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EventID |
Date |
Event |
Venue |
City |
StateID |
Option |
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8649 |
Oct 24, 1951 |
Flatt & Scruggs record "'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered" and the original version of... |
Castle Studio |
Nashville |
tn |
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8648 |
Oct 24, 1942 |
Publisher and record producer Don Gant is born. He produces Jimmy Buffett, Lefty Frizzell and Eddy... |
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8647 |
Oct 24, 1942 |
Jim Reeves signs his first professional baseball contract to play for the St. Louis Cardinals'... |
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8646 |
Oct 24, 1934 |
Sanger D. "Whitey" Shafer is born in Whitney, Texas. He pens George Strait's "All My... |
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Whitney |
tx |
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|
8645 |
Oct 24, 1930 |
J.P. Richardson--a.k.a. "The Big Bopper"--is born in Sabine Pass, Texas. Known for his pop hit... |
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Sabine Pass |
tx |
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|
8644 |
Oct 23, 2000 |
Moises "Blondie" Calderon dies at Covenant Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, following... |
Covenant Hospital |
Lubbock |
tx |
|
|
8643 |
Oct 23, 1992 |
The George Strait movie "Pure Country" opens in theaters. The film includes a role for... |
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|
8642 |
Oct 23, 1991 |
Travis Tritt sings the national anthem before the fourth game of the World Series in Atlanta.... |
Fulton County Stadium |
Atlanta |
ga |
|
|
8641 |
Oct 23, 1991 |
Rodney Crowell and Rosanne Cash file for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences" |
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8640 |
Oct 23, 1988 |
A Grandpa Jones tribute honors the Grand Ole Opry star for 60 years as an entertainer. Guests... |
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|
8639 |
Oct 23, 1985 |
Merle Watson dies in a North Carolina tractor accident. The son of Doc Watson, he played banjo... |
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nc |
|
|
8638 |
Oct 23, 1982 |
Hoyt Hawkins dies following a heart attack at his home in Nashville. In 1950, Hawkins joined The... |
home |
Nashville |
tn |
|
|
8637 |
Oct 23, 1980 |
ABC-TV's "Waylon, Starring Waylon Jennings" is the singer's first network special.... |
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|
|
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|
8636 |
Oct 23, 1978 |
Mother Maybelle Carter dies at her Nashville home. The Carter Family became the first family of... |
home |
Nashville |
tn |
|
|
8635 |
Oct 23, 1972 |
"Gospel Road" has its world premiere at Nashville's Tennessee Theater. The movie tells... |
Tennessee Theater |
Nashville |
tn |
|
|
8634 |
Oct 23, 1958 |
Elvis Presley attends a Bill Haley concert in Frankfurt, Germany |
|
Frankfurt |
gr |
|
|
8633 |
Oct 23, 1956 |
Dwight Yoakam is born in Pikeville, Kentucky. With an edgy vocal style and a proclivity for roots... |
|
Pikeville |
ky |
|
|
8632 |
Oct 23, 1953 |
Eddy Arnold records "I Really Don't Want To Know" at Thomas Productions on 13th Avenue... |
Thomas Productions |
Nashville |
tn |
|
|
8631 |
Oct 23, 1951 |
David Wills is born in Pulaski, Tennessee. He cuts two Charlie Rich-produced hits in the '70s and... |
|
Pulaski |
tn |
|
|
8630 |
Oct 23, 1947 |
Beechcraft delivers a single-engine plane to the Butler Company of Chicago. Nearly a dozen years... |
|
Chicago |
il |
|
|
8629 |
Oct 23, 1937 |
Ray Charles arrives in St. Augustine, Florida, where he is to attend the Florida School for the... |
|
St. Augustine |
fl |
|
|
8628 |
Oct 22, 2000 |
Kathy Mattea makes a guest appearance on CBS-TV's "Touched By An Angel" |
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|
|
|
|
8627 |
Oct 22, 1995 |
On the bus headed back to Nashville, Steve Sanders resigns from The Oak Ridge Boys, feeling... |
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|
|
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|
8626 |
Oct 22, 1995 |
Trisha Yearwood sings the national anthem before the second game of the World Series in Atlanta.... |
Fulton County Stadium |
Atlanta |
ga |
|
|
8625 |
Oct 22, 1993 |
Entertainment Weekly names the "101 Most Influential People In Entertainment." Nashville's... |
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|
|
|
|
8624 |
Oct 22, 1992 |
Lyle Lovett sings "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the World Series at Skydome in Toronto, as... |
Skydome |
Toronto |
cn |
|
|
8623 |
Oct 22, 1990 |
George Jones is hospitalized in Huntsville, Alabama, with pneumonia |
|
Huntsville |
al |
|
|
8622 |
Oct 22, 1984 |
Merle Haggard records "Kern River" in Nashville |
|
Nashville |
tn |
|
|
8621 |
Oct 22, 1984 |
RCA releases Alabama's "(There's A) Fire In The Night" |
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|
|
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|
8620 |
Sep 1, 1998 |
Arista releases Alan Jackson's album "High Mileage"
|
|
|
|
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8619 |
Oct 22, 1975 |
The courts rule that Billie Jean Williams' marriage to Hank Williams was valid and that she is... |
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|
|
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|
8618 |
Oct 22, 1972 |
Marty Robbins finishes 26th in a 1972 Dodge in the American 500 stock car race at the North... |
North Carolina Speedway |
Rockingham |
nc |
|
|
8617 |
Oct 22, 1968 |
Shelby Lynne is born in Quantico, Virginia. Highly revered by critics for her emotive singing and... |
|
Quantico |
va |
|
|
8616 |
Oct 22, 1967 |
Waylon Jennings gets married for the third time, to Barbara Rood |
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|
|
|
|
8615 |
Oct 22, 1966 |
Eddy Arnold, music publisher Jim Denny, Grand Ole Opry founder George D. Hay and Uncle Dave Macon... |
|
Nashville |
tn |
|
|
8614 |
Oct 22, 1965 |
Fire breaks out in Tex Ritter's room at the Andrew Jackson Hotel in downtown Nashville. Ritter... |
Andrew Jackson Hotel |
Nashville |
tn |
|
|
8613 |
Oct 22, 1965 |
Ernest Tubb is named to the Country Music Hall Of Fame during a ceremony at Nashville's Municipal... |
Municipal Auditorium |
Nashville |
tn |
|
|
8612 |
Oct 22, 1963 |
Thieves in St. Louis steal a saddle embedded with 65 silver dollars from Webb Pierce's car while... |
|
St. Louis |
mo |
|
|
8611 |
Oct 22, 1963 |
Kenny Rogers marries for the third time, to Margo Anderson, in Houston |
|
Houston |
tx |
|
|
8610 |
Oct 22, 1955 |
Jim Reeves joins the Grand Ole Opry
|
Ryman Auditorium |
Nashville |
tn |
|
|
8609 |
Oct 22, 1949 |
Bill Monroe records in Nashville for the first time, at the Castle Studio in the Tulane Hotel. The... |
Castle Studio |
Nashville |
tn |
|
|
8608 |
Oct 22, 1934 |
Leo Jackson is born in Meridian, Mississippi. He becomes the primary road guitarist for Jim Reeves,... |
|
Meridian |
ms |
|
|
8607 |
Oct 22, 1931 |
Curly Chalker is born in Enterprise, Alabama. He plays steel guitar on such hits as Lefty... |
|
Enterprise |
al |
|
|
8606 |
Oct 22, 1928 |
Jimmie Rodgers records his best-selling record, "Waiting For A Train," plus "I'm Lonely And Blue"... |
|
Atlanta |
ga |
|
|
8605 |
Oct 21, 2000 |
Moises "Blondie" Calderon, piano player and bandleader for Ray Price, suffers a heart attack en... |
|
|
tx |
|
|
8604 |
Oct 21, 2000 |
Singer/songwriter Jana Stanfield debuts on the Grand Ole Opry. Stanfield, who's had material... |
Grand Ole Opry House |
Nashville |
tn |
|
|
8603 |
Oct 21, 1997 |
Reba McEntire sings the national anthem at Jacobs Field in Cleveland before game 3 of the... |
Jacobs Field |
Cleveland |
oh |
|
|
8602 |
Oct 21, 1995 |
Maxene Andrews, of The Andrews Sisters, dies at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The... |
Cape Cod Hospital |
Hyannis |
ma |
|
|
8601 |
Oct 21, 1994 |
Suzy Bogguss and Chet Atkins play Carnegie Hall in New York, threading the set with "In The... |
Carnegie Hall |
New York |
ny |
|
|
8600 |
Oct 21, 1992 |
Hank Williams Jr. and his wife, Mary Jane, have a new daughter, Katherine Diana Williams, at the... |
Vanderbilt Medical Center |
Nashville |
tn |
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