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    • Mar 25, 1965
    Johnny Cash crashes a 1964 Cadillac into a telephone pole on South Street during a rainy day in Nashville. He pays a visit to Vanderbilt Medical Center to assess a number of minor injuries
    Mar 4, 1970
    Ferlin Husky's 17-year-old son Danny, who plays drums in Husky's band, dies in a storm-related car accident in Kentucky
    Apr 19, 1970
    A storm with 80-mile-per-hour winds rips through Middle Tennessee, tearing the back porch off Lester Flatt's home and sinking his boat house along the Cumberland River in Hendersonville, Tennessee
    Apr 23, 1971
    A windstorm destroys a parked DC-3 airplane, owned by Jerry Lee Lewis, in Memphis. The Killer reacts by buying a bigger plane
    Mar 14, 1975
    The weekend of the Grand Ole Opry House's first anniversary, flooding from the Cumberland River forces the Opry to move downtown to Municipal Auditorium
    Apr 18, 1975
    A tornado damages the roof of the 5,000-seat Jackson Coliseum in Tennessee, forcing Merle Haggard to postpone an April 26 concert for four months
    Jul 5, 1975
    The Statler Brothers' Happy Birthday U.S.A. concert is held a day late, thanks to a holiday downpour. With 37,000 people on hand in Staunton, Virginia, the band's special guests are Johnny Russell and Charlie McCoy
    Jul 4, 1976
    Willie Nelson holds his Fourth of July Picnic in a downpour, the crowd smoking pot until 9:30 the next morning, with some public nudity. On the bill in Gonzales, Texas, are Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Bobby Bare, George Jones and Leon Russell, among others
    Jan 23, 1978
    Vic Ames, one-fourth of The Ames Brothers, dies in an ice-related car accident in Nashville. Prominent in the 1950s, the group had a pop hit with the 1956 release "It Only Hurts For A Little While," remade for the country charts by Margo Smith just weeks before Ames' death
    Nov 23, 1978
    Roy Acuff, Jack Greene and Vern Gosdin appear in the rain-drenched Nashville Christmas Parade on Thanksgiving



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