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    • Jan 16, 1937
    Floods hit the state of Arkansas, where more than 2,700 people are forced to evacuate their homes, including the family of Johnny Cash in Dyess. The event inspires Cash to write the 1959 hit "Five Feet High And Rising"
    Jun 12, 1937
    Ernest and Hattie Stoneman's daughter, Rita, dies of complications from whooping cough, just three months after her birth
    Oct 24, 1937
    Broadway composer Cole Porter breaks both legs in a horse-riding accident in Locust Valley on Long Island. He suffers complications for the remainder of his life, which includes a country hit after Gene Autry records "Don't Fence Me In"
    Nov 16, 1937
    Elvis Presley's father, Vernon, and two other men are accused by their employer, Orville Bean, of forging a $4 check. Vernon pleads not guilty
    May 25, 1938
    Elvis Presley's father, Vernon, is sentenced to three years for forging a check the previous November. The next day, the victim, Orville Bean, kicks three-year-old Elvis and his mother out of their home
    Aug 6, 1938
    Jerry Lee Lewis loses his older brother, when Elmo Lewis Jr. is killed in an auto accident in Louisiana
    Sep 9, 1938
    Ernest Tubb's son, Roger, is killed in a car accident near Fredericksburg, Texas, just seven months after his birth. His mother, Elaine, is driving. The event spurs E.T. to write the hit "Our Baby's Book"
    Oct 23, 1942
    Broadway and film composer Ralph Rainger dies in a mid-air collision near Palm Springs, California. The author of "Thanks For The Memory," he also co-wrote "Blue Hawaii," recorded by Willie Nelson for the 1992 movie "Honeymoon In Vegas"
    Sep 4, 1944
    The Los Angeles nightclub Riverside Rancho suffers $25,000 worth of damage in a fire likely caused by a careless cigarette smoker. Among the items destroyed: a grand piano and a bass owned by Deuce Spriggins, of Spade Cooley's band
    Nov 16, 1944
    Chuck Berry, a future member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, pleads guilty in Boone County, Missouri, for using a gun to steal a car. He and three friends are sentenced to 10 years in prison. He serves three years



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