goin' back in time

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1846 Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - the Mormons - began an exodus west from Illinois

1942 Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold disc for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo"

1956 - Elvis records Heartbreak Hotel

1962, the Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States

1964 Bob Dylan's album "The Times They Are A-Changin"' was released.


1967 The 25th Amendment to the Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, went into effect.


1989 Ron Brown was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first black to head a major U.S. political party.


1996, after three hours, world chess champion Gary Kasparov loses the first game of a six-game match against Deep Blue, an IBM computer



2007 Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., kicked off his presidential campaign with a speech at the state house in Springfield, Ill.