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Oct 16, 1960
Elvis Presley breaks a finger playing touch football at Graceland Mansion in Memphis
Dec 3, 1960
Dave Dudley is hit by a car while getting out of his own vehicle on a Minneapolis street. He is taken to Methodist Hospital and diagnosed with a fractured leg, a broken pelvis and facial cuts, among other injuries. Dudley invests the $14,000 he receives from the insurance company to record "Six Days On The Road"
Feb 4, 1961
Rockabilly artist Johnny Burnette has an emergency appendectomy in Hollywood
Mar 20, 1961
Ray Charles severs a tendon and an artery in his left hand and requires four pints of blood. The following year he makes an unlikely impact on country music with the release of "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music"
Apr 6, 1961
Spade Cooley suffers a heart attack, three days after strangling and beating his wife to death. As a result, he's transferred from Bakersfield's Kern County Jail to Kern County General Hospital
Jun 14, 1961
Patsy Cline is seriously injured in a head-on collision in Nashville. Two passengers in the other car die, while Cline receives a dislocated hip and a cut across her forehead
Jul 4, 1961
"Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter ends an eight-month stay at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
Jul 11, 1961
Chet Atkins plays a concert in the rain in Nashville's Centennial Park without telling the audience of 10,000 that every time he touches the guitar, he gets shocked. The closest he comes to letting on is to announce "I'm real brave tonight"
Jul 27, 1961
Spade Cooley suffers a heart attack in his holding cell at the Kern County Jail in Bakersfield, California, after his 14-year-old daughter, Melody, testified against him in a trial for the murder of his wife. He is transferred to Kern County General
Aug 4, 1961
Spade Cooley, who has already suffered two heart attacks since April, is taken to Bakersfield's Kern County General Hospital, suffering from chest pains. It causes a delay in his trial for the murder of wife Ella Mae Cooley
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