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Slice and dice country music history by a specific kind of event: birth, death, gold album, Macy�s Thanksgiving Day Parade appearance - more than 250 ways to look at recurring events -
Jan 16, 1937
Floods hit the state of Arkansas, where more than 2,700 people are forced to evacuate their homes, including the family of Johnny Cash in Dyess. The event inspires Cash to write the 1959 hit "Five Feet High And Rising"
Feb 16, 1937
Four-year-old Johnny Cash and his family return to their home in Dyess, Arkansas, damaged in January by severe flooding from the Tyonza River. The event will inspire his 1959 hit "Five Feet High And Rising"
Sep 19, 1947
A hurricane hits Pascagoula, Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico. Uninjured in the storm is nine-month-old resident Jimmy Buffett
Sep 10, 1960
Hurricane Donna slams Florida. The day after, future songwriter Bobby Braddock sees Auburndale's Polk City Road littered with thousands of dead snakes
Feb 9, 1971
Welcome to California: One day after Lee Greenwood moved to Los Angeles, the city suffers its worst earthquake in 50 years, hitting 6.7 on the Richter scale
Mar 14, 1975
The weekend of the Grand Ole Opry House's first anniversary, flooding from the Cumberland River forces the Opry to move downtown to Municipal Auditorium
Apr 18, 1975
A tornado damages the roof of the 5,000-seat Jackson Coliseum in Tennessee, forcing Merle Haggard to postpone an April 26 concert for four months
Sep 11, 1983
Trace Adkins rides out Hurricane Chantal on an oil rig in the Caribbean
Dec 31, 1984
A tornado damages the roof of Gilley's nightclub in Pasadena, Texas. The venue's New Year's Eve party goes on in spite of it
Oct 17, 1989
As Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers prepare to sing the national anthem before the third game of the World Series in San Francisco, a major earthquake rocks the city, postponing their performance, and the game
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