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Article: Mississippi matters of fact.(heritage matters: looking back)(Calendar)
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- Mississippi Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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5 (1942) Wynette Pugh, better known as country music singer Tammy Wynette, was born in her grandparents' home in rural Itawamba County near the Alabama state line.
8 (1541) Spanish explorer Hernando DeSoto discovered the Mississippi River, but he did not name it because it was already named by Spanish cartographers "Rio del Espiritu Santo," the River of the Holy Spirit.
11 (1887) A 6" by 8" gopher turtle, completely encased in ice, fell from the sky near Bovina in Warren County.
16 (1936) Responding to a contest at Ole Miss for a football team nickname, Ben Guider, an Ole Miss alumnus, was the first to suggest "Rebels" in a letter ...