American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Tracy Byrd

Tracy Lynn Byrd is an American country music artist. Signed to MCA Nashville Records in 1992, Byrd broke through on the country music scene that year with his 1993 single "Holdin' Heaven", which reached Number One on Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks. Although he did not land a second Number One until 2002's "Ten Rounds with Jose Cuervo", Byrd has charted more than thirty hit singles in his career, including eleven additional Top Ten hits. He has also released ten studio albums and two greatest-hits albums, with four gold certifications and one double-platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America.

Born

1966

December 17

Died

Living

Era

1960s

Country

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Tracy, in brief

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What else happened on this day, through history

-497 The first Saturnalia festival is celebrated in ancient Rome.
546 Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Eastern Roman garrison.
920 Romanos I Lekapenos is crowned co-emperor of the underage Constantine VII.
942 Assassination of William I of Normandy.

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The world in 1966

When Tracy arrived

april 21 Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
april 22 American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D crashes on approach to Ardmore Municipal Airport in Ardmore, Oklahoma, killing 83.
april 23 Aeroflot Flight 2723 crashes into the Caspian Sea off the Absheron Peninsula, killing 33 people.
april 26 The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.

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Arthur Fiedler 1894–1979 American conductor (died 1979) Chelsea Manning 1987– American soldier and intelligence analyst Chuck Liddell 1969– American mixed martial artist and kick-boxer Humphry Davy 1778–1829 English chemist and physicist (died 1829) John Kennedy Toole 1937–1969 American novelist (died 1969) Kerry Packer 1937–2005 Australian businessman, founded World Series Cricket (died 2005) Paul Tracy 1968– Canadian race car driver and sportscaster Roger L'Estrange 1616– English pamphleteer and author (died 1704) Ryan Hunter-Reay 1980– American race car driver

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Jimmy Wales 1966– American-British entrepreneur, co-founder of Wikipedia Allan Donald 1966– South African cricketer and coach Andrew Adamson 1966– New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter Andrew Wood 1966–1990 American singer-songwriter (died 1990) Ben Folds 1966– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Bill Ranford 1966– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Calvin Borel 1966– American jockey Charles Hazlewood 1966– English conductor Cynthia Nixon 1966– American actress

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