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    • Sep 29, 1975
    Earl Scruggs suffers head injuries, facial cuts, a broken nose and broken ankle when the plane he pilots crashes while landing in East Nashville
    Oct 24, 1975
    Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ronnie Van Zant breaks a beer bottle over the head of a road crew member in Portsmouth, England, during a fight over how to pronounce "schnapps." Van Zant breaks a hand, and Gary Rossington breaks a hand and cuts both wrists
    Nov 5, 1975
    Lynyrd Skynyrd's Billy Powell breaks his right pinky when he punches a fellow hotel guest in London for teasing him about his hair. The band's "Sweet Home Alabama" is ranked among country's greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation book
    Feb 21, 1976
    Johnny Cash breaks his ankle while experimenting with a metal detector in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Less than two hours later, his wife, June Carter, injures her ankle when she falls in a ditch
    Apr 17, 1976
    Marie Osmond and her mom, Olive, ram into a truck her dad is towing. Olive sustains a chest injury, while Marie is released from the hospital the same day
    Sep 5, 1976
    "Sweet Home Alabama" co-writer Gary Rossington suffers multiple broken bones when the Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist, driving drunk, crashes into a telephone pole, a tree and a house in Jacksonville, Florida
    Oct 31, 1976
    "Hee Haw" comedian Junior Samples fractures his hip in a boating accident on Lake Lanier in Georgia
    Nov 30, 1976
    "Hee Haw" star Junior Samples breaks his hip while fishing in Georgia's Lake Lanier
    May 3, 1977
    A day after marrying fiddler Jana Jae, Buck Owens falls off his horse and is hospitalized with bruises
    Jun 28, 1977
    Jeannie Seely loses control of her automobile and plows into a tree in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. She undergoes same-day surgery for a punctured lung, a fractured jaw and five broken ribs



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