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Jun 14, 1774
The U.S. Army is founded, providing future employment for George Strait, Elvis Presley, Gene Autry, Craig Morgan and Conway Twitty, among others
Aug 23, 1819
Navy officer Oliver Hazard Perry dies at sea from an insect bite. Noted for his War of 1812 quote "We have met the enemy and they are ours," he is recalled in Elton Britt's 1942 country hit "There's A Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere"
Jan 7, 1868
Rebecca Bowers is born in Virginia. She gives birth to Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, one of country's first successful recording artists, and the leader of The Stoneman Family
Jan 7, 1868
Rebecca Bowers is born in Virginia. She gives birth to Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, one of country's first successful recording artists, and the leader of The Stoneman Family
Mar 7, 1876
Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone, inspiring the first line of the Reba McEntire hit "Why Haven't I Heard From You"
Dec 7, 1877
Thomas Edison signs a patent application for a tinfoil phonograph, then goes to the New York offices of the technical journal Scientific American to demonstrate it
Dec 24, 1877
Thomas Edison files for a patent on a phonograph that uses a disc, rather than tinfoil, to record. Edison discounts the disc, however, and devotes his energies to a model that incorporates a wax cylinder
May 14, 1881
Despite a family war that included 10 dead relatives, a home destroyed by fire and a stolen pig, Johnse Hatfield and Nancy McCoy are married. The phrase "feudin' like the Hatfields and McCoys" will appear in Waylon Jennings' "Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love)"
Dec 26, 1882
George Stoneman is born. He plays banjo on some of the early recordings by his cousin, Ernest Stoneman
Nov 25, 1883
Sarah Ellen Baker is born. She later marries C.R. Tubb, and the union produces five children, including country legend Ernest Tubb
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