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June 18, 1854: Publisher E.W. Scripps is born in Rushville to an affluent family

June 17, 1931: President Herbert Hoover rededicates Abraham Lincoln’s tomb in Springfield after a major reconstruction

June 16, 1858: Abraham Lincoln delivers his now-famous “House Divided” speech to the Republican State Convention

June 16, 1996: The Korean War State Memorial is dedicated at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield

June 15, 1921: Aviator Bessie “Queen Bess” Coleman of Chicago becomes the first African-American woman to receive an international pilot’s license

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