Toby Keith Is In Love and Reba Gets Her Day – Today In Country Music History

Toby Keith loved his bar - and we do mean HIS bar - on this date in 2005 and Reba McEntire got her very own day in 2001.

Here's the rundown for Today In Country Music History for 22 June, 2011.

• Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill opened in Oklahoma City in 2005.

• George Strait earned a Number One single in Billboard with "Living And Living Well" in 2002.

• The city of New York celebrated Reba McEntire Day as the singer closed her five-month run on Broadway in a production of Annie Get Your Gun in 2001.

• The Dixie Chicks went gold for the first time with their Wide Open Spaces album in 1998.

• Tracy Lawrence began a three-week run at Number One in Billboard with "Time Marches On" in 1996.

• Shania Twain went platinum for the first time in her career with her album The Woman In Me in 1995.

• Brooks & Dunn made their chart debut with "Brand New Man," which went on to be a Number One hit, in 1991.

• Garth Brooks' "The Thunder Rolls" became his sixth chart-topping hit in 1991.

• Merle Haggard recorded the Number One single "Going Where The Lonely Go" in 1981.

• Kenny Rogers earned his first gold single for "Lucille" in 1977.

• Waylon Jennings charted his first Number One single in Billboard with "This Time" in 1974.

• Roy Drusky joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1959.

• Hank Williams' "Hey, Good Lookin'" was released in 1951.

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Dave D.