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    • Jul 20, 1996
    Faron Young is hit in the head repeatedly with a cue ball at Nashville's Professional Club after an argument with a billiards player about who has more money. Young is treated for a concussion at the Vanderbilt Medical Center
    Jul 23, 1996
    Danny Groah, a guitarist for Alan Jackson's Strayhorns, nearly severs a finger on his left hand in a freak lawn mower accident at home in Joelton, Tennessee. The digit is fully re-attached at Vanderbilt University
    Sep 13, 1996
    Rapper Tupac Shakur dies of a head wound in Las Vegas, six days after he was shot in a drive-by shooting on Flamingo Road. He will be referenced 20 years later in the chorus of a Florida Georgia Line collaboration with Tim McGraw, "May We All"
    Sep 15, 1996
    Billie Jean Horton is robbed of $250,000 in cash and more than $1 million in jewelry by three masked men at her home in Louisiana. Some of the gems were gifts from her late husbands, Hank Williams and Johnny Horton
    Oct 8, 1996
    Lorianne Crook is injured when her car slams into the wall while practicing for the Mark Collie celebrity race for diabetes in Nashville. She suffers a dislocated shoulder and torn ligaments
    Oct 27, 1996
    Luke Bryan's 26-year-old brother, Chris Bryan, dies in a car accident
    Nov 14, 1996
    Mel McDaniel dislocates his shoulder when he accidentally steps off the stage into the orchestra pit at the Heymann Performing Arts Convention Center in Lafayette, Louisiana. He stays overnight in a hospital and cancels several shows
    Dec 9, 1996
    Faron Young shoots himself in the head in Nashville, apparently distraught over his slumping career. He dies a day later
    Dec 18, 1996
    A fire breaks out in Tanya Tucker's house in Arrington, Tennessee, while the singer is wrapping Christmas presents at 3 a.m. The cause is undetermined
    May 25, 1997
    Randy Kimbrough is arrested for trespassing in Franklin, Tennessee, after camping out in a cabin on Wynonna Judd's property without permission



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