Harry Houdini is not doing well: after sustaining a severe abdominal injury last week, Houdini is suffering from appendicitis and recovery is doubtful.

Queen Elizabeth opens the National Theatre on London’s South Bank.

At an engagement at the Garrick Theater in Detroit, Michigan, Illusionist Harry Houdini has a fever of 104° F (40° C), and he can hardly perform. He faints twice during the show, but each time he is revived and he continues. But at the end, he faints a third time, and he is taken to Detroit’s Grace Hospital.

'If You Leave Me Now' by Chicago reaches #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev are expelled from the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Deceased champion boxer Harry Greb is laid to rest at Calvary Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in an opulent funeral.

The Fazl Mosque, the first purpose-built mosque in London, UK, opens.

ITV series “The New Avengers” begins, a sequel to the 60s series “The Avengers”.   The new series has Patrick Macnee reprising his former role as a secret agent with new partners Gareth Hunt and Joanna Lumley.

Author Ernest Hemingway publishes a new novel, titled “The Sun Also Rises.” The book retails at $2.00 per copy.

In the dressing room of the Princess Theater in Montreal, illusionist and stunt performer Harry Houdini is repeatedly punched in the stomach by a McGill University student. Though resisting punches is part of his act, Houdini suffers from severe stomach pain for the remainder of the evening.

Punk band The Damned release the single “New Rose”: they’re the first UK punk act to release a record.

Anti-British riots break out in Burma. A young British officer named Eric Arthur Blair stands with the protestors and tells them “Demonstrate, you are in the right and deserve support. I am with you and support you, and I despise this colonial job of mine.”