2006
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Jason Aldean's "Why" earns a gold single
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2004
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Faith Hill records "Mississippi Girl" at Emerald Entertainment in Nashville
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2002
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The Dixie Chicks record an episode of "CMT Crossroads" with James Taylor in Nashville.
The set list includes "Some Days You Gotta Dance," "Shower The People" and "Wide Open Spaces"
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2001
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Warner Bros. releases Blake Shelton's self-titled debut album
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1978
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Singer/songwriter Zac Brown is born in Atlanta's Piedmont Hospital. The Zac Brown Band becomes a major country act, mixing
jam-band tendencies and well-crafted ballads while nabbing multiple gold and platinum albums following the act's 2008 debut
with "Chicken Fried"
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1969
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Elvis Presley begins a historic four-week run at Las Vegas' International Hotel in his first live
show since 1961. In the audience are Liberace, Herb Alpert, Dick Clark, Cary Grant, Fats Domino, Burt Bacharach, Pat Boone
and Paul Anka
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1964
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Jim Reeves and pianist Dean Manuel die in a plane crash during a thunderstorm in Brentwood, Tennessee.
Numerous locals--including Eddy Arnold, Chet Atkins and Ernest Tubb--search for three days before discovering the wreckage
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1963
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Chad Brock is born in Ocala, Florida. He has fewer than 20 matches as a professional wrestler before
embarking on a singing career in the 1990s. His most successful single comes with an autobiographical love song, "Yes!"
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1948
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Country music appears on national television for the first time, with a show taped at Washington,
D.C.'s Constitution Hall. Kitty Wells, Eddy Arnold and Johnny & Jack are beamed to five cities
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1937
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Bonnie Brown is born in Sparkman, Arkansas. She joins older siblings Maxine and Jim Ed in forming
The Browns, whose million-selling crossover hit "The Three Bells" precedes their 1963 induction into the Grand Ole
Opry and their 2015 entry in the Country Music Hall of Fame
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