‘Easy’ by Commodores peaks at #4 in USA 40 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Aug 27 1977)

(Saturday, August 27, 1977) — “Easy” by Commodores peaked at #4 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks.

May 1 1945: Germans announce Adolf Hitler is dead
May 1 1965: ‘Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter’ by Herman’s Hermits peaks at #1 in USA
May 2 1885: Good Housekeeping magazine first published
May 2 1945: Germans surrender Berlin to Soviet forces
May 2 1945: Nazi concentration camp Wöbbelin liberated
May 2 1945: Fascist extermination camp Jasenovac fully liberated around this date
May 3 1765: First medical school in North America established in Philadelphia
May 3 1865: Abraham Lincoln returns to Springfield, Illinois
May 3 1945: Allied forces recapture Rangoon from the Japanese
May 3 1965: The Beatles begin a three-day Salisbury Plain shoot for ‘Help!’ film
May 3 1975: ‘He Don’t Love You (Like I Love You)’ by Tony Orlando and Dawn peaks at #1 in USA
May 3 1975: ‘Chevy Van’ by Sammy Johns peaks at #5 in USA
May 3 1975: ‘Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance)’ by Leo Sayer peaks at #9 in USA

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@ Appointed VP under the 25th Amendment
* Owned slaves while in office

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