‘Hair’ by The Cowsills peaks at #2 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (May 10 1969)

(Saturday, May 10, 1969) — “Hair” by The Cowsills peaked at #2 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks.

May 9 1865: President Andrew Johnson declares American Civil War ‘virtually at an end’
May 9 1945: Soviet forces liberate Czechoslovakia
May 9 1945: Oskar Schindler’s labor camp Brünnlitz liberated
May 9 1945: Stutthof becomes the last Nazi concentration camp liberated by the Allies
May 9 1955: ‘Lucy and Harpo Marx’ episode airs on ‘I Love Lucy’
May 9 1965: The Beatles film four exterior scenes for ‘Help!’ film
May 9 1965: Legendary pianist Horowitz makes a triumphant return to Carnegie Hall after 12 years
May 10 1865: Confederate President Jefferson Davis captured by Union forces
May 10 1965: The Beatles begin filming Buckingham Palace scenes for ‘Help!’ film
May 10 1965: The Beatles record ‘Dizzy Miss Lizzy’ and ‘Bad Boy’
May 10 1975: Sony begins selling its Betamax home videocassette recorder in Japan
May 10 1975: ‘Young Americans’ by David Bowie peaks at #28 in USA
May 10 1975: ‘Walking in Rhythm’ by The Blackbyrds peaks at #6 in USA
May 11 1935: Rural Electrification Administration (REA) created
May 11 1945: USS Bunker Hill attacked, severely damaged off Okinawa
May 11 1965: The Beatles wrap up filming for ‘Help!’
May 11 1985: ‘New Attitude’ by Patti LaBelle peaks at #17 in USA
May 11 1985: ‘Some Like It Hot’ by The Power Station peaks at #6 in USA
May 11 1985: ‘Crazy for You’ by Madonna peaks at #1 in USA

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: >Andrew Johnson-(vacant)
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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