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    • Apr 3, 1958
    "Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter has his right leg amputated mid-thigh at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York. Porter never writes a song again
    Jan 2, 1959
    Roy Acuff has a hernia operation on his right side at Nashville's Baptist Hospital
    Feb 26, 1959
    "September Song" songwriter Maxwell Anderson suffers a stroke at his residence in Stamford, Connecticut, on the 28th anniversary of his first wife's death. Anderson dies two days later
    Mar 18, 1959
    Elvis Presley injures his knee when he's thrown from a Jeep while serving with the Army in Germany. He requires three days of bed rest
    Mar 26, 1959
    Elvis Presley's father, Vernon, and secretary, Elisabeth Stefaniak, are injured in a car accident on Germany's autobahn
    Jun 3, 1959
    Army specialist Elvis Presley begins a six-day stay at a military hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, with tonsillitis
    Oct 24, 1959
    For the second time in the year, Elvis Presley is hospitalized in a German military hospital with tonsillitis
    Oct 29, 1959
    Elvis Presley is released from a military hospital in Germany, where he's been treated for the previous five days for tonsillitis
    Nov 27, 1959
    A doctor from Johannesburg, South Africa, begins a one-month series of treatments to reduce pores and acne scars on Elvis Presley. Presley is thrilled with the results, though those around him see no change
    Jun 13, 1960
    Steel guitarist Jerry Byrd suffers three fractured ribs and a broken knee cap in an auto accident, forcing him to spend more than a week in the hospital. Byrd's work includes recordings by Hank Williams, Eddy Arnold and Marty Robbins



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