2010 Event The 2010 Country Music Awards are held in Nashville, Tennessee; American singer Brad Paisley wins Entertainer of the Year 2002 Death Mickey Newbury, singer, member, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, wrote songs for Acuff-Rose Music, dies 1997 Death Floyd Cramer, pianist, session player, architect of the 'Nashville Sound', played piano on Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel, dies of lung cancer at age 64 1997 Event NHL Nashville, Tennessee names Barry Trotz as its 1st coach 1997 Event NHL announces it will add Nashville in 1998, Atlanta in 1999 and Minneapolis-St. Paul and Columbus, Ohio in 2000 1995 Event New Jersey Devils Stanley Cup Victory Party, admidst rumours they were moving to Nashville, goalie Chris Terreri holds up "Nashville? NO WAY!" sign 1993 Death Gwen Wells, actress (Nashville), dies of cancer at 42 1991 Event Judds final concert (Nashville) 1983 Event Nashville Network begins on cable TV 1983 Event TNN, The Nashville Network, begins on Cable TV 1979 Birthday Ashley Whitney, born in Nashville, Tennessee, 800m freestyle relay 1996 Olympics 1974 Birthday R A Dickey, born in Nashville, Tennessee, baseball pitcher 1996 Olympics bronze 1974 Event 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville 1973 Death Arna Bontemps, writer (Harlem Renaissance), dies at 72 in Nashville 1972 Birthday Arthur Reid, born in Nashville, Tennessee, pairs skater, & Jennifer Darst 1968 Event WMCV (now WZTV) TV channel 17 in Nashville, Tennessee (IND) 1st broadcast 1967 Birthday Jeff Cease, born in Nashville, guitarist, Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker 1966 Birthday Deana Carter, born in Nashville, Texas, Deana Kay Carter, country singer, famous for multi-platinum debut album 'Did I Shave My Legs for This?', albums include fourteen singles, three reached number one on the Billboard country charts, including 'Strawberry Wine' 1962 Event WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting 1961 Birthday Phyllis Hines, born in Nashville, Tennessee, cyclist 1996 Olympics 1959 Birthday Lorrie Morgan, born in Nashville, Tennessee, country singer, Out of Your Shoes 1959 Birthday Trisha Yearwood, born in Nashville, Tennessee, singer, She's in Love With the Boy 1958 Birthday Cindy Nixon, born in Nashville, Tennessee, singer, Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel 1958 Birthday Chuck Wagner, born in Nashville, Tennessee, actor, Automan 1957 Event Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School dynamited 1957 Birthday Doris King, born in Nashville, Tennessee, vocalist, Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel 1956 Event Buddy Holly records "Blue Days Black Night" in Nashville 1956 Event Elvis Presley records Heartbreak Hotel for RCA in Nashville 1955 Birthday Carlene Carter, born in Nashville, Tennessee, country singer, I Fell in Love 1955 Birthday Jimmy Lowe, born in Nashville, Tennessee, country singer, Pirates of Ms-Fred Jake 1955 Birthday Robert Feld, born in Nashville, Tennessee, National Scrabble Champion 1990 1954 Event WLAC (now WTVF) TV channel 5 in Nashville (CBS) begins broadcasting 1954 Birthday Jim Cooper, born in Nashville, Tennessee, Representative-D-Tennessee 1983 - 1995, 2003 - 1954 Event Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville 1953 Event WSIX TV channel 8 in Nashville, Tennessee (ABC) begins broadcasting 1952 Birthday Annie Potts, born in Nashville, Tennessee, actress, Mary Jo-Designing Women 1952 Birthday Bill Frist, born in Nashville, Tennessee, physician, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from Tennessee, U.S. Senate Majority Leader 2003 - 2007 1951 Birthday Johnny Rodriquez, U.S., actor, Nashville Girl, La Bamba Party 1951 Event Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council 1951 Birthday Gwen Welles, U.S. actress, Desert Hearts, Nashville 1950 Event WSM TV channel 4 in Nashville, Tennessee (NBC) begins broadcasting 1949 Birthday Woody Paul, Paul Chrisman, Nashville, singer, Riders in the Sky 1949 Birthday Jim Bacchus, born in Nashville, Tennessee, Representative-D-Florida 1991 - 1993 and 1993 - 1995 1948 Birthday Ellen McIlwaine, born in Nashville, blues singer, Honky Tonky Angel 1947 Birthday Gregg Allman, Nashville, guitarist and vocalist, Allman Brothers Band 1947 Birthday Rex Allen, Jr., Chicago, country singer, Nashville on the Road 1946 Birthday Duane Allman, born in Nashville, Tennessee, rock guitarist, Allman Brothers 1945 Birthday Bill Boner, born in East Nashville, Tennessee, Representative-D-Tennessee 1979 - 1987 1944 Event Japanese kamikaze crashes into U.S. cruiser Nashville, kills 138 1944 Birthday Rita Coolidge, born in Nashville, Tennessee, singer, Higher and Higher, We're All Alone 1944 Birthday Clyde Lee, born in Nashville, Tennessee, basketball player, Vanderbilt University's 'greatest player', played ten NBA seasons with the Warriors, Atlanta Hawks, Philadelphia 76ers 1943 Birthday Bob Clement, born in Nashville, Tennessee, Representative-D-Tennessee 1988 - 2003 1941 Birthday Helen Cornelius, Hannibal, Missouri, country singer, Nashville on the Road 1941 Birthday Bobby Hebb, born in Nashville, Tennessee, country singer and songwriter, Sunny 1941 Event 1st U.S. commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tennessee 1940 Birthday Mickey Newbury, born in Houston, Texas, singer, member, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, wrote songs for Acuff-Rose Music 1940 Birthday Julian Bond, born in Nashville, Tennessee, D-Ga, civil rights leader 1938 Birthday Louis Krebs Graham, born in Nashville, Tennessee, PGA golfer, 1975 U.S. Open 1935 Birthday Henry Gibson, Germantown, Pennsylvania, comedian, Nashville, Laugh-In's poet 1934 Birthday Barbara Howar, Nashville, reporter, Washington Post, Entertainment Tonight 1934 Birthday Claude Jarman, Jr., born in Nashville, Tennessee, actor, Rio Grande, Inside Straight 1934 Birthday Jim "Ed" Brown, born in Sparkman, Arkansas, country singer, Nashville on the Road 1933 Birthday Floyd Cramer, born in Shreveport, Louisiana, pianist, session player, architect of the 'Nashville Sound', played piano on Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel 1932 Birthday Dottie West, born in Nashville, Tennessee, country singer, Here Comes My Baby 1928 Event 1st recording session in Nashville (Warmack's Gully Jumpers) 1928 Birthday Howard Caine, born in Nashville, Tennessee, actor, Californians 1928 Birthday Howard Caine, born in Nashville, Tennessee, actor, Brushfire 1927 Event Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN 1926 Birthday Jerry Clower, Amite County Mississippi, country comedian, Nashville on Road 1926 Event DeFord Bailey is 1st black to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry 1925 Event Grand Ole Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM radio Nashville Tn 1925 Event WSM-AM in Nashville, Tennessee begins radio transmissions 1925 Birthday Danny Davis, rocker, Nashville Brass 1925 Birthday Robert Altman, born in Kansas City, Missouri, director, Nashville, M*A*S*H 1923 Birthday Bettie Page, born in Nashville, Tennessee, American fetish and pin-up model, 'Playboy' playmate 1920 Birthday Del Wood, born in Nashville, Tennessee, given name Polly Adelaide Hendricks Hazelwood, singer, pianist, recorded for Tennessee Records label, performed on the Grand Ole Opry 1919 Birthday Kitty Wells, born in Nashville, Tennessee, country singer, Grand Ole Opry 1918 Event 101 killed and 171 injured in worst U.S. train wreck, Nashville, Tennessee 1918 Birthday Eddy Arnold, born in Tennessee, best-selling, longest-running, country music singer, helped create Nashville sound 1913 Birthday James Westerfield, born in Nashville, Tennessee, actor, Jungle Heat, Lucky Johnny 1912 Birthday James Craig, born in Nashville, Tennessee, actor, Devil and Daniel Webster, Cyclops 1902 Birthday Trevor Bardette, Nashville AR, actor, Refugee, None Shall Escape 1898 Event 1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship 1895 Birthday Cullen Landis, born in Nashville, Tennessee, actor, Soul of the Beast 1864 Event Battle of Nashville ends after 4400 casualities 1864 Event Battle of Nashville, TN 1863 Event Confederate raider "Nashville" sinks near Fort McAllister Georgia 1849 Death James Knox Polk, 11th President (1845-1849), dies in Nashville, Tennessee at 53 1817 Event 1st Mississippi "Showboat," leaves Nashville on maiden voyage
