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Today in Central Illinois

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Journal Star

National Spelling Bee

The semifinals of the National Spelling Bee, featuring Journal Star spelling bee champion Kyle Mou, will broadcast live on ESPN from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., with the finals broadcast live on ABC from 8 to 10 p.m.

Live baseball

Check out the live baseball action as the Peoria Chiefs host the Clinton LumberKings at 6:30 p.m. at O'Brien Field. There will be a post-game fireworks display. It's also Throwback Thursday, featuring Little League, and it's Irish Night.

Heritage Days

The Heritage Days Festival, featuring carnival rides, games, food, beer tent and live entertainment, opens today and runs through Saturday at Holy Family Parish, 3720 N. Sterling Ave.

Ballroom dance

Enjoy an evening dancing to the music of Donna Weghorst & Friends from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Itoo Hall, 4909 W. Farmington Road. Doors open at 6 p.m.

Compiled by JENNIFER HOWARD-ADLER of the Journal Star

On this date

In 1533, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declared the marriage of England's King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.

In 1863, the first black regiment from the North left Boston to fight in the Civil War.

In 1892, the Sierra Club was organized in San Francisco.

In 1918, the Battle of Cantigny began during World War I as American troops captured the French town from the Germans.

In 1929, the first all-color talking picture, "On with the Show," opened in New York.

In 1934, the Dionne quintuplets - Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne - were born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada.

In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed a button in Washington signaling that vehicular traffic could begin crossing the just-opened Golden Gate Bridge in California. Neville Chamberlain became prime minister of Britain.

In 1959, the U.S. Army launched Able, a rhesus monkey, and Baker, a squirrel monkey, aboard a Jupiter missile for a suborbital flight which both primates survived.

In 1972, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the English throne to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, died in Paris at age 77.

In 1977, 165 people were killed when fire raced through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Ky.

In 1987, Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square.
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