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    • Aug 14, 1935

    President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act at the White House in Washington, D.C. Merle Haggard will rail against it--"Keep your retirement and your so-called Social Security"--in his 1981 recording "Big City"

    Jan 16, 1937
    Floods hit the state of Arkansas, where more than 2,700 people are forced to evacuate their homes, including the family of Johnny Cash in Dyess. The event inspires Cash to write the 1959 hit "Five Feet High And Rising"
    Oct 1, 1937
    Congress passes a bill requiring any businessman selling marijuana to secure a license, which the government refuses to issue, thereby making pot illegal. "We don't smoke marijuana..." kicks off Merle Haggard's 1969 hit "Okie From Muskogee"
    May 27, 1941
    Ending a three-day pursuit, the British Navy downs the German battleship The Bismarck. Johnny Horton later turns the World War II event into a country hit with "Sink The Bismarck"
    Dec 7, 1941
    The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Tennessee Ernie Ford, working as a disc jockey at WORL, is the first person to inform Knoxville of the tragedy
    Nov 22, 1942
    Government workers begin arriving in East Tennessee, forming the town of Oak Ridge. Important in the development of the atomic bomb, the city also provides a name for The Georgia Clodhoppers, a gospel quartet destined to be rebranded as The Oak Ridge Boys
    Aug 2, 1943
    PT-109 is rammed by a Japanese destroyer in the Pacific Ocean. PT skipper John F. Kennedy saves 10 sailors by leading them to an island after the incident. Jimmy Dean celebrates the event in 1962 with his hit "P.T. 109"
    Jun 6, 1944
    Country Music Hall Of Fame broadcaster Grant Turner debuts on WSM radio the same day Allied troops invade Normandy. Turner, who becomes the Grand Ole Opry announcer, handles station breaks on D-Day between network news coverage
    Jun 6, 1944
    Allied troops invade Normandy, France, during a World War II battle better known as D-Day. Marine Ferlin Husky is among the Americans who hit the shore. Future Opry star Vic Willis is injured in the battle and receives a purple heart and bronze star
    Nov 3, 1944
    The first graphite reactor, designed to produce atomic power, goes into operation in the secret government town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The community's name is soon borrowed by the Oak Ridge Quartet, which becomes The Oak Ridge Boys



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