Today In Country Music History [VIDEO]

The Zac Brown Band’s album The Foundation achieves triple platinum status for sales of 3 million copies. The album spawned 5 singles, 4 of which, (Chicken Fried, Toes, Free and Highway 20 Ride) went to #1 while the fifth single (Whatever It Is) fell just short, making it to #2 on the charts.

The album was nominated for a 2009 Grammy Award for Best Country Album and also earned the band the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. To date it has sold over 4 million copies world wide.

Sara Evans received six nominations in five categories for the 35th Annual Country Music Association Awards.

The Boonville, MO native was nominated for Video, Single and Song of the Year for the Single "Born To Fly," album of the year for the album of the same name, Female Vocalist of the Year and for the Horizon Award. She would take home the award for Video of the Year.

George Strait scored his first number one with "Fool Hearted Memory." It was the second single from his debut album, Strait From The Heart and was included in the soundtrack of the feature film 'The Soldier.'

This would be the first of Strait's 54 #1 singles (to date).

Tanya Tucker records "Would You Lay With Me (In A Field Of Stone)" in Nashville. While songwriter David Allan Coe attends the session, his car is stolen from the Columbia Studio parking lot.

The song would become Tucker's third #1 single in March of 1974.

Tammy Wynette recorded "Stand By Your Man." Co-written by Wynette and Billy Sherrill, it was released as a single in September 1968, proving to be the most successful record of Wynette's career, reaching number one on the U.S. country charts in late 1968 for three weeks.

The song was selected by the Library of Congress as a 2010 addition to the National Recording Registry, which selects recordings annually that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"

Shania Twain (Eileen Edwards) is 49.

Sherrie Austin is 43

Jake Owen is 33.

LeAnn Rimes is 32.

Cassadee Pope is 25.