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Musical comedy The Casino Girl is playing at The Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 105 performances.
The 'musical dream play' Bluebell In Fairyland is presented at The Vaudeville Theatre, London, England, UK, during a run of 300 performances.
Reuben Bloom is born in New York City, USA. He will find success as songwriter, pianist, arranger, band leader, recording artist, vocalist, and writer Rube Bloom. His best known songs include Soliloquy, Day In-Day Out and Fools Rush In.
Milton And Dollie Nobles, The Knight Brothers, Miss Susie Fisher, Banks And Winona Winter, The Mortons and The Petching Brothers are appearing at The Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.250 members of The Irish Citizen Army, under James Connolly, take part in the The Easter Rising in Dublin, Eire. Connolly will be executed by a firing squad for taking part. The events of this uprising are documented in the song James Connolly by Black 47.
Harry Bidgood And His Broadcasters record My Flame Of Love, for Vocalion Records in London, UK. Bidgood is perhaps better known as an accordian bandleader under his pseudonym of Primo Scala.
Soul/r'n'b singer Freddie Scott is born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He will find Billboard Top 10 success in 1963 with the hit single Hey Girl, written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin.
Richard Sterban is born in Camden, New Jersey, USA. In 1972 he will join The Oak Ridge Boys, for whom he will provide the distinctive bass vocal parts on such hits as Elvira, Bobbie Sue and Love Song.
RCA Victor Records throws a 'Welcome Home' party, attended by local disc jockeys and pressmen, for popular singer Eddie Fisher at Toots Shor's in New York City, USA.
Louis Jordan and The Robins play at The Trocadero, Los Angeles, California, USA, for the sixth of ten nights.
For the second of two nights, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, later to find fame with The Beatles, perform an acoustic set at the Fox and Hounds, Caversham, UK, under the name The Nerk Twins.Comedy singing duo The Smothers Brothers continue with a three-week engagement at The Crystal Palace, Gaslight Square, St Louis, Missouri, USA. Second on the bill is teenage singer Barbra Streisand.
Elvis Presley continues with studio-based filming for the movie Blue Hawaii, at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.Despite facing severe losses, The Twist Spectacular Tour plays the first of five nights at St Nicholas Arena, New York City, headlined
by Chubby
Checker with Joey Dee And The
Starliters, Dee Dee
Sharp, The
Dovells and the Carroll Brothers.
Barbra Streisand performs Nobody Makes A Pass At Me on tv show PM Starring Mike Wallace, in New York City, USA.
Grant Tracy And The Sunsets play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, supported by Ricky Lewis And The Avengers.
The Who play at The Lynx Club, Borehamwood, followed by an All-nighter at The Club Noreik, Tottenham, London, England, UK.
The Checkmates Ltd, are playing during four weeks at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The Bee Gees, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick And Tich, The Foundations and The Grapefruit play at the The Odeon, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
The Byrds record The Christian Life and Blue Canadian Rockies for Columbia Records in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Flock, It's A Beautiful Day, The Groundhogs, Black Sabbath, Missus Beastly, Ekseption and The Oskar Benton Bluesband play on the first day of the Pop And Blues Festival in The Grugahalle, Essen, Germany.
The musical Your Arms Too Short To Box With God is presented at The Lyceum Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run on Broadway for 429 performances. The musical is based on the Biblical Book of Matthew.Dwight Twilley plays at The Stone, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by The Kids.
On his Nude Tour, Prince plays at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, Minnesota, USA.
Paul Simon, Sawyer Brown, Martina McBride, The Kentucky HeadHunters, Marty Stuart, Dwight Yoakam, Waylon Jennings, Ringo Starr, Bryan Adams, Travis Tritt, Ricky Van Shelton and others play at Willie Nelson's Farm Aid VI in Ames, Iowa, USA. Nelson closes the event with Will The Circle Be Unbroken, I'll Fly Away and I Saw The Light.
Justin Bieber plays the last of three nights at The Ericsson Globe, Stockholm, Sweden, Europe.
Little Comets, The Crookes, Bwani Junction and Eliza And The Bear play at King Tut's, Glasgow, Scotland.
On her The Mrs Carter Show World Tour Beyonce plays the first of two nights at The Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, France, Europe.
Ricky Martin performs live during the 2014 Billboard Latin Music Awards at Bank United Center, Miami, Florida, USA.
Ingrid Michaelson plays at The Riviera Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
On their 
Congolese music star Papa Wemba collapses and dies on stage during a performance at the Femua music festival in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, Africa.
On their This House Is Not For Sale tour, Bon Jovi play at The PNC Arena, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
On their 40th Anniversary tour The Specials play at De Montfort Hall, Leicester, England, UK, Europe.
On their Before The Flood tour, Larkins play at Academy 2, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
Cirith Ungol headline the first night of the Keep It True Festival at Lauda Konigshoffen, Germany, Europe.1900 |
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