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Notorious outlaw Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oceania. His violent life and crimes will inspire, among others, the songs Ned Kelly (1971) by Johnny Cash, The Ballad Of Ned Kelly (1970) by Fotheringay and Blame It On The Kellys by Waylon Jennings.

Popular trumpeter, cornetist and composer Edward Llewellyn catches a record sea bass - 435 pounds - at Santa Catalina Island.

Clora Larea Bryant is born in Denison, Texas, USA. She will find success as a pioneering female jazz trumpeter, performing under the name Clora Bryant with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker and as a member of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm.

Folk singer and songwriter Sam Hinton marries classically-trained musician Leslie Forster in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys record Take Me Back To Tulsa, in Dallas, Texas, USA, for Okeh Records.

Amos Milburn records Three Times A Fool, Why Don't You Do Right, Let Me Go Home Whiskey and Please Mr. Johnson for Aladdin Records in Radio Recorders studio, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and The Crickets, Frankie Lymon, Larry Williams, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and others appear at The Paramount Theater, New York City, USA, in deejay Alan Freed's annual Big Beat Show.

George Jones plays at the Grand Ole Opry, Fountains Pavilion Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Ernest Tubb And His Texas Troubadours play in Topeka, Kansas, USA.

Buck Owens And His Buckaroos record Kickin' Our Hearts Around during a recording session at Capitol Records Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Roy Orbison plays at The Adelphi, Slough, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Searchers, Bob Luman, Freddie And The Dreamers, and Brian Poole And The Tremeloes.

Ray Charles plays in Houston, Texas, USA.

The Top Ten Records played on WABC Radio, New York City, USA, for the week ended on this date, are as follows :
1. Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison (Monument)
2. Last Kiss - J. Frank Wilson And the Cavaliers (Josie)
3. Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann (Ascot)
4. Baby Love - The Supremes [Motown]
5. Dancing In the Street - Martha And The Vandellas (Gordy)
6. A Summer Song - Chad Stuart And Jeremy Clyde (World Artists)
7. Leader of the Pack - The Shangri-Las (Red Bird)
8. We'll Sing in the Sunshine - Gale Garnett (RCA)
9. Let It Be Me - Betty Everett And Jerry Butler (VeeJay)
10. Have I The Right? - The Honeycombs (Interphon)

Johnny Mathis, The Young Americans and Woody Allen play the second of seven nights at McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

The Supremes play a gig in Savannah, Georgia, USA, supported by The Lovin' Spoonful.

Jingle Bells becomes the first song to be be broadcast live from space when Gemini 6 mission astronauts Walter M. 'Wally' Schirra Jr. and Thomas P. Stafford perform Jingle Bells from their orbiting spacecraft, using a Hohner Little Lady harmonica and a set of miniature sleigh bells.

The single Tighten Up by Archie Bell And The Drells is awarded a Gold Disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.

Roy Orbison plays the last night in a week of shows at the Variety Club, Batley, England, UK, Europe.

While drinking at a nearby bar prior to her concert at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, New York State, USA, Janis Joplin writes the song Mercedes Benz, which she sings that night. It will later be recorded for her final LP, Pearl.

Gospel vocalist Odis 'Pops' Echols, dies aged 70 in Clovis, New Mexico, USA. He had found success as notably with The Stamps Quartet and The Echols Brothers.

It is announced that Roy Orbison is suing his manager, Wesley Rose, for $500m of unpaid royalties.

Stevie Ray Vaughan plays at The Venue, London, England, UK, Europe.

Julian Lennon and his band are rehearsing for his first live tour in Dallas, Texas, USA.

Texas play at The Town And Country Club, Kentish Town, London, England, UK, Europe.

Marianne Faithfull plays at Club Dada, Dallas, Texas, USA.

On his In Step tour, Stevie Ray Vaughan plays at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands, Houston, Texas, USA.

On their Behind The Mask tour, Fleetwood Mac play at The Summit, Houston, Texas, USA.

Love Without End, Amen, by George Strait, begins its last of five weeks at No1 in the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Songs Chart in the USA.

The Crickets and Bobby Vee play at The Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-On-Sea, England, UK.

The single Wide Open Spaces by Dixie Chicks is released on Monument Records in the USA. It will hit No1 on the Billboard Country singles chart in the USA, spending four weeks there in November 1998.

Bowling For Soup play at De Montfort Hall, Leicester, England, UK.

On her Most Wanted Tour, Hilary Duff plays at The Pepsi Arena,Albany, New York State, USA.

Hilary Duff plays at Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Kansas, USA.

Eric Bloom of Blue Oyster Cult plays a solo show at Club V, Houston, Texas, USA, with Adrian Belew.

Destiny's Child play at Key Arena, Seattle, Washington, USA.

Michelle Shocked plays at The Palais, Hepburn Springs, Melbourne, Australia, Oceania.

The Cure play at The Don Haskins Center, El Paso, Texas, USA.

The Dixie Chicks play at The Shoreline Amphitheater, San Francisco, California, USA.

On their 107-date End Of The Road World Tour, Kiss play at The Toyota Center, Houston, Texas, USA.

Reggie Young, lead guitarist for the American Sound Studio house band, dies of heart failure in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee, USA. In his career, he played on recordings by Elvis Presley, Merrilee Rush, B.J. Thomas, John Prine, Dusty Springfield, Herbie Mann, J.J. Cale, Dionne Warwick, Roy Hamilton, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, the Box Tops, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Merle Haggard, Joey Tempest, George Strait, and The Highwaymen.