Alabama Reunites For Katrina Victims – Today In Country Music History [VIDEO]

Carrie Underwood debuts as the voice of NBC's "Sunday Night Football" theme, "Waiting All Day For Sunday Night."

The game has George Strait serving as honorary captain of the Dallas Cowboys, who beat the New York Giants, 36-31

A corn maze formed in Alan Jackson’s likeness opened at Gull Meadow Farms in Richland, Michigan.

ABC gave Reba McEntire the green light to shoot a pilot for a TV series, Malibu Country. The program, which featured Reba as Reba McKenzie, a mother of two who moves to Malibu, CA after divorcing her cheating country singer husband, also featured Lily Tomlin and Sara Rue. It was cancelled by ABC after just one season.

Garth Brooks’ five concerts in Philadelphia sold over 120,000 tickets. The city’s mayor presented Garth with a replica of the Liberty Bell and declared it Garth Brooks Week.

LeAnn Rimes' version of "How Do I Live" is certified platinum. Trisha Yearwood also recorded a version of the song, with both being released May 27th, 1997.

The song was originally intended for release as a single for the 1997 action blockbuster Con Air soundtrack.

According to Rimes, Warren wrote the song for her to sing and promised it to Rimes "no matter what". Walt Disney Pictures, the parent company of Touchstone Pictures, initially chose Rimes' version but later found out it had too much pop feeling over it; and, because she was 14, it was believed that she was too young. Rimes' version would peak at #2 on the country charts and #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart. Both Rimes and Yearwood were nominated for a Grammy for Female Vocalist of the Year for the song, the only time in history two artists have been nominated for the same award for the performance of the same song.

Yearwood would win the Grammy as well as a ACM Award for Top Female Vocalist.

Songwriter Gary Baker ("I Swear" "I'm Already There) is 51

Virginia Hensley (Patsy Cline) is born on this day in 1932 in Winchester, Virginia. The iconic singer of songs such as "Crazy" and "I Fall To Pieces," is inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1973. After surviving a head on car crash which nearly took her life in 1961, Cline would perish March 5, 1963, when the plane in which she was a passenger would crash in poor weather. She was 31.

Songwriter Harlan Howard is born in Detroit. Added to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997, his long list of credits includes "I Fall To Pieces," "Why Not Me" and "I've Got A Tiger By The Tail." He would pass of natural causes in 2002 at the age of 74.