11 Timelines

TIMELINE OF DOLLY PARTON'S LIFE 1946 Born January 19 in Sevier County, Tennessee 1956 First radio appearance 1964 Graduates from Sevierville High School; goes to Nashville 1966 Records with Monument Records; marries Carl Dean 1967 First appears on The Porter Wagoner Show 1969 "Becomes a member of the Grand Ole Opry 1971 Joshua" and "Coat of Many Colors" are hits 1973 "Jolene" is a hit 1974 Ends working with Porter. CMA Artist of the Year; "I Will Always Love You" is a hit 1977 New band: Gypsy Fever 1978 Is awarded CMA Entertainer of the Year 1980 Movie Nine to Five opens 1986 Dollywood opens 1987 Trio with Ronstadt and Harris wins Grammy award 1988 Founds Dollywood Foundation 1989 Movie Steel Magnolias opens 1994 Receives first Living Legend award from the US Library of Congress

1999 s Inducted into CMA Hall of Fame 2004 Receives second Living Legend award 2005 Receives National Medal of Arts 2009 Receives honorary doctorate from The University of Tennessee 2012 Publishes Dream More 2013 The Imagination Library gives away its fifty millionth book

TIMELINE OF THE WORLD 1939 World War II begins 1945 World War II ends 1949 George Orwell's 1984 is published 1955 Patsy Cline begins recording for Four Star Records 1956 Elvis records his hit "Heartbreak Hotel" 1959 Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richards are killed in a plane crash Barbie doll is introduced 1963 US President John F. Kennedy is shot and killed 1964 Beatlemania hits the United States 1967 A huge protest takes place against the Vietnam War in Washington, DC 1969 Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon The Woodstock music festival takes place in August in upstate New York 1974 President Richard Nixon resigns 1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman prime minister of Great Britain 1980 John Lennon is shot dead in New York City 1981 MTV starts broadcasting rock music videos 1993 The first House of Blues opens On September 11, terrorists attack the Twin Towers in New

York City and the Pentagon in Washington, DC 2003 The Iraq War begins 2009 Barack Obama becomes the first African American president of the United States 2011 The Iraq War ends