Dottie West’s Illfated Ride Ends Her Life This Day in Country Music

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. She dies five days later.

2012 - Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" video premieres on CMT, MTV and VH1.

2007 - Brad Paisley and George Strait lead the pack with five nominations apiece for the 41st annual Country Music Association awards.

2006 - George Strait, Sonny James and session guitarist Harold Bradley are announced by the Country Music Association as 2006 inductees in the Country Music Hall of Fame.

2004 - Kris Kristofferson and former record executive Jim Foglesong are named the 2004 inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame.

2002 - Patsy Cline finishes at the top of the list when CMT ranks the "40 Greatest Women Of Country Music." Rounding out the Top 5: Tammy Wynette, #2; Loretta Lynn, #3; Dolly Parton, #4; and Emmylou Harris, #5.

1997 - Kenny Chesney picks up his first #1 single in Billboard: "She's Got It All".

1983 - RCA releases Kenny Rogers' album "Eyes That See In The Dark".

1949 - Hank Williams records "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," "My Bucket's Got A Hole In It" and "I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin'" during an afternoon session at the E.T. Herzog Studio in Cincinnati.

1919 - Muriel Deason born in Nashville. Under the stage name Kitty Wells, her 1952 single "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" is the hallmark of a Hall of Fame career that brings her 13 years of hits and the nickname the Queen of Country Music.

Information provided by: RolandNote.com