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Apr 8, 1949
A three-year-old girl falls into a well in San Marino, California. The event inspires Jimmie Osborne to write and record "The Death Of Little Kathy Fiscus," with half his royalties going to a memorial fund established in her name
Apr 15, 1950
Hank Williams is arrested for violating a Nashville ordinance that prohibits smoking in bed, when a cigarette starts a fire in his room at the Tulane Hotel after he falls asleep
Feb 22, 1955
Elvis Presley performs a sold-out show in Hope, Arkansas, the home of nine-year-old Bill Clinton. Presley gets his first pink Cadillac stuck in mud in a two-car caravan that includes June Carter and Justin Tubb
Dec 25, 1963
Red Foley's wife, Sally, falls and breaks her leg at home
May 17, 1971
Elvis Presley accidentally breaks session player Chip Young's guitar doing karate moves during a studio date in Nashville
Jun 8, 1972
Chet Atkins falls from a six-foot platform to a concrete floor while taping a Beatles medley for a CBS-TV summer series, "The Jerry Reed When You're Hot You're Hot Hour," in Hollywood. Atkins tears ligaments, but continues the taping in bandages
Mar 15, 1973
Oops! Tom T. Hall performs at New York's landmark Carnegie Hall for the first time, mistakenly playing the first few songs with his fly open. Opening acts Mike Seeger and Johnny Rodriguez remain zipped up
May 18, 1975
Mick Jagger accidentally cuts his wrist on the door of a New York restaurant, necessitating 20 stitches. The Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women" will be named among country's 500 greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation book
Aug 8, 1975
Hank Williams Jr. has a near-fatal accident while climbing Ajax Mountain in Montana. His head hits several jutting rocks as he falls 500 feet. It takes six hours for medics to reach him and deliver him to Missoula Community Hospital
Feb 21, 1976
Johnny Cash breaks his ankle while experimenting with a metal detector in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Less than two hours later, his wife, June Carter, injures her ankle when she falls in a ditch
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