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Apr 17, 2021 Chris Stapleton snags a #1 country single in Billboard with "Starting Over"
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Apr 17, 2006 Jo Dee Messina runs the 26.2-mile course in the 110th Boston Marathon. She injures her knee halfway through, but still finishes in five hours and 47 minutes, ranking #19,681 among participants
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Apr 17, 1982 Johnny Cash hosts "Saturday Night Live" from New York with musical guest Elton John. The Man In Black sings "I Walk The Line," "Folsom Prison Blues," "Ring Of Fire" and "Sunday Morning Coming Down"
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Apr 17, 2011 Emmylou Harris tells the United Kingdom newspaper The Independent she's not a part of current commercial country: "I smoked country music, but I didn't inhale"
Apr 17, 1961 Location shooting for Elvis Presley's movie "Blue Hawaii" concludes in the Pacific

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