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| George: George's sister, Louise Harrison, was born. | |
| Brian Epstein: Brian Epstein is born. | |
| John: The wedding of Julia Stanley and Alfred Lennon. | |
| John: John Lennon was born, 6:00 and 30 minutes. | |
| George: George's brother, Peter Harrison, was born. | |
| Ringo: Richard Starkie was born. | |
| Paul: Paul McCartney was born. | |
| George: George Harrison was born. | |
| Paul: Paul's brother, Peter Michael McCartney, was born. | |
| Ringo: Maureen Cox (later Starkey) is born. | |
| Brian Epstein: Brian Epstein got a job at the Isaac Epstein and Sons family shop. | |
| Paul: Paul's mother died of breast cancer, Mary McCartney. | |
| Beatles: World Beatles Day. Cavern Club opens on Matthew Street. | |
| Beatles: Paul's official debut with The Quarrymen at a concert after the Conservatives Club meeting at New Clubmore Hall (Norris Green), and Paul was very nervous. | |
| Beatles: Lennon forms a skiffle group called the Black Jacks with Pete Shotton. The band is later renamed the Quarrymen. | |
| Beatles: The Quarrymen gave two big concerts in the back of an open truck on Rosbury Street, at the 750th anniversary of the Liverpool Charter. | |
| Beatles: The Quarrymen audition for Carroll Levis's TV Star Search at the Empire Theatre, but do not qualify. | |
| Beatles: McCartney is invited to join the Quarrymen. | |
| John: Lennon's mother, Julia Lennon, is run over and killed by a speeding car. | |
| Beatles: The Quarrymen pay 17 pounds and 6 pence to record two songs at a local recording studio, namely 'That'll Be the Day' by Buddy Holly and 'In Spite of All the Danger' by Harrison and McCartney. | |
| Beatles: Returning to Liverpool from Hamburg, the Beatles play Litherland Town Hall. The performance creates buzz and frenzy. | |
| Beatles: The Beatles give a New Year's Eve performance at the Casbah Club. | |
| Beatles: The Silver Beetles play the Lathom Hall. | |
| Beatles: The Beatles perform at the Town Hall in Litherland. They play various local venues over the next 3 months. | |
| Beatles: he Beatles' first fan club performance, at the David Lewis Club. | |
| Brian Epstein: A customer called Raymond Jones enquires about the Beatles' 'My Bonnie' single at Epstein's NEMS store, despite the record only being released in Germany. Epstein promises to find it. | |
| Brian Epstein: Two more girls enquire about the My Bony record. | |
| Brian Epstein: Epstein and his assistant Alistair Taylor watch the Beatles perform a lunchtime show at the Cavern Club. | |
| Brian Epstein: The Beatles and Epstein meet again, this time at the Casbah Coffee Club. | |
| Brian Epstein: Brian Epstein invited the Beatles to his NEMS office to discuss his future contract. | |
| Brian Epstein: Deutsche Grammophone representatives meet Epstein to discuss the possibility of releasing 'My Bonnie' in the UK. | |
| Brian Epstein: The Beatles meet Epstein at his shop again. | |
| Beatles: The 'Beatles Farewell Show' takes place at the Aintree Institute. The show goes on all night, concluding at 8 am, and features performances from other Liverpool bands such as Gerry & the Pacemakers and Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. | |
| Beatles: The Beatles first performed at the Cavern Club. From 1961 to 1962 the band performed on this stage 292 times. | |
| Beatles: The Beatles played for the first time at the Cavern Club. | |
| Beatles: The Beatles' first performance back in England, at St John's Hall, Tuebrook. | |
| Beatles: The Beatles make the front page of Mersey Beat with a story about their contract with Kaempfert. | |
| Beatles: The Beatles return to Liverpool. | |
| Beatles: The first edition of Mersey Beat is published, and includes an essay by Lennon about the Beatles. | |
| Brian Epstein: The Beatles sign a contract to make Epstein their manager. | |
| Beatles: The Beatles make their first appearance at the Liverpool Empire Theatre, again supporting Little Richard. | |
| Brian Epstein: Epstein takes producer Martin to watch one of the Beatles' regular shows at the Cavern Club. | |
| Beatles: For two performances (noon at The Cavern; evening at the Kingsway Club in Southport) Starr fills in as the Beatles' drummer while Best is ill. | |
| Beatles: The first concert in Cavern after working in Hamburg, 'Welcome home.'. | |
| Beatles: The Beatles play at the Cavern Club again—their first performance there since they last departed for Germany. | |
| Brian Epstein: Epstein asks Starr to join the Beatles permanently. | |
| Beatles: Best performs his last show with the Beatles, at the Cavern Club. | |
| Beatles: On this day The Beatles gave their 51st lunchtime performance at Liverpool’s Cavern Club. This was the 11th occasion on which they performed both lunchtime and evening shows at the venue. | |
| John: Lennon marries Cynthia Powell. | |
| Beatles: Lennon and Harrison buy new guitars from Rushworth and Dreaper's. | |
| John: John's son was born to Cynthia, Julian Lennon. | |
| Paul: Paul's father, James McCartney, died of pneumonia. | |
| Ringo: Ringo's mother died, Elsie Starkie. | |
| John: The John Lennon Memorial Concert organized by Yoko Ono, attracted less than a third of the expected 45,000 fans. | |
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| Paul: Paul McCartney opened his first graphics exhibition 'The Art Of Paul McCartney'. | |
| Paul: Paul's father, James McCartney, was born. | |
| John: John's aunt Mimi Smith was born. | |
| Paul: Paul's mother, Mary McCartney, was born. | |
| John: John's father, Alfred Lennon, was born. | |
| Ringo: Ringo's father, Richard Henry Parkin Starkin, was born. | |
| John: John's mother, Julia Stanley, was born. |