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Central America

A Massed Bands Musicians Day is held at The Panama Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, USA.
Johnny DeDroit And His New Orleans Jazz Orchestra record Panama, Nobody Knows Blues and New Orleans Blues, for OKeh Records in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
McKenzie's Candy Kids [aka The Mound City Blue Blowers] record When My Sugar Walks Down the Street and Panama, for Vocalion Records in New York City, USA.
Jose Alfredo Jiminez is born in Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, Mexico, Central America. He will become a popular singer-songwriter in the ranchera style. His songs are an integral part of Mexico's musical heritage, comparable to Woody Guthrie's influence on American folk music.
Bukka White records The Panama Limited and New 'Frisco Train for Victor Records in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Bozo And His Girls present the musical revue Scandals Of 1932 at The Liberty Theatre, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Noted record producer Jimmy Bowen is born in Santa Rita, New Mexico, USA. Bowen will work with Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Garth Brooks, to name just a few.
The movie Stormy Weather, starring Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller and others, opens to cinemas in Mexico, North America.
In their first recording session since ending their partnership with Buddy Holly, The Crickets record Someone Someone at Norman Petty Studios, Clovis, New Mexico.
Mafia boss Carlos Marcello is extradited from New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, to Guatemala, South America, as an illegal immigrant. His family-owned Jefferson Music Company dominated the juke box, slot machine and pinball trade in the New Orleans area. Marcello is known to have used his Mafia contacts to try to persuade Frank Sinatra to use his friendship with the Kennedy family to negate the deportation order. He is also known to have close ties with the Ku Klux Klan.
Tony Melendez is born in Rivas, Nicaragua, Central America. Although born with no arms, Melendez will carve out a successful career for himself as a singer accompanying himself on a guitar which he plays using his feet.
Jim Reeves begins a ten-day hunting trip in Texas and Mexico in search of wild boar, turkey, deer and bear.
Salsa orchestra El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico releases its first group album, Menéame Los Mangos, with Dominican legend Joseito Mateo as their lead singer. It will become a No1 hit on charts in New York City, Panama and Puerto Rico.
The Crickets record Thoughtless, in Norman Petty Studios, Clovis, New Mexico, USA, for Liberty Records.
John Coltrane sells his house at 116-60 Mexico Street, St. Albans, Queens, New York City, USA, to his wife Naima, for ten dollars.
Beat Generation icon Neal Cassady, an associate of The Grateful Dead, is found in a coma on the railroad tracks between San Miguel de Allende and Celaya in Mexico. He dies later in the day. The previous day, having consumed some seconals and alcohol, he had set out to walk along the railroad in driving rain. His life and death will inspire several songs including Jack And Neal (1977) by Tom Waits, Styrofoam Plates (2001) by Death Cab For Cutie, Neal Cassady Drops Dead (2014) by Morrissey, Neal Cassady (1989) by The Washington Squares.
Bob Dylan and his wife Sara arrive in Durango, Mexico, Central America, to start work on the Sam Pekinpah movie Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid.
On his Slow Train Coming tour, Bob Dylan plays the second of two nights at The Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
On their Fair Warning Tour [aka the W.D.F.A. (We Don't Fuck Around) Tour] Van Halen play at the Tingley Coliseum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
On his 40th birthday, Keith Richards, guitarist of The Rolling Stones, marries 27-year old Patti Hansen at the Finisterra Hotel in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, North America. Mick Jagger is among the guests at the wedding.
Working Week, Latin Quarter, Jah Warriors and Dimension Costena play in a Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign benefit at The Academy, Brixton, London, England, UK, Europe.
450 fans are injured when they attempt to rush the stage at a Rod Stewart concert in Monterrey, Mexico.
On their Pump tour, Aerosmith play at The Pan American Center, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA.
The First Annual Billboard Latin Music Conference takes place in The Hyatt Hotel, Miami, Florida, USA.
Doyle Turner, a former member of Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys, dies of emphysema in Panama City, Florida, USA.
Bud Cowsill, the father of family-oriented pop band The Cowsills, dies aged 66 of leukemia while living in Mexico.
While preparing for the next gigs in his Dangerous World Tour, Michael Jackson is staying in his suite of rooms on the 42nd floor of the Hotel President Stouffer, Mexico City, Mexico. On this day he pays for 5,000 underprivileged children to visit the city's El Nuevo Reino Aventura Amusement Park.
Doug Sahm, guitarist, singer and songwriter with the Sir Douglas Quintet and Tex-Mex supergroup The Texas Tornados is found dead from a heart attack, aged 58, in a hotel room in Taos, New Mexico, USA.
John "Marmaduke" Dawson, the longtime Grateful Dead collaborator who co-wrote Friend of the Devil and played with psychedelic country group New Riders of the Purple Sage, dies from stomach cancer in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, aged 64.
Porcupine Tree play at Escenica, Monterrey, Mexico, Central America.
Rodrigo y Gabriela, with their guest Robert Trujillo of Metallica, play at The White House in Washington DC, USA, for the President and Mrs. Obama and their guests the Mexican President Felipe Hinojosa and the First Lady of Mexico Margarita Zavala.
It is announced that, one week after licensing their music for download exclusively via iTunes, The Beatles have sold more than 2m tracks and 450,000 albums digitally worldwide.
Rammstein play the second of two nights at The MEX Sports Palace, Mexico City, Mexico, Central America, for an audience of 20,469.
Rammstein play the second of two nights at The Sports Palace, Mexico City, Mexico.
On her California Dreams tour Katy Perry plays in The Arena Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
Evanescence release their third album, the self-titled Evanescence, in Mexico.
Weezer, Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, Gene Ween and Dave Dreiwitz, Wavves, The Antlers, Yuck, Free Energy, Boom Bip, J Mascis [solo acoustic], Lou Barlow, Keepaway, Ozma, The Nervous Wreckords, The Knocks, Sleeper Agent and Yacht Rock Revue set off on The Weezer Cruise, a five-day event on the ship Carnival Destiny, sailing from Miami, Florida, USA, to the island of Cozumel off the Gulf Coast of Mexico.
On The Wall Tour 2012, Roger Waters plays the first of two nights at Foro Sol, Mexico City, Mexico, North America.
On their Up All Night Tour, One Direction play the second of two nights at The Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico, Central America.
The Black Keys play at The Pan American Center, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA, supported by Tegan and Sara.
Katy Perry is among the music stars attending The 5th Annual Summer Of Sony in Cancun, Mexico, Central America.
During an Enrique Iglesias concert at Plaza Monumental de Playas, Tijuana, Mexico, North America, the singer's hand is injured when he tries to fend off a flying drone camera. He requires treatement to stop the bleeding offstage, but returns to perform for another thirty minutes in his blood-spattered t-shirt.
Justin Bieber is expelled from the ancient Mayan ruins at Tulum, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, North America, after he ignores security guards who warn him not to climb on the ruins, because it is forbidden. Police are called to the scene, but things have calmed down by the time they arrive.
Gloria Trevi attends "The Love" World Tour press conference in Mexico City, Mexico, North America.
On their The Book Of Souls World Tour, Iron Maiden play at Teatro Banamex, Monterray, Mexico.
On his Purpose tour, Justin Bieber plays the second of three nights at Foro Sol, Mexico City, Mexico, North America.
Ed Sheeran plays at Arena VFG, Guadalajara, Mexico, North America.
On his 214-date 24k Magic World Tour, Bruno Mars plays at Estadio Universitario, Monterrey, Mexico, North America, supported by Bebe Rexha.
On his 214-date 24k Magic World Tour, Bruno Mars plays the second of two nights at Estadio Akron, Guadalajara, Mexico, North America, supported by Bebe Rexha.
On their 135-date Wonderful Wonderful tour, The Killers play the first of two nights at Arena Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, North America.
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