1997 Mississippi becomes 1st state to settle tobacco suit
1995 Mississippi House of Representatives formally abolishes slavery and ratifies 13th Amendment
1988 Kristen Logan, 17, of Mississippi, crowned America's Junior Miss
1987 Kristi Addis, of Mississippi, crowned 5th Miss Teen USA
1987 BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to the University of Mississippi
1980 Cara Lewis, Miss Mississippi Teen USA, 1997
1977 Brandee Layne Loving, Miss Mississippi Teen USA 1996
1975 Arleen McDonald, Miss USA 1977, Mississippi
1973 Monica Louwerens, Greenville Mississippi, Miss America, Miss-Top 10-1996
1973 Kari Litton, born in Pontotoc, Mississippi, Miss America, Mississippi-Top 10-1997
1973 Caroline Ramagos, Miss Mississippi USA, 1996
1972 Mississippi Fred McDowell, jazz artist, dies at 68
1972 Howard Battle, born in Biloxi, Mississippi, infielder for the Philadelphia Phillies
1971 Series of tornadoes cuts through Mississippi and Louisiana killing 117
1970 Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College
1969 Beth Howell, born in Clinton, Mississippi, Miss Mississippi-America, 1991
1968 Jeff Barlow, born in Jackson, Mississippi, Nike golfer, 1994 NIKE Carolina Classic-5th
1967 Ruthie Bolton, McClain Mississippi, basketball guard, 1996 Olympics gold
1967 Jeff Branson, Waynesboro Mississippi, infielder for the Cincinnati Reds
1966 Mississippi John Hurt, rocker, dies at 73
1966 Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi
1966 Twister hits Jackson, Mississippi; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die
1966 -19 degrees F (-28 degrees C), Corinth, Mississippi (state record)
1965 Glen Hnatiuk, Selkirk Manitoba, Nike golfer, 1992 Mississippi Gulf
1964 Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam
1963 James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate from University of Mississippi
1963 [Michael] Tony Dees, Pascagoula, Mississippi, hurdler
1963 Todd Graves, born in Laurel, Mississippi, skeet, Olympics 1992, 1996
1962 James Meredith became 1st black at University of Mississippi
1962 John F. Kennedy routes 3,000 federal troops to Mississippi
1962 James Meredith registers for classes at University of Mississippi
1962 John F. Kennedy authorized use of federal troops to integrate University of Mississippi
1961 James Meredith refused access as a student in Mississippi
1961 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi
1959 Missy Cleveland, Jackson, Mississippi, playmate, April, 1979
1957 Park Overall, born in Tennessee, actress, Laverne-Empty Nest, Mississippi Burning
1956 Sela Ward, born in Meridian, Mississippi, actress, Hilary-Emerald Point NAS, Sisters
1956 Eric Roberts, born in Mississippi, actor, Pope of Greenwich Village, King of Gypsies
1955 Yolanda King, actress, Fluke, Ghosts of Mississippi
1955 Willem Dafoe, born in Wisconsin, actor, Platoon, Roadhouse 66, Mississippi Burning
1955 Paul Overstreet, born in Van Cleave, Mississippi, country singer, Daddy's Come Around
1955 Lusia Mae Harris, Minter City Mississippi, basketball player, Oly-silver-76
1954 Oprah Winfrey, born in Mississippi, actress/TV host, Color Purple, Oprah
1953 Ralph Ezell, born in Unio,n Mississippi, singer, Shenandoah-Sunday in the South
1952 Stan Shaw, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Mississippi, Roots Next Generation
1952 Beth Henley, Jackson, Mississippi, actress/playwright, Miss Firecracker
1952 F Durrenmatt's "Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi," premieres in Munich
1952 Tornadoes in Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky cause 343 deaths
1951 100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi River in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Illinois
1951 Mississippi Valley State University founded
1951 Dick Mast, born in Bluffton, Ohio, Nike golfer, 1990 Mississippi Gulf Coast
1949 Spencer Haywood, born in Silver City, Mississippi, NBAer, Oly-gold-1968, Knicks
1948 Chris LeDoux, Biloxi Mississippi, country singer, Ridin' for a Fall
1948 Gerald McRaney, born in Collins, Mississippi, actor, Rick-Simon and Simon, Major Dad
1947 Gerald McRaney, Collins Mississippi, actor, Simon and Simon, Major Dad
1947 Barbara Ann Ferrell Edmondson, born in Mississippi, 4x100m runner, 1968 Olympics gold
1947 Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 and causes $850M in damage
1947 Eddie Hodges, born in Mississippi, actor/singer, High Hopes, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1947 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood CA
1946 Alfred Jones, born in Grace, Mississippi, middleweight boxer 1968 Olympics bronze
1946 Jessi B. Wilson, Mississippi, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List
1945 Hattie Winston, born in Greenville, Mississippi, actress on Nurse, Electric Company
1944 Bobbie Gentry, Mississippi, singer and songwriter, Ode to Billy Joe
1944 Johnny Winter, [John Dawson], Leland Mississippi, guitarist, Silver Train
1942 Linda G Miller, born in New York City, actress, Night of the Juggler, Mississippi
1942 Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River
1941 Quincey Daniels, born in Biloxi, Mississippi, boxer 1960 Olympics bronze
1941 David Ruffin, Mississippi, vocalist, Temptations-Papa Was a Rolling Stone
1940 John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hours 46 mins in the Mississippi River
1939 Jerry Butler, Sunflower Mississippi, rock vocalist, Never Give You Up
1939 Ralph Boston, Laurel, Mississippi, long jumper, Oly-gold/sil/brz-60, 64, 68
1938 Charley Pride, born in Sledge, Mississippi, country singer, Sweet Country
1938 Jack Knight, Somerville Mississippi, actor, Mr Shamley-James at 15
1937 Richard H Truly, Fayette Mississippi, Rear Adm USN/astro, STS T-2, T-4, 2, 8
1936 Stella Stevens, born in Yazoo City, Mississippi, actress, Girls! Girls!, Manitou
1936 Jim Henson, born in Greenville, Mississippi, muppeteer, Sesame Street, Muppet Show
1936 Tupelo Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die
1933 Fred W. Haise, Jr., Biloxi Mississippi, astronaut, Apollo 13 STS T-1, T-3, T-5
1933 Donald Herod Peterson, Winona Mississippi, Col USAF/astronaut, STS 6
1933 Conway Twitty, born in Mississippi, country singer, Hello Darlin'
1933 Unita Blackwell, 1st black mayor in Mississippi
1933 Lee Calhoun, Laurel Mississippi, hurdler, Olympics gold 56, 60
1932 Diane Ladd, Meridian Mississippi, actress, Wild Angels, Wild at Heart
1931 Ike Turner, Mississippi, AKA Mr. Tina Turner!, guitarist, A Fool in Love
1931 James Earl Jones, Mississippi, actor, Darth Vader, Exorcist II, Soul Man
1930 Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minn, to New Orleans
1930 115 degrees F (46 degrees C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record)
1928 Bo Diddley, [Ellas Bates], Mississippi, rock 'n' roll pioneer, Bo Diddley
1927 Mose Allison, Tippo Mississippi, jazz artist, Black Country Suite
1927 Leontyne Mary Violet Price, Laurel Mississippi, opera soprano, Porgy and Bess
1926 Jerry Clower, Amite County Mississippi, country comedian, Nashville on Road
1926 Beah Richards, born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, actress/playwright, Big Shot, Generation
1925 B[lues] B[oy] King, Itta Bena Mississippi, blues singer, Thrill is Gone
1925 Jimmy Reed, born in Mississippi, blues singer, Soulin', Big Boss Man
1923 Albert King, born in Mississippi, blues singer/guitarist, Bad Look Blues
1922 Phil Gordon, Meridian Mississippi, singer and actor, Jasper-Bev Hillbillies
1921 Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co
1920 Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama and Mississippi
1920 Tornadoes killed 219 people in Alabama and Mississippi
1918 Gerald Wilson, Shelby Mississippi, orch leader, Redd Foxx
1918 Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition)
1917 John Lee Hooker, born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, blues guitarist, Canned Heat
1917 Shakey, [Walter Horton], Mississippi, harmonicist, Everybody's Fishin'
1917 Rufus Thomas, born in Mississippi, singer, Walking the Dog
1916 Winson Hudson, community activist, rural Mississippi
1915 Hurricane claims 275 in Mississippi Delta
1915 Willie Dixon, born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, bassist, Walkin' the Blues
1914 Eddie Boyd, blues vocal/pianist, Mississippi
1914 Dovie Hudson, community activist in rural Mississippi
1911 Tennessee Williams, born in Columbus, Mississippi, playwright, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1910 Lehman Engel, Jackson, Mississippi, conductor/comp, Streetcar Named Desire
1909 Eudora Welty, born in Jackson, Mississippi, novelist, Optimist's Daughter-Pulitzer 1973
1909 Dana Andrews, Collins Mississippi, actor, Battle of the Bulge, Laura
1908 Walter L "Red" Barber, Mississippi, sports announcer, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yanks
1906 Edward Lansing Gordon, Jr., Jackson, Mississippi, long jumper, Olympics gold 32
1905 Frederick O'Neal, Brooksville Mississippi, actor, Car 54 Where Are You
1904 Mississippi Fred McDowell, jazz artist
1897 William Faulkner, Mississippi, author, Sound and Fury-Nobel 1949
1897 Jimmie Rodgers, Mendoza Mississippi, country singer/singing brakeman
1895 William Grant Still, Woodville Mississippi, composer, Afro-American
1893 3rd worst hurricane in U.S. history kills 1,800 (Mississippi)
1893 Mississippi John Hurt, rocker
1893 "Big Bill" Broonzy, born in Mississippi, blues singer/guitarist, Blues by Broonzy
1892 Roscoe Ates, Grange Mississippi, actor, Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass
1892 Dumas Malone, Mississippi, historian, Jefferson and His Time
1886 Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 blacks killed
1884 Mississippi establishes 1st U.S. state college for women
1884 Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana kill 800 people
1883 John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi
1880 Mahlon Hamilton, born in Virginia, actor, Honky Tonk, High School Girl, Mississippi
1875 President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, Mississippi
1870 John Lomax, Mississippi, folk song collector/ethnomusicologist
1870 Mississippi is readmitted to U.S.
1870 Mississippi becomes 9th state readmitted to U.S. after Civil War
1868 Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both Confederate and Union graves
1868 Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson
1866 President Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia
1865 Battle of Grand Gulf, Mississippi
1865 Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 1,547. 1450 of 2000 paroled Union POWs on their way home are killed when river steamer "Sultana" blows up
1864 Battle of Smith's Expedition, Mississippi (Tupelo, Harrisburg)
1864 2nd/last day of Battle of Okolona, Mississippi
1864 Battle at Okolona, Mississippi
1864 Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek and Wyatt, Mississippi
1864 Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi
1864 Skirmish at Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi
1864 Sherman's march through Mississippi
1863 Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi
1863 Battle of Jackson, Mississippi and Battle of Birdsong Ferry, Mississippi
1863 Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces
1863 Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi
1863 Battle of Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi
1863 Battle of Jackson, Mississippi
1863 Battle of Raymond, Mississippi
1863 Battle of Tupelo, Mississippi
1863 Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi
1863 Skirmish at Okolona/Birmingham, Mississippi (Grierson's Raid)
1862 Armies of Mississippi/Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee
1862 Battle of Corinth, Mississippi
1862 Battle at Iuka Mississippi (1,700 casualties)
1862 Battle at Booneville Mississippi: Confed superior power driven out
1862 Battle of Booneville, Mississippi - captured Gen Beauregard evacuates Corinth
1862 Battle of Farmington, Mississippi
1862 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth, Mississippi
1862 Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River
1862 Ulysses S. Grant begins military campaign in Mississippi
1861 Confederate ironclad Manassas attack Union's Richmond on Mississippi
1861 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and 4 other southern senators resign
1861 US forts and property seized by Mississippi
1861 Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede
1855 1st train crosses Mississippi River's 1st bridge, Rock Island, Illinois to Davenport Iowa
1842 Natchex Mississippi, hit by tornado; about 500 die
1837 "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies
1834 1st published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)
1832 Source of Mississippi River discovered, Henry R. Schoolcraft
1823 1st steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River arrives at Ft. Snelling
1817 Mississippi admitted as 20th state
1817 1st Mississippi "Showboat," leaves Nashville on maiden voyage
1817 Mississippi River steamboat service begins
1817 Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory and Mississippi
1811 Earthquake in Missouri caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards
1804 Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
1798 Mississippi Territory organized
1795 Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi
1795 Pinckney's Treaty between Spain and U.S. is signed, establishing southern boundary of U.S. and giving Americans right to send goods down Mississippi
1770 Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a U.S. Senator (Mississippi)
1682 Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
1673 Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi
1542 Hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R
1541 Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River
1541 Hernan de Soto observes 1st recorded flood in America (Mississippi R)
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