192 JULY | AUGUST 2019(1905) Poet and author Thomas Paul Strange, who wrote Friendly
Foods: There is No Amount of Money BIG Enough to Buy the Things
you Will Learn from This Book, If You Try, was born on the banks of
Hatchie Creek in Tippah County.(1942) Don Kessinger, an All-American basketball and baseball player at Ole Miss
who also played Major League Baseball as a shortstop for the Chicago Cubs
(1964-1979), was born in Forrest City, Arkansas.(1928) Hundreds of people crowded into downtown Tupelo when local mer-
chants gave away a $500 Jersey cow.(1978) The Natchez-area antebellum home Lansdowne, named for the Mar-
quess of Lansdowne, which was featured in the 1951 movie “Show Boat,” was
placed on the National Register of Historic Places.(1917) The Union County Chapter of the American Red Cross was
organized at New Albany.(2000) Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Farve, a native of Gulfport who
grew up in Kiln, gave $20,000 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Mississippi.1856) Gail Borden, who lived for a time at Liberty in Amite County,
where he performed most of his experiments, received a patent for
the “concentration of milk,” known today as condensed milk.(1990) The world premiere of the psychological drama “Blind Ven-
geance” starring Collins native Gerald McRaney, aired on cable
T V.(1977) The Briars, home of William B. Howell of Natchez—where 37-year-old
Jefferson Davis married Varina Howell on February 26, 1845, just eight months
before he was elected a U.S. Congressman from Mississippi—was added to the
National Register of Historic Places.(1933) Max D. Cooper, a Laureate of the 2018 Japan Prize for his discoveries
which have formed the underpinnings of medical advances ranging from bone
marrow stem cell transplants to antibodies for the treatment of autoimmune
diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, was born in Hazlehurst.7.17
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