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Oct 25, 1886
Fiddlin' John Carson, while employed by a railroad construction company, shoots himself in the leg. He goes on to become the first "hillbilly" artist to play on the radio 36 years later
Jul 3, 1926
Uncle Jimmy Thompson plays his fiddle on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, marking a return to the show less than two months after he broke his arm
Feb 8, 1929
When Jimmie Rodgers is bed-ridden with pleurisy in his hometown, a local messenger, Bill Bruner, is tabbed to do his best impersonation for six songs at a Meridian, Mississippi, theater. Rodgers gives him $10 and a guitar the next day
Jul 7, 1929
While playing baseball at Knoxville's Caswell Park, Roy Acuff collapses from sunstroke. After three more attacks, Acuff gives up plans for a baseball career and ends up in music
Mar 15, 1930
Jimmie Rodgers is forced to cancel a show in Carthage, Mississippi, when he begins hemorrhaging in the morning from tuberculosis
Dec 25, 1930
Fiddler Lowe Stokes is shot near Cartersville, Georgia. His right hand is so badly damaged that it is subsequently amputated. Stokes played on Gid Tanner & The Skiller Lickers' recording of "Soldier's Joy"
Apr 14, 1936
A day after breaking six ribs and puncturing a lung in an auto accident, Milton Brown is placed in an oxygen tent at Fort Worth's Methodist Hospital, where the western swing legend has developed pneumonia
Oct 24, 1937
Broadway composer Cole Porter breaks both legs in a horse-riding accident in Locust Valley on Long Island. He suffers complications for the remainder of his life, which includes a country hit after Gene Autry records "Don't Fence Me In"
Feb 3, 1938
Cole Porter is admitted to New York's Doctors Hospital, where he has a second round of surgery on his legs, which were crushed in a horse-riding accident four months earlier. Porter's country credits later include Gene Autry's "Don't Fence Me In"
Mar 5, 1938
Grand Ole Opry founder George D. Hay returns to work at WSM Radio after taking a 14-month leave of absence with nervous exhaustion
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