- Today in 1961, Loretta Lynn signed with Decca Records.
- Today in 1988,Rodney Crowell scores a #1 single in Billboard with “I Couldn’t Leave You If I Tried.”
- Today in 2005,Faith Hill’s “Mississippi Girl” set up residence at number one on the Billboard country chart.
- Today in 2006,Tim McGraw & Faith Hill’s Soul2Soul II Tour wraps at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The couple brought in almost $89 million during the concert run, setting a record as the highest-grossing country tour in history
- Today in 2008,Taylor Swift makes her European concert debut, performing a sold-out show at King’s College in London
- Today in 2009,Carrie Underwood’s “Cowboy Casanova” was released.
- Today in 2013,Thomas Rhett scored a gold single for “It Goes Like This.”
- Today in 2014, Miranda Lambert picked up nine nominations in the Country Music Association awards for the second time in her career, buoyed by the album “Platinum,” the single “Automatic” and the collaborations “We Were Us” and “Somethin’ Bad.”
- Today in 2016, Justin Moore’s “Kinda Don’t Care” hit #1 on the Billboard country albums chart.
- Today in 2017, LoCash’s Chris Lucas and his wife, Kaitlyn, welcome their third child, Violet Reid Lucas, at the Williamson Medical Center in Franklin, Tennessee.
- Today in 2018, Keith Urban played a lunch-time benefit concert for prostate cancer causes in Toowoomba, Australia, raising nearly $1.5-million.
- Today in 2018, an edition of “CMT Crossroads” premiered with Brett Eldredge and Meghan Trainor. The night’s performances include “All About That Bass,” “Drunk On Your Love,” “Wanna Be That Song” and “Islands In The Stream.”
- Today in 2019, Ashley McBryde’s “One Night Standards” hit the airwaves.
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