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Poole And The North Carolina Ramblers record White House Blues for Columbia
Records in New York City, USA. The song tells the story of the assassination of US President McKinley from the perspective of Mrs.
McKinley.
The original London West End production of Show Boat opens at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, UK, Europe. The cast includes Paul Robeson as Joe, Edith Day as Magnolia, Cedric Hardwicke as Capt. Andy and Alberta Hunter as Queenie.Son House spends the last of six days recording blues material at Klack's Store, Lake Cormorant, Mississippi, USA, for the Library of Congress Recording initiative. During these sessions, he has recorded Levee Camp Blues, Government Fleet Blues, Walking Blues, Shetland Pony Blues, Fo' Clock Blues, Camp Hollers and Delta Blues.
The musical comedy, Call Me Madam, with music by Irving Berlin and starring Ethel Merman, is playing at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 644 performances.
Charles Brown records The Message, All My Life and Moonrise, for Aladdin Records at Radio Recorders Studio, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Paul Robeson stands on the back of a flat bed truck and sings songs of defiance and solidarity to 40,000 people on the US-Canadian border because the U.S. government (having confiscated his passport) has refused him permission to cross the border into Canada where he has been invited to perform in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Sālote Tupou III, better known as The Queen Of Tonga, attends the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London, England, UK, Europe. The occasion is commemorated in song by bandleader Edmundo Ros who records and releases his composition The Queen Of Tonga on Decca Records.
Pete Seeger and The Doc Watson Family play at the American Folk Festival 1963 in Asheville City Auditorium, Asheville, North Carolina, USA.
Red River Dave records Answer To The Death Of A President and The Bay Of Pigs in San Antonio, Texas, USA, for Reveal Records.
The Emergency Civil Liberties Committee sends out a letter to all attendees of the recent dinner at which Bob Dylan was, controversially, given The Tom Paine Award by for his work to advance civil rights. The letter defends the Committee's decision to confer the award on Dylan.
To promote the career of Tommy Good, a white singer recently signed to Motown Records, the company's publicist Al Abrams stages a 'protest march' by white teenagers to Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. offices in Detroit, Michigan, USA. In fact, Good is conveniently in the offices and comes out to perform his single, Baby I Miss You, for the assembled crowd. The event is a parody of recent civil rights marches, and the teenagers have been specially bussed-in by Motown.
Anarchic folk group
Donovan releases the EP Universal Soldier in the UK. The title track is composed by Buffy Sainte-Marie.
Country Joe And The Fish play at the Straight Theater, San Francisco, California, USA.
The first Czechoslovak National Festival Of Rock Music begins in Lucerna Hall, Prague, Czechoslovakia, Europe. The three-day event attracts 12,000 fans to see bands including the psychedelic Prague-based band The Primitives.Jack L. Gritz, editor of The Baptist Messenger newspaper in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, writes in praise of Eartha Kitt, in an editorial about her recent critical comments on the Vietnam War during a visit to The White House. "She stated what she thinks on an important subject with conviction and feeling ... it took courage to do so."
Moby Grape, The Fugs and The Gary Burton Quartet play the first of two nights at the Fillmore East, New York City, USA.
Country Joe And The Fish play the second of three nights at The Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.Canned Heat, Joe Cocker, Grand Funk Railroad, Grateful Dead, Country Joe And The Fish, B.B. King, Richie Havens, The Hog Farm, Sweetwater, Iron Butterfly, Mountain, Kinks, Little Richard, John Mayall, Steve Miller, Johnny Winter, Sly and the Family Stone, Ten Years After, Ike and Tina Turner and others play at the Winter's End Festival, Miami, Florida, USA.
Country Joe McDonald plays at The Community Theatre, Berkeley, California, USA. with Grootna and The Pitschell Players.
Abraham Beame, mayor of New York City, USA, hosts a luncheon for The Bee Gees at Gracie Mansion, to mark their charitable donations to the Police Athletic League Organisation.
The Clash, Tom Robinson Band, Steel Pulse, The Ruts and X-Ray Specs play at the Anti-Nazi League Carnival, sponsored by Rock Against Racism in London, UK.
Tommy Boy and Sugarhill - two independent record labels in the USA, go to court in Newark, New Jersey, USA, over rights to the Malcolm X single, No Sell Out. 
Paul Hardcastle begins five weeks at No1 in the UK with 19, one of the first hit singles to make extensive use of computer sampling technology.
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A report in the South China Morning Post states that popular Hong Kong singer Connie Mak has been advised to cancel her upcoming concert in Peking, China, Asia, because of fears of crowd violence. In May 1985, Hong Kong defeated China 2-1 in a world cup qualifying football match and there are fears of anti-Hong Kong sentiments. Country star John Denver, who had been in Peking recently, confirms that China's Central Television was concerned about crowd control at an open-air concert he had been planning.
Artists United Against Apartheid release the album Sun City in the USA. Largely the brainchild of Little Steven Van Zandt, the artists involved include U2, Peter Gabriel, Simple Minds, Keith Richards and Ron Wood of The Rolling Stones, Herbie Hancock and Gil Scott-Heron.
Uriah Heep, the first major Western rock band to perform live in Russia, play the second of ten nights at Olympijskiy Stadium, Moscow, Russia, Europe.
Ann Richards, governor of Texas, USA, proclaims that, from today, October 3 will be Stevie Ray Vaughan Day.
On the day that Vladimir Putin takes over from Boris Yeltsin as Prime Minister of Russia, the country's longest-established hard-rock band, Mumiy Trol, releases a new single provocatively titled The Carnival Is Over.
A reception in honour of Dionne Warwick is held in The House Of Commons, Westminster, London, England, UK, Europe, hosted by Keith Vas, MP.
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In a statement posted at her website, Madonna launches an attack on President George Bush of the USA, saying, “Our greatest risk is not terrorism and it's not Iraq or the ‘Axis of Evil.’ Our greatest risk is a lack of leadership, a lack of honesty and a complete lack of consciousness."
The Live8 Concert in Hyde Park, London, England, UK, is opened by Paul McCartney and U2 performing Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, followed by among others Coldplay, Dido, Keane, Elton John, Annie Lennox, Madonna, Razorlight, Scissor Sisters, Snoop Dogg, Joss Stone, Stereophonics, Sting, Robbie Williams, U2, REM, Velvet Revolver, Bob Geldof, The Killers, Mariah Carey and Snow Patrol, before Pink Floyd took the stage as the penultimate act of the night.
While in Washington DC, USA, Bono of U2 visits The White House for a meeting with President Obama to discuss, among other things, ways of ensuring that US foreign aid is effective.
Jason Mraz is in Ghana, West Africa, on a five-day visit to learn about slavery and work with Free The Slaves, an organisation dedicated to ending slavery in all parts of the world.Lady Gaga is awarded an honorary citizenship of Sydney, Australia, by Mayor Clover Moore.
The Live Music Bill, aimed at stopping bureaucracy from smothering small scale live music, completes its passage through Parliament, when it is passed through the House of Lords, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Foo Fighters play an acoustic live set at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, where President Obama accepts his party's nomination for a second term.
British national tabloid newspaper The Sun runs the headline "Ramadan A Ding Dong" after tv station Channel 4 broadcasts a controversial Muslim call to prayer. The headline is a reference to the 1961 hit single Rama Lama Ding Dong by The Edsels.
New Jersey native Jon Bon Jovi returns to his hometown of Sayreville, New Jersey, USA, to present a one million-dollar ($1m) donation to the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina of politically-active punk band Pussy Riot, having previously tweeted in Russian, sign up for a new English Twitter account.
Evangelical Christian US Presidential candidate Mick Huckabee attends a religious assembly in Grayson, Kentucky, USA. During the meeting, a portion of the Survivor song Eye Of The Tiger is played. In due course, Huckabee will be sued for alleged copyright infringement of the song.
The In a Tweet, US President Donald Trump demands that Sweden should "Give A$AP Rocky his FREEDOM, We do so much for Sweden but it doesn’t seem to work the other way around." A$AP Rocky is being held in custody in Stockholm, Sweden, Europe, following a violent altercation in the city on June 30.
K-pop fans are credited with having been a significant factor in the low turnout of attendees at US President Donald Trump's recent comeback rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. They claim to have been booking large number of tickets to the rally online with no intention of attending. Their plan, which appears to have been successful, was to reduce attendance at the rally.
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