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Hiram Williams is born in Mount Olive West, Alabama, USA. He will grow up to become America's greatest country artist, Hank Williams.
Walter Louis Garland is born in Cowpens, South Carolina, USA. He will find success as jazz, country and rock'n'roll guitarist Hank Garland, working with Elvis Presley, Brenda Lee, Roy Orbison, George Shearing, Charlie Parker, Chet Atkins and many others.
Country music singer, guitarist and recording artist Vernon Oxford is born in Rogers, Arkansas, USA.Curley Williams records Mississippi, Saturday Night Rag, Whole Hog Of None and Honey, Do You Love Me, Huh? (co-written with Hank Williams) in Castle Studio At The Tulane Hotel, 206 8th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, for Columbia Records.
The film-noir crime movie Inside The Walls Of Folsom Prison is released to cinemas in the USA. When Johnny Cash sees the movie, he will be inspired to write the song Folsom Prison Blues, one of his first hit singles.
The Jordanaires record By The River Of Life and The Beautiful City at Brown Radio Productions, 240 1/2 4th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.Country star Red Foley reveals in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, that he secretly married his third wife, radio and TV entertainer Sally Sweet, several weeks earlier, on October 28, in Iuka, Mississippi, USA.
Glenn Worf is born in Dayton, Ohio, USA. He will become a multiple winner of the Academy of Country Music's best bass player honour, and will play on several hundred hits by artists including Alan Jackson, George Strait, Faith Hill, Toby Keith and Martina McBride.
Johnny Cash's name shows up for the first time on the Billboard national Country charts in the USA when his latest single, Cry, Cry, Cry, makes its debut.
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June Carter (aka June Carter Cash) plays the first of two nights in Houston, Texas, USA.
The Everly Brothers All-Star Show plays during ten nights at Araneta Coliseum, The Philippines, Asia.
Ferlin Husky, Smiley Wilson, Norma Jean, George Morgan, Eamon Napier And The Plainsmen and Leon McAuliff And His Cimarron Boys play a live show in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.
Ray Charles plays at The State Fairground Coliseum, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Charles was originally scheduled to play at A+I University in Nashville, but the booking was cancelled when it was learned he had been arrested on heroin charges. In the event, the Fairground show attracts 3,500 people, many more than the Coliseum could have accomodated.
Patti Page records Put Your Head On My Shoulder, Don't Be Cruel, Big Bad John, Mack The Knife and other tracks at Bradley Film and Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The session is produced by Shelby Singleton, Jr., and the band features guitarists Grady Martin, Jerry Kennedy and Harold Bradley, bassist Bob Moore, drummer Buddy Harman, pianist Floyd Cramer and saxophonist Boots Randolph.
Brenda Lee plays the sixth night of a pre-Christmas season in The Congo Room of The Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Claude King records Pistol Packin' Papa and Give Me Your Love And I'll Give You Mine, in Bradley Film and Recording Studios, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Notable players on the session include guitarists Grady Martin, Harold Bradley and Gerald Tomlinson, Mother Maybelle Carter on autoharp, Buddy Harman on drums and Floyd Cramer on piano.
The Wilburn Brothers record Impossible at Columbia Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
George Jones plays at the 3rd Annual Morenci Open-Pit Mine Festival in Morenci, Arizona, USA.The Everly Brothers record The Drop Out and I Think Of Me for Warner Brothers Records in the USA.
Connie Francis and Hank Williams Jr, record Wolverton Mountain, Walk On By, Please Help Me I'm Fallin' and Bye Bye Love in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Claude King records Sam Hill, Big Ole Shoulder, and Whirlpool (Of Your Love at Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Musicians on the session include Grady Martin, Harold Bradley, Ray Edenton, Joseph Zinkan, Buddy Harman and Floyd Cramer.
Johnny Cash records the Bob Dylan composition It Ain't Me Babe, at Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Sessioneers include Charlie McCoy on harmonica and Norman Blake on guitar, with The Carter Family supplying harmony vocals.
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Elvis Presley continues with recording sessions in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, for the film soundtrack album Harum Scarum.
Roger Miller records Kansas City Star, This Town and The Good Old Days in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Charley Pride, with producer Chet Atkins, records She Made Me Go, The Day You Stop Loving Me and The Right To Do Wrong, Out in RCA Victor Studio, 800 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The band on the session consists of Harold Bradley, Fred Carter Jr. and Jerry Stembridge [gtrs], Lloyd Green [steel gtr], Junior Huskey [bass], Jerry Carrigan [drums], Buddy Spicher [fiddle], David Briggs [piano] + vocal chorus.
Ronald Reagan, Governor of California, USA, grants country singer Merle Haggard a full pardon for all his past crimes. Haggard had spent three years in San Quentin State Prison for attempting to rob a Bakersfield tavern in 1957.
'Roadie Day' is proclaimed in Los Angeles, California, USA. This is essentially a promotional vehicle for the movie Roadie, which stars Meatloaf, Blondie and Alice Cooper, with cameo appearances by Roy Orbison and Hank Williams Jr.
He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones reaches No1 in the Billboard Hot Country Singles Chart in the USA. The song is Jones' first No1 in six years and revives his flagging career, despite the fact that he himself never liked it.
Pat Boone plays the first of five nights at Drury Lane Dinner Theatre, Evergeen Park, Illinois, USA.
Greatest Hits by Kenny Chesney is certified as a platinum disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
Respected songwriter Harlan Howard - known as The Dean Of Nashville Songwriters -
dies unexpectedly in Nashville, Tennessee. His major successes included I Fall To Pieces, Busted and
Heartaches
By The Number.
While performing his song Indian Outlaw at the White River Amphitheater in Auburn, Washington, USA, Tim McGraw sees a man near the front of the crowd attacking a female fan. McGraw reaches down and with the help of security, pulls the man up onto the stage and has him removed from the venue.Carrie Underwood sings the American National Anthem at the Super Bowl, (New Orleans Saints vs Indianapolis Colts) at The Sun Life Stadium, Miami, Florida, USA. Watching from the stands are Heidi Newfield, Kenny Chesney, Jimmy Buffett and Joe Don Rooney.
During their 
Virtuoso Texas fiddler Johnny Gimble, who played with country superstars including Bob Wills, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson and George Strait, dies aged 88, following a stroke, in Marble Falls, Texas, USA.
Miley Cyrus posts an Instagram message to her actor boyfriend Liam Hemsworth saying, "Happiest birthday to my very best friend on the entire planet! I love u!" The message is accompanied with a love heart emoji.
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