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March 11, 1967: The Chicago Blackhawks capture their first regular season National Hockey League title

March 11, 1985: Historic flooding leads Gov. Jim Thompson to declare a total of 25 counties along the Illinois, Wabash and Rock rivers state disaster areas.

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

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