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    • Apr 30, 1984
    As Willie Nelson turns 51, 17,500 fans sing "Happy Birthday" at a concert in Phoenix. Radio station KNIX provides five 200-pound birthday cakes, shaped like the state of Arizona, at a cost of $2,500
    Jan 28, 1985
    Jimmy Buffett holds the grand opening of Margaritaville, a restaurant and souvenir shop in Key West, Florida
    Jul 1, 1985
    Don Williams speaks out publicly against Coca-Cola's rollout of New Coke. Within the month, the beverage company reintroduces Classic Coke
    Apr 13, 1986
    Lorrie Morgan calls ex-husband Ron Gaddis and tells him she's had a change of heart about trying to get back together. Instead, she has a first date with Keith Whitley: Wendy's hamburgers in Nashville's Centennial Park
    May 17, 1987
    An arsonist sets fire to Tom Petty's house in Los Angeles while his family eats breakfast, doing $800,000 worth of damage. Petty wrote Rosanne Cash's "Never Be You" and goes on to write Roy Orbison's "You Got It"
    Jul 20, 1987
    Roy Clark hot dogs go on sale in Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri
    Aug 26, 1987
    Randy Travis eats a hamburger prior to boarding his bus for a tour. The next day, he's hospitalized in Wytheville, Virginia, with food poisoning
    Aug 27, 1987
    Randy Travis is hospitalized in Wytheville, Virginia, with complications from food poisoning, incurred the previous day
    Oct 31, 1987
    Dolly Parton opens a restaurant, the Dockside Plantation, in Honolulu
    Sep 12, 1988
    Chuck Berry's Southern Air restaurant opens for business in Wentzville, Missouri. His recording of "Maybellene" is regarded in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number" among the 500 greatest country singles ever made



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