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May 11, 1983
Olivia Newton-John has her hand bitten by a dog, Pascha, on West 74th Street in Manhattan during the first day of filming for the movie "Two Of A Kind"
May 17, 1983
The same day he's honored at the White House, Bill Monroe is arrested in a Washington airport for inadvertently attempting to pass a loaded gun through security. He is forced to pay a $15,000 fine
May 20, 1983
Merle Haggard and two members of The Strangers, Jimmy Belkin and Don Markham, are arrested for drinking on stage at the Asheville Civic Center in North Carolina. The venue has no liquor license
Jun 3, 1983
Responding to schizophrenic voices in his head, drummer Jim Gordon kills his mother in California. He is sentenced to 16 years to life. A member of Derek & The Dominos, he played on hits by Merle Haggard, Glen Campbell and Waylon Jennings
Aug 24, 1983
Jerry Lee Lewis' wife, Shawn Stephens, is found dead in their Nesbit, Mississippi, home from a methadone overdose. When Lewis wears white to the funeral, her mother complains "he looked like he was going dancing"
Sep 24, 1983
Ronnie McDowell is arrested and charged with carrying a concealed weapon when a loaded derringer is discovered by an X-ray machine in his luggage at National Airport in Washington, D.C.
Nov 10, 1983
Johnny Cash severely cuts his hand punching a hotel-room wall during a drug-related hallucination in Nottingham, England, though he continues to tour, performing the following night in Birmingham
Feb 16, 1984
Ralph Emery's shoulder is broken when his Cadillac is rear-ended on Nashville's Franklin Road. Emery loses control of the car and is hit by oncoming traffic
May 10, 1984
Paul Anka, author of the Elvis Presley country hit "My Way," helps two other men pin a mugger to the sidewalk on New York City's East 61st Street after the 16-year-old thief stole a necklace
Jul 10, 1984
Drummer Jim Gordon is sentenced to 16 years to life for brutally murdering his mother with a hammer and a knife in a schizophrenic rage. Gordon played on country hits by Glen Campbell, Merle Haggard, Gordon Lighftoot and Lynn Anderson
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