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    • Mar 23, 1743
    England's King George leaps to his feet at the end of the first performance of Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus." It's the first standing ovation, a response country artists make great attempts to earn during most concerts
    Apr 11, 1918
    Actors Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks appear at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium during a World War I bond drive. The following year they establish United Artists Pictures, which eventually has a division with a country label
    Nov 6, 1925
    Uncle Dave Macon, Sid Harkreader and Dr. Humphrey Bate perform at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium in a benefit concert that airs on WSM Radio. It's the first country music show broadcast from the Ryman, the future home of the Grand Ole Opry
    Aug 4, 1928
    Jimmie Rodgers has his first major engagement, headlining a week of shows at The Earle, a Washington, D.C., theater
    Dec 6, 1929
    Jimmie Rodgers begins a two-night stand at the City Auditorium in Asheville, North Carolina, a homecoming of sorts for the performer. It's his first show in the city since he made his radio debut on Asheville's WWNC two years prior. Top tickets cost $1
    May 31, 1930
    When Jimmie Rodgers performs in Holdenville, Oklahoma, his first wife, Stella Haskins, introduces him to his daughter, Kathryn Rodgers. He autographs a picture for the kid and shows up at her home the next day with presents
    Jan 26, 1931
    Comedian Will Rogers and Jimmie Rodgers begin a tour together in San Antonio at the Memorial Auditorium. The tour covers 50 cities in 18 days, earning more than $225,000 for the American Red Cross
    Oct 2, 1933
    A pair of former western swing bandmates compete in a concert billed as a "battle dance": Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys versus Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies. Admission to the show, at the Green Terrace in Lake Waco, Texas, is $1
    Jul 4, 1934
    The Grand Ole Opry holds its first successful concert apart from the radio show, as thousands appear in West Tennessee to see Uncle Dave Macon, Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, The Gully Jumpers and The Crook Brothers, with emcee George D. Hay
    Nov 21, 1934
    Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald makes her stage debut at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Ten years later, she appears on an early version of what will become the Billboard country charts with "When My Sugar Walks Down The Street"



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