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1997 Floyd Cramer, pianist (Nashville Sound), dies of cancer at 64

1997 NHL Nashville, Tenne names Barry Trotz as its 1st coach

1997 NHL announces it will add Nashville in 1998, Atlanta in 1999 and Minneapolis-St. Paul and Columbus, Ohio in 2000

1995 New Jersey Devils Stanley Cup Victory Party, admidst rumours they were moving to Nashville, goalie Chris Terreri holds up "Nashville? NO WAY!" sign

1993 Gwen Wells, actress (Nashville), dies of cancer at 42

1991 Judds final concert (Nashville)

1983 Nashville Network begins on cable TV

1983 TNN, The Nashville Network, begins on Cable TV

1979 Ashley Whitney, born in Nashville, Tennessee, 800m freestyle relay 1996 Olympics

1974 R A Dickey, born in Nashville, Tennessee, baseball pitcher 1996 Olympics bronze

1974 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville

1973 Arna Bontemps, writer (Harlem Renaissance), dies at 72 in Nashville

1972 Arthur Reid, born in Nashville, Tennessee, pairs skater, & Jennifer Darst

1968 WMCV (now WZTV) TV channel 17 in Nashville, Tennessee (IND) 1st broadcast

1967 Jeff Cease, born in Nashville, guitarist, Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker

1962 WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting

1961 Phyllis Hines, born in Nashville, Tennessee, cyclist 1996 Olympics

1959 Lorrie Morgan, born in Nashville, Tennessee, country singer, Out of Your Shoes

1959 Trisha Yearwood, born in Nashville, Tennessee, singer, She's in Love With the Boy

1958 Cindy Nixon, born in Nashville, Tennessee, singer, Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel

1958 Chuck Wagner, born in Nashville, Tennessee, actor, Automan

1957 Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School dynamited

1957 Doris King, born in Nashville, Tennessee, vocalist, Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel

1956 Buddy Holly records "Blue Days Black Night" in Nashville

1956 Elvis Presley records Heartbreak Hotel for RCA in Nashville

1955 Carlene Carter, born in Nashville, Tennessee, country singer, I Fell in Love

1955 Jimmy Lowe, born in Nashville, Tennessee, country singer, Pirates of Ms-Fred Jake

1955 Robert Feld, born in Nashville, Tennessee, National Scrabble Champion 1990

1954 WLAC (now WTVF) TV channel 5 in Nashville (CBS) begins broadcasting

1954 Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville

1953 WSIX TV channel 8 in Nashville, Tennessee (ABC) begins broadcasting

1952 Annie Potts, born in Nashville, Tennessee, actress, Mary Jo-Designing Women

1951 Johnny Rodriquez, U.S., actor, Nashville Girl, La Bamba Party

1951 Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council

1951 Gwen Welles, U.S. actress, Desert Hearts, Nashville

1950 WSM TV channel 4 in Nashville, Tennessee (NBC) begins broadcasting

1949 Woody Paul, [Paul Chrisman], Nashville, singer, Riders in the Sky

1948 Ellen McIlwaine, born in Nashville, blues singer, Honky Tonky Angel

1947 Gregg Allman, Nashville, guitarist and vocalist, Allman Brothers Band

1947 Rex Allen, Jr., Chicago, country singer, Nashville on the Road

1946 Duane Allman, born in Nashville, Tennessee, rock guitarist, Allman Brothers

1944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into U.S. cruiser Nashville, kills 138

1944 Rita Coolidge, born in Nashville, Tennessee, singer, Higher and Higher, We're All Alone

1941 Helen Cornelius, Hannibal, Missouri, country singer, Nashville on the Road

1941 Bobby Hebb, born in Nashville, Tennessee, country singer and songwriter, Sunny

1941 1st U.S. commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tennessee

1940 Julian Bond, born in Nashville, Tennessee, D-Ga, civil rights leader

1938 Louis Krebs Graham, born in Nashville, Tennessee, PGA golfer, 1975 U.S. Open

1935 Henry Gibson, Germantown, Pennsylvania, comedian, Nashville, Laugh-In's poet

1934 Barbara Howar, Nashville, reporter, Washington Post, Entertainment Tonight

1934 Claude Jarman, Jr., born in Nashville, Tennessee, actor, Rio Grande, Inside Straight

1934 Jim "Ed" Brown, born in Sparkman, Arkansas, country singer, Nashville on the Road

1932 Dottie West, born in Nashville, Tennessee, country singer, Here Comes My Baby

1928 1st recording session in Nashville (Warmack's Gully Jumpers)

1928 Howard Caine, born in Nashville, Tennessee, actor, Californians

1928 Howard Caine, born in Nashville, Tennessee, actor, Brushfire

1927 Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN

1926 Jerry Clower, Amite County Mississippi, country comedian, Nashville on Road

1926 DeFord Bailey is 1st black to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry

1925 Grand Ole Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM radio Nashville Tn

1925 WSM-AM in Nashville, Tenn begins radio transmissions

1925 Danny Davis, rocker, Nashville Brass

1925 Robert Altman, born in Kansas City, Missouri, director, Nashville, M*A*S*H

1919 Kitty Wells, born in Nashville, Tennessee, country singer, Grand Ole Opry

1918 101 killed and 171 injured in worst U.S. train wreck, Nashville, Tennessee

1913 James Westerfield, born in Nashville, Tennessee, actor, Jungle Heat, Lucky Johnny

1912 James Craig, born in Nashville, Tennessee, actor, Devil and Daniel Webster, Cyclops

1902 Trevor Bardette, Nashville AR, actor, Refugee, None Shall Escape

1898 1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship

1895 Cullen Landis, born in Nashville, Tennessee, actor, Soul of the Beast

1864 Battle of Nashville ends after 4400 casualities

1864 Battle of Nashville, TN

1863 Confederate raider "Nashville" sinks near Fort McAllister Georgia

1849 James Knox Polk, 11th President (1845-1849), dies in Nashville, Tennessee at 53

1817 1st Mississippi "Showboat," leaves Nashville on maiden voyage



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