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    • Jul 1, 1964
    John Lennon buys a home in Surrey, England, for 20,000 pounds, just months before The Beatles record "I Feel Fine." Co-written by Lennon, the song becomes a country hit 25 years later for Sweethearts Of The Rodeo
    Aug 31, 1964
    Anaheim, California, holds groundbreaking ceremonies for Anaheim Stadium, offering a place for cowboy singer Gene Autry's team, the Angels, to play baseball outside Los Angeles. Autry turns the first pile of dirt
    Mar 29, 1965
    RCA celebrates the grand opening of RCA Studio A, later known as Music City Music Hall and Javelina. Among the records made there: Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope You Dance," George Strait's "Unwound" and Kacey Musgraves' "Merry Go 'Round"
    Apr 9, 1965
    Houston opens the Astrodome, the later site of a live Sonny James album, and the long-time home of the Houston Livestock & Rodeo
    May 16, 1965
    The Jimmie Davis Tabernacle, a non-denominational place of worship named after the "You Are My Sunshine" singer, is dedicated near Jonesboro, Louisiana
    Jun 24, 1965
    Kenny Rogers opens Act Three on Main Street in Houston. The club is sold by the end of the year
    Feb 2, 1966
    Milburn Stone and Ken Curtis, of "Gunsmoke," are the first to perform at the Astrodome as part of the Houston Livestock & Rodeo. Over the next 35 years, Reba McEntire, Charley Pride and George Strait all play to more than 1 million at the rodeo
    Mar 1, 1966
    Construction begins on the original Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Music Row in Nashville. Among the artists who will be enshrined there: Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, George Jones, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Ernest Tubb, Johnny Cash and The Carter Family
    Jun 17, 1966
    "I Feel Fine" songwriter Paul McCartney buys a farm in Kintyre, Scotland
    Jul 4, 1966
    George Jones opens his first amusement park--the George Jones Rhythm Ranch, in Vidor, Texas--and begins a friendship with guest performer Merle Haggard



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