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    • Nov 12, 1950
    Hank Thompson's small plane crashes, though he sustains no serious injuries
    May 21, 1951
    Hank Williams is sent to the North Louisiana Sanatorium in Shreveport, moaning about back pain. The pain remains throughout the rest of his life
    Aug 31, 1951
    Five-year-old Neil Young wakes up at his home in Omemee, Ontario, in pain. He is taken to a Toronto hospital, where he is diagnosed with polio
    Sep 6, 1951
    Five-year-old Neil Young is discharged from a Toronto hospital after a six-week stay with polio. As an adult, he writes the country hits "Are You Ready For The Country" and "Love Is A Rose"
    Oct 5, 1951
    "Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter enters Doctors Hospital in Manhattan, where he undergoes multiple shock treatments
    Nov 1, 1951
    Cole Porter, co-author of "Don't Fence Me In," is released from Doctors Hospital in New York after a stay of nearly four weeks in which he underwent repeated shock therapy for emotional problems
    Dec 13, 1951
    Hank Williams undergoes surgery at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville to fuse two vertebrae in his back
    Jan 29, 1952
    Hank Williams plays his first concert since a December back operation in Richmond, Virginia. At the hotel, he drinks a mixture of tomato juice and rubbing alcohol, then gives a poor, abbreviated show. Ray Price fills in with a 40-minute set
    May 15, 1952
    Woody Guthrie attacks his wife at home in Manhattan with a pair of scissors. He does not hurt her, but police are called to the scene. The episode is an early sign of his illness, eventually diagnosed as Huntington's chorea
    May 16, 1952
    One day after a domestic quarrel, Woody Guthrie checks into Kings County Hospital in New York to undergo an alcohol treatment program. He is suffering, however, not from alcoholism, but from a rare, undiagnosed disease, Huntington's chorea



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