On June 8, 1974, Dolly Parton s I Will Always Love You started its first and only week at No. 1 on the charts. It was the second chart-topper from her
Jolene album the title track also spent a week at No. 1 earlier in the year and was certified gold in 2017.
The lyrics of I Will Always Love You assert a woman s need to move forward, while still expressing gratitude for her past. They re based on a true story, Parton told the
Tennessean in 2015: She wanted to explain her decision to leave
The Porter Wagoner Show and strike out on her own. How am I gonna make [Wagoner] understand how much I appreciate everything, but that I have to go? Parton says she thought to herself. So I went home and I thought, Well, what do you do best? You write songs. So I sat down and I wrote this song.
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May 6, 1954: Medical student Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile during a track meet in Oxford, England, in 3:59.4.
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1527: Unpaid troops loyal to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V attacked Rome, forcing Pope Clement VII to flee to safety; some scholars mark the ensuing sack of the city as the end of the Renaissance in Italy.
1882: President Chester Alan Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese immigrants from the U.S. for 10 years (Arthur had opposed an earlier version with a 20-year ban).
1910: Britain s Edwardian era ended with the death of King Edward VII; he was succeeded by George V.