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    • Sep 4, 1944
    The Los Angeles nightclub Riverside Rancho suffers $25,000 worth of damage in a fire likely caused by a careless cigarette smoker. Among the items destroyed: a grand piano and a bass owned by Deuce Spriggins, of Spade Cooley's band
    Feb 9, 1947
    Fire breaks out in the home of "This Land Is Your Land" songwriter Woody Guthrie at 3520 Mermaid Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. His four-year-old daughter, Cathy Guthrie, is burned severely. She dies the following morning
    Dec 31, 1947
    Roy Rogers marries Dale Evans at the Flying L Ranch in Murray County, Oklahoma. Rogers is late for the ceremony, delayed when he puts out a fire started by a cigarette butt in another room
    Apr 15, 1950
    Hank Williams is arrested for violating a Nashville ordinance that prohibits smoking in bed, when a cigarette starts a fire in his room at the Tulane Hotel after he falls asleep
    Jun 10, 1953
    Woody Guthrie suffers severe burns on his right arm in an accidental fire at home while attempting to cook breakfast in a barbecue pit in Beluthahatchee, Florida
    Jun 5, 1955
    Elvis Presley's pink Cadillac is destroyed when it catches fire while traveling between Hope, Arkansas, and Texarkana
    Jun 15, 1956
    Bob Wills' ballroom at Wills Point, near Sacramento, is destroyed by fire
    Apr 6, 1958
    Jerry Lee Lewis sets fire to one of two pianos on stage during a show in Cleveland, Ohio. Touring with him: Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry
    Aug 31, 1959
    Riverside Rancho, formerly a live stomping ground for western swing's Spade Cooley, is deliberately burned to the ground, a training opportunity for Los Angeles firefighters
    Nov 30, 1960
    After setting a fire to establish light at a club and leaving with the blaze still burning, Paul McCartney is accused of arson and deported from Hamburg, Germany, back to England. Within five years, he co-writes two songs destined to become country hits



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