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The Giddy Throng is playing at The New York Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 164 performances. The show consists of a a vaudeville program followed by one-act burlesque revue.

Musical duo Foster And Foster are appearing in A Vaudeville Revelation at The Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.

The stage musical Stop! Look! Listen!, with music by Irving Berlin, opens at The Globe Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for 105 performances.

The musical Somebody's Sweetheart is presented at The Central Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 224 performances.

The musical vaudeville revue Chauve-Souris [1922] plays at The Century Grove Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 139 performances.

Blind Lemon Jefferson records Match Box Blues in Chicago, Illinois, USA, for Paramount Records.

Australian stage and film singer and actress Lydia Yeamans Titus dies in Glendale, California, USA, from a paralytic stroke. Her remains will be cremated and the ashes thrown into the Pacific Ocean..

Kaal's Hawaiian Troubadours play at The Raffles Hotel, Singapore, Asia.

Folk rock singer, and songwriter Mark Heard, suffers a heart attack while performing on stage with Pierce Pettis and Kate Miner, at the Cornerstone Festival, near Chicago, Illinois, USA. He will die a month and a half later.

Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers play at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, Eire.

Ella Fitzgerald, known as 'The First Lady Of Song', is attacked on stage by a member of the audience during a show at the Warner Theater, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.

Gene Vincent and Jerry Keller play the first of six nights at The Theatre Royal, Nottingham, UK.

Jazz saxophonist Walter Benton records Out Of This World, Blues Mood and other tracks for Jazzland Records in New York City, USA.

Helen Shapiro plays the second night of two weeks at The Palladium Theatre, London, UK.

Helen Shapiro plays the tenth night of two weeks at The Palladium Theatre, London, UK.

Carl Perkins plays the first night of a month at The Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

The musical Stop The World - I Want to Get Off, with songs by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, plays at The Shubert Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 555 performances.

When Joan Baez plays at The Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford, Connecticut, USA, she is joined onstage for some songs by Bob Dylan.

The Melodons, The Belcastro Trio, The Jazz Interpreters, The Denver University Stage Band, The Billy Harper Sextet, The Henderson Collegians, The Mitch Farber Sextet, The Dick Sisto Quartet, The peabody Jazz Quintet, The Ed Fritz Trio, The Notre Dame Jazz Quartet and others play at The 1964 Collegiate Jazz Festival, University Of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA.

On their Fandango! Tour, ZZ Top play at Diablo Stadium, Tempe, Arizona, USA, supported by Status Quo, R.E.O. Speedwagon, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Johnny Winter and Aerosmith.

On their Worldwide Texas tour, ZZ Top play at Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Kansas, USA, supported by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Jay Boy Adams. The tour features an onstage menagerie of typically Texan live animals such as a longhorn steer, black buffalo, two vultures and two rattlesnakes. Various Texan plants, such as yucca, agave and cacti, also decorate the stage, which has been built in the shape of Texas.

Guitarist Henri Padovani quits The Police in the aftermath of an unsuccessful recording session produced by John Cale.

On the first night of their World Vacation tour, Van Halen play at Selland Arena, Fresno, California, USA, supported by The Fabulous Poodles who are harassed off the stage by fans after only a few songs.

Bruce Springsteen joins Cats On A Smooth Surface for an impromptu set at the Stone Pony, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA.

When Bob Dylan plays at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA, Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead joins him for two songs, Cat's In The Well and Idiot Wind.

U2's Zoo TV Tour - Outside Broadcast arrives in the USA, for the first of two shows at Giants Stadium, New Jersey. During the afternoon, Bono is photographed in the jacuzzi in his New York hotel suite.

R. E. M., Lauryn Hill and No Doubt play in a charity event, Love Rocks, honouring Bono of U2 as Humanitarian of the Year, for his work on debt relief. The show is staged in the Kodak Theater, Los Angeles, and Cher and Bono both make guest appearances.

UK pop idol and actor Adam Faith dies of a heart attack in hospital just hours after appearing in the play Love And Marriage at the Regent Theatre, Stoke On Trent, UK.

Pierre Bouvier, frontman of Simple Plan is rushed to hospital after being injured onstage during a show in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. The band is forced to cancel an appearance the following night on an MTV Hurricane Relief concert.

The AsiaWorld-Expo is opened at Hong Kong International Airport, Chek Lap Kok island, Hong Kong, by Donald Tsang, Chief Executive of Hong Kong. It is one of two major convention and exhibition facilities in Hong Kong [the other is the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre] and will stage concerts by, among others, Oasis, Eric Clapton, Il Divo, Coldplay, Westlife, Christina Aguilera, Placido Domingo, Ayumi Hamasaki, Kylie Minogue, Deep Purple and Green Day.

Anthrax's scheduled 45 minute set at The Red Bull Snowscrapers snowboarding competition in New York City, USA, is cut to just three songs when the event unexpectedly over-runs. The band issues a public apology the next day.

Construction of The Claw, a gigantic metal structure intended for use on U2's upcoming 360 Degree Tour is underway in the yard of Stageco, Werchter, Belgium.

On her Monster Ball tour, Lady Gaga plays at the Fox Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

When Timbaland plays at Irving Plaza, New York City, USA, he is joined onstage by Lil' Kim and P.Diddy.

The Backstreet Boys come to the end of the Australian and Asian leg of their This Is Us tour with a gig at Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing, China, Asia.

Tim McGraw, Lady Antebellum and Love And Theft play at The Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre, Chula Vista, California, USA.

Michael Been, founder of The Call dies, aged 60, of a heart attack backstage at the Pukkelpop festival in Hasselt, Belgium, Europe. Been was at the festival working as a soundman for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, a band fronted by his son Robert Levon Been.

The Suzan release their debut album, Golden Week For The Poco Poco Beat, in the UK.

Jennifer Hudson releases a new album, I Remember Me, in the USA.

The Darkness play at The Riviera Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

On their English Electric tour, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark [OMD] play at The Regent Theatre, Ipswich, UK.

When Backstreet Boys play at FirstMerit Bank Pavilion, Chicago, Illinois, USA, the show is cut short by five songs due to the city's curfew.

The Indigo Girls and Mary Chapin Carpenter, with The Colorado Symphony Orchestra, play at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Colorado, USA.

When Fleetwood Mac play at Pinnacle Bank Arena, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, the show ends abruptly after ninety minutes because drummer Mick Fleetwood has been stricken with stomach flu.