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Sep 18, 1998

Reba McEntire receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, next to Meryl Streep's star, at 7018 Hollywood Boulevard

Sep 20, 1998

Collin Raye performs the national anthem when the San Diego Padres host the Colorado Rockies at Qualcomm Stadium. The visitors win, 1-0

Sep 23, 1998

Waylon Jennings walks off CBS-TV's "The Late, Late Show," hosted by Tom Snyder, when the amount of air time he was told he would receive is cut by two-thirds. His departure leaves Snyder and crew with 15 minutes to fill

Sep 27, 1998

While leaving the Los Angeles International Airport, Randy Travis' limo driver has a heart attack. Travis turns off the ignition and waves down a doctor from a shuttle bus, but the driver dies

Oct 2, 1998

Actor, singer and entrepreneur Gene Autry dies of cancer at his home in Studio City, California. The singing cowboy had five stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame, owned the California Angels and became a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame

Oct 6, 1998

Alabama is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 7060 Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles

Oct 8, 1998

Michael Martin Murphey receives a Golden Smokey Award from the U.S. Forest Service in Ontario, California, for his work in the prevention of forest fires

Oct 9, 1998

Late Beatle John Lennon is enshrined in the Hollywood RockWalk. He authored Sweethearts Of The Rodeo's country hit "I Feel Fine"

Oct 15, 1998

Country disc jockey Hugh Cherry dies from cancer in Long Beach, California. He held influential on-air stints in Nashville and Los Angeles in the 1950s and '60s, becoming one of the original 1977 inductees in the Country Music Disc Jockey Hall of Fame

Oct 20, 1998

Trisha Yearwood sings the national anthem before Game 3 of the World Series in San Diego. The New York Yankees beat the Padres, 5-4

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