1933 - Harold Jenkins is born in Friars Point, Mississippi. As Conway Twitty, he leaves a pop-rock career in 1965 to pursue country music, racking up hits consistently for more than 20 years.
1991 - When her Chrysler breaks down, Dottie West hitches a ride to the Grand Ole Opry from passing driver George Thackston. He has an accident on the Opry's exit ramp, and West is hospitalized with a lacerated liver.
2002 - Alan Jackson collects a whopping 10 nominations for the 36th annual Country Music Association awards, breaking a 32-year-old record held by Merle Haggard.
2010 - Brad Paisley and Little Jimmy Dickens sing "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" after a restored circle of historic wood is returned to the Grand Ole Opry House stage in the aftermath of a May flood.