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During a run of shows in Budapest, Hungary, popular barefoot dancer Isadora Duncan improvises a dance to the tune of The Blue Danube by Strauss. The dance is a huge hit and she will perform it every night for the next month.
A Chinese Honeymoon, billed as 'The English Musical Sensation' is playing at The Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 364 performances.The comic opera The Mocking Bird, starring Mabelle Gilman, is playing at The New National Theatre, Washington DC, USA.
Musical comedy The Girl From Kay's is playing at The Herald Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 205 performances.The musical show The Wonder Bar is presented at The Nora Bayes Theatre on Breoadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 76 performances. Set in a Parisian nightclub in 1929, the show stars Al Jolson and features music by Robert Katscher with lyrics by Irving Ceasar.
Severely alcoholic jazz trumpet star Bunny Berigan is hospitalized with pneumonia in Allegheny General Hospital Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.R'n'b vocal group The Ravens release a new single, Count Every Star, on National Records in the USA.
Danny Thomas and Georgia Gibbs play during a week of shows at The Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
US music trade magazine Cashbox describes the newly-released Got My Mojo Working by Muddy Waters on Chess Records as a "sleeper of the week". The same edition of Cashbox also refers to another version of the same song as its "r'n'b sleeper of the week." The song, written by Preston Foster, will become the subject of a long drawn out copyright case.
The Steven Sondheim musical Gypsy, starring Ethel Merman, is performed on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 702 performances.Ray Charles plays the second of seven nights at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA, supported by Marv Johnson and Betty Carter.
The musical Milk And Honey, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, is playing at The Martin Beck Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 543 performances.
Jay And The Americans play the third night in a week of shows at Camelot, New York City, USA.
US Army private James Marshall Hendrix [Jimi Hendrix] mails a letter to his girlfriend Betty Jean Morgan in Seattle, Washington, USA.
Jimmy Witherspoon is playing during four nights at The Cafe Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, with the Coleridge Parkinson Trio.
Sun Ra records the LP The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra Vol. 1, for ESP Records at RLA Sound Studios, New York City, USA.
The Hullabaloos, The Detergents, Shirley Ellis, Little Richard (whose backing group includes Jimi Hendrix], The Vibrators, The Exciters, The Hollies, The Uniques, Dee Dee Warwick, Roddy Joy, Sandie Shaw and King Curtis play at The Paramount Theater, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
The Squires, featuring Neil Young, play the third of seven nights at the Fourth Dimension Folk Club, Fort William, Manitoba, Canada.
Pop duo Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme are starring in the musical Golden Rainbow, at The Shubert Theater in New York City, USA.
John Davidson is playing during a month of shows at The Plaza Hotel, New York City, USA.
The Jeff Beck Group, Ten Years After, The Baronets and The Tages play at The Teen Club, Gladsaxe, Denmark, Europe.
Honey by Bobby Goldsboro reaches No1 in the CashBox magazine chart of the best-selling pop singles in the USA.
Black Sabbath play in The Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden, Europe, supported by Jonathan Swift.Help Me by Joni Mitchell on Asylum Records enters the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No7 during an eleven-week run. It will prove to be her only Top 10 single.
Flaco Jiminez, Peter Rowan and The Rocking Tex Mex Band play at Dingwalls, Camden Lock, London, England, UK, Europe.
Celebrated rock club deejay Jerry Floyd dies from a long-standing liver complaint in London, England, UK, Europe. Floyd had been the resident deejay at The Marquee Club in London for the fifteen years before his death.
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Police in Coventry, Rhode Island, USA, are reported to be considering charges against a 17-year-old boy who, inspired by Ozzy Osbourne biting the head off a bat, allegedly bit the head off a gerbil during a party.
Losing My Religion by R.E.M. enters the US Top 40 singles chart, where it will peak at No4.
Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embark on a
random killing spree, shooting dead twelve students and one teacher
at Columbine High School, Columbine, Colorado, USA. The pair then
commit suicide. The incident will become known as The
Columbine High School Massacre. The 2005 song Cassie by Flyleaf is
a response to
the Columbine tragedy. Cassie Bernall was a student at
Columbine High School who died in the massacre.
A letter appears in UK newspaper The Guardian, protesting about US attitudes towards the use of chemical weapons. It is signed by Brian Eno, Robbie Williams, Peter Gabriel, Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox [Eurythmics], Thom Yorke [Radiohead], Joe Strummer [The Clash], Robert Wyatt [ex-Soft Machine], Robert Fripp [ex-King Crimson], Holly Johnson ex-Frankie Goes To Hollywood, and other politically-concerned celebrities. 
Aimee Mann begins a tour in support of her ninth album, Mental Illness, with a show at The Lincoln Theatre, Washington DC, USA.My Indigo release the LP My Indigo on MVKA Records. This is the first solo album by Within Temptation's frontwoman Sharon den Adel.
On her Here Come The Aliens tour, Kim Wilde plays at The Opera House, Buxton, England, UK, Europe.1902 |
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