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March 30, 1981: Centralia native James Brady, White House press secretary under President Ronald Reagan, is gravely wounded during an assassination attempt outside a Washington, D.C., hotel

March 29, 1859: Oscar Mayer, who built a meat-packing empire from a small Chicago butcher shop, is born in Germany

March 28, 1845: Gustav Goelitz, a German-American businessman whose Belleville confectionary became Jelly Belly Candy Co., is born

March 28, 1892: Myra Bradwell is granted a license to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court, 23 years after passing the Illinois Bar exam with honors

March 27, 1924: Margaret Butler, a pioneering scientist and mathematician at Argonne National Laboratory near Lemont, is born

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