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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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