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August 4, 1977 (Thursday) The United States Department of Energy was created as U.S. President Carter signed legislation into law. Former U.S. Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger was sworn into office the next day as the first U.S. Secretary of Energy, and the DOE began operations on October 1.
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits of 1977. That year, 18 acts earned their first number one songs, such as Leo Sayer, Rose Royce, Mary MacGregor, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Daryl Hall and John Oates, ABBA, David Soul, Thelma Houston, Fleetwood Mac, Bill Conti, Alan O'Day, Shaun Cassidy, Andy Gibb, The Emotions, Meco, and Debby ...
44. November 2, 1977. Oh, God! $1,320,452. Oh, God! reached number one in its fourth week of release. It grossed $1,508,511 nationally for the weekend ended October 30. Star Wars placed third on the chart based on 98 theaters but grossed $3,292,879 for the same period nationally from 739 theaters.
The longest running number-one single of 1997 is "Candle in the Wind 1997"/"Something About the Way You Look Tonight", which logged 14 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Two of those weeks were logged in 1998 while the remaining 12 were attained in 1997. With "Honey" becoming her 12th #1 single, Mariah Carey broke the record for most #1 ...
Way Down. " Way Down " is a song recorded by Elvis Presley. Recorded in October 1976, it was his last single released before his death on August 16, 1977. The song was written by Layng Martine Jr. and recorded by Presley at his home studio in Graceland on 29 October 1976. Released as a single (with "Pledging My Love" on the B-side) on June 6 ...
The "Happy Days" star on the 1977 shark jump that entered TV history. ... Henry Winkler jumps the shark in a notorious Happy Days episode that created a lasting meme.
The 1976–77 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1976 to August 1977. Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of older programming are orange, game shows are pink ...
August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) ... German economist and statistician (d. 1977) 1912 – Ted Drake, English footballer and manager (d. 1995)