Tim Maguire

Carlos Santana is 67 years old today. He began playing the
guitar when he was eight.

Vikki Carr (Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona)
Born in El Paso, Texas

The three-time Grammy Award-winning pop singer has performed in
a variety of music genres from Jazz to country. Her greatest success
has been singing in Spanish. She is best remembered for her 1967
hit single “It Must Be Him” which reached number three on the pop
chart and spent three weeks at number one on the easy listening
chart.
 

From left: Elvis Presley, bass player Bill Black, guitarist Scotty Moore and
Sam Phillips in the control booth

“That’ All Right” sold around 20,000 copies. It was not enough to
chart nationally, but the single reached number four on the local
Memphis charts. The song is at #113 on the 2010 Rolling Stone
magazine list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".    

John Herschel Glenn, Jr.

John Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962 and in 1998 became
the oldest person to go to space. He was a recipient of the Congressional Space
Medal of Honor and Presidential Medal of Freedom.