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March 10, 1846: Edward Baker Lincoln, Abraham and Mary Lincoln's second son, is born in Springfield

March 9, 1869: Southern Illinois Normal College in Carbondale is founded

March 8, 1892: Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Edgar Ansel Mowrer is born in Bloomington

March 7, 2015: Alicia Tate-Nadeau becomes the Illinois National Guard’s first female general when she is promoted to brigadier general

March 6, 1933: Chicago Mayor Anton “Tony” Cermak dies of complications after being shot during the attempted assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

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