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At the end of the 1814 bombardment of Baltimore, Maryland, USA, an American flag featuring 15 stars and fifteen stripes, is raised to show that America has saved the city from the British attackers. Seeing this, lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key is inspired to write a poem which, in turn, will inspire the song The Star-Spangled Banner which will become the National Anthem Of The United States Of America.
Thousands of spectators gather beside the Mississippi river in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, to await the arrival of the winner of "The Steamboat Race Of The Century" between The Robert E. Lee and The Natchez. The winner is the Robert E. Lee, and the event will inspire the 1912 song Waiting For The Robert E. Lee, which will become a popular standard, recorded by Dean Martin, Judy Garland, Al Jolson, Benny Goodman and many others.
Tiny Bradshaw records Walkin' The Chalk Line for King Records in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Country-gospel quartet
R'n'b vocal group Otis Williams And The Charms record Panic for King Records in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
A new movie, All In A Night's Work, starring Dean Martin, opens in theatres in The Netherlands, Europe.
US President John F. Kennedy is advised that the CIA has obtained
photographic evidence of a build up, by Russia, of medium range
ballistic missiles on the island of Cuba. Kennedy convenes a meeting of the nine members of the National Security Council and five other key advisers. The decisions taken by the Council will initiate the Cuban Missile Crisis. Until the resolution of the crisis two weeks later, when Russia agrees to remove its missiles from Cuba, the world will live in fear of imminent nuclear war. The 1964 Phil Ochs song Talking Cuban Crisis depicts the responses of one ordinary American to the crisis.
Brenda Lee comes to the end of her summer stock appearances as Dorothy in The Wizard Of Oz, in Columbus, Ohio, USA.
The Motortown Revue, featuring The Miracles, Marvin Gaye, Little Stevie Wonder, Mary Wells, and Martha And The Vandellas, plays at The Sports Arena, Toledo, Ohio, USA. The Night Owls record Let's Go Again and Bells Ring for Bethlehem Records in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
From their chartered plane 23,000 feet above Kansas, USA, en route to Cincinnati, The Beatles transmit thank-you messages to guests at a Melody Maker awards lunch in London, UK.
Popular accordionist Frankie Yankovic releases the album Christmas Party, on Columbia Records in the USA.Three members of folk-country group The Carter Family (Mother Maybelle and her daughters Anita and Helen) are injured in a car crash at West Jefferson, Ohio, USA, when their vehicle is rammed from behind at a stop light.
Rick McCollum, lead guitarist of
Bobby Bare records In The Same Old Way, We Helped Each Other Out, Talk Me Some Sense and You Can't Stop The Wild Wind From Blowing, in RCA Victor Studio, 800 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The 
Deep Purple appear on syndicated tv show Upbeat in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, miming to their version of the Neil Diamond song Kentucky Woman.
The Amboy Dukes, led by Ted Nugent, play at The Cincinnati Pop Festival, Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Also on the bill are The Stooges and Mountain.
Four students are killed on Kent State University campus in Ohio, USA, by National Guard soldiers during an anti-Vietnam war protest. The incident horrifies Neil Young into writing the song Ohio one day later. The Beach Boys will also make reference to the killings in their song Student Demonstration Time. Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck's cantata Truth Is Fallen, will be written as a protest against the Vietnam War, and dedicated to the memory of those who died in the Kent State shootings and Jackson State killings of May 1970. Also, the group Devo will form initially not as musical group but as an idea — the concept of the "de-evolution" of the human race — formulated by three art students at Kent State University in response to the fatal shootings.
Country Joe And The Fish play at Wilson Auditorium, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, with The Pitschel Players.During the Creative Arts Festival, Devo play in The Governance Chambers, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA.
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Seventy six rock fans are arrested during a riot at a Led Zeppelin gig in Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
The Pretenders play at Liverpool University, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
For the last date in his third gospel tour, performing mostly religious material, Bob Dylan plays at the Memorial Hall, Dayton, Ohio, USA.
Yes begin a North American tour in Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Jethro Tull is inducted into The National Association of Brick Manufacturers Hall Of Fame in New York City, USA, because their album Thick As A Brick has raised public awareness of the product.
Popular bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger Ralph Flanagan dies in Miami, Florida, USA.Rascal Flatts come under fire from conservative groups because their video for the song I Melt includes brief glimpses of nudity, (guitarist Joe Don Rooney's bare buttocks, and model Christina Auria taking a shower in the nude). There are calls for the video to be banned from airplay on CMT and Great American Country. Eventually, Rascal Flatts will release an edited version of the video, which aired during daytime hours on the two country music-oriented networks.
The Six Parts Seven and The Black Keys release a joint EP, The Six Parts Seven/The Black Keys, on Suicide S queeze records in the USA.
Actress Cameron Diaz files a $10m libel suit in Santa Monica Superior Court, Santa Monica, California, USA, against the National Enquirer because it ran a story claiming that she had cheated on her boyfriend Justin Timberlake.
Dan Auerbach, front man for The Black Keys, plays at Metro, Chicago, Illinois, USA, to a sold-out crowd. Also on the bill are Hacienda.
On his Glam Nation tour, Adam Lambert plays at The Lifestyle Communities Pavilion, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
The Dave Matthews Band, The Steve Miller Band, The Zac Brown Band, Dwight Yoakam, Loretta Lynn, The Black Crowes, Kansas, The Avett Brothers, 38 Special, Justin Moore and Taj Mahal are among the acts appearing on the third and final day of the HullabaLou festival at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
Jorma Kaukonen plays at Songs From Blue Country Heart, Fur Peace Ranch, Pomeroy, Ohio, USA.
The Dixie Chicks begin a North American tour with a show at Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Continuing the recent controversy in which radio stations have been banning the 1944 classic Baby, It's Cold Outside on grounds that its lyric might constitute 'sexual harassment', San Francisco radio station KOIT restores the song to its playlist. The station had removed the song a week earlier, but after asking its listeners for opinions, the result was that 77% were opposed to the ban.
Touring in support of their album, I Am Easy To Find, The National play at All Together Now, Waterford, Ireland, Europe.1814 |
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