COOKS MILLS – Volunteer firefighters with the Cooks Mills Fire Protection District plan to hold a fundraiser for their annual Pork Chop Dinner on Saturday, June 25.
Meals will be available for $10 per pork chop and $14 each two, with baked beans, potato salad, and dessert. The fundraising will also include door prize draws and an auction.
The dinner is scheduled to take place from 4-7 p.m. at the firehouse along Cooks Mills Road in this community in northwest Coles County.
Today in History: June 23
1931: Wiley Post and Harold Gatti
In 1931, pilots Willie Post and Harold Gatti took off from New York on an eight-day, 15-hour round-the-world flight.
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1947: Harry S. Truman
In 1947, the Senate joined the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, designed to limit the power of organized labor.
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1956: Gamal Abdel Nasser
In 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.
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1967: Lyndon Johnson and Alexei Kosygin
In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson, Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin (ah-LEK’-say koh-SEE’-gihn) opened a three-day summit at Glasboro State College in New Jersey.
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1969: Warren E. Burger
In 1969, Warren E. Burger was sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States by the man who succeeded him, Earl Warren.
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1995: Dr. Jonas Salk
In 1995, Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the first vaccine to stop the spread of polio, died in La Jolla (HOY’-ah), California, at the age of 80.
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2012: Ashton Eaton
Ashton Eaton broke the decathlon world record, finishing with 9,039 points at the US Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon. (Eaton later surpassed his own record with 9,045 points at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing.)
2016: David Cameron
In 2016, Britain voted to leave the European Union after a divisive referendum campaign that ousted Prime Minister David Cameron, who led the campaign to keep Britain in the European Union.
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2021: Britney Spears
After 13 years of near-silence in the guardianship of her life and finances, pop star Britney Spears told a Los Angeles judge that the guardianship of her father and others has left her frustrated and enslaved, and that it should come to an end. (The judge will approve this request in November 2021.)
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