- Today in 1967, Merle Haggard’s “The Fugitive” rose to #1 on the Billboard chart for the first time.
- Today in 1975, Mac Davis won Favorite Male Musical Performer and Olivia Newton-John won the female honor in the first People’s Choice Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Other winners included: Barbra Streisand, John Wayne, The Osmonds, and Mary Tyler Moore.
- Today in 1978, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson’s “Mammas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys” sat at Billboard’s #1 spot for four weeks.
- Today in 1980, Sissy Spacek played the lead role of Loretta Lynn’s life in “Coal Miner’s Daughter” which premiered in Nashville on March 4th.
- Today in 1983, George Jones married Nancy Sepulveda at his sister’s home, Helen Scroggins, in Woodville, Texas. They ate their wedding-night dinner at a Burger King near Jasper, Texas.
- Today in 1994, “Reba McEntire’s Greatest Hits” became her fifth double-platinum album.
- Today in 2003, Toby Keith received eight nods to lead the competition when the Academy of Country Music announced its nominees in Los Angeles at Tiffany’s.
- Today in 2006, Brad Paisley and Dolly Parton’s “When I Get Where I’m Going” reached Billboard’s #1 spot.
- Today in 2008, Alan Jackson’s “Good Time” album was released.
- Today in 2010, Rascal Flatts played a guest role on CBS-TV’s “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.”
- Today in 2016, Joey Martin Feek, of the duo Joey+Rory, died after a lengthy battle with cancer in Alexandria, Indiana. Named Top New Duo by the Academy of Country Music in 2010, they will earn a Grammy in 2017 with “Hymns That Are Important To Us,” released just weeks before her passing.
- Today in 2018, the Band Perry’s Kimberly Perry revealed she’d filed for divorce from J.P. Arencibia, her baseball player husband of four years.
- Today in 2019, Eddie Montgomery, LoCash, RaeLynn and Chris Janson helped raise more than $120-thousand for at-risk youth during the 12th annual Jeffrey Steele & Friends concert at the Franklin Theatre in middle Tennessee. Also appearing: Steve Dorff, Travis Denning and Steve Cropper.
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