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Apr 6, 1937
Merle Haggard is born in Oildale, California. After imprisonment in San Quentin, he becomes a legendary singer/songwriter with his blue-collar observations and rich vocal style sending him into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1994
Apr 6, 1998
Tammy Wynette dies at home in Nashville from a blood clot in her lung. Noted for the classics "Stand By Your Man" and "D-I-V-O-R-C-E," the First Lady of Country Music is inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame five months later
Apr 6, 1996
The NAACP honors Garth Brooks with the Founders Award for promoting civil rights with his song "We Shall Be Free" during the Image Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in California
Apr 6, 2006
Mac Davis is announced as a 2006 inductee in the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He's added with Thom Bell, Henry Cosby and Sylvia Moy and Will Jennings, who wrote Tim McGraw's "Please Remember Me" and Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn's "Feelins'"
Apr 6, 2011
Contestant Paul McDonald covers "Folsom Prison Blues" on a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame-themed edition of FOX-TV's "American Idol." Also heard: "That's All Right" and "Piece Of My Heart"