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    • Mar 15, 1944
    Drafted for service in the Canadian Army, an intoxicated Hank Snow reports for his physical. Told to come back sober the next day, Snow's X-rays reveal a lung problem created by a childhood bout with pleurisy. Snow is rejected for service
    Dec 20, 1944
    Ignoring a recording ban by Canada's musicians' union, Hank Snow cuts the first of 18 songs over four days at Montreal's Victor Studio. They include one of his biggest Canadian hits, "You Played Love On The Strings Of My Heart"
    Dec 2, 1947
    Hank Snow begins what prove to be his final Canadian sessions before his career shifts into the U.S., at the Victor Studio in Montreal
    Feb 2, 1949
    Pen pals Ernest Tubb and Hank Snow meet in person for the first time during a show at Fort Worth's North Side Coliseum. It takes nearly a year, but Tubb helps Snow land a spot on the Grand Ole Opry
    Mar 8, 1949
    Hank Snow has his first American recording session at RCA Studio A in Chicago. Producer Steve Sholes declines an opportunity to cut "I'm Moving On." Instead, the session yields Snow's first charted single, "Marriage Vow"
    Jan 7, 1950
    Hank Snow becomes a member of the Grand Ole Opry when he debuts on the show, introduced by Ernest Tubb. Also debuting the same evening: Tennessee Ernie Ford
    Mar 28, 1950
    Hank Snow records "I'm Moving On" at Brown Radio Productions on Fourth Avenue North during his first Nashville session
    Aug 19, 1950
    Hank Snow spends the first of 21 weeks at #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with "I'm Moving On"
    Aug 21, 1950
    Hank Snow records "Rhumba Boogie" and "The Golden Rocket" during a late-night session at Nashville's Brown Radio Productions
    Oct 22, 1950
    Hank Snow records "Unwanted Sign Upon Your Heart" in the evening at Brown Radio Productions in Nashville
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