MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1998
LOS ANGELES – Titanic won a record-tying 11 Oscars Monday night, including best picture and director for James Cameron, while Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt won best acting honors for As Good As It Gets. The $200 million disaster epic and all-time boxoffice champion, nominated for 14 awards, lost a chance to win a record 12 Oscars when it fell short in three categories: Hunt beat Kate Winslet as best actress, Kim Bassinger took supporting actress for L.A. Confidential over Gloria Stuart, and Men in Black claimed the makeup prize.
50 years ago — 1973 WASHINGTON – The former security chief of President Nixon's re-election committee says perjury was committed in the Watergate trial and that all of those involved have not been exposed. He says his family fears for his life if he tells what he knows. The accusations came out Friday in a surprise letter revealed by Chief United States Judge John J. Sirica as he sentenced former White House aide and Nixon campaign official G. Gordon Liddy to up to 20 years in prison.
75 years ago — 1948
A cloud of surpassing beauty will float into Memphis Harbor the night of May 11. Aboard will be Their Majesties, the King and Queen of the 1948 Cotton Carnival and the Royal Court.
100 years ago — 1923
Meteorologist J.H. Scott of the local weather bureau, expects the Mississippi River to crest at Memphis tomorrow or the next day at 44 to 45 feet.
125 years ago — 1898
WASHINGTON – The report of the Naval Board of Inquiry into the Maine destruction reached Washington last night but will not be made public before sometime tomorrow.