The White House Welcomes Country Music This Day In Country Music History – July 21st

2009 - Brad Paisley, Charley Pride and Alison Krauss + Union Station perform for Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, D.C. Paisley closes the night with a song inspired by the president, "Welcome To The Future".

2007 - Big & Rich takes "Lost In This Moment" to the top of the Billboard country chart.

2005 - Gary Allan's "Best I Ever Had" video debuts on CMT.

2004 - Sara Evans performs for George W. Bush at the annual president's dinner in Washington, D.C. The set list includes "Born To Fly," "No Place That Far," "Perfect" and her current single, "Suds In The Bucket".

2002 - Toby Keith receives a call on the request line from Merle Haggard during a Nashville taping of CMT's "Live, Uncut & Unleashed." Hag requests "The Fightin' Side Of Me," and Keith obliges.

1999 - Charley Pride's name is embedded in a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1979 - Anne Murray's "Shadows In The Moonlight" hits #1 on the Billboard country singles chart.

1978 - Vocalist Brad Mates born in Grand Prairie, Alberta. He becomes the lead singer for Emerson Drive, which debuts in the U.S. during 2002 with the single "I Should Be Sleeping".

1973 - Jeanne Pruett joins the Grand Ole Opry, the last artist added before the show transfers from Nashville's Ryman Auditorium to the Grand Ole Opry House.

1972 - Paul Rennee Belobersycky born in Calgary, Alberta. A one-time nurse, he emerges in 1996 under the stage name Paul Brandt, with the deep-voiced "My Heart Has A History" and the wedding classic "I Do".

1956 - Johnny Cash's "I Walk The Line" hits #1 on the Billboard country singles chart.