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May 30, 1951
Lee Wallard wins the Indianapolis 500 at a speed of 126 miles per hour. The crowd includes Tiny Hill, who earned a hit months earlier with "Hot Rod Race"
Aug 17, 1951
Ralph Stanley is seriously injured in an auto accident near Raleigh, North Carolina. During his recovery, Bill Monroe drops plans to bring The Stanley Brothers on as members of his backing band
Aug 22, 1951
Hank Snow is injured in a serious automobile accident in Nashville. He flips the vehicle twice, hitting a parked car and a telephone pole. Snow is taken to General Hospital with a skull fracture and multiple lacerations
May 8, 1952
Western-swing vocalist Leon Huff dies of a heart attack near Eufaula, Oklahoma, while riding Johnnie Lee Wills' bus. He sang with Bob Wills and The Light Crust Doughboys, in addition to Johnnie Lee
May 30, 1952
Troy Ruttman wins the Indianapolis 500 auto race. Among the fans in attendance: country hitmaker Tiny Hill
Oct 18, 1952
Hank Williams marries Billie Jean Jones Eshliman in Minden, Louisiana. On the way back to Shreveport, their car runs out of gas
Dec 31, 1952
Hank Williams sets out from Birmingham to Charleston, West Virginia, for a New Year's Eve show. Slowed by snow, he tries to grab a flight in in Knoxville, but the flight is cancelled. Williams gets a shot of morphine, then takes what proves to be his final ride in the back seat of his blue Cadillac
Jan 1, 1953
Hank Williams is pronounced dead at Oak Hill General Hospital in Oak Hill, West Virginia, after passing away in the back seat of a Cadillac, en route to a show in Canton, Ohio. Many believe he died from a mix of alcohol and morphine. He will become one of the three inaugural members of the Country Music Hall of Fame
Jan 8, 1953
Elvis Presley's parents give him a $50 Lincoln for his 18th birthday. His mom doesn't know how to drive, and he becomes her chauffeur
Jan 16, 1953
Bill Monroe suffers 19 broken bones in a head-on collision on Highway 31 near White House, Tennessee. He still manages to get out of the car and pull another passenger, Bessie Lee Mauldin, out of the other side. Monroe is unable to tour until May
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