70 YEARS AGO: 1944

Donald Feibelman receives his degree in medicine from Tulane University. • Pvt. Fielding Tucker leaves for Fort Meade, Md.

60 YEARS AGO: 1954

Mrs. Lamar McDonald dies. • King Gardner is at the University of Mississippi attending a meeting of music teachers.

50 YEARS AGO: 1964

Judge James E. Nichols is speaker at Vicksburg Civitan Club luncheon. • William Bell, East Carroll Parish Tax Assessor, dies.

40 YEARS AGO: 1974

Members of Hillcrest Extension Homemakers club clean up Hopewell Cemetery. • Fred Jabour is a patient at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson.

30 YEARS AGO: 1984

Mrs. Maggie M. Ervin dies at age 85. • Cris Hayes is named 1983 Outstanding Young Woman by the Jaycees.

20 YEARS AGO: 1994

Alice Williams dies at 105. • A car crashes through the front window of Donna Angelloz’s apartment in the Forest Hill complex on Fisher Ferry Road.

10 YEARS AGO: 2004

The county’s first monument to black Civil War soldiers is unveiled at Vicksburg National Military Park. • Le Soeurs Charmantes Club presents 18 debutantes.