Connie’s first chart success reached Billboard’s #4 spot

Samuel Moore "Sam" Walton (March 29, 1918 – April 5, 1992) was a
businessman and entrepreneur born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma best known
for founding the retailers Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club. Walton’s career began
when he joined JP Penney as a management trainee in Des Moines, Iowa
three days after graduating from college in 1940. In 1945, after a stint in
the U.S. Army, Walton took over management of his first variety store. 

The first true Wal-Mart opened on July 2, 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas.

Popular Late night TV host David Letterman (above) attend Ball State University,
in Muncie, Indiana where he began his broadcasting career as an announcer and newscaster at the college’s student-run radio station…WBST, a 10-watt campus
station which now is part of Indiana public radio. He was reportedly fired for treating classical music with “irreverence”. He graduated from what was then the college’s  Department of Radio and Television, in 1969. 

David Letterman on the Late show set

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, born October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969,
was a five-star general in the U.S. Army and the 34th President of the United
States, from 1953 until 1961, and the last to be born in the 19th century.

General “Ike”