September 14th: On this day

1934
Born on this day in Brownfield, Texas, was Don Walser, was known as a unique, award-winning yodeling "Texas country music legend." He was known for maintaining a catalog of older, obscure country music and cowboy songs and kept alive old 1940s and 1950s tunes by country music pioneers such as Bob Wills and Eddie Arnold. He died on September 20, 2006.

1946
Hank Williams auditioned for Nashville's Grand Ole Opry at the recommendation of Ernest Tubb, but was rejected. Three years later he was eventually inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on June 11, 1949.

1958
Born on this day in Harlingen, Texas, was singer-songwriter, Beth Nielsen Chapman who has written many Country hits including: co-songwriter of Faith Hill's "This Kiss", Trisha Yearwood ("Down On My Knees", "You Say You Will", "Trying to Love You"), Martina McBride ("Happy Girl"), Willie Nelson ("Nothing I Can Do About It Now", "Ain't Necessarily So", "If My World Didn't Have You").

1959
Born on this day in Aiken, South Carolina, was John Berry country singer, songwriter, who has recorded over fifteen studio albums, and scored the 1994 US #1 single "Your Love Amazes Me."

1961
The Porter Wagoner Show premiered on September 14, 1961. Wagoner invited Dolly Parton to perform on his hit syndicated television show and Parton stayed with the show for 7 years. Their on-screen chemistry was immediate and fans quickly embraced them and their music. The show’s popularity grew and became the #1 syndicated show in American. Each 30-minute episode generally featured performances by Porter, Dolly and a special guest.

1978
Born on this day in Jacksonville, North Carolina, was Danielle Peck country music artist. Her self-titled debut 2006 album produced the Top 30 country hits "I Don't", "Findin' a Good Man", and "Isn't That Everything".

1979
American singer and songwriter Kenny Rogers was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6666 Hollywood Blvd. He charted more than 120 hit singles and sold more than 100 million records worldwide during his lifetime.

1982
Willie Nelson was at #1 on the US Country charts with Always On My Mind. The album was the Billboard #1 country album of the year for 1982, peaking at the top of the charts for a total of 22 weeks, as well as spending 99 weeks on the chart.

1996
Tulsa honored American Western swing fiddler Johnnie Lee Wills with a street named after him. Johnnie Lee Wills Lane is directly in front of the Expo Square Pavilion at the Tulsa State Fairgrounds. Wills, who died in 1984 was the younger brother of Bob Wills and had also played banjo with Bob as a member of the Texas Playboys.

2003
Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett were at #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with the Jim "Moose" Brown and Don Rollins penned song, "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere". The song spent a total of eight weeks at the top of the chart and won the Country Music Association (CMA) Award for Vocal Event of the Year.

2005
Property from the estate of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash raised $1.24 million on the first day of a three-day auction at Sotheby's in New York City. Items sold included a custom-made abalone-inlaid acoustic guitar for $131,200 and an autographed photo of Elvis Presely to June Cash sold for $18,000, a striped prisoner's jacket from Folsom Prison made $6,000.

2009
Carrie Underwood released "Cowboy Casanova" as the lead single from her third studio album, Play On. The song became the fastest climbing single in Underwood's career and also the fastest-climbing single of 2009 in the country music genre. Additionally, the song gave Underwood the most Top 10 hits on the country chart this decade - 10 top 10 singles followed by Faith Hill and Martina McBride each with nine.

2015
Rascal Flatts released "I Like the Sound of That" the final single from their album Rewind and becoming the trio's thirteenth #1 hit, and their first since "Banjo" in 2012.

2017
A public memorial service for Troy Gentry was held at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Half of the duo Montgomery Gentry, Troy was killed in a helicopter crash in in Medford, New Jersey on September 8 of this year.

2018
Carrie Underwood released her sixth studio album Cry Pretty. It debuted at #1 on the US Billboard 200, making Underwood the first woman to hit the top of the Billboard 200 chart with four country albums. It also debuted atop the Top Country Albums chart, becoming her seventh consecutive #1 album on that chart.