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    • Jul 25, 1956
    The S.S. Andrea Doria collides with the Swedish-American ship the Stockholm in fog off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Songwriter Mike Stoller, a co-writer of Elvis Presley's current "Hound Dog," survives the collision along with his wife, Meryl
    Jul 26, 1956
    "Hound Dog" songwriter Mike Stoller and his wife Meryl are safely off the S.S. Andrea Doria as it sinks into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The vacationing Stoller will also write "Stand By Me" and "Jailhouse Rock"
    Jan 3, 1959
    Alaska becomes the 49th state in the union. It provides the backdrop for Johnny Horton's "North To Alaska" and Lefty Frizzell's "Saginaw, Michigan"
    May 5, 1959
    The city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, votes to incorporate. The government-built town, where the first atomic bomb was developed, has already become the namesake for gospel music's The Oak Ridge Quartet, destined to become The Oak Ridge Boys
    Aug 21, 1959
    Hawaii becomes the 50th state added to the U.S. The Aloha State provides a home for Randy Travis, Kris Kristofferson and Dolly Parton, and a wedding site for Travis, Janis Gill and The Dixie Chicks' Martie Maguire
    Jan 2, 1960
    John F. Kennedy announces his candidacy for president. Barely two years later, he is celebrated by Jimmy Dean in "P.T. 109"
    May 2, 1960
    Convicted sex offender Caryl Chessman is executed at San Quentin. Fellow inmate Merle Haggard, who communicated with him during a stay in isolation, knows Chessman is dead when he sees a puff of smoke go up from the Death Row chimney
    May 9, 1960
    G.D. Searle & Co. receives approval from the Food & Drug Administration for the contraceptive pill Enovid. Fifteen years later, it leads to a controversial Loretta Lynn country hit, "The Pill"
    Jan 20, 1961
    "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country": John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th president of the United States in Washington, D.C. The next year, he is celebrated in Jimmy Dean's single "P.T. 109"
    Mar 15, 1961
    Ray Charles refuses to play a segregated concert in Augusta, Georgia, costing him $757 for breach of contract. The next year, Charles crosses the seemingly segregated worlds of country and R&B with "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music"



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