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1997
Katherine Shindle (Ill), 24, crowned 71st Miss America 1998
1997
U.S. Senior Golf Open ends at Olympia Fields GC Ill
1992
George Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap
1990
Marjorie Judith Vincent (Ill), 25, crowned 64th Miss America 1991
1990
Albert Salmi, (Caddyshack), kills terminally ill wife and self at 62
1989
71st PGA Championship: Payne Stewart shoots 276 at Kemper Lakes GC Ill
1985
Rock and country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Ill
1985
"Prakas" sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Ill
1985
4 die in a car and train crash in Buda Ill
1983
Peter Coffield, Ill, actor (Kevin-W E B), dies at 37
1980
IRA's Sean McKenna becomes critically ill, ends hunger strike
1978
Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrest John Wayne Gacy, Jr. for murder
1975
Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill)
1975
75th U.S. Golf Open: Lou Graham shoots a 287 at Medinah CC ILL
1973
US Psychiatrist say homosexuals are not mentally ill
1969
State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances
1963
Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold
1962
Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill
1951
U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Ill), to demonstrate lax in security
1949
49th U.S. Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 286 at Medinah CC ILL
1948
20 die and 6,000 made ill by smog in Donora Pennsylvania
1939
1st air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Ill
1939
Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill
1934
Arthur L Mitchell, becomes 1st black Democratic congressman (Ill)
1933
37th U.S. Golf Open: Johnny Goodman shoots a 287 at North Shore Ill
1928
32nd U.S. Golf Open: Johnny Farrell shoots a 294 at Olympia Fields Ill
1927
1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill)
1927
Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley, Ill)
1925
8th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Olympia Fields CC Matteson Ill
1922
26th U.S. Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 288 at Skokie CC in Ill
1920
3rd PGA Championship: Jock Hutchison at Flossmoor CC Flossmoor Ill
1919
Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill)
1914
20th U.S. Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 290 at Midlothian CC Ill
1912
American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springield, Ill
1911
17th U.S. Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 307 at Chicago GC in Ill
1909
259 miners die in a fire at St. Paul Mine at Cherry Ill
1906
12th U.S. Golf Open: Alex Smith shoots a 295 at Onwentsia Club Ill
1902
1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill)
1900
6th U.S. Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 313 at Chicago GC Ill
1899
Ill Tel and Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system
1897
3rd U.S. Golf Open: Joe Lloyd shoots a 162 at Chicago GC in Wheaton Ill
1879
Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill
1842
Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill
1683
Afonso VI, mentally ill king of Portugal (1656-67), dies at 40
1643
Afonso VI, king of Portugal, 1656-67, mentally ill
1607
Mentally ill emperor Rudolf II signs Treaty of Lieben, giving up Austria, Hungary and Moravia
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