2014 Event French President Francois Hollande proposes that terminally ill patients should have the right to be sedated until death; the proposal does not suggest assisted termination of the patient's life 2014 Event A mentally ill man is apprehended after jumping the White House fence and injuring the two police dogs that stopped him; the man had been previously arrested near the White House on a misdemeanor 2014 Event Royal Caribbean's cruise liner, Explorer of the Seas, returns to port after 700 of its 3,050 passengers become ill with gastroenteritis; the illness is suspected to be the Novovirus, a variant strain of the species Norwalk virus 2013 Event Palestinian investigators claim their former leader, Yasser Arafat, did not die of old age or ill health; they believe Israel killed him because his exhumed body contained high levels of the radioactive element polonium-210 2012 Event Footballer Fabrice Muamba is critically ill and in a London hospital intensive care unit after undergoing cardiac arrest on live television during the 41st minute of the FA cup quarter final 2010 Event The U.S. experiences a salmonella scare, with hundreds of people ill from bad eggs; eggs are recalled from stores throughout the nation 2010 Event One year after thousands of children became ill from melamine in milk, new traces of melamine in milk products is discovered in China 1997 Event Katherine Shindle (Ill), 24, crowned 71st Miss America 1998 1992 Event George Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap 1990 Event Marjorie Judith Vincent (Ill), 25, crowned 64th Miss America 1991 1990 Death Albert Salmi, (Caddyshack), kills terminally ill wife and self at 62 1985 Event Rock and country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Ill 1985 Event "Prakas" sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Ill 1985 Event 4 die in a car and train crash in Buda Ill 1983 Death Peter Coffield, Ill, actor (Kevin-W E B), dies at 37 1980 Event IRA's Sean McKenna becomes critically ill, ends hunger strike 1978 Event Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrest John Wayne Gacy, Jr. for murder 1975 Event Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill) 1975 Event 75th U.S. Golf Open: Lou Graham shoots a 287 at Medinah CC ILL 1973 Event U.S. Psychiatrist say homosexuals are not mentally ill 1969 Event State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances 1963 Event Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold 1962 Event Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill 1951 Event U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Ill), to demonstrate lax in security 1949 Event 49th U.S. Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 286 at Medinah CC ILL 1948 Event 20 die and 6,000 made ill by smog in Donora Pennsylvania 1939 Event 1st air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Ill 1939 Event Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill 1934 Event Arthur L Mitchell, becomes 1st black Democratic congressman (Ill) 1933 Event 37th U.S. Golf Open: Johnny Goodman shoots a 287 at North Shore Ill 1928 Event 32nd U.S. Golf Open: Johnny Farrell shoots a 294 at Olympia Fields Ill 1927 Event 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill) 1927 Event Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley, Ill) 1925 Event 8th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Olympia Fields CC Matteson Ill 1922 Event 26th U.S. Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 288 at Skokie CC in Ill 1920 Event 3rd PGA Championship: Jock Hutchison at Flossmoor CC Flossmoor Ill 1919 Event Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill) 1914 Event 20th U.S. Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 290 at Midlothian CC Ill 1912 Event American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springield, Ill 1909 Event 259 miners die in a fire at St. Paul Mine at Cherry Ill 1906 Event 12th U.S. Golf Open: Alex Smith shoots a 295 at Onwentsia Club Ill 1902 Event 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill) 1899 Event Ill Tel and Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system 1879 Event Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill 1683 Death Afonso VI, mentally ill king of Portugal (1656-67), dies at 40 1643 Birthday Afonso VI, king of Portugal, 1656-67, mentally ill 1607 Event Mentally ill emperor Rudolf II signs Treaty of Lieben, giving up Austria, Hungary and Moravia
