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May 14, 1804: Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark leave Camp River Dubois near the present day village of Hartford in Madison County and begin their famous expedition west

May 14, 1950: King Neptune, the 700-pound porcine prodigy who became a fundraising sensation for the U.S. Navy during World War II, dies in southern Illinois

May 13, 1962: H. Trendley Dean, a pioneering investigator of water fluoridation to prevent tooth decay, dies

May 12, 1880: Adventurer and polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth is born in Chicago

May 11, 1985: Chester Gould, who drew the Dick Tracy comic strip for 46 years, dies at age 84 in Woodstock

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