The Paul McCartney / Stevie Wonder duet “Ebony and Ivory” stayed at the top
of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a total of seven weeks.

 
Sandy Kozel

NASA Astronaut Gordon Cooper

Cooper enters Faith 7 for his flight

Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, Jr., USAF piloted the longest and last
Mercury spaceflight in Faith 7 for 34 hours, 19 minutes and 49 seconds
for a total of 22 orbits to evaluate the effects of one day in space. The
Mercury project officially ended on June 12, 1963. 

Cooper after the flight, becoming the last U.S. astronaut
to orbit the Earth alone.

Trini Lopez (Trinidad López III) was born in Dallas, Texas where he 
began is career in the Vegas Club, a nightclub owned by Jack 
Ruby. His first big hit was “If I Had a Hammer”.