Kitty Wells (Ellen Muriel Deason) (August 30, 1919 – July 16, 2012)

Wells ranks as the sixth most successful female vocalist in the history of
Billboard‘s country charts, Her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn’t God Who
Made Honky Tonk Angels", made her the first female country singer to
have a number-one hit. 

                          
                                        Camille Bohannon

"Oh, Pretty Woman" was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee spent three
weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. 1999, it was honored with
a Grammy Hall of Fame Award and was named one of the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In 2004, Rolling
Stone magazine ranked it #222 on their list of the “500 Greatest Songs
of All Time.”

 
One hundred nine days after launch, Mariner 2 flies by Venus

Mariner 2 was the first robotic space probe in the NASA program to reach the
vicinity of the planet Venus in December of the same year..

President John F. Kennedy (right) receives a Mariner 2 model from NASA
representatives in 1961