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New Orleans-style jazz trumpeter, banjoist and recording artist Cliff 'Kid' Bastien is born in London, England, UK, Europe. he will find success in Canada, leading his Happy Pals jazz band.
Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchesta record Shadows On The Sand, You're Breaking My Heart All Over Again and I'd Know You Anywhere, for RCA Victor Records in New York City, USA.
Sailor [Your Home Is The Sea] by Lolita reaches No1 in the Canadian pop singles chart.
Jazz guitar legend Wes Montgomery plays live at The Cellar, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The BBC Light Programme Radio Show Swingsong features Johnny Douglas And His Orchestra with Ronnie Price at the piano, The swinging guitars of Judd Proctor And The Plainsmen plus The Ivor Raymonde Singers. The show is introduced by Denis Lotis.It is reported that The Johnny Jenkins Combo has signed to Confederate Records in the USA. One of the band members is Otis Redding.
House Music pioneer Jesse Saunders is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. With the band Z Factor, Saunders will write and record the 1983 single Fantasy for Mitchbal Records. Later that year, he will found Jes-Say Records and release On and On, often cited as the first house music track.
Jazz pianist, band leader and recording artist Sonny Clark dies, aged 31, in New York City, USA. The cause of his death is listed as a heart attack, but it is widely believed to have been caused by a heroin overdose.
Ray Charles releases a new single, Take These Chains From My Heart, on ABC-Paramount Records in the USA.
The Squires, including singer-guitarist Neil Young, play at The Weston Community Club, Winnipeg, Canada.
The Squires, featuring Neil Young, play the fifth of seven nights at the Fourth Dimension Folk Club, Fort William, Manitoba, Canada.
Bob Dylan is rehearsing at Friar's Tavern, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with Levon And The Hawks, who will go on to work with him for many years as The Band.
Francis Shivers is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He will find some success as a musician and actor under the nameCoyote Shivers. 
The Byrds and The Buffalo Springfield play at The Sports Arena, San Diego, California, USA.
The largest attendance recorded to date at a rock festival is 600,000, achieved today by the Watkins Glen Summer Jam, outside New York, featuring the Allman Brothers, The Band and The Grateful Dead. On the same day, Led Zeppelin play the second of three nights at Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA.
Jeremy Plato is born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. He will find success as the bass player of Cross Canadian Ragweed, who will score four Top 10 country albums between 2004 and 2009.
Tonight's gig at El Mocambo, a 300 capacity club in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is advertised as featuring local band April Wine. In fact, The Rolling Stones play unannounced, under the pseudonym of The Cockroaches, and record their album Love You Live. They also write the song Miss You.
The Tourists play at the City Hall, Sheffield, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Barracudas. Two members of the Tourists, Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, will go on to form Eurythmics.
Bob Dylan starts a sixteen-date tour of North America with a show at The Sporting Auditorium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Debbie Harry, aka 
Sarah McLachlan, singer-songwriter and founder of the internationally successful all-female Lilith Fair Tours, is awarded The Order of Canada.
Alanis Morissette, supported by Jason Mraz, continues her Jagged Little Pill Acoustic tour at The Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
On his 
Arcade Fire headline the Auditorium Stravinski, Montreux, Switzerland, Europe, during the 45th Montreux Jazz Festival.
On his My World tour, Justin Bieber plays at Beira Rio Stadium, Porto Alegre, Brazil, South America.
Crosby, Stills And Nash play at The Route 66 Casino, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
GWAR play at The Garrick Center, Winnipeg, Ontario, Canada, with Devildriver and Cancer Bats.
Richie Havens dies, aged 72, from "an unexpected heart attack" at his home in New Jersey, USA.
The War On Drugs release their third album, Lost In The Dream, on Secretly Canadian Records in the USA.
In-Flight Safety release a new album, Conversationalist, on Conehead Records in the UK.
Singer, guitarist and songwriter Keith McCormack, best known as a member of The String-A-Longs, dies aged 74 of a stroke. The band's biggest hit came in 1961 with the instrumental Wheels.
Crosby, Stills and Nash play at The Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Europe.
On their The Book Of Souls World Tour, Iron Maiden play at The Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
On his Purpose tour, Justin Bieber plays the second of two nights at The Rogers Centre, Toronto, Canada.Avenged Sevenfold and Bullet for My Valentine play at The FirstOntario Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Josh Taerk releases his fourth LP, Beautiful Tragedy, on Misty Creek Records in the USA.
King Diamond, supported by Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats and Idle Hands, play at The Queen Elizabeth, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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