Welcome To Tuesday May 15th. Today We Celebrate
NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CHIP DAY | PEACE OFFICERS MEMORIAL DAY | NATIONAL NYLON STOCKING DAY. (more information at national day)
Happy Birthday
Emmitt Smith is 49. Retired Dallas Cowboys
Dan Patrick is 62. Former ESPN sports now at NBC Sports and Dan’s Patrick radio show
It Happened On This Day In Country Music History
1942 Born on this day in Crossett, Arkansas, was K.T. Oslin, country music singer and songwriter who is known for a series of top-ten country hits during the late 1980s and early 1990s, four of which topped the chart including her 1990 hit “Come Next Monday.”
2003 Country singer June Carter Cash, the second wife of Johnny Cash, died in Nashville, Tennessee, of complications following heart valve replacement surgery, aged 73.
2004 Jay DeMarcus from Rascal Flatts married Allison Alderson, a former beauty queen who has held the titles Miss Tennessee 1999 and Miss Tennessee USA 2002. DeMarcus met her on the set while filming the video for the Rascal Flatts song, “These Days”.
2007 Winners at the 42nd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards hosted by Reba McEntire included: Top Female Vocalist – Carrie Underwood, Top Vocal Duo – Brooks & Dunn, Top Vocal Group – Rascal Flatts, Top Male Vocalist – Brad Paisley, Top New Female Vocalist – Miranda Lambert and Album of the Year went to Carrie Underwood for Some Hearts.
2008 People Magazine reported Canadian singer Shania Twain and her husband, music producer Robert John “Mutt” Lange, had separated after 14 years of marriage. The couple were married on December 28, 1993, after Twain met Lange at Nashville’s Fan Fair earlier in the year.
Country Music Fun Fact
