1969
Glen Campbell was at #1 on the Billboard country album chart with Galveston. The singers thirteenth studio album spent 11 weeks at #1 and 26 weeks on the chart. The title track written by Jimmy Webb, describes a soldier waiting to go into battle who thinks of the woman he loves and his hometown of Galveston, Texas.
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1970
Merle Haggard was at #1 on the Country music album chart with Okie from Muskogee.The album won the Academy of Country Music award for Album of the Year in 1969. Haggard also won Single of the Year for “Okie from Muskogee” as well as Top Male Vocalist.
1993
CBS aired Willie Nelson The Big Six-0: An All-Star Birthday Celebration with guests Ray Charles, Waylon Jennings, Emmylou Harris, B.B. King, Paul Simon, Travis Tritt, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Lyle Lovett, Bob Dylan, Marty Stuart and Kris Kristofferson
2000
Aaron Tippin released “Kiss This”, the first single from his album People Like Us. Co-written by Aaron’s wife, Thea, the single became Aaron’s third and final #1 on the Billboard country charts, five years after his last chart topper.
2003
At the Academy of Country Music awards ceremony in Las Vegas, there were boos when the Dixie Chicks’ nomination for Entertainer of the Year award was announced, (after Natalie Maines’ comment about George Bush), however, the broadcast’s host, Vince Gill, reminded the audience that everyone was entitled to freedom of speech.
2004
Rascal Flatts’ Mayberry was at #1 on the Billboard country album charts, their fourth and final single from their 2002 album, Melt.
2011
Reba McEntire was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame at a Medallion Ceremony that took place at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee. She was inducted by one of her musical idols, Dolly Parton.
