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    • Jan 16, 1953
    Bill Monroe suffers 19 broken bones in a head-on collision on Highway 31 near White House, Tennessee. He still manages to get out of the car and pull another passenger, Bessie Lee Mauldin, out of the other side. Monroe is unable to tour until May
    Jan 17, 1953
    Less than two weeks after Hank Williams was interred at the Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama, his coffin is dug up and moved to a new site
    Jan 18, 1953
    Jim Reeves records his first charted single, "Mexican Joe," at the KWKH Studios in Shreveport, Louisiana
    Jan 19, 1953
    Dorothy Shay, the Park Avenue Hillbilly, appears at one of Dwight Eisenhower's inaugural balls in Washington, D.C. Sid Caesar, Fred Waring and Abbott & Costello also perform for an audience that includes vice president Richard Nixon
    Jan 19, 1953
    Elvis Presley registers for the military draft, as required by law
    Jan 19, 1953
    Marty Robbins becomes a member of the Grand Ole Opry, the same day he moves to Nashville from Arizona
    Jan 20, 1953
    Coral releases Tommy Sosebee's only country hit, "Till I Waltz Again With You"
    Jan 24, 1953
    Just weeks after his death, Hank Williams hits #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with the prophetic "I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive"
    Jan 24, 1953
    Carl Perkins and Valda Crider drive 50 miles to Corinth, Mississippi, to get married
    Jan 26, 1953
    Joe & Rose Lee Maphis sign with Columbia Records
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