Editing Millsaps College (section)

===Important dates in Millsaps history===
[[File:Major Reuben Webster Millsaps grave.jpg|thumb|230px|Mausoleum on the campus of Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, containing the graves of Major Reuben Webster Millsaps and his wife]]
* 1890: Major Reuben Webster Millsaps founds the college with a personal gift of $50,000.
* 1901: Millsaps builds the first [[golf]] course in Mississippi.
* 1902: Mary Letitia Holloman becomes the first female graduate of Millsaps.
* 1908: Sing-Ung Zung of [[Suzhou, Jiangsu|Suzhou]], China, becomes the first international student to graduate from Millsaps.
* 1914: Old Main, one of the first buildings on campus, burns and is replaced by Murrah Hall.
* 1916: Major Millsaps dies and is interred on campus.
* 1931: The first night [[American football|football]] game in Mississippi is played on the Millsaps campus between the Majors and Mississippi A&M (now [[Mississippi State University]]).
* 1936: Millsaps College absorbs bankrupt [[Grenada College]] during the [[Great Depression]].
* 1943: [[Johnny Carson]] attends Millsaps for [[V-12 Navy College Training Program|V-12]] naval officer training, entertaining his comrades with a magic and humor act.
* 1944: [[Louis H. Wilson]], who graduated from the college in 1941, received the [[Medal of Honor]] for his actions at the [[Battle of Guam (1944)|Battle of Guam]] during [[World War II]]. Wilson became a General and the 26th [[Commandant of the United States Marine Corps|Commandant of the Marine Corps]] in 1975. He was the first Marine Corps Commandant to serve full-time on the [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]].
* 1947-48: Ruth Chang of [[Shanghai|Shanghai, China]] becomes one of the first non-white students to attend Millsaps.<ref name="Millsaps-1948-Chang">{{cite web |url=https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1265/images/43135_b179636_00034?pId=181758902|title=The Bobashela 1948 (Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi)|author=<!--Not stated--> |date=1948|page=31 |website=Ancestry.com |publisher=Generations Network|url-access=subscription|access-date=4 May 2024}}</ref>
* 1953: [[Dean Martin]] and [[Jerry Lewis]] judge a Millsaps beauty contest.
* 1965: Millsaps becomes the first all-white college in Mississippi to voluntarily [[school integration in the United States|desegregate]].<ref>{{cite web
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* 1967: [[Robert F. Kennedy]] during his presidential campaign speaks at the college about the obligations of young Americans to give back to their country.
* 1975: Presidential candidate [[Jimmy Carter]] speaks to Millsaps students about the crisis in the Middle East.
* 1988: Millsaps initiates the first campus chapter of [[Habitat for Humanity]] in Mississippi.
* 1989: Millsaps becomes the first school in Mississippi to have a chapter of the [[Phi Beta Kappa]] honor society.
* 2025: Millsaps fires tenured professor [[James E. Bowley]] for expressing his political opinions in an e-mail.