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May 3, 1990Porter Wagoner rides a horse named Porter during the Pegasus Parade, leading up to the Kentucky Derby. Other horses in the parade are named Little Jimmy Dickens, Roy Acuff, Minnie Pearl and Randy Travis. Unbridled wins the Derby two days laterDec 2, 1992The Smoky Mountain Boys play "I'll Fly Away" to close a memorial to Roy Acuff at the Acuff Theatre. Also taking part: Hank Snow, Ricky Skaggs, Bill Monroe, Jeannie Seely, Eddy Arnold, Chet Atkins and Little Jimmy DickensJun 2, 1993Clay Walker hits a home run during the City of Hope softball game in Nashville. Little Jimmy Dickens is the umpire during the game, which also features John Michael Montgomery, Tim McGraw, Clint Black and Billy Ray Cyrus. Trisha Yearwood performs the national anthemJun 2, 1995Little Jimmy Dickens faints while watching TV backstage at the Grand Ole Opry and is taken to Baptist Hospital. Doctors are unable to pinpoint the cause of the incidentJun 8, 1995Little Jimmy Dickens is released from Nashville's Baptist Hospital, six days after he was admitted for a fainting spell. The cause was never discoveredJan 4, 1996CBS-TV presents "Grand Ole Opry 70th Anniversary Celebration," with appearances by Reba McEntire, Vince Gill, Alan Jackson, Martina McBride, Little Jimmy Dickens, Don Gibson, Clint Black, Dolly Parton and Barbara Mandrell, among othersJul 6, 1996A monument is placed on the site near Camden, Tennessee, where Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and Randy Hughes died in a plane crash. Little Jimmy Dickens, Kitty Wells and Hawkins' ex-wife, Jean Shepard, performJul 30, 1996The Tennessean reports Little Jimmy Dickens is under doctors' orders to rest his throat for at least two months, keeping him from performing on the Grand Ole OprySep 11, 1996More than 2,000 people attend a memorial service for Bill Monroe at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, including Little Jimmy Dickens, Jimmy C. Newman, Johnny Russell, Ralph Sloan, Bill Anderson, Jeanne Pruett, Jeannie Seely, Jean Shepard and Skeeter DavisSep 20, 1996Little Jimmy Dickens returns to the Grand Ole Opry following a two-month absence with vocal problems
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