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    • Apr 26, 1954
    Ernest Tubb is arrested for drunk driving when his car hits a telephone pole on North First Street in Nashville
    Jun 30, 1954
    R.W. Blackwood and Bill Lyles, of The Blackwood Brothers, die in a plane crash in Clanton, Alabama. The group's "His Hand In Mine" is named one of country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Aug 2, 1954
    Three masked robbers steal $3,500 at gunpoint at Dunbar Cave, a resort owned by Roy Acuff near Clarksville, Tennessee
    Nov 29, 1954
    Colleen Evelyn Paul dies at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York, following an operation for a breathing issue just four days after she was born. She was the child of Les Paul & Mary Ford
    Jan 31, 1955
    Jim Reeves and Abbott Records chief Fabor Robison tangle with a handgun in a Los Angeles recording studio, with Reeves ultimately demanding his release from the label. Nearly three weeks later, Abbott announces Reeves is leaving
    Feb 22, 1955
    Elvis Presley performs a sold-out show in Hope, Arkansas, the home of nine-year-old Bill Clinton. Presley gets his first pink Cadillac stuck in mud in a two-car caravan that includes June Carter and Justin Tubb
    Jun 5, 1955
    Elvis Presley's pink Cadillac is destroyed when it catches fire while traveling between Hope, Arkansas, and Texarkana
    Aug 20, 1955
    Alvin Krolik is shot and killed while trying to rob a liquor store in El Paso, Texas. His obituary will mention a line from an unpublished autobiography in which he described himself as "a man who walked a lonely street." Songwriters Tommy Durden and Mae Boren Axton turn that phrase into an Elvis Presley hit, "Heartbreak Hotel"
    Sep 2, 1955
    Elvis Presley wrecks a Cadillac on the way from New Orleans to a show in Texarkana. Presley's able to play the date, along with Johnny Cash
    Oct 3, 1955
    Earl Scruggs suffers a fractured hip in an early-morning automobile accident 15 miles east of Knoxville, Tennessee. Also injured in the crash are his wife, Louise, and sons Gary and Randy Scruggs



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