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    • Dec 30, 1951
    Hank Williams is forced to cancel concerts in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore after back surgery. Audrey Williams still performs at the shows, but as she leaves the house with her things, Hank fires four gun shots at her
    Jan 3, 1952
    Audrey Williams kicks Hank Williams out of the house. She denies accusations that she shot at him, he denies accusations of infidelity. Within days, he is taken to a Montgomery, Alabama, hospital following an overdose of pills
    Jan 10, 1952
    Audrey Williams files for divorce from Hank Williams for the second time in four years
    Jul 10, 1952
    Hank and Audrey Williams are divorced for the second--and final--time
    Nov 2, 1963
    "Country Music On Broadway" premieres in Nashville. The movie features Whitey Ford, Flatt & Scruggs, Roy Drusky, Audrey Williams, Ralph Emery, The Anita Kerr Singers, Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper, Merle Kilgore and The Wilburn Brothers, among others
    Jan 1, 1964
    Eleven years after Hank Williams' death, Audrey Williams starts a promotional concert tour for Hank Williams Jr.'s first record, "Long Gone Lonesome Blues," in Canton, Ohio, the city in which Hank Senior was scheduled to play the day he died
    Sep 17, 1973
    On the day her late husband would have turned 50, Audrey Williams sends 20 dozen roses to Hank Williams' grave in Montgomery, Alabama
    Oct 22, 1975
    The courts rule that Billie Jean Williams' marriage to Hank Williams was valid and that she is entitled to 50% of his royalties from copyright renewal. Williams' first wife, Audrey, had contested Billie Jean's rights
    Nov 4, 1975
    Hank Williams' widow, Audrey Williams, dies in her Nashville home the same day the IRS plans to repossess it
    Nov 7, 1975
    Funeral services are held for Audrey Williams--ex-wife of the late Hank Williams--in Troy and Montgomery, Alabama. Hank Williams Jr. makes his first public appearance since an August mountain accident, wearing dark glasses and a toupee
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