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Pauline Hall, The Great Rauschle, Lizzie Evans And Harry Mills, Sam Marion And The McCoy Sisters, The Automobile Girl and The Lefevre Saxophone Quartette are appearing at The Orpheum Theatre, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.

The Washington Post reports that "Residents of Chevy Chase are up in arms over the dances that are being practiced at an amusement park, and it comes from a well known source that a movement will be started to suppress the outrage, as it is termed, by residents of that section. The dance in question originated at a suburban resort and is officially known as the Chevy Chase Glide." The dance had been introduced at Chevy Chase Lake resort to appease customers annoyed by the resort's recent ban on "freak dancing", which included The Bunny Wiggle, The Grizzly Hug and other "animal dances" often associated with ragtime and jazz music.

Popular vocalist Mindy Carson begins a two-week season at the Thunderbird Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

It is reported that despite injuries to four band members in a bus crash, Jimmy Rogers records Mistreated Baby, The Last Time, What's The Matter and Out On The Road, in Chicago, Illinois, USA, for Chess Records.

Bluegrass star Bill Monroe is seriously injured in a late night car crash when a drunk driver hits the car in which he is travelling on Highway 31-W near White House, north of Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He will spend ninety days in a body cast, recuperating from nineteen broken bones.

Hugely popular Italian singer and actor, Fred Buscaglione, dies in Rome, Italy, Europe, when his pink Ford Thunderbird collides with a truck in the early hours before dawn.

Eddie Cochran is killed in a car smash in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe. Gene Vincent, in the same car, suffers minor injuries.

The Clifford Jordan - Sonny Red Quintet records You're Driving Me Crazy, Falling In Love Is Wonderful and other tracks for Jazzland Records in New York City, USA.

Jesse Fuller records San Francisco Bay Blues, Key To The Highway and other tracks for Prestige Records in the USA.

Teddy Randazzo begins a summer booking at The Thunderbird Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Billboard magazine reports that hot-rodding songs are the latest teen fad in the USA, replacing surfing songs. Among the top hot rod tunes is The Beach Boys' Little Deuce Coupe, currently at No15 on the Billboard chart.

Billy Fury and Dickie Pride are involved in a serious car crash on the M1 motorway in the UK. Fury is taken to hospital suffering from concussion, but Pride is uninjured.

Ringo Starr of The Beatles passes his driving test at the first attempt, in Enfield, UK.

John Carter, Perry Ford and Ken Lewis of The Ivy League are injured in a car crash near Baldock, Hertfordshire, UK.

Bob Dylan continues recording the album Highway 61 Revisited in Studio A, Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, USA. He works on songs including Highway 61 Revisited, Desolation Row and Ballad Of A Thin Man.

TV rock show Where The Action Is, in the USA, features The Hondells performing Little Honda; Major Lance performing Monkey Time.

The Stanley Brothers record Are You Ready, Prayer Of A Truck Driver's Son, What A Price, Soldier's Grave and other tracks in King Recording Studio, 1540 Brewster Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Rob McConnell's 13-piece Big Band plays in a benefit show for jazz drummer Archie Alleyn at the Town Tavern, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Alleyn had been injured in a car crash and had to stop performing for several years.

Tommy Boyce And Bobby Hart play at The Jaguar Club, St. Charles, Illinois, USA, supported by The Boston Tea Party.

A new tv series, The Dukes Of Hazzard, makes its debut on CBS in the USA, starring John Schneider and Tom Wopat as Bo and Luke Duke, but prominently featuring Waylon Jennings, as The Balladeer. Jennings also sings the show's theme song, Good Ol' Boys.

Singer-songwriter Harry Chapin dies from a massive heart attack, brought on when a tractor crashes into his car in Jericho, New York Sate, USA.

Police officer Daniel Faulkner and journalist/cab driver Mumia Abu-Jamal are involved in an altercation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, during which both are shot. Faulkner dies at the scene, while Abu-Jamal is hospitalised, and later found guilty of murder. The verdict is widely disputed and will inspire the songs The Murder Of Daniel Faulkner by Hurtsmile, and Free Mumia by KRS-One.

George Harrison visits his friend Barry Sheene, the motorcycle racing champion, in Northampton General Hospital, Northampton, England, UK, Europe, where Sheene is recovering from a crash.

Gary Numan releases a new single, My Car Slides, in the UK.

Route 66 is officially removed from the United States Highway System. The road, which ran a total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km) from Chicago, Illinois, USA, to Los Angeles, California, was immortalised in the song Route 66, written by Bobby Troup. The track was first recorded by The Nat King Cole Trio, with later versions recorded by Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, The Manhattan Transfer and Depeche Mode to name but a few. The road was also the subject of the Route 66 television show in the 1960s.

Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits breaks his collarbone in a crash while driving in a celebrity race preceding the Australian Grand Prix.

The Fabulous Thunderbirds play at The Vogue, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

Willie Nelson's tour bus (with Willie inside) is hit on a slush-covered highway in Nova Scotia, Canada, when a car crosses the centre-line of the Trans-Canada Highway, six miles east of the town of Truro. The car driver is killed but no-one in the bus is injured.

Singer Vince Neil leaves Motley Crue after 11 years to spend more time on his career as a racing car driver.

Ice Cube begins taunting members of the audience during his show at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington, USA. Violence breaks out, fifty shots are fired, three people have to be treated for gunshot wounds, one for stab wounds and one is run over by a car outside.

Criss Oliva, co-founder and lead guitarist of heavy rock band Savatage dies, aged 30, near Zephyrhills, Florida, USA. A drunk driver crossed the median and struck Oliva's 1992 Mazda RX-7 head-on, killing the guitarist instantly.

Adam Ant appears at The Old Bailey in London, England, UK, Europe, charged with threatening doorman Jeffrey Eccles at the Prince Of Wales pub in Primrose Hill with a revolver. The hearing is adjourned until July 3, with Mr Ant remanded on bail.

A woman in Northam, near Perth, Western Australia, Oceania, stabs her husband repeatedly with a pair of scissors for driving her to distraction by repeatedly playing Burning Love by Elvis Presley.

After his vehicle is shot at in a drive-by shooting, Rick Ross crashes his car in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.

Zayn Malik of One Direction is filmed apparently smoking a joint while being driven through Lima, Peru, South America, en route to a gig at the Estadio Nacional. The five-minute video appears to be filmed by band mate Louis Tomlinson, who is heard saying, "So here we are, leaving Peru. Joint lit. Happy days!"

Arlester Henderson, aka 'Punch', the bodyguard of rapper Tyga, dies in a collision on a freeway in Los Angeles, California, USA.

On their The M A N I A tour, Fall Out Boy play at The Cadillac Arena, Beijing, China, Asia.

On her Reputation tour, Taylor Swift plays the second of two nights at The Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, supported by Camila Cabello and Charli XCX.