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Jun 18, 1925
Dance band leader Francis Craig purchases a home on Whitland Avenue in Nashville. He goes on to write the 1947 pop hit "Near You," which becomes a country hit for George Jones & Tammy Wynette in 1977
Feb 17, 1947
Porter Wagoner begins a three-year stint at the International Shoe Company manufacturing plant in West Plains, Missouri, for 57.5 cents per hour
Sep 7, 1949
Hank and Audrey Williams buy a home at 4916 Franklin Road in Nashville
Aug 2, 1950
Porter Wagoner ends a three-year job at the International Shoe Company manufacturing plant in West Plains, Missouri
Jul 1, 1951
Four weeks after he started working for the company, Precision Tools fires Elvis Presley because he's underage
Sep 1, 1951
Hank Williams purchases a farm in Williamson County, Tennessee
Jan 3, 1952
Audrey Williams kicks Hank Williams out of the house. She denies accusations that she shot at him, he denies accusations of infidelity. Within days, he is taken to a Montgomery, Alabama, hospital following an overdose of pills
Sep 8, 1952
Hank Williams sells a Williamson County farm, one year after its original purchase
May 22, 1954
Bob Dylan celebrates his bar mitzvah. The folk/rock legend will write Johnny Cash's "It Ain't Me, Babe," Chris Hillman & Roger McGuinn's "You Ain't Going Nowhere" and Garth Brooks' "To Make You Feel My Love"
Jul 3, 1954
Elvis Presley's girlfriend, Dixie Locke, with whom he's discussed the possibility of marriage, leaves Memphis for a two-week vacation in Florida. By the time she returns, he's had his first recording session for Sun Records and appeared on the radio
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