- Today in 1961, Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams become the first artists to be inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame. That year’s other inductee is music publisher Fred Rose.
- Today in 1973, Dolly Parton’s second #1 song “Jolene” hit the charts.
- Today in 1981, “Willie Nelson’s Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be)” was certified gold.
- Today in 1993, the “Alabama Live” album was certified platinum.
- Today in 1995, George Strait topped the charts with “Check Yes Or No” for the second week. The song was later named the 1996 CMA Single of the Year.
- Today in 1998, Mark Chesnutt and his wife, Tracie, welcomed their third child, Cameron Zane, in Beaumont, Texas. Cameron’s middle name, Zane, was inspired by the great Western novelist Zane Gray, one of Tracie’s favorite authors. He joined big brothers Casey and Waylon in the Chesnutt family.
- Today in 2001, Garth Brooks made his debut pitching Dr. Pepper in TV commercials.
- Today in 2002, Bob Dylan, Shel Silverstein, and Dean Dillon entered the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
- Today in 2005, Gretchen Wilson’s “All Jacked Up” was heard in the WB drama, “Smallville.”
- Today in 2009, Carrie Underwood’s album, “Play On,” arrived in stores.
- Today in 2010, the Darryl Worley Cancer Center opens in Savannah, Tennessee.
- Today in 2012, ABC recorded “CMA Country Christmas.” Hosted by Jennifer Nettles, at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, performers included Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, Martina McBride, Scotty McCreery, Dierks Bentley and Little Big Town.
- Today in 2014, Blake Shelton performed a free concert for military personnel aboard the Lexington Museum on the Bay in Corpus Christi, Texas. “Lonely Tonight,” his duet with Ashley Monroe, was shot for a Pepsi commercial.
- Today in 2017, Lee Brice’s self-titled album was released. The same day, Kelsea Ballerini’s “Unapologetically” album also went on sale.
- Today in 2017, Kip Moore’s single, “Last Shot,” was released.
- Today in 2018, Brett Young married Taylor Mills before friends and family in Palm Springs, three months after they exchanged vows in a private ceremony. The reception includes appearances by Gavin DeGraw and Lee Brice, who sings “I Don’t Dance.”
- Today in 2018, a teepee outside Florida Georgia Line’s new Nashville compound, Tribe Kelley Trading Post, is stripped of its cover by a vandal at 1:30am. The perpetrator was filmed by a security camera; the duo offered $5,000 for information leading to his arrest.
- Today in 2019, Braison Cyrus married Stella McBride at the Cyrus home in Tennessee. Attending are father Billy Ray Cyrus and sister Miley Cyrus.
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