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Wilbert Rich, who had raped eleven-year old Eleanora Gough, later known to the world as Billie Holiday, is sentenced to three months in a House Of Correction.
Ziggy Elman, trumpeter in groups led by Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey, marries his girlfriend Blanche.
In court in New Philadelphia, Ohio, USA, a disc recording made by a woman dying after having been badly beaten, is permitted by the judge as evidence. The jury hears the woman, in short feeble gasps, accusing her husband of having administered the beating which led to her death.
The MGM musical Annie Get Your Gun, starring Betty Hutton and Howard Keel, is copyrighted by Loew's Inc.



Influential Sun Records' recording artist Rosco Gordon - he is said to have inspired ska music - marries Barbara Kerr in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.
Dennis and Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys sign a seven year contract with Capitol Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
A performance contract is drawn up between Jersey based concert promoter Les De La Mare and The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein for The Beatles to play four dates at the Springfield Ballroom, Jersey, UK, Europe, during August 1963. For their efforts The Beatles will receive £1000.

Jimmy Mack by Martha And The Vandellas reaches No1 in the Billboard R'n'B Singles Chart in the USA. The song was inspired by the recent death of songwriter Ronnie Mack, best known for his song He's So Fine, a huge hit for The Chiffons in 1963, and later the subject of a celebrated plagiarism lawsuit in which it was ruled that George Harrison of The Beatles had unconsciously used Ronnie Mack's melody for his 1971 song My Sweet Lord.




Jimmy Ruffin, Jackie Lomax, Nanette,
Bruce Springsteen's group Steel Mill a $1,000 recording contract after they make a three song demo at his Fillmore Recording Studio in San Francisco, California, USA. They turn it down.
Powerful promoter Bill Graham offers
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Mickey Thomas of Jefferson Starship marries Sara Kendrick in San Francisco, California, USA.
The Police begin their Synchronicty tour with the first of two nights at The Nippon Budokan, Toikyo, Japan.





Willie Nelson is arrested on drugs charges in Hewitt, Texas, USA.
When he is found asleep in his car with a joint still burning in the ashtray, country outlaw
Suede enter the UK singles chart with We Are The Pigs, which will peak at No18 during a three-week run.





Doug Supernaw is arrested for having attacked five police officers during a scuffle outside a bar in Brenham, Texas, USA. He is held on an $11,150 bond on charges of assault, public intoxication and resisting arrest.
While out celebrating his 42nd birthday, country singer
Supreme Court Judge Lawrence W. Crispo dismisses a lawsuit in the USA, accusing rap star Snoop Doggy Dogg of including a message left on his answering machine without permission in a song.



Twenty-five historically-significant music recordings are added to the 2006 National Recording Registry at the US Library Of Congress. These include singles such as Black Bottom Stomp by Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers [1926], Wildwood Flower by The Carter Family [1928], Pony Blues by Charley Patton [1929], Peace in the Valley by Red Foley and the Sunshine Boys [1951], Blue Suede Shoes by Carl Perkins [1955], Be My Baby by The Ronettes [1963], We Shall Overcome by Pete Seege [1963], [I Can't Get No] Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones [1965] and A Change is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke [1965]. The additions also include complete albums such as The Velvet Underground and Nico by The Velvet Underground [1967], The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake by Eubie Blake [1969], Burnin' by The Wailers including Bob Marley [1973], Live in Japan by Sarah Vaughan [1973] and Graceland by Paul Simon [1986]. This brings the number of recordings named in the registry to 225.
A helicopter belonging to Tommy Lee of Motley Crue is ordered to land at Los Angeles' Van Nuys airport after reports claim it is flying erratically. Lee, who is not at the controls, is told to land after Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) alert airport officials.




Kanye West, Jay Z and his company Tidal by law firm Edelson PC, acting on behalf of California resident Justin Baker-Rhett.
A lawsuit alleging 'false advertising' is launched against
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