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//October
today[10]     = new Array()
today[10][30] = "<b>1960:</b> <i>The Graduation Dress,</i> teleplay by <a href=\"/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/index.html\">William Faulkner</a> and Joan Williams, was broadcast on <i>General Electric Theatre</i>."
today[10][31] = "<b>1916:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/bell_charles_g/index.html\">Charles G. Bell</a> was born in Greenville, Mississippi. <br><b>1924:</b> <a  href=\"/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/index.html\">William Faulkner</a> resigned as postmaster for the University, Mississippi, post office. <br><b>1953:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/index.html\">William Faulkner</a> returned to New York after leaving Oxford, Mississippi, the previous year (mid-November) to work on <i>A Fable</i> in Princeton and New York. He alternated between there and Oxford."

//November
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today[11][1]  = "<b>1900:</b> English professor Walter Fuller Taylor was born in Clinton, Mississippi.<br><b>1926:</b> Theologian James Earl Sellers was born in Lucedale, Mississippi.<br><b>1941:</b> Novelist Jessie Rosenberg was born in Greenville, Mississippi.<br><b>1944:</b> Fiction writer Karen Beth Luckett was born in Canton, Mississippi."
today[11][2]  = "<b>1919:</b> English professor Gwin Jackson Kolb was born in Aberdeen, Mississippi.<br><b>1934:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/index.html\">William Faulkner</a> published the short story &#147;Raid&#148; in the <i>Saturday Evening Post</i>.<br><b>1947:</b> Poet and educator Rose Parkman Davis was born in Silver Creek, Mississippi.<br><b>1974:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/williams_tennessee/index.html\">Tennessee Williams</a>&#146; play <i>Battle of Angels</i> opened at Circle Theatre in New York, 34 years after its Boston premiere.<br><b>1980:</b> Journalist and editor George W. Healy, Jr., died.<br><b>1980:</b> Journalist and editor George W. Healy, Jr. died.<br><b>1999:</b> Psychologist Sarah Harman Broman died after a stroke near Washington, D.C."
today[11][3]  = "<b>1903:</b> Psychologist and historian Zed H. Burns was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.<br><b>1915: </b>Educator Jewel Goodgame Varnado was born in Collins, Mississippi.<br><b>1965:</b> Historian William Leo Hansberry died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Chicago, Illinois."
today[11][4]  = "<b>1939:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/index.html\">William Faulkner</a> published &#147;Hands upon the Waters&#148; in the <i>Saturday Evening Post.</i><br><b>1981:</b> <i>Crimes of the Heart</i>, a play by <a href=\"/mwp/dir/henley_beth/index.html\">Beth Henley</a>, premiered on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre. The play would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1981."
today[11][5]  = "<b>1889:</b> Soldier, statesman, railroad-builder and writer <a href=\"/mwp/dir/falkner_william_clark/index.html\">William Clark Falkner</a> was shot and killed by a former business partner in Ripley, Mississippi.<br><b>1919:</b> Psychologist John Calvin Glidewell was born in Okolona, Mississippi.<br><b>1938: </b>English professor and poet <a href=\"/mwp/dir/hamblin_robert/index.html\">Robert W. Hamblin</a> was born in Jericho (Union County), Mississippi.<br><b>1943:</b> Writer <a href=\"/mwp/dir/peavy_linda/index.html\">Linda Peavy</a> was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi."
today[11][6]  = "<b>1848:</b> <a href=\"http://www.olemiss.edu/\">The University of Mississippi</a> opened its first semester of classes, with a class consisting of 79 Mississippians and one Tennessean. The first university president was George Frederick Holmes, a 28-year-old who would remain in office for only five months.<br><b>1918:</b> Medical writer and historian John F. Stegeman was born in Gulfport, Mississippi."
today[11][7]  = "<b>1924:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/williams_tennessee/index.html\">Tennessee Williams</a>&#146; first story, &#147;Isolated,&#148; was published in <i>Junior Life</i>, a bi-weekly newspaper of Blewett Junior High School in St. Louis, Missouri.<br><b>1931:</b> French professor H. Gaston Hall was born in Jackson, Mississippi.<br><b>1940:</b> Historian Jane F. Lancaster was born in Hamilton, Mississippi.<br><b>1941:</b> <i>A Curtain of Green</i> by <a href=\"/mwp/dir/welty_eudora/index.html\">Eudora Welty</a> was published by Doubleday in New York.<br><b>1946:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/percy_walker/index.html\">Walker Percy</a>, aged 30, married Mary Bernice Townsend.<br><b>1981:</b> Novelist, playwright, and film-maker Edwin Corley died of a heart attack in Gulfport, Mississippi.<br><b>1983:</b> Theologian and philosopher James Brown died."
today[11][8]  = "<b>1937:</b> Six photographs by <a href=\"/mwp/dir/welty_eudora/index.html\">Eudora Welty</a> appeared in <i>Life</i> magazine. <br><b>1950:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/index.html\">William Faulkner</a> was notified that he had won the Nobel Prize for literature."
today[11][9]  = "<b>1920:</b> English professor William R. Seat, Jr., was born in Lexington, Mississippi.<br><b>1925:</b> Baptist minister John Warren Steen, Jr., was born in Jackson, Mississippi.<br><b>1997:</b> Writer and University of Mississippi Professor <a href=\"/mwp/dir/ferris_william/index.html\">William R. Ferris</a> was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate as chairman of the <a href=\"http://www.neh.gov/\">National Endowment for the Humanities</a>."
today[11][10] = "<p><b>1901:</b> Educator and translator Olga McCants was born in Magnolia, Mississippi.<br><b>1903:</b> French professor Edward A. Jones was born in Indianola, Mississippi.<br><b>1935:</b> Dean Faulkner, father of <a href=\"/mwp/dir/wells_dean_faulkner/index.html\">Dean Faulkner Wells</a> and youngest brother of <a href=\"/mwp/dir/falkner_murry/index.html\">Murry Falkner</a>, <a href=\"/mwp/dir/faulkner_john/index.html\">John Faulkner</a>, and <a href=\"/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/index.html\">William Faulkner</a>, was killed in a plane crash.<br><b>1940:</b> Writer and former police officer Diane Patricia Muro was born in Tylertown, Mississippi.<br><b>1942:</b> Historian Frederick F. Travis was born in Brookhaven, Mississippi.<br><b>1960:</b> <i>Period of Adjustment High Point over a Cavern,</i> by <a href=\"/mwp/dir/williams_tennessee/index.html\">Tennessee Williams</a>, opened at the Helen Hayes Theatre in New York to &#147;respectful but tepid reviews.&#148;"
today[11][11] = "<b>1914:</b> Historian and memoirist Frank Bogart was born in Meridian, Mississippi.<br><b>1931:</b> Historian Polly Ann Davis was born in Pittsboro, Mississippi.<br><b>1931:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/jordan_winthrop/index.html\">Winthrop Jordan</a> was born in Worcester, Massachusetts.<br><b>1970:</b> Writer and activist Rebecca Walker was born in Jackson, Mississippi.<br><b>1990:</b> Novelist and journalist Elliott Chaze died following a brief illness in Hattiesburg, Mississippi."
today[11][12] = "<b>1926:</b> Accountant James Don Edwards was born in Ellisville, Mississippi."
today[11][13] = "<b>1942:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/welty_eudora/index.html\">Eudora Welty</a> won a $300 O. Henry Memorial Prize for her short story &#147;The Wide Net&#148; published by <i>Harper&#146;s Magazine</i>.<br><b>1959:</b> <i>The Mansion</i>, a novel by <a href=\"/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/index.html\">William Faulkner</a> and volume three of the <i>Snopes</i> trilogy, was published by Random House."
today[11][14] = "<b>1897:</b> Speech professor Sara Lowrey was born in Blue Mountain, Mississippi.<br><b>1936:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/index.html\">William Faulkner</a> published &#147;The Unvanquished&#148; in the <i>Saturday Evening Post</i>.<br><b>1939:</b> Scientist and environmentalist Claude E. Boyd was born in Hatley, Mississippi."
today[11][15] = "<b>1915:</b> Novelist and journalist Elliott Chaze was born in Mamou, Louisiana.<br><b>1956:</b> Historian Stephen Cresswell was born in Jackson, Mississippi."
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today[11][17] = "<b>1916:</b> Novelist and historian <a href=\"/mwp/dir/foote_shelby/index.html\">Shelby Foote</a> was born in Greenville, Mississippi.<br><b>1948:</b> Mystery and children&#146;s literature writer Robert W. Walker was born in Corinth, Mississippi."
today[11][18] = noinfoyet
today[11][19] = "<b>1911:</b> Novelist <a href=\"/mwp/dir/attaway_william/index.html\">William Attaway</a> was born in Greenville, Mississippi.<br><b>1917:</b> Sociologist Lisa Lekis was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi.<br><b>1932:</b> Music professor <a href=\"/mwp/dir/bailey_ben/index.html\">Ben E. Bailey</a></b> was born in Durant, Mississippi."
today[11][20] = "<b>1915:</b> Religious writer Graham R. Hodges was born in Wesson, Mississippi.<br><b>1923:</b> Fiction writer and English professor P. H. Lowrey was born in Verona, Mississippi."
today[11][21] = "<b>1909:</b> Obstetrician-gynecologist Landrum Brewer Shettles was born in Pontotoc, Mississippi.<br><b>1925:</b> Fiction writer and poet <a href=\"/mwp/dir/canzoneri_robert/index.html\">Robert Canzoneri</a> was born in San Marcos, Texas.<br><b>1997:</b> <i>The Rainmaker</i>, a film directed by Francis Coppola and based on the novel by <a href=\"/mwp/dir/grisham_john/index.html\">John Grisham</a>, premiered in the United States."
today[11][22] = noinfoyet
today[11][23] = "<b>1906:</b> Law professor Myres Smith McDougal was born in Burton,  Mississippi.<br><b>1879:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/russell_irwin/index.html\">Irwin Russell</a> died of exposure and pneunomia in New Orleans at the age of twenty-six.<br><b>1940:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/index.html\">William Faulkner</a> published &#147;Tomorrow&#148; in the <i>Saturday Evening Post</i>.<br><b>1942:</b> Historian Warner O. Moore was born in Biloxi, Mississippi.<br><b>1948:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/index.html\">William Faulkner</a> was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.<br><b>1976:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/williams_tennessee/index.html\">Tennessee Williams</a>&#146; <i>The Eccentricities of a Nightingale</i> opened on Broadway at the Morosco Theatre starring Betsy Palmer and David Selby."
today[11][24] = "<b>1932:</b> Novelist and screenwriter Judith Paige Mitchell was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.<br><b>1946:</b> Historian Michael B. Ballard was born in Louisville, Mississippi.<br><b>1998:</b> Minister Will Sessions died in Fort Smith, Arkansas.<br><b>2004:</b> Author <a href=\"/mwp/dir/brown_larry/index.html\">Larry Brown</a> died of a heart attack at his home near Oxford, Mississippi, at the age of 53."
today[11][25] = "<b>1947:</b> Mystery writer John M. Floyd was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi.<br><b>1951:</b> Novelist <a href=\"/mwp/dir/harris_charlaine/index.html\">Charlaine Harris</a> was born in Tunica, Mississippi."
today[11][26] = "<b>1919:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/index.html\">William Faulkner</a> published &#147;Landing in Luck&#148; in the <i>Mississippian,</i> the student newspaper at the University of Mississippi.<br><b>1921:</b> Journalist and editor P. D. East was born in Columbia, Mississippi.<br><b>1922:</b> Thirteen-year-old <a href=\"/mwp/dir/welty_eudora/index.html\">Eudora Welty</a>&#146;s story &#147;Soph&#146;more Class&#148; was published in <i>Jackson Hi-Lite.</i><br><b>1957:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/index.html\">William Faulkner</a>&#146;s <i>Requiem for a Nun</i> opened in London&#146;s Royal Court Theatre."
today[11][27] = "<b>1913:</b> Poet, historian, and Episcopal priest Ray Holder was born in Lucedale, Mississippi.<br><b>1949:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/index.html\">William Faulkner</a> published <i>Knight&#146;s Gambit</i>.<br><b>1987:</b> Psychologist and historian Zed H. Burns died in Hattiesburg, Mississippi."
today[11][28] = "<b>1729:</b> The Natchez attacked French settlers at Fort Rosalie, burning the fort and killing 138 men, 35 women, and 56 children.<br><b>1905:</b> Poet and educator Eddie Gathings McNail was born in Prairie, Mississippi.<br><b>1936:</b> English professor Walter Everett was born in Mississippi.<br><b>1942:</b> Fiction writer and poet Sybil P. Estess was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.<br><b>1942:</b> English professor Roger Johnson was born in Columbus, Mississippi.<br><b>1960:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/wright_richard/index.html\">Richard Wright</a> died of a heart attack in Paris."
today[11][29] = "<b>1934:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/morris_willie/index.html\">Willie Morris</a> was born in Jackson, Mississippi; within half a year, the family moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi."
today[11][30] = "<b>1937:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/williams_tennessee/index.html\">Tennessee Williams</a>&#146;s play <i>The Fugitive Kind</i> premiers with the Mummers of St. Louis, directed by Willard Holland.<br><b>1953:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/index.html\">William Faulkner</a> left for Paris to begin work on the movie <i>Land of the Pharaohs</i> for Howard Hawks.<br><b>1998:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/alexander_margaret_walker/index.html\">Margaret Walker Alexander</a> died in Chicago of cancer."

//December
today[12]     = new Array()
today[12][1]  = "<b>1951:</b> <a href=\"/mwp/dir/welty_eudora/index.html\">Eudora Welty</a>&#146;s story &#147;The Bride of the Innisfallen&#148; was published by the <i>New Yorker</i>."
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