This Music City-meets-Tinseltown story started in 1990, when the actress went backstage to meet the country singer after his New Year's Eve concert in Houston, Texas.
Tim McGraw found his Southern Voice on this date in 2009, Travis Tritt turned Trouble into gold in 1992 and Clint Black and Lisa Hartman got married in 1991.
Here's the list for Today In Country Music History for 20 October, 2011.