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Patience Kershaw testifies to the Ashley Mines Commission about the apalling conditions under which she and other children are being forced to work in British coal mines. The testimony of Kershaw and others will lead to the 1842 Coal Mines Act prohibiting the employment underground of all female labour and of boys under ten years old. Patience Kershaw's life-changing evidence is celebrated in the 2009 song The Testimony of Patience Kershaw by The Unthanks.
Ross Valory who will play bass with The Steve Miller Band, Frumious Bandersnatch and Journey, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.
Mahalia Jackson, accompanied by Harpo Marx, performs on tv show Milton Berle's Kraft Music Hall in the USA.
The film Ocean's 11, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr, opens in Italy, Europe.
Dizzy Gillespie records Careless Love, In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town and other tracks in New York City, USA.
Do You
Wanna Dance by Cliff Richard And The Shadows reaches
No1 in the Australian Top Twenty singles chart.
The Motor Town Special, a two-month long all-Motown package tour featuring The Miracles, The Supremes, Mary Wells, Marvin Gaye, The Contours, The Marvelettes, Martha And The Vandellas and Little Stevie Wonder, plays a date in the Bamboo Ranch Club, Savannah, Georgia, USA.
The
Beatles release a new single, Twist
And Shout, in the USA, where it will peak at No2.
Understandably, most music fans consider it a Beatles song, but
Twist
And Shout was originally recorded by Philadelphia R+B group
The Top
Notes in 1961. A second version by The
Isley Brothers became a hit in 1962, and it was this version
which inspired The Beatles to record their cover.
Simon And Garfunkel confirm, by means of a Western Union telegram, their agreement to appear at the upcoming Monterey International Pop Festival.
David Martin Blake, who will find success as DJ Quik, is born in Compton, California, USA.The Mahavishnu Orchestra play at the Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, California, USA, supporting stoner comedy duo Cheech And Chong.
Locomotiv GT, Stray Dog, Budgie, East of Eden, Man, Fumble and Nazareth play at Alexandra Palace, London, UK.
Touring in support of his album Bat Out Of Hell, Meat Loaf plays the second of two nights at The Palladium, New York City, USA.
Graham Parker And The Rumour play the second of two nights at The Old Waldorf, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by Pearl Harbour And The Explosions.
On their World Vacation tour, Van Halen play at The Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
On their World Vacation tour, Van Halen play at The Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
On their Hide Your Sheep Tour [aka the K.A.T.N. (Kicking Ass and Taking Names tour) Tour], Van Halen play at Hirsch Memorial Coliseum, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA, supported by After The Fire.Ozzy Osbourne plays at The Dane County Coliseum, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, supported by Motley Crue.
Grandmaster Melle Mel And The Furious Five play at The Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
Frank Zappa, Dee Snider [Twisted Sister] and John Denver, testify before a hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee, to refute charges by the Parents Music Resource Center [PMRC] that some music is obscene and should be controlled by a rating system.
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The single Sun City by Artists United Against Apartheid enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA where it will peak at No38 during a three week run. 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.
The Ice-T album Rhyme Pays becomes the first hip-hop album to be stickered with a warning label because of explicit lyrics.
Wally Heider, founder of one of popular music's most celebrated recording studios, dies of lung cancer, aged 66, at the home of his daughter Laurie Lee in Santa Clarita, California, USA. Starting as a sound engineer in the 1940s, Heider worked with bandleaders including Woody Herman and Buddy Rich at his Hollywood studios. Later, after opening a San Francisco studio complex in 1969, he was instrumental in recording the San Francisco music scene, and worked with rock bands including Crosby, Stills And Nash, Santana, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Jefferson Airplane.
New York District Court awards The Sugarhill Gang $165,000 in compensatory damages plus $2.8m in punitive damages in a case against the Snapple Beverage Corporation and Turner Broadcasting System Inc. Snapple had used a live video performance of the group's single Rapper's Delight without permission in a 1998 tv commercial for the Goodwill Games, an event produced by Turner Broadcasting.
Rapper Cam'ron is arrested in Harlem, New York City, USA, because of outstanding traffic tickets.
Adam Yauch of The Beastie Boys announces via an online video that he is suffering from what he describes as a "very treatable" cancerous tumor in his salivary gland. Yauch requires surgery and other treatment, but the statement says his vocal cords will not be affected. The group cancels upcoming tour dates and postpones an album release.
When Gorillaz play at the walls of the Citadel of Damascus, Syria, Asia, their show includes guest performances by Bobby Womack, De La Soul, The Clash's Paul Simonon and Mick Jones, the Happy Mondays' Shaun Ryder, the Pharcyde's Bootie Brown, UK rappers Bashy and Kano, local Syrian artist Eslam Jawaad and Syria's National Orchestra.
The When Justin Bieber's concert film Never Say Never is premiered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, USA, rapper Drake is among the celbrities attending the event.
On their Bon Jovi Live 2011 tour, Bon Jovi play at The Turk Telekom Arena, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe.
It is reported that Chicago R'n'B superstar R. Kelly has been hospitalized after undergoing emergency surgery to drain an abcess on one of his tonsils. The procedure, which was carried out at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital, has obliged Kelly to give up performing for an unknown period.Parker Isaac Adams files a lawsuit against Chris Brown and his bodyguard Christopher Hollosy following an alleged assault outside The W hotel in Washington D.C., USA, during 2013.
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The Squamish Valley Music festival, a four-day event, comes to an end in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada. The line-up for this, the final day, includes Eminem, Arctic Monkey and Danny Brown, 
Wiz Khalifa and Cage The Elephant play at the Billboard Winterfest at Park City Live!, Park City, Utah, USA.
Hands To Myself by Selena Gomez is the biggest mover in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart in the USA, rising from No21 to No7. The Top 5 chart positions on this day are :
- Justin Bieber - Love Yourself
- Justin Bieber - Sorry
- Twenty One Pilots - Stressed Out
- Adele - Hello
- Flo Rida - My House
Future begins a North American tour with a gig at The Orpheum Ballroom, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Kim Kashardian, celebrity wife of Kanye West, racks up a reported record-breaking 84m viewers to her Twitter page in 24 hours after posting a picture of her family on her timeline.
In a Tweet sent from aboard Air Force One, US President Donald Trump states, 'I will be calling the very talented prime minister of Sweden to see what we can do about helping A$AP Rocky.' The rapper is being held in custody in Stockholm, Sweden, Europe, following a violent altercation in the city on June 30.1842 |
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