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In February 1870, Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first black person elected to the U.S. Senate, filling a vacancy when Mississippi was readmitted to the Union. His term expired a year later, during which time he served on the Committee on Education and Labor, and the Committee on the District of Columbia.
The world’s first round trip transoceanic flight was made in 1928 by pilot H. T. Merrill of Iuka, Miss. He needed lightweight cargo to help fund the trip, and so loaded the plane with Ping-Pong balls.
David Harrison, of Columbus, Mississippi, owns the patent on the soft toilet seat. More than one million of these cushy items are sold every year.
Theodore Roosevelt, on a 1902 Mississippi hunting trip, spared the life of a cornered bear. News of this spread, and two New York toymakers took advantage by stitching together the first of what soon became known as the “teddy bear.”
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