‘(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone’ by Aretha Franklin peaks at #5 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 30 1968)

(Saturday, March 30, 1968) — “(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone” by Aretha Franklin at #5 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for five weeks.

Apr 23 1945: Nazi concentration camp Flossenbürg liberated
Apr 23 1945: U.S. President Truman confronts Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov on Poland
Apr 23 1965: ‘I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)’ by Four Tops released
Apr 23 1975: 100,000 North Vietnamese troops advance on Saigon
Apr 23 1975: President Ford declares Vietnam War is ‘finished as far as America is concerned’
Apr 23 1985: Coca-Cola introduces ill-fated sweeter ‘New Coke’ soft drink
Apr 24 1865: Lincoln funeral train arrives in New York City
Apr 24 1915: Armenian Genocide begins as Ottoman authorities arrest, deport hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and leaders from Constantinople
Apr 24 1945: Eyewitnesses provide filmed testimonies of Nazi atrocities
Apr 24 1945: U.S. Secretary of War Henry Stimson requests meeting with President Truman to discuss ‘highly secret matter’
Apr 24 1965: ‘The Game of Love’ by Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders peaks at #1 in USA
Apr 24 1965: ‘Tired of Waiting for You’ by The Kinks peaks at #6 in USA
Apr 24 1965: ‘Ticket to Ride’ by The Beatles debuts at #59 in USA
Apr 24 1975: Badfinger’s Pete Ham takes his own life

2015: Barack Obama-Joe Biden
2005: George W. Bush-Dick Cheney
1995: Bill Clinton-Al Gore
1985: Ronald Reagan-George H.W. Bush
1975: #Gerald Ford-@Nelson Rockefeller
1965: Lyndon B. Johnson-Hubert Humphrey
1955: Dwight D. Eisenhower-Richard Nixon
1945: >Harry S. Truman-(vacant)
1935: Franklin D. Roosevelt-John N. Garner
1925: Calvin Coolidge-Charles G. Dawes
1915: Woodrow Wilson-Thomas R. Marshall
1905: Theodore Roosevelt-Charles Fairbanks
1895: Grover Cleveland-Adlai Stevenson I
1885: Grover Cleveland-Thomas Hendricks
1875: Ulysses S. Grant-Henry Wilson
1865: Abraham Lincoln-Andrew Johnson
1855: Franklin Pierce-(vacant)
1845: *James K. Polk-George M. Dallas
1835: *Andrew Jackson-Martin Van Buren
1825: John Quincy Adams-John C. Calhoun
1815: *James Madison-(vacant)
1805: *Thomas Jefferson-George Clinton
1795: *George Washington-John Adams
> Ascended to presidency intra-term upon death or resignation of predecessor and in Ford’s case #, after being appointed VP under 25th Amendment
@ Appointed VP under the 25th Amendment
* Owned slaves while in office

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