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    • Sep 30, 1967
    Lonzo & Oscar ride in the Pancake Day Parade in Centerville, Iowa
    Nov 23, 1967
    Jack Greene becomes the first country star to appear in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, singing "There Goes My Everything" aboard a buckboard float
    Sep 7, 1968
    Women's groups throw bras, girdles and nylons into trash cans outside the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City to protest the objectification of women, providing a backdrop for Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man," recorded 10 days earlier
    Nov 28, 1968
    Sonny James sings "Born To Be With You" on a buckboard float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
    Jun 21, 1969
    Susan Anton is named Miss California during a pageant in Santa Cruz. She will earn a country hit in 1981 as a duet partner with Fred Knobloch on "Killin' Time"
    Sep 6, 1969
    Susan Anton, competing as Miss California, finishes ties for third place with Miss New Jersey during the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, even as the Women's Liberation Front protests on the boardwalk. Anton earns a country hit a dozen years later as a duet partner with Fred Knobloch on "Killin' Time"
    Nov 27, 1969
    David Houston performs "Have A Little Faith" while riding a buckboard float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York
    Nov 26, 1970
    Hank Williams Jr. rides the old woman's shoe down Broadway in Manhattan during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Jeannie C. Riley straddles a giraffe float
    Nov 25, 1971
    Sammi Smith rides the Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, where the winds are so high that the balloons remain grounded. Also appearing are Lynn Anderson, Bobby Vinton and Sonny James
    Jan 1, 1972
    Anne Murray rides a float sponsored by the province of Nova Scotia during the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California



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