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    • Aug 5, 1962
    Jan Howard is rushed to a Nashville hospital after taking an overdose of sleeping pills
    Aug 28, 1962
    A fire destroys 75% of Gene Autry's Melody Ranch in California, a former shooting locale for dozens of western movies
    Dec 30, 1962
    Brenda Lee suffers a minor eye injury and has her hair singed when she tries unsuccessfully to rescue her poodle, CeeCee, from a house fire in Nashville. Lee's nine-room home, valued at $37,000, is destroyed along with $25,000 worth of clothing
    Jan 28, 1963
    A truck hits Charley Pride at a smelter in Helena, Montana, damaging his ankle, which has a pin permanently embedded
    Mar 5, 1963
    A plane crash in Camden, Tennessee, claims the lives of Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins and pilot Randy Hughes as they return to Nashville from a charity concert in Kansas City
    Mar 7, 1963
    Jack Anglin dies in an auto accident on the way to Patsy Cline's memorial service in Nashville. A former member of The Anglin Brothers trio, he joined Johnnie Wright to create Johnnie & Jack, earning hits from 1951-1958
    Mar 29, 1963
    Texas Ruby dies in a trailer fire in Nashville while her husband, Curly Fox, is playing the Grand Ole Opry. The two began working together in the 1930s, becoming a significant touring act the following decade
    Mar 30, 1963
    George Jones ends up in a hospital after his bus slides into a ravine near Grants Pass, Oregon. Also injured is steel guitarist Hal Rugg
    Sep 22, 1963
    "To All The Girls I've Loved Before" singer Julio Iglesias suffers a compressed spine in a near-fatal car crash in Madrid, Spain. He learns to play guitar during his recovery
    Oct 18, 1963
    Chuck Berry leaves the Federal Medical Center in Springfield, Missouri, after serving one year of a three-year sentence for violating the Mann Act. During his stay, he wrote "(You Never Can Tell) C'est La Vie," a future country hit for Emmylou Harris



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