Statue of Saint Patrick located on the Hill of Tara in Ireland 
 

Saint Patrick’s Day is a cultural and religious holiday that commemorates Saint
Patrick (AD 387-461), the most commonly recognized of the patron saints of
Ireland, and the arrival of Christianity to the country.The holiday was celebrated
in New York City for the first time in 1756. The event took place at the Crown
and Thistle Tavern..

According to legend, Saint Patrick used the the three-
leaved clover (Shamrock), to explain the Holy Trinity
to the pre-Christian people of Ireland.

Project Vanguard was a program of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. When 
the agency launched Vanguard 1, it became the second artificial satellite to be
placed successfully in Earth orbit by the United States. It was the first solar-
powered satellite. It is the oldest satellite still in space, as it’s predecessors,
Sputnik 1, Sputnik 2, and Explorer 1, have fallen out of orbit.

 
                Nat King Cole , born Nathaniel Adams Coles 

                       (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965)

Nat King Cole first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. He was
one of the first black Americans to host a television variety show, The Nat
King Cole Show which debuted on November 5, 1956 on NBC-TV. Cole has
remained popular since his death from lung cancer at 45. In 2000, He was
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the major influences
on early rock and roll.

"When I Fall In Love” was recorded on December 28, 1956  

Natalie Cole with his daughter Natalie

After operatic vocal training, Margaret Truman, the only child of President Harry S. 
Truman, began a singing career with a debut radio recital on ABC. Reviewers were 
not always kind, such as Washington Post music critic Paul Hume who wrote that 
Truman was “extremely attractive on stage…(but) cannot sing very well.” She
continued to performed on stage, radio, and television until the mid-1950s.

Bess, Harry, and Margaret Truman standing in front of the
Independence, the official presidential plane.

"(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay" is a song co-written by soul singer Otis
Redding and and guitarist Steve Cropper. It was recorded by Redding in
1967, just days before his death in a plane crash near Madison, Wisconsin
on December 10. The record was released on February 23, 1968 and
became the first posthumous number-one single in US music chart history.