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Karl Emil Heinrich Schwedler is born in Duisberg, Germany, Europe. He will attain a certain level of infamy during World War II as Charlie Schwedler, singer and leader of the Nazi propaganda jazz band Charlie And His Orchestra. The band's bizarre repertoire will include such songs as Let's Go Bombing and Submarines, along with Nazi-oriented parodies of popular American jazz hits of the day.
Myrna Lorraine Petrunka is born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada. She will find success as country music vocalist and recording artist Myrna Lorrie.Vic Lewis And His Orchestra record Swanee, Summertime, S'Wonderful and other tracks in a live session for BBC Radio Jazz Club in London. The band includes Humphrey Lyttelton on cornet and Dill Jones on piano.
The Hank Snow All-Star Jamboree, featuring Hank Snow, Mother Maybelle And The Carter Sisters, The Rainbow Ranch Boys, Martha Carson And Her Country Gentlemen, The Davis Sisters (including Skeeter Davis) and The Jimmie Rodgers Show plays in The Coliseum, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
Hank Snow And His Rainbow Ranch Boys are playing during a six-day engagement at The Flame Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
I Feel Fine by The Beatles returns to No1 in the Canadian Pop Singles Chart, having been deposed for one week by it's own b-side, She's A Woman.
Richard Chamberlain (better known as tv character Dr. Kildare) records Dear Heart, Try To Remember, I Can Dream Can't I and A Fellow Needs A Girl, for MGM Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Anita Carter, with Chet Atkins as producer, records Twelve O'Clock High, I'm Counting On You and other tracks in RCA Victor Studio, 800 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Musicians on the session are pianist Floyd Cramer, guitarists Grady Martin, James Wilkerson and Ray Edenton, steel guitarist Pete Drake , bassist Henry Strzelecki and drummer Jerry Carrigan [drums].
Inspired by a row Paul McCartney had had with his girlfriend Jane Asher, The Beatles record You Won't See Me in Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe. This is the last recording session for the album Rubber Soul. The band's roadie Mal Evans plays Hammond organ on this session.
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Jazz composer, arranger and bandleader Johnny Richards dies in New York City, USA, aged 57, of a brain tumour. A multi-instrumentalist, he co-wrote Frank Sinatra's Young At Heart and worked with Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Kenton, Sarah Vaughan and others.
Dion plays at Le Hibou, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Don Zimmerman, Capitol Records' Senior Vice President, Marketing, annnounces that the label is rush-releasing three 8-track Quad tapes in the new Quadtrack format, costing $7.98. Included in the release are John Lennon's Walls And Bridges, Glen Campbell's Reunion and The Righteous Brothers Give It To the People.
On his Trans tour, 
Heart play in Tallahassee, Florida, USA.Bruce Springsteen and Nils Lofgren join Neil Young on stage for the last show of his Australian tour, at The Entertainment Centre, Sydney, Australia, Oceania.
On his Rei Momo solo tour, David Byrne of Talking Heads plays at The Plaza De Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Rush play at The Bayfront Center, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, supported by Mr Big.
The album Beyond The Blue Neon by George Strait is awarded a gold disc in Canada.Mick Mars of Motley Crue marries one of the band's back-up singers, Emi Canyn, of the Nasty Habits duo.
Blues and jazz fiddler Papa John Creach, best known for his work with San Francisco band Hot Tuna, dies from pneumonia, contracted as a consequence of a heart attack, aged 76 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
John Entwistle, bassist for The Who, dies of a heart attack in his sleep in his room at the Hard Rock Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. It is revealed that a stripper was in Entwistle's room earlier that evening.
Bob Dylan and The Band's 1974 album Planet Waves is reissued as a hybrid SACD by Columbia Records in Canada and Europe.
Joni Mitchell is honoured at the Lieutenant Governor's Centennial Gala in her home town of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
The first day of the first-ever Wireless Festival in Hyde Park, London, England, UK, features New Order, Moby, The Bravery, The Dears, Basement Jaxx, Keane, Kasabian, Mylo and LCD Soundsystem.
It is reported that Leonard Cohen has recently filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles, California, USA, alleging that his business manager, Kelley
Lynch, defrauded him of $5m.
Billy Powell, keyboardist in Lynyrd Skynyrd, fails to attend an appointment with a Florida heart specialist to undergo a cardiac evaluation.
Tom Petty And the Heartbreakers play at The MTS Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
New Kids On The Block and The Backstreet Boys play the first of two nights at The Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
After a DJ show by The Libertines at the O2 Academy, Leeds, England, UK, Europe, the band's drummer, Gary Powell, describes Morrissey as 'an absolute prick' and a 'knob'.
Liam Gallagher (Oasis, Beady Eye) and Nicole Appleton (All Saints) file for a 'quickie divorce' in The High Court, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Mavericks play at The Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Dralms play at Birthdays, London, England, UK.
On his Purpose World Tour Justin Bieber plays the first of two nights at The Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.On his Purpose tour, Justin Bieber plays the first of three nights at Foro Sol, Mexico City, Mexico, North America.
On his 'final' tour, entitled Farewell Yellow Brick Road, Elton John plays the second of two nights at Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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