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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.
Notorious outlaw Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,
An anti-Oswald Mosely street battle on Cable Street in the East End Of London, England, UK, Europe, inspires the song The Ghosts Of Cable Street by The Men They Couldn't Hang.
Wild Man Fischer after being discovered by Frank Zappa and releasing his debut LP, An Evening With Wild Man Fischer, in 1969.
Larry Wayne Fischer is born in Los Angeles, California, USA. Despite suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (not to mention attacking his mother with a knife), he will find international cult celebrity status under the name
Ernest Tubb records A Heartsick Soldier On Heartbreak Ridge in the USA. The song is inspired by the month-long Battle Of Heartbreak Ridge in the Korean War which took place between September 13 and October 15, 1951.
Stanley Milgram, an assistant professor of psychology at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, begins a series of experiments to determine how main pain one person might inflict on another if ordered to do so. The alarming results of Experiment 18 - showing that 37 of 40 people would inflict a high degree of pain - will inspire the song We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37) on the 1986 Peter Gabriel album So.

Gene Pitney enters the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA with the Burt Bacharach/Hal David song (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance. It will become his first Top Five hit, peaking at No4.
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Four thousand fans riot in Miami Airport, Florida, USA, breaking down doors, smashing windows and trampling police officers, when The Beatles' touch down, hoping for a brief break in their hectic tour schedule.
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Elvis Presley arranges a private screening of the Peter Sellers film Doctor Strangelove, for himself and friends at The Memphian Theater, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Barry McGuire spends the second of three days recording the future No1 protest-rock hit Eve Of Destruction, for Dunhill Records in Los Angeles, California, USA. The song is written by P.F. Sloan.
Jan And Dean record The Universal Coward, Yesterday and Travelin' Mood for Liberty Records in Western Recorders, 6000 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.


The three-day-long Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival begins on Bull Island in the Wabash River, Illinois, USA. The event is billed as featuring major bands including Black Sabbath, Santana, Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac, Canned Heat, The Allman Brothers, The Eagles and many more. In the end, over 200,000 people will arrive instead of the 30,000 expected, and the event will become a disaster, with most of the bands pulling out because of the chaos. Bands who actually do play include Canned Heat, Brownsville Station, Black Oak Arkansas and Pure Prairie League.
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The Smiths top the UK album chart for the first and last time with Meat Is Murder.
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While Queen play their final live gig together, headlining the UK’s annual Knebworth Festival in Hertfordshire, England, UK, Europe, a 21 year old man in the crowd is stabbed to death. Also on the bill are Status Quo and Big Country.
Status
Quo enter the UK singles chart with In The Army
Now on Vertigo Records which will peak at No2 during a
fourteen-week run on the chart.
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Barry Adamson, of Magazine and The Bad Seeds fame, is assaulted and given a broken jaw by bouncers at The Limelight Club, London, England, UK, Europe, after a secret Nick Cave show.




New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the city police lodge a protest against a new Bruce Springsteen song, American Skin, inspired by the 1999 police slaying of unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo.

It is reported in Kerrang! magazine that Norwegian black metal band Satyricon has become embroiled in a censorship debate after the video for their song Fuel For Hatred is dropped from rotation by MTV and ZTV. Officially the video has been banned because of potentially harmful strobe effects, but it is felt by some that the video's explicitly sexual and violent content is the real reason.








Chris Brown publicly apologizes for the beating of his former girlfriend Rihanna. he also states that he is seeking help and wants to live his life as a role model.
Via a two-minute video posted on his website,



Photographer Jeffrey Binion files a compensation lawsuit against Justin Bieber, claiming that the young singer instructed his bodyguards to attack him while he tried to take photographs outside the Hit Factory recording studio in Miami, Florida, USA. Binion also claims that one of the bodyguards threatened him with a gun.
Rapper Mazaradi Fox, a close associate of 50 Cent, is shot dead by an unidentified gunman in Springfield Gardens, Queens, New York City, USA.

The trial of reggae dancehall artist Vybz Kartel for the 2011 murder of Clive 'Lizard' Williams continues in the Home Circuit court, Jamaica, Caribbean.
Justin Bieber is arrested for the second time in a week and charged with assault for allegedly hitting a Toronto limousine driver several times in the back of the head a month earlier.



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