Portal:Tennessee/Selected anniversaries/January

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• January 1, 1953 - Death of Hank Williams in a chauffeured Cadillac somewhere between Knoxville, Tennessee, and Oak Hill, West Virginia.
• January 3, 1863 - Following the Battle of Stones River, defeated Confederate Army troops commanded by General Braxton Bragg began their retreat from Murfreesboro to Tullahoma.
• January 7, 1985 - General Motors announced the formation of the Saturn Corporation as a new corporate division. Later that year the company selected Spring Hill, Tennessee, as the location for Saturn's manufacturing plant.
• January 19, 1946 - Dolly Parton, country music singer, songwriter and composer, was born in Sevierville.
• January 20, 2004 - The first day of ticket sales in the Tennessee Lottery
• January 31, 1981 - Justin Timberlake, pop and R&B singer, was born in Memphis.