors, on Geffen Records in the United Kingdom.
Seventeen year old African-American teenager Trayvon Martin is shot dead by community watch member George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, USA. Zimmerman claims to have shot Martin in self-defence but there is no hard evidence to support the claim. Zimmerman will eventually be charged and tried on charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter, but a jury will acquit him in July 2013. Trayvon's death will be memorialised in the 2012 song Everybody's Son by Unitas Quick, based on a poem by Saira Viola.
On their Mechanical Bull tour, Kings Of Leon play at The Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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