Milestones Jan. 19, 1998

MARRIED. KEVIN SORBO, 39, pectorally perfect star of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and inspiration for a thousand devotional Websites; and Chicago Hope actress Sam Jenkins; in Pacific Palisades.

INAUGURATED. CHUCK BURRIS, 46, first African-American mayor of Stone Mountain, Ga., longtime headquarters of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

DIED. OWEN BRADLEY, 82, country-music impresario and creator of the "Nashville sound," which helped push the genre into the mainstream; in Nashville, Tenn. In 1955 Bradley opened the first recording studio in Nashville, where he later crafted some of country music's most enduring tunes, including I Fall to Pieces with Patsy...

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