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    • May 19, 1989
    "Road House," featuring Patrick Swayze and a minor John Doe role, appears in movie theaters. Heard during the picture: George Strait's "All My Ex's Live In Texas" and Alabama's "(There's A) Fire In The Night," plus Bob Seger, Otis Redding and Dion
    May 23, 1989
    Warner Bros. releases the "Pink Cadillac" soundtrack. It includes two Southern Pacific hits, plus music from Hank Williams & Hank Williams Jr., Michael Martin Murphey, Randy Travis, J.C. Crowley, Dion and Billy Hill
    May 26, 1989
    The Clint Eastwood movie "Pink Cadillac" opens, with Bryan Adams playing a gas station attendant. The soundtrack features Southern Pacific, Randy Travis, Hank Williams & Hank Williams Jr., J.C. Crowley, Dion and Billy Hill
    Oct 20, 2000
    Country Grammy-winners The Kingston Trio join the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in Sharon, Pennsylvania, along with The Jackson 5, Dion & The Belmonts, Ben E. King & The Drifters, The Four Tops, The Temptations and Peter, Paul & Mary
    Feb 27, 2002
    Roy Orbison's "Crying" joins the Grammy Hall of Fame, one in a batch of 1960s recordings that also includes music by Pete Seeger, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Janis Ian, Dion, Del Shannon and Ben E. King
    Nov 27, 2008
    Jerry Lee Lewis places #67 among Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers Of All-Time. Others with roots in the 1950s: Chuck Berry, #41; Bobby "Blue" Bland, #44; and Dion, #63
    Nov 28, 2016
    Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock," The Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" and the Merle Haggard album "Okie From Muskogee" are announced as Grammy Hall of Fame additions. Other new entries include records by Arlo Guthrie, The Beach Boys, Dion and Sonny & Cher
    Jul 2, 2017
    Dion asks for more than $1 million in damages as he files suit against Zenimax Media in California for using "The Wanderer" without his permission in a commercial advertising the video game "Fallout 4." The song was remade, legally, in the 1980s as a country single by Eddie Rabbitt
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