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    • Aug 23, 1819
    Navy officer Oliver Hazard Perry dies at sea from an insect bite. Noted for his War of 1812 quote "We have met the enemy and they are ours," he is recalled in Elton Britt's 1942 country hit "There's A Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere"
    May 7, 1840
    Classical composer Petr Tchaikovsky is born in Votkinsk, Russia. Best remembered for "The Nutcracker Suite," he's also recalled in the George Jones & Tammy Wynette country hit "(We're Not) The Jet Set"
    Mar 3, 1847
    Alexander Graham Bell is born in Edinburgh, Scotland. The inventor creates the telephone, a development that lands him in the first line of Reba McEntire's 1994 country hit "Why Haven't I Heard From You"
    Jun 23, 1848
    Setting the stage for Boots Randolph, inventor Antoine Joseph Sax patents the saxophone in France
    Oct 4, 1848
    Lawyer and songwriter Frederic Weatherly is born in Portishead, England. He writes the Irish folk song "Danny Boy," a 1967 country hit for Ray Price
    Apr 25, 1874
    Guglielmo Marconi is born in Bologna, Italy. At age 22, he receives a patent for the radio, a medium honored by such hits as "Nothing On But The Radio," "I Watched It All (On My Radio)," "Radio Heart" and "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong With The Radio"
    Nov 30, 1874
    English statesman Winston Churchill is born at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, England. One of his famous quotes--"If you're going through hell, keep going"--will be repurposed for a country song, Rodney Atkins' "If You're Going Through Hell (Before The Devil Even Knows)"
    Mar 14, 1879
    Scientist Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Germany. He will be referenced nearly a century later in the Jerry Reed country hit "The Crude Oil Blues"
    Dec 7, 1879
    Pop songwriter Rudolf Friml is born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Two songs he writes for Broadway--"Indian Love Call" and "Rose Marie"--emerge as country hits for Slim Whitman during the 1950s
    Oct 25, 1881
    Surrealist painter Pablo Picasso is born in Malaga, Spain. He's embedded in the lyrics of Trick Pony's 2001 hit "Just What I Do"



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