Who Won CMA Entertainer of the Year The Year You Were Born?

It's nuts reading over the list of past CMA Entertainer of the Year Award winners. Tomorrow night on ABC, a country artist will take home the prized award that was first handed out in 1967. Who won the first Entertainer of the Year Award at the CMA's?

The nominees for this year's biggest award are:

1. Blake Shelton (won in 2012)
2. George Strait (won in 1989, 1990, 2013)
3. Keith Urban (won in 2005)
4. Luke Bryan
5. Miranda Lambert

Wow, how things change. Here are the nominees in 1967:

1. Eddy Arnold
2. Bill Anderson
3. Merle Haggard
4. Sonny James
5. Buck Owens

Eddy Arnold took home the trophy that year.One year after he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. (no one else has duplicated that feat)

Here is the complete list of past Entertainer of the Year winners. Charlie Rich won the year I was born!!

1967 Eddy Arnold
1968 Glen Campbell
1969 Johnny Cash
1970 Merle Haggard
1971 Charley Pride
1972 Loretta Lynn (first female winner)
1973 Roy Clark
1974 Charlie Rich
1975 John Denver
1976 Mel Tillis
1977 Ronnie Milsap
1978 Dolly Parton
1979 Willie Nelson
1980 Barbara Mandrell
1981 Barbara Mandrell (first back-to-back winner)
1982 Alabama (first group to win)
1983 Alabama
1984 Alabama (tied for longest category win streak – 3)
1985 Ricky Skaggs
1986 Reba McEntire
1987 Hank Williams, Jr.
1988 Hank Williams, Jr.
1989 George Strait
1990 George Strait
1991 Garth Brooks
1992 Garth Brooks
1993 Vince Gill
1994 Vince Gill
1995 Alan Jackson
1996 Brooks & Dunn
1997 Garth Brooks
1998 Garth Brooks (tied for most category wins – 4)
1999 Shania Twain
2000 Dixie Chicks (first all-female group to win)
2001 Tim McGraw
2002 Alan Jackson
2003 Alan Jackson
2004 Kenny Chesney
2005 Keith Urban
2006 Kenny Chesney
2007 Kenny Chesney
2008 Kenny Chesney (tied for longest category win streak  3; tied, most category wins 4)
2009 Taylor Swift
2010 Brad Paisley
2011 Taylor Swift
2012 Blake Shelton
2013 George Strait (most years between wins – 23)