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    • Apr 15, 1865
    President Abraham Lincoln dies in Washington, D.C., the morning after John Wilkes Booth shot him at Ford's Theatre. Parallels between Lincoln and future president John F. Kennedy provide the foundation for Buddy Starcher's "History Repeats Itself"
    Oct 12, 1870
    Former Confederate general Robert E. Lee dies from pneumonia in Lexington, Virginia. He will be remembered more than a century later in The Bellamy Brothers' country hit "You Ain't Just Whistlin' Dixie"
    Jun 26, 1876
    General George Custer is killed during his famous last stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana. His memory is rekindled in Elton Britt's "There's A Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere" and Ed Bruce's "The Last Cowboy Song"
    Jun 16, 1881
    Marie Laveau dies in New Orleans. A voodoo icon, she lends her name to the title of a 1973 country hit by Bobby Bare
    Jul 14, 1881
    Cattle thief, escaped convict and killer Henry McCarty is gunned down at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, by sheriff Pat Garrett. McCarty's legendary nickname provides the title for Billy Dean's autobiographical 1992 hit "Billy The Kid"
    Apr 3, 1882
    Outlaw Jesse James is shot and killed in St. Joseph, Missouri, by a fellow gang member. James will be namechecked in Toby Keith's "Should've Been A Cowboy," Trick Pony's "Just What I Do" and Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings' "There Ain't No Good Chain Gang"
    Apr 6, 1892
    Guitarist Henry Whitter is born in Grayson County, Virginia. His 1923 recording of "The Wreck On The Southern Old 97" inspires Vernon Dalhart to make a subsequent version of the song, which sells a million copies
    Oct 25, 1893
    Classical composer Petr Tchaikovsky dies under mysterious conditions, of cholera or from suicide, in Russia. In 1974, he's namechecked in the George Jones & Tammy Wynette country hit "(We're Not) The Jet Set"
    Jun 28, 1904
    Daniel Emmett dies in Mount Vernon, Ohio. He wrote the classic "Dixie," incorporated by songwriter Mickey Newbury into "An American Trilogy" for Elvis Presley
    Dec 23, 1904
    Riverboat captain Thomas Ryman, who funded construction of the Union Tabernacle, dies in Nashville. After his passing, the building is renamed the Ryman Auditorium, eventually becoming the venue for the Grand Ole Opry



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