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Reller's Popular Hungarian band plays for a Special Dinner Dance at The Sea View Hotel, Singapore, Malaysia, Asia.Billie Holiday plays the fifth of six shows at the Palomar Supper Club, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The George Shearing Quintet records How High The Moon, I Hear Music and Swedish Pastry for Metro Records in New York City, USA.Elvis Presley and his girlfriend Dixie Locke have Easter Dinner with Elvis's parents in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Jimmy Rogers plays the seventh night of a two-week engagement at The Cave Supper Club, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Lita Roza and The Honeys, with James Moody (piano) Judd Proctor (guitar) and Tim Bell (double-bass), perform on the BBC Light Programme Radio Show Workers' Playtime, broadcast live from a meat products factory at Willesden, London, England, UK, Europe.
Dee Dee
Sharp records Mashed Potato Time for Cameo/Parkway
Records in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Rolling Stones play their first ballroom show, at the Corn Exchange, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England, UK, Europe.
Bob Dylan is given The Tom Paine Award by the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee for his work to advance civil rights, at the Bill Of Rights Dinner in the Americana Hotel, New York City, USA. To everyone's surprise, Dylan delivers a controversial acceptance speech which angers many of the attendees at the event.
Jimmy
McCracklin plays at the recently-opened after-hours nightspot
The Geary Breakfast Club, San Francisco, California, USA.
Clark Foreman, Executive Director of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, writes to Bob Dylan asking for $6,000, the estimated amount lost from outraged attendees at the ECLC's annual fund-raising dinner in 1963. Dylan had upset many attendees by stating opinions at varyance to those of the committee. (Dylan will reply offering to pay any amount that was deemed lost due to his intervention there, but refusing to take back his words.)
Eubie Blake performs with The Noble Sissle Orchestra in the Main Ballroom of The Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington DC, USA, at a gala benefit supper dance for the East Rock Creek Civic Association.
Jimmy Dean visits a hog farm in Plainview, Texas, USA. Soon after he buys half of the farm. This will eventually lead to him owning his own sausage manufacturing company.
Eric 'Bobo' Correa, hip-hop percussionist and member of Cypress Hill and The Beastie Boys, is born in Queens, New York City, USA.
The album Breakfast In America by Supertramp, led by Swindon-born
Rick Davies, is awarded a US Platinum
disc by the R.I.A.A.
On his Midnight At The Lost And Found tour, Meat Loaf plays at The Playhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, Europe.
Arriving in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, for a gig the next day, Bob Dylan checks into the Maison Dupuy Hotel, then goes out for a late dinner at Brightsen's Restaurant.
Hal Blaine, widely considered the world's most recorded session drummer, holds a launch party for his book, Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew, at The Baked Potato, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. The event is attended by Phil Spector, Michelle Phillips of The Mamas And The Papas, Al Jardine of The Beach Boys and others.
Kid Rock releases his debut album Grits Sandwiches for Breakfast on Jive Records. The album's first single Yo Da Lin In The Valley will be banned by the FCC for its many references to oral sex, and will result in SUNY Cortland Radio (WSUC-FM) receiving the largest non-commercial radio fine up to this time, $23,750.
The Michael Jackson album Dangerous is launched in the UK with a lavish invitation-only party for 400 media folks in the Lancaster Room of the Savoy Hotel, London, England, UK, Europe.
Garbage release their eponymous debut album in the UK. On the same day, Paul McCartney flies to America with his wife Linda, to promote her new book, Linda's Kitchen.
The hit single Chocolate Salty Balls (PS I Love You) by Chef is awarded a platinum disc in the UK by the BPI.
It is reported that 
Willie Nelson opens his own 850 seat theatre, Willie's Place, at Carl's Corner Truck Stop near Abbott, Texas, USA.
Andy Fairweather Low plays at The Corn Exchange, Devizes, Wiltshire, UK, during the annual Devizes Festival.
Howard Jones plays at The Corn Exchange, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England, UK, Europe, supported by Duncan Sheik.Gregg Allman of The Allman Brothers Band is interviewed on BBC tv show Breakfast in the UK, to promote his new album, Low Country Blues.
Reba McEntire, appears on BBC1 tv show Breakfast to promote her upcoming participation in the International Festival of Country Music at Wembley Arena, London, UK.
Leo Sayer appears on BBC1 tv show Breakfast in Salford Quays, Manchester, UK, to promote his upcoming tour.
Mick Hucknall formerly of Simply Red is interviewed live on BBC-1 tv show Breakfast in Media City, Salford Quays, Manchester, UK, as part of his promotional drive for his newly-released solo album American Soul.
It is reported that Australian biosecurity officers have been directed to inspect imported copies Prism, the fourth studio album by Katy Perry, because the deluxe version of the album includes a small packet of seeds. A departmental offical explains, "Seeds or plant material of international origin may be a weed not present in Australia or the host of a plant pathogen of biosecurity concern."
The Mission headline the first day of the three-day long Bearded Theory Festival at Catton Hall, Walton Upon Trent, Derbyshire, UK. Also appearing are Alabama 3, Gun, Hugh Cornwell and others.
Kylie Minogue attends a pre-dinner reception for the Prince's Trust Invest in Futures Gala Dinner at Old Billingsgate, London, England, UK, Europe.
In the aftermath of the horrific Grenfell Tower Block fire in West London, England, UK, Europe, Adele attends a vigil with local people, and Rita Ora takes part in volunteer work including sorting through donations, putting similar items together in rubbish bags and loading bottles of water and food into vans.
Jack Carty and Gus Gardiner release a new LP, Hospital Hill, on It's Dinner Recordings.
Justin Bieber proposes to Hailey Baldwin during dinner at a local restaurant while in the Bahamas, Caribbean. She accepts.
The 2019 Boardmasters festival, a surf-oriented music event in Newquay, Cornwall, England, UK, Europe, is cancelled because of forecasts of exceptionally bad weather including heavy rain and high winds. The event was expected to attract 50,000 fans.
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