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    • Jun 9, 1960
    Broadway composer Cole Porter, co-writer of the 1945 country hit "Don't Fence Me In," receives an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut
    Jul 4, 1961
    "Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter ends an eight-month stay at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
    Aug 6, 1963
    "Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter is released following a four-month stay at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York, where he was treated for second- and third-degree burns incurred by smoking in bed
    Jun 12, 1964
    Broadway composer Cole Porter, a co-writer of the country hit "Don't Fence Me In," checks into Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York with a fractured hip and a bladder infection. He remains for 10 days
    Jun 22, 1964
    "Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter leaves New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital following 10 days of treatment for a hip fracture and a bladder infection
    Oct 15, 1964
    Pop songwriter Cole Porter dies in Santa Monica, California. Noted for such classics as "I Get A Kick Out Of You," "Begin The Beguine" and "I've Got You Under My Skin," Porter also wrote "Don't Fence Me In," a country hit for Gene Autry
    Jan 30, 1987
    The Woody Allen movie "Radio Days" appears in movie theaters. Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters' version of "Pistol Packin' Mama" is used in the film, alongside music by Glenn Miller, Cole Porter, Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra
    Oct 23, 2003
    The former Peru, Indiana, home of "Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter sells at auction for $9,800
    Jun 25, 2004
    "De-Lovely," a biopic of "Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter, opens in theaters, with Ashley Judd playing his wife, Linda
    Mar 6, 2007
    The Carter Family's "Wildwood Flower," Carl Perkins' "Blue Suede Shoes" and Red Foley's "(There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me)" are added to the National Recording Registry along with music by Cole Porter, The Ronettes, Sam Cooke, Pete Seeger and Paul Simon
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