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Musical comedy The Toreador is presented at The Gaiety Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 675 performances. 
The 'musical dream play' Bluebell In Fairyland is presented at The Vaudeville Theatre, London, England, UK, during a run of 300 performances.
The musical comedy Weary Willie Walker is presented at The Star Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of just eight performances.
Rice And Barton's Big Gaiety Co is performing at The Star Theatre, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
The Weber And Fields' burlesque show Fiddle-Dee-Dee is playing at Fischer's Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.John Raymond Goadsby is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He will find fame as Goldy McJohn, organist in Steppenwolf.
Folk singer and songwriter Woody Guthrie joins a demonstration march in support of "the telephone girls" in Oakland, California, USA, but the event is broken up by police.Gospel quartet The Original Chuck Wagon Gang record My Home Sweet Home and A Happy Day, for Columbia Records in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
The movie musical An American In Paris, starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant and Charles Guetary, opens at cinemas in Japan, Asia.
At Chess Studio, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Chuck Berry records Carol, Oh Yeah, Hey Pedro, Time Was and House Of Blue Lights.
Emile Ford and The Checkmates release a new single, You'll Never Know What You're Missing, in the UK.
Danny And The Juniors play during a week of shows at The Casino Royal, Washington DC, USA.
The stage musical She Loves Me with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick is playing at The Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 301 performances.
Skylark Records singing harpist Sue Evans And The Scamps are playing during a six week engagement at
The Beach Boys appear on Andy Williams Show, which is televised from North Hollywood, California, USA.
A UK package tour featuring Billy Fury, The Pretty Things, Dave Berry and The Cruisers, Brian Poole And The Tremeloes, The John Barry Seven and The Zephyrs, plays at The ABC, Harrow.The musical Hallelujah Baby!, starring Leslie Uggams, is presented at The Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 293 performances.
The Temptations, Edwin Starr, The Monitors and Willie Tyler are playing during a week of shows at The Apollo, Harlem, New York City, USA.
The Monkees are in Western Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, working on the song Shorty Blackwell.
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The Supremes are recording the track He's My Sunny Boy at Hitsville Studios, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Producer of the session is Smokey Robinson.
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers release their second album, You’re Gonna Get It, in the USA on Shelter Records.During sessions for the album Shot Of Love, Bob Dylan is in Clover Studios, Los Angeles, mixing the song Heart Of Mine.
A psychiatric report states that Marvin Gaye's father had a brain tumour which might have affected his behaviour when he murdered his son a month earlier.
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On her Enjoy Yourself! tour, 
The Black Keys release a new EP, Chulahoma: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough, on Fat Possum Records in the USA.
The nine-day long St Lucia Jazz Festival begins on the Caribbean island of St Lucia. Artists appearing at the event will include Jeffrey Osborne, Michael McDonald, Bebe Winans, George Duke, Chicago, Patti LaBelle, Chaka, Terrence Howard, Amy Winehouse and Kassav.
Kesha, Weezer, fun, MGMT, MNutemath, Say Anything, OK Go, Motion City Soundtrack play on the last day of the Bamboozle festival in Meadowlands Sports Complex, East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA.
The Camden Crawl, a two-day event, begins at forty venues in Camden Town, London, UK. Headliners on this, the second day, include Roots Manuva, Gang Of Four, We Are Scientists and Lostprophets.
On her Aphrodite World Tour, Kylie Minogue plays the first of three nights at The Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City, USA.
On the European leg of their WorldWired tour, Metallica play at Telenor Arena, Oslo, Norway, Europe, supported by Kvelertak.
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