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Toy store owner and inventor Morris Michtom places two stuffed bears in his shop window at 404 Tompkins Avenue, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, USA, advertising the toys as Teddy Bears, a name derived from the nickname of US President Theodore Roosevelt. Michtom's bears will inspire songs including The Teddy Bears' Picnic (1907) and (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear by Elvis Presley.
The Music Trades magazine runs an item about the popular song
Roses Of
Picardy, pointing out that, "Fred Weatherly, composer of the words, struck a chord in every heart when he penned the lines of a song that spoke of the roses that shine in Picardy, just at a time when the fiercest battle the world has ever known was being fought on the plains of Picardy. It was
indeed a wholesome thought that despite the greatest congregation
of artillery, together with shells and all the terrific paraphernalia of war, the Roses would again bloom in Picardy. The sublime faith bound up in the simple strains of a ballad naturally took hold of the people of England, and as our own brave boys came back from the battle-torn plains of Picardy, they too will enjoy with special significance the simple expression of so sublime a thought in song."
At least 85 prominent conservative anti-Nazis and leading figures of the left-wing Strasserist faction of the Nazi Party, are murdered in Germany, Europe, as part of a political purge ordered by Adolf Hitler. The incident will become known as The Night Of The Long Knives. Folk singer and songwriter Al Stewart will write a song, The Last Day Of June 1934, telling the story of this massacre.

Mount Rushmore, near Keystone, South Dakota, USA. The work will become an iconic American National Monument, recorgnised throughout the world, and it will inspire a number of music-related tributes. In 2011, musical comedy artist Jesse Goldberg will co-write and sing the novelty song Mount Rushmore Rocks - complete with an animated video in which the stone heads sing the song. A similar idea by The Mount Rushmore Singers, features the presidents performing a medley of Sing A Song/I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing. Other Rushmore-oriented music trivia include a 1967 psychedelic rock band from San Francisco named Mount Rushmore, and the fact that the cover of Deep Purple's 1970 album Deep Purple In Rock was inspired by Mount Rushmore, depicting the five band members' faces instead of the four presidents.
Work on carving the four massive heads of US Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln is completed at




Joan Baez makes her UK singles chart debut with her version of the civil rights anthem We Shall Overcome.
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Jody Miller records Home Of The Brave for Capitol Records at Capitol Tower, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Loretta Lynn records You Ain't Woman Enough and Dear Uncle Sam during an evening session in Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Country Joe And The Fish play the third of five nights at the Jabberwock, Berkeley, California, USA.
The Yardbirds play the first of two nights at The Grande Ballroom, Detroit, Michigan, USA, supported by Frost and The MC5.


Grateful Dead, The Fugs and the Velvet Underground play at The Stanley Theater, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
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George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgoole and John Clutchette, all African-American inmates of Soledad Prison in California, USA, are charged with the murder of white prison guard John V. Mills, in retaliation for the killing of three black prisoners three days earlier. George Jackson will later be shot dead by guards at San Quentin prison. Soledad Brother, a book based on Jackson's latters while in prison, will inspire Bob Dylan to write the song George Jackson. Other songs about Jackson will be recorded by Steel Pulse, The Blue Scholars, The Dicks and others.
The three-day long Second Atlanta Pop Festival begins at Middle Georgia Raceway, Byron, Georgia, USA, featuring The Allman Brothers Band, Captain Beefheart, John Sebastian, Mountain, Procol Harum and Johnny Winter. The event will prompt Georgia Governor Lester Maddox to seek legislation banning rock festivals in the state.
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US Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter reveals that his inspirations include Bob Dylan, The Beatles and Led Zeppelin.

Parents Music Resource Center [PMRC] petitions the music business to introduce a rating system to warn buyers about violent or sexually explicit lyrics.
The Washington Wives' music censorship pressure group

The Pogues, The Men They Couldn't Hang and The Boothill Foot-Tappers (with a guest appearance by Elvis Costello) play in the Nicaragua Must Survive benefit concert at The Fridge, Brixton, London, England, UK, Europe.


Operation Nifty Package, a psychological warfare tactic aimed at demoralising besieged General Manuel Noriega until he surrenders to them. The tactic includes playing such tracks as I Fought The Law by The Clash and Panama by Van Halen at extremely high volumes through loudspeakers pointing at the residence.
Outside the Papal Nuncio's residence in Panama City, Panama, Central America, US military forces begin
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Alex James Presents Harvest, a four day long festival held on a farm belonging to Alex James of Blur, begins in Oxfordshire, UK. Artists appearing over the course of the event include KT Tunstall, The Feeling, Richard Corrigan, Mark Hix, Rachel Allen, Jay Rayner and Stevie Earle. Attended by British Prime Minister David Cameron and numerous celebrities, the event goes off well but is revealed later to have been a financial disaster because of financial problems relating to the organisers, Big Wheel Promotions.








DCX MMXVI World Tour, The Dixie Chicks play at Richcraft Live at Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, supported by Smooth Hound Smith.
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