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The body of Ellen Smith is found behind the Zinzendorf Hotel in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, shot through the heart by her lover, the town drunk, Peter DeGraff. Her death will inspire the murder ballad Poor Ellen Smith, which will be recorded by The Stanley Brothers, The Kossoy Sisters, The Kingston Trio, Neko Case and others. Another song on the same theme is The Fate Of Ellen Smith by Green Bailey, recorded in 1928 for Gennett Records.
Vincent's Orchestra is playing in The Oakland Hotel, Grafton, West Virginia, USA.

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play the last night of two-weeks at the Club Caprice in the Hotel Coronado, St Louis, Missouri, USA. The gig also involves nightly fifteen-minute radio broadcasts on Radio KXOK.

Tex Beneke And His Orchestra open for four weeks at The Cafe Rouge in The Hotel Statler, New York City, USA.

Happy Wilson And His Golden River Boys record The Haunted House Boogie and Mister Big, in Castle Studio, The Tulane Hotel, 206 8th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Bill Monroe records Kentucky Waltz, Prisoner's Song, Swing Low Sweet Chariot and Angels Rock Me To Sleep, in Castle Studio at The Tulane Hotel, 206 8th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Accompanying musicians include guitarists Grady Martin and Jimmy Selph, Ernie Newton on bass, Tommy Jackson on fiddle, Farris Coursey on drums and Owen Bradley on piano.





Timi Yuro plays the last of four nights in The Holiday House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Bobby Darin continues with four weeks of dates at The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
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.
The Yardbirds, with Eric Clapton on lead guitar, play the fourth of five nights at the Lugano Hotel, Lugano, Switzerland, Europe.

Controversial stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce is injured when he falls, stark naked, forty feet from a window in the Swiss American Hotel, 534 Broadway, San Francisco, California, USA. Ambulance attendants tape his mouth shut after he shouts obscenities at them. The Great Society (with vocalist Grace Slick) will record the song Father Bruce about this incident, and other aspects of Bruce's outrageous life and acreer.

Martin Luther King is assassinated, - killed by a sniper's bullet while standing on the balcony in front of his room at The Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, - riots erupt across America. James Brown goes on national tv to try to calm things down. King's life and work will be comemorated in such songs as Happy Birthday by Stevie Wonder, MLK by U2, Abraham Martin And John by Dion, Save The Country by Laura Nyro and Begin The Begin by R.E.M.
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Adam Horovitz of The Beastie Boys is arrested at The Portobello Hotel in London, England, UK, Europe, for 'causing grievous bodily harm' to a fan at the previous night's show in Liverpool.
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Country superstars Faith Hill and Tim McGraw play during a lengthy residency at The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

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