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    • Jun 7, 1982
    Former Grand Ole Opry star DeFord Bailey checks into Nashville's Baptist Hospital with a failing heart and kidneys
    Jun 30, 1982
    Former Grand Ole Opry star DeFord Bailey checks out of Nashville's Baptist Hospital, and is taken to his daughter's home
    Jul 2, 1982
    DeFord Bailey dies at his daughter's Nashville home. The first African-American to perform on the Grand Ole Opry, he is eventually inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005
    Jun 23, 1983
    A monument is placed on the grave of former Grand Ole Opry star DeFord Bailey nearly a year after the harmonica player's death. Taking part in the ceremony at Nashville's Greenwood Cemetery: Opry stalwarts Roy Acuff and Bill Monroe
    Feb 9, 1995
    Nashville celebrates DeFord Bailey Day, celebrating the Grand Ole Opry's first African-American star
    May 7, 2002
    PBS debuts "DeFord Bailey: A Legend Lost," a half-hour profile of a late harmonica player who became country music's first black star
    Mar 14, 2003
    The Country Music Foundation issues "Heartaches By The Number," celebrating country's "500 greatest singles." Among early Opry members on the list: DeFord Bailey, with "Pan American Blues"; and Dr. Humphrey Bate, with "My Wife Died Saturday Night"
    Aug 29, 2005
    Alabama, Glen Campbell and DeFord Bailey are announced by the Country Music Association as the latest inductees in the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Nov 15, 2005
    Glen Campbell, Alabama and DeFord Bailey are officially inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame during the Country Music Association awards at New York's Madison Square Garden, telecast by CBS
    Mar 22, 2006
    A new "Guitars, Fiddles And Coats Of Many Colors" exhibit opens at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville, with artifacts of Elvis Presley, Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, Bill Monroe, DeFord Bailey and Dolly Parton
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