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1731 Fort
Vincennes, later Fort Sackville, was built by the French near
present-day Vincennes, Indiana. It was captured by Colonel George
Rogers Clark in 1779.
(HNQ, 7/24/00)
1774 Sep 26, John Chapman
(d.1845), later known as Johnny Appleseed, was born in
Massachusetts. A pioneer agriculturalist of early America,
Chapman began his trek in 1797, collecting apple seedlings from western
Pennsylvania and establishing apple nurseries around the early American
frontier. Chapman was a Swedenborgian missionary, a land speculator, a
heavy drinker and an eccentric dresser (he hated shoes and seldom wore
them. He planted orchards across western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and
Indiana from seed.
(www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=94)(T&L, 10/1980,
p.42)(HNQ, 9/4/01)(ON, 4/09, p.10)
1778 Summer, American Captain
Leonard Helm occupied fort Sackville the British having withdrawn to
Detroit.
(HNQ, 7/24/00)
1778 Dec 17, The British—under Lt.
Col. Henry Hamilton—returned and recaptured Fort Sackville (near
Vincennes, Indiana).
(HNQ, 7/24/00)
1779 Feb 25, Fort Sackville,
originally named Fort Vincennes, was captured by Colonel George Rogers
Clark in 1779. Col. Clark led a force of some 170 men from Kaskaskia to
lay siege to Fort Sackville in January, and received Hamilton‘s
surrender on February 25. With the surrender of Fort Sackville,
American forces gained effective control of the Old Northwest, thereby
affecting the outcome of the Revolutionary War. The fort, which Clark
described as “a wretched stockade, surrounded by a dozen wretched
cabins called houses,” was located near present-day Vincennes, Indiana.
(HNQ, 7/24/00)(AP, 2/25/08)
1791 Nov
3, Gen. St. Clair moved his force of approximately 1,400 men to some
high ground on the upper Wabash River. St. Clair was looking for the
forces of Michikinikwa (Chief Little Turtle 1752-1812), who had
recently defeated Gen. Josiah Harmar’s (1753-1813) army. St. Clair
deployed only minimal sentry positions. [see Nov 4]
(DoW, 1999, p.168)
1791 Nov 4, General Arthur St.
Clair, governor of Northwest Territory, was badly defeated by a large
Indian army near Fort Wayne. Miami Indian Chief Little Turtle
(1752-1812) led the powerful force of Miami, Wyandot, Iroquois,
Shawnee, Delaware, Ojibwa and Potawatomi that inflicted the greatest
defeat ever suffered by the U.S. Army at the hands of North American
Indians. Some 623 regulars led by General Arthur St. Clair were killed
and 258 wounded on the banks of the Wabash River near present day Fort
Wayne, Indiana. The staggering defeat moved Congress to authorize a
larger army in 1792.
(HNQ, 8/10/98)(HN, 11/4/98)
1800 May 7, Congress divided the
Northwest Territory into two parts. The western part became the Indiana
Territory and the eastern sections remained the Northwest Territory.
(HN, 5/7/99)
1811 Nov 7, Gen. William Henry
Harrison won a battle against the Shawnee Indians at the Battle of
Tippecanoe in the Indiana territory. Tenskwatawa, the brother of
Shawnee leader Tecumseh, was engaged in the Battle of the Wabash, aka
Battle of Tippecanoe, in spite of his brother’s strict admonition to
avoid it. The battle near the Tippecanoe River with the regular and
militia forces of Indiana Territory Governor William Henry Harrison,
took place while Tecumseh was out of the area seeking support for a
united Indian movement. The battle, which was a nominal victory for
Harrison’s forces, effectively put an end to Tecumseh’s dream of a
pan-Indian confederation. Harrison’s leadership in the battle also
provided a useful campaign slogan for his presidential bid in 1840.
(HFA, ‘96, p.46)(HNQ, 5/28/98)(HN, 11/7/98)
1812 Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne
established Fort Wayne, Indiana. He got his nickname because he was
crazy enough to join his troops on the front lines.
(WSJ, 2/6/04, p.A10)
1816 Dec 11, Indiana became the
19th state.
(AP, 12/11/97)
1825 Jan 3, Scottish factory owner
Robert Owen bought 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony
utopian community.
(MC, 1/3/02)
1837 Methodists opened DePauw
University in Greencastle.
(WSJ, 3/8/00, p.A6)
1838 In New Harmony Indiana’s
oldest public lending library was founded. The town was founded by the
millennialist Harmonie Society and later bought by Robert Owen, a
social reformer and educator.
(WSJ, 7/22/98, p.A12)
1841 In Indiana Mother Theodore
Guerin (1798-1856), a French nun, established St. Mary-of-the-Woods
College for women. In 2006 Pope Benedict XVI named her a saint.
(SFC, 10/16/06, p.A2)
1842 Rev. Edward Sorin inherited 3
log cabins and envisioned the future development of Notre Dame. In 2001
Marvin R. O’Connell authored the biography "Edward Sorin."
(WSJ, 11/8/01, p.A22)
1844 Jan 15, The University of
Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana.
(AP, 1/15/98)
1845 Feb 18, John Chapman, aka
Johnny Appleseed, died in Allen County, Indiana. In 1954 Robert
Price authored Johnny Appleseed: Man and Myth.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed)(ON,
4/09, p.12)
1852 Apr 30, A strong tornado hit
New Harmony, Indiana, killing 16 people.
(SFC, 4/30/09, p.D8)
1858 Tell City, Ind., was founded
as a planned community of Swiss furniture craftsmen from Cincinnati,
Ohio.
(SFC, 11/23/05, p.G2)
1858 John Mohler Studebaker
(b1833) joined his two older brothers in a South Bend firm producing
wagons. The company went on to become the world’s largest producer of
farm wagons and carriages.
(WSJ, 6/13/96, p.A12)(HNQ, 1/21/02)
1862 Oct 22, Battle at Old Fort
Wayne, Indian Territory.
(MC, 10/22/01)
1862 Oct 30, Dr. Richard Gatling
patented a machine gun. [see Nov 3]
(MC, 10/30/01)
1862 Nov 3, Dr. Richard Gatling
patented machine gun in Indianapolis. [see Oct 30]
(MC, 11/3/01)
1863 In Indianapolis the Crown
Hill cemetery was established.
(SFEC,10/26/97, p.T6)
1865 Swiss furniture craftsmen
formed the Chair Makers Union of Tell City, Ind. This later became the
Tell City Chair Co.
(SFC, 11/23/05, p.G2)
1866 Oct 6, The Reno
brothers--Frank, John, Simeon and William--committed the country's
first train robbery near Seymore, In., netting $10,000.
(HN, 10/6/98)
1868 May 22, The Great Train
Robbery took place near Marshfield, Ind., as seven members of the Reno
gang made off with $96,000 ($98k) in cash, gold and bonds.
(AP, 5/22/97)(HN, 5/22/02)
1868 Dec 12, In Indiana 56 hooded
men entered New Albany jail. Frank Reno was the first to be dragged
from his cell to be lynched. He was followed by his two brothers,
William and Simeon. Another gang member, Charlie Anderson, was also
hanged in the prison. [see May 22]
(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WWvigilantes.htm)
1877 Jan 15, Lewis M. Terman,
psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test), was born in Indiana.
(MC, 1/15/02)
1879 Apr, A fire struck the
Catholic college of Notre Dame. The administration building and several
others were destroyed.
(WSJ, 11/8/01, p.A22)
1879 The American Furniture Co.
was first organized in Batesville, Ind. It was re-organized in 1888 and
in 1930 merged with 2 other firms to form RomWeber Co.
(SFC, 12/13/06, p.E3)
1880 Mar 31, Wabash, Ind., became
the first town completely illuminated by electrical lighting.
(AP, 3/31/97)(HN, 3/31/98)
1883 Jun 2, The first baseball
game under electric lights was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
(HN, 6/2/98)
1884 Feb 19, A series of tornadoes
left an estimated 800 people dead in 7 US states (Miss, Ala, NC, SC,
Tenn., Ky & In).
(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)(MC, 2/19/02)
1885 Sep 5, The 1st gasoline pump
was delivered to a gasoline dealer in Ft. Wayne, Ind.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1888 Nov 6, Benjamin Harrison of
Indiana won the presidential election, beating incumbent Grover
Cleveland on electoral votes, 233-168, although Cleveland led in the
popular vote. Tammany Hall helped carry new York for the GOP. In 2008
Charles W. Calhoun authored “Minority Victory: Gilded Age Politics and
the Front Porch Campaign of 1888.
(AP, 11/6/97)(WSJ, 11/9/00, p.A26)(WSJ, 12/3/08,
p.A15)
1890 Sep 9, Colonel Harland
Sanders (d.1980), originator of Kentucky Fried Chicken fast-food
restaurants, was born in Henryville, Ind.
(HN, 9/9/98)(www.born-today.com/Today/09-09.htm)
1891 Mar, David Starr Jordan (40)
of Indiana Univ. accepted an offer as president of the new Stanford
Univ. in Palo Alto, Ca.
(Ind, 10/17/98, p.5A)(Ind, 11/17/01, 5A)
1892 Nov 6, John Sigvard "Ole"
Olsen, comedian (Olsen & Johnson), was born in Wabash, Ind.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1892 The Gill Clay Pot Co. moved
from Bellaire, Ohio, to Muncie, Ind., to be near glass companies and
natural gas supplies. The company made pots and tanks to hold melting
glass. In 1923 a family member opened Muncie Pottery next door.
(SFC, 9/21/05, p.G3)
1893 Apr 29, Harold C. Urey,
physicist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934), was born in Indiana.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1893 Jun 9, Cole Porter, American
composer and lyricist, was born in Indiana. His songs include "Night
and Day," "You're the Tops," and "I Get a Kick Our of You." In 1998
William McBrian published the biography "Cole Porter." [see Jun 9, 1891]
(WUD, 1994 p.1120)(CFA, '96, p.48)(SFEC, 11/22/98,
BR p.4)
1897 Feb 5, The Indiana House of
Representatives unanimously passed a measure redefining the area of a
circle and the value of pi as 4. The bill died in the state Senate.
(AP, 2/5/97)(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.C5)
1897 The lower house of the
Indiana state legislature declared that pi is 3.2.
(NH, 11/1/04, p.19)
1899 Jul 25, Ralph Dumke, actor
(Movieland Quiz), was born in Indiana.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1899 Nov 22, Hoagy Carmichael
(d.1981), American composer, was born in Bloomington, Ind. His songs
included "Georgia on My Mind" (1930) "Stardust" and over 600 other
melodies. Lyrics for Georgia on my Mind were written by Stuart Gorrell.
(WSJ, 9/9/99, p.A24)(SFC, 11/25/99, p.C22)(Econ,
7/3/04, p.16)
1900 Jan 29, The American League,
consisting of eight baseball teams, was organized in Philadelphia with
teams from Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas
City, Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
(SFC, 7/7/96, zone 1 p.5)(AP, 1/29/98)
1902 Mar 9, Will Greer, actor
(Grandpa Walton-The Waltons), was born in Frankfort, Ind.
(MC, 3/9/02)
1903 Jun 22, John Dillinger, one
of America’s "Most Wanted" gangsters, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana.
(YarraNet, 6/22/00)
1905 Feb 15, Lewis Wallace (77),
US politician, general, writer (Ben Hur), artist and inventor, died.
His paintings included "The Conspirators," a depiction of those accused
in the assassination of Pres. Lincoln. He had 8 registered US patents
and was accomplished at playing and making violins. His home in
Crawfordsville, Indiana, is now a museum.
(HT, 3/97, p.66)(MC, 2/15/02)
1906 A US Steel mill begat a
company town name Gary after Elbert Gary, the chairman of the board.
(SFC, 9/8/97, p.A3)
1907 Mar 9, Indiana enacted the
nation’s 1st involuntary sterilization law based on eugenics. It was
intended "to prevent procreation of confirmed criminals, idiots,
imbeciles, and rapists." More than 30 states ended up passing
compulsory sterilization laws that were eventually overturned or
repealed. In 2004 Christine Rosen authored "Preaching Eugenics."
(NH, 7/02, p.12)(WSJ, 4/22/04, p.D10)(AP, 3/9/07)
1907 Jul 16, Orville Redenbacher,
agronomist and popcorn entrepreneur, was born in Clay County, Indiana.
"Do one thing and do it better than anyone."
(AH, 10/01, p.36)(MC, 7/16/02)
1908 Oct 6, Carol Lombard,
American comedienne and actress who was nominated for an Oscar for My
Man Godfrey, was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Lombard started during
the silent movie era revealed herself to be a wonderful amusing and
witty actress after the advent of the talkies and quickly became one of
the top box office draws of the 1930's in such films as 'My Man
Godfrey'. Clark Gable was married to Lombard. (My Man Godfrey, Mr.
& Mrs. Smith, Made for Each Other).
(HN, 10/6/98)(MC, 10/5/01)
1908 Belle Gunness (48),
reportedly died in a fire at her farm in Laporte, Indiana. Many locals
believed Gunness, dubbed Lady Bluebeard, staged her death and had
killed at least 25 people before the fire.
(AP, 4/27/08)
1909 Aug 19, The Indianapolis
Motor Speedway opened with a 2.5 mile race track. It was founded in
1906 and the 1st 500 race was held in 1911.
(MC, 8/19/02)(Internet)
1910 Oct 23, Blanche S. Scott
became the first woman to make a solo, public airplane flight, reaching
an altitude of 12 feet at a park in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
(AP, 10/23/00)
1911 May 29, The first running of
the Indianapolis 500. Ray Harroun won at 74.59 mph (120 kph).
(HN, 5/29/98)(SC, 5/29/02)
1911 May 30, The first
long-distance auto race in Indianapolis was won by Ray Harroun.
(AP, 5/30/97)
1913 Jul 18, Richard "Red"
Skelton, legendary clown, was born in Vincennes, Ind. During a career
that stretched through medicine shows, vaudeville, motion pictures,
radio and television, the gentle Skelton created a beloved host of
characters from the silent tramp Freddie the Freeloader (shown at left)
to the Mean Widdle Kid, who coined the catch phrase, "I dood it!"
Skelton's sentimental humor, so popular in the '40s, '50s and '60s, did
not change with the times and in 1970, CBS canceled The Red Skelton
Show. Skelton refused to retire, touring the college lecture circuit
and painting clown faces that sold for as much as $80,000. Red Skelton
died at age 84 on September 17, 1997.
(HNPD, 7/18/98)(MC, 7/18/02)
1913 In New Harmony the
neoclassical Murphy Auditorium was built.
(WSJ, 7/22/98, p.A12)
1913 Knute Rockne, football coach
at Notre Dame, popularized the forward pass.
(WSJ, 6/9/04, p.D8)
1914 The Napanee Line of Dutch
Kitchenet cabinets was introduced by Coppes Brothers and Zook of
Nappanee, Indiana, about this time.
(SFC, 7/26/06, p.G2)
1916 John Holliday, founder of the
Indianapolis News and the Indiana National Bank, donated his country
estate to Indianapolis for family recreation and nature study.
(NH, 3/1/04, p.16)
1919 Sep 22, Steel workers at
Gary, Ind., went on strike to force US Steel to recognize their union.
The walkout ended in 110 days without success.
(PCh, 1992, p.734)(MC, 9/22/01)
1920 May 2, 1st game of National
Negro Baseball League was played in Indianapolis.
(MC, 5/2/02)
1920 Dec 14, George Gipp (b.1895)
died in Indiana from pneumonia and a strep infection during his senior
year at Notre Dame. He was buried in northern Michigan. Gipp was the
school's first All-American and set a school career rushing record that
stood for more than 50 years. Ronald Reagan portrayed Gipp in the 1940
movie "Knute Rockne, All American," in which he made famous the phrase
"win one for the Gipper."
(AP,
11/10/07)(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1595)
1920 Louis Chevrolet won the
Indianapolis 500 auto race.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)(SFEC, 1/9/00, Z1 p.2)
1922 Jun 11, John Bromfield, actor
(Easy to Love), was born in South Bend, In.
(SC, 6/11/02)
1922 Jun 22, Bill Blass (d.2002),
fashion designer, was born in Fort Wayne, Ind.
(SFC, 6/13/02, p.A23)
1923 Aug 21, Chris Schenkel,
sportscaster (Monday Night Fights), was born in Biuppus, Ind.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1925 Mar 18, The great Tri-State
Tornado killed 695 people in Illinois, Indiana and Missouri and injured
some 13,000 people, and causing $17 million in property damage.
(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)(SSFC, 5/11/03, Par p.A11)
1926 Apr 3, Virgil Grissom
(d.1967), Lt. Col. USAF, astronaut (Mercury 4, Gemini 3), was born in
Mitchell, Ind. He was the Mercury and Gemini astronaut who was killed
in a fire while preparing for the first Apollo flight.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Apollo204/grissom.html
(MC, 4/3/02)
1926 Montgomery Ward opened its
1st store in Plymouth, Indiana.
(WSJ, 12/29/00, p.A3)
1927 Nov 12, Notre Dame's Fighting
Irish changed their blue jerseys for green.
(MC, 11/12/01)
1927 Max Ehrmann (1872-1945),
Indiana lawyer, wrote his poem “Desiderata” – “Be gentle with yourself…”
(WSJ, 11/15/05,
p.D7)(www.businessballs.com/desideratapoem.htm)
1928 Mar 14, Frank Borman,
astronaut (Gem 7, Ap 8), CEO (Eastern Airline), was born in Gary, Ind.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1928 Nov 17, Notre Dame finally
lost a football game after nearly 25 years.
(MC, 11/17/01)
1929 Jul 4, AM radio station WOWO,
Indiana's transmitter burned down.
(Maggio, 98)
1930 Aug 7, In Marion, Indiana, a
mob broke into a jail and beat to death 2 young black men and hung them
from a tree in the courthouse square. Tommy Shipp and Abe Smith and a
3rd teenager had just been arrested for a botched robbery that left
Claude Deeter, a white man, dead. James Cameron (16) was saved from
hanging, even as a noose was on his neck. In 2006 Cynthia Carr authored
“Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town and the Hidden History
of White America.”
(SSFC, 3/26/06, p.M3)
1931 Feb 8, James Dean, stage and
film actor who personified "cool" for young people in the 1950s, was
born in Marion, In. His films were Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden
and Giant.
(HN, 2/8/99)(MC, 2/8/02)
1931 May 13, Jim Jones (d.1978),
leader of religious community in Jonestown, Guyana, was born in Crete,
Ind. In 1978 he led 900 of his followers to mass suicide.
(V.D.-H.K.p.312)(SFEC, 11/8/98, p.A18)
1933 Louie Meyer won the
Indianapolis 500 and asked for a glass of buttermilk.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.D3)
1934 Mar 3, John Dillinger broke
out of jail using a wooden pistol in Crown Point, Indiana.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1934 Apr 25, Denny "Scott" Miller,
actor (Wagon Train), was born in Bloomington, Ind.
(SS, 4/25/02)
1934 Jul 1, Sydney Pollack, film
director (Tootsie, Presumed Innocent, The Firm, Out of Africa), was
born in Lafayette, Indiana.
(www.nndb.com/people/772/000023703/)
1936 Jun 11, Chad Everett, actor
(Medical Center, Airplane II), was born in South Bend, In.
(SC, 6/11/02)
1937 Jun 27, Joseph P. Allen IV,
PhD, astronaut (STS-5, STS 51A), was born in Crawfordsville, Ind.
(SC, 6/27/02)
1938 Dec 31, Dr. R.N. Harger's
"drunkometer," the 1st breath test, was introduced in Indiana.
(MC, 12/31/01)
1938-1962 Herman B. Wells (d.2000 at 97) served as
the president of Indiana University in Bloomington.
(SFC, 3/20/00, p.A21)
1939 Edwin Sutherland, sociology
prof. at Indiana Univ., coined the term white-collar crime.
(WSJ, 10/15/03, p.B1)
1939 Dan West, a relief worker
from Indiana, concluded during the Spanish Civil War that there must be
a better way to help the needy than simply handing out free milk. In
1944, the first shipment of 17 heifers left York, Pennsylvania, for
Puerto Rico, going to families whose malnourished children had never
even tasted milk.
(SSFC, 11/26/06, p.E3)(www.heifer.org)
1940 Aug 17, Wendell Willkie, a
former Democrat, delivered his formal acceptance speech as the
Republican nominee for president from his home in Elwood, Indiana.
(WSJ, 7/22/96, p.A12)(SFEC, 7/30/00,
p.C17)(http://tinyurl.com/e3xrw)
1945 Apr, Black officers of the
477th Bombardment Group of the Army Air Forces were arrested for
entering the Freeman Field officer’s club near Seymour, Ind. 101 black
officers refused to sign a document that established segregation of the
club and were put up for court-martial. Criminal charges were dropped
but reprimands were placed in the officers’ files. The reprimands were
only removed in 1995.
(SFC, 4/11/98, p.A15)
1945 Sep 18, 1000 white children
walked out of Gary, Indiana, schools to protest integration.
(MC, 9/18/01)
1947 Jan 4, J. Danforth Quayle
(Sen-R-Ind, 44th VP 1989-93) was born. [see Feb 4]
(MC, 1/4/02)
1947 Feb 4, Dan Quayle was born in
Indianapolis. He later became vice-president under George Bush
(1988-1992). [see Jan 4]
(DFP, 7/28/96, p.J5)(HN, 2/4/99)
1947 Apr 12, David Letterman,
comedian (Late Night), was born in Indianapolis, Ind.
(MC, 4/12/02)
1947 Dec 2, 13th Heisman Trophy
Award was awarded to John Lujack, Notre Dame (QB).
(MC, 12/2/01)
1948 Bill Garrett became the first
African American to play a varsity sport in the Big Ten. He was
recruited by basketball coach Branch McCracken under the urging of
Indiana Univ. Pres. Herman B. Wells.
(SFC, 3/20/00, p.A21)
1949 Aug 31, Six of the 16
surviving Union veterans of the Civil War attended the last-ever
encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, held in Indianapolis,
Indiana.
(HN, 8/31/98)
1950 May 29, Rebbie [Maureen]
Jackson, singer (R U Tuff Enuff), was born in Gary, IN.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1951 Aug 21, Harry Smith, TV host
(CBS Morning Show), was born in Indiana.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1955 May, Bill Vukovich, 2-time
winner of the Indianapolis 500, was killed while going for his 3rd win.
(WSJ, 7/7/04, p.D10)
1956 May 29, LaToya Yvette
Jackson, singer (posed in Playboy, Millipede), was born in Gary, IN.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1956 Aug 25, Alfred C. Kinsey
(62), US human sexuality researcher (Kinsey Report), died in
Bloomington, Ind.
(TOH, 1982, p.1956)(AP, 8/25/06)
1958 Dec 9, Robert H.W. Welch Jr.
and 11 other men met in Indianapolis to form the anti-Communist John
Birch Society.
(AP, 12/9/97)
1963 Oct 31, Leaking propane gas
exploded and killed 64 at "Holiday on Ice" in Indiana.
(MC, 10/31/01)
1963 Richard Trentlage, Indiana
songwriter, wrote the TV jingle “I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener,”
and had it sung by his kids.
(WSJ, 8/11/07, p.A6)
1964 Feb 1, Indiana Governor
Mathew Walsh tried to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity.
(MC, 2/1/02)
1964 James C. Quayle (d.2000 at
79) and his wife, the parents of later vice-president Dan Quayle,
became the owners of the Huntington Herald-Press.
(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A20)
1967 The first US African-American
mayor was elected in Gary.
(SFC, 9/8/97, p.A8)
1968 Apr 4, Bobby Kennedy spoke at
a black ghetto in Indianapolis just after hearing of the assassination
of Martin Luther King. His speech registered the enormity of the event
and began the work of healing. Riots over the next few days hit 76
American cities, but Indianapolis remained quiet.
(Econ, 4/22/06, p.79)
1968 Apr 6, In Richmond, Indiana,
gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store exploded and at least 16
people were killed.
(www.gendisasters.com/data1/in/explosions/richmond-gasexplosion-apr1968.htm)
1968 Jul 27, A 3-day race riot
began in Gary, Indiana.
(www.project1968.com/july-28-august-3-1968.html)
1969 Sep 9, Allegheny Flight 853
collided with Piper Cherokee above Indiana. 82 were killed.
{Air Crash, Indonesia, USA}
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegheny_Airlines_Flight_853)
1971 Mar 27, Bob Knight was named
head coach at Indiana Univ. [see Sep 10, 2000]
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.A11)
1972 John Howard Yoder (d.1997 at
71), a Mennonite theologian who taught at Notre Dame, wrote "The
Politics of Jesus," in part an analysis of Christian attitudes towards
the state.
(SFC, 1/9/98, p.A19)
1973 Jul 2, Swede Savage (b.1946),
American race car driver, died 33 days after suffering injuries at the
Indianapolis 500.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swede_Savage)
1974 Apr 3, A series of 148 deadly
tornadoes struck wide parts of the South and Midwest before jumping
across the border into Canada; some 330 people were killed in 13 states
(Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi,
North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West
Virginia. Total property damage was estimated at $600 million. In 2007
Mark Levine authored “F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violent
Tornado Outbreak of the 20th Century.”
(AP, 4/3/99)(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)(SSFC, 9/4/05,
p.A7)(WSJ, 6/16/07, p.P10)
1977 May 29, Janet Guthrie
(b.1938) became the 1st woman to drive in the Indianapolis 500. Her
autobiography, "Janet Guthrie: A Life at Full Throttle," was published
in 2005.
(www.janetguthrie.com/biofr.htm)(www.nascar.com/2002/kyn/women/02/02/Guthrie/)
1979 Mar 26, In the 41st NCAA
Men's Basketball Championship the Michigan State Spartans beat the
Indiana State Sycamores, 75-64, as Magic Johnson outscored Larry Bird,
24-19; this snapped Indiana State's 33-game win streak. In 2009 Seth
Davis authored “When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed
Basketball.”
(http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/moments/9903.html)(WSJ, 3/20/09,
p.W10)
1980 May 29, In Fort Wayne,
Indiana, there was an attempted assassination of Vernon Jordan Jr.,
National Urban League president. in 1996 an acquitted sniper told a
newspaper that he did shoot and wound Vernon Jordan, then president of
the Urban League, outside an Indiana hotel in 1980.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Jordan,_Jr.)(WSJ, 4/9/96,
p.A-1)(WSJ, 11/21/01, p.A12)
1980-1990 Herbert Baumeister (1947-1996), an
Indianapolis businessman, killed 16 men, most of them gay, and dumped
them in the woods behind his home and along rural roads in Indiana and
Ohio. Baumeister committed suicide in Canada at age 49.
(www.mayhem.net/Crime/morg9804.html)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Baumeister)
1981 Aug 22, In Indianapolis,
Indiana, King Edward Bell (33), a laid-off autoworker, killed his
estranged wife, mother-in-law and 4 children. Bell was sentenced to six
consecutive 40-year prison terms.
(AP, 6/2/06)(http://tinyurl.com/3dnvkc)
1982 Aug 17, A jury in South Bend,
Ind., acquitted self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin, for the 1980
attempted assassination of Vernon Jordan Jr, National Urban League
president.
(http://tinyurl.com/2nzrco)
1982 The Fourth Freedom Forum was
formed in Goshen, Indiana, by Howard Brembeck to advocate the use of
economic power instead of military force.
(www.fourthfreedom.org/Applications/cms.php?page_id=75)
1984 Mar 29, The NFL Baltimore
Colts moved to Indianapolis.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_Colts)
1985 Feb 23, Indiana basketball
coach Bobby Knight threw a chair during a game.
(http://www2.indystar.com/library/factfiles/people/k/knight_bob/knight.html)
1985 Aug 26, Thirteen-year-old
AIDS patient Ryan White began "attending" classes at Western Middle
School in Kokomo, Indiana, via a telephone hook-up at his home. School
officials had barred Ryan from attending classes in person.
(AP, 8/26/00)
1986 Feb 21, Ryan White
(1971-1990), AIDS patient, returned to classes at Western Middle School
in Indiana.
(www.ryanwhite.com/pages/timeline.html)
1986 The bodies of Tony (48) and
Michael (41) Spilotro were found buried in an Indiana cornfield. Tony
“The Ant” Spilotro was a top mob figure in Las Vegas. In 2005
prosecutors indicted 11 Chicago mob figures for at least 18 murders,
including the Spilotros.
(SFC, 4/26/05, p.A5)
1987 Mar 31, Indiana Univ. won the
NCAA basketball finals with a last-second, corner shot by Keith Smart.
(WSJ, 4/4/03, p.B2)(http://tinyurl.com/rcskk)
1987 Oct 20, Ten people were
killed when an Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn hotel near
Indianapolis International Airport after the pilot, who was trying to
make an emergency landing, ejected safely.
(AP, 10/20/97)
1987 Gov. Robert D. Orr (d.2004 at
86) pushed through a major educational reform package.
(SFC, 3/12/04, p.B7)
1988 Aug 16, Vice President George
Bush tapped Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle to be his running mate.
(AP, 8/16/98)
1988 Aug 18, Indiana Sen. Dan
Quayle was nominated to be George Bush's running mate during the
Republican convention in New Orleans; meanwhile, questions were being
raised about Quayle's service in the Indiana National Guard during the
Vietnam War.
(AP, 8/18/98)
1988 Purdue Univ. began hosting
the National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. Reuben Lucius "Rube"
Goldberg (b.1883), cartoonist, was known for drawing vastly complicated
machines that performed simple tasks.
(WUD, 1994, p.607)(SFEC, 4/5/98, p.A28)
1989 In Noblesville the parents of
Brian and David Setters were shot to death. The brothers took over the
family insurance business. In 1998 the 2 brothers were charged with the
murder.
(SFC, 10/1/98, p.A3)
1990 Apr 8, Ryan White (18), the
teen-age AIDS patient whose battle for acceptance gained national
attention, died in Indianapolis. The Ryan White Foundation was
established for AIDS education programs after his death and it closed
its doors due to dwindling funds in 1999.
(AP, 4/8/97)(SFC, 10/19/99, p.A3)
1990 Gilmore Reynolds of Osgood
died at age 91. A foundation was created to administer money from his
estate. His wife Golda died at age 98 in 1999 and the couple left $23
million to the town of Osgood for distribution in annual chunks of over
$1 million.
(SFC, 11/27/99, p.A10)(SFC, 6/5/00, p.A3)
1991 Jul 19, Boxer Mike Tyson had
sex with Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant. On
September 9, 1991, an Indiana Grand Jury voted to indict Tyson on three
counts, including one for the rape of Washington. Tyson was
convicted on February 10, 1992 and was imprisoned.
(www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/tysonrec.htm)
1992 Feb 6, Sixteen people were
killed when a C-130 military transport plane crashed in Evansville, Ind.
(AP, 2/6/02)
1992 Feb 10, Boxer Mike Tyson was
convicted in Indianapolis of raping Desiree Washington, a Miss Black
America contestant.
(AP, 2/10/97)
1992 Mar 26, A judge in
Indianapolis sentenced former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson to
six years in prison for raping a Miss Black America contestant. Tyson
ended up serving three years.
(AP, 3/26/02)
1993 May 30, Emerson Fittipaldi
won the 77th Indianapolis 500, driving at an average speed of 157.2
mph.
(AP, 5/30/98)
1993 Father Timothy Scully founded
the Alliance for Catholic Education at Notre Dame in an effort to help
staff the inner-city parochial schools.
(WSJ, 5/21/99, p.W15)
1994 Oct 31, An American Eagle
French-built ATR-72, en route from Indianapolis to Chicago, crashed in
Roselawn, Ind., and killed 68 people. In 1997 American Airlines and 7
other companies settled a suit filed by relatives for $110 million.
(SFC, 9/23/97, p.A4)(AP, 10/31/97)
1995 Philip Holton died and left
his estate to DePauw Univ. When his wife died in 1997 the estate was
estimated at $128 million.
(WSJ, 3/8/00, p.A1)
1996 May 17, Scott Brayton, race
car driver, was killed during a practice run for the US Indy 500 race.
He was the 40th driver to die during practice, qualifications or the
race. 66 people in all have died in accidents related to the race.
(SFC, 5/18/96, p.B-1)
1996 May 26, Buddy Lazier won the
Indianapolis 500.
(AP, 5/26/97)
1996 Aug 27, In Indianapolis 4
police officers engaged in a fight outside the city’s Circle Center
mall. They were off duty and had just consumed a large amount of beer
in the city’s luxury suite at a ball game. They were later tried for
battery, disorderly conduct and public intoxication but the 1997 trial
ended in a hung jury.
(SFEC,10/26/97, p.A7)
1996 Dec 27, In South Bend, Ind.,
Annie Fulford was shot and killed during a drug-related robbery. Her
boyfriend, Leif O’Connell, began a rampage and after 2 months began
drive-by shootings of black men that left 1 dead and five injured. He
and accomplice, Jerred Kahlenbeck, faced murder and attempted murder
charges.
(SFC, 5/13/97, p.A2)
1997 May 27, Arie Luyendyk won the
Indianapolis 500 for the second time.
(AP, 5/27/98)
1997 May 31, Rosie Will Monroe
(77), aka Rosie the Riveter, died in Indiana. During WW II she worked
as a riveter at the Willow Run Aircraft Factory in Ypsilanti, Michigan,
building B-29 and B-24 bombers for the Air Force. She appeared in films
and poster used by the U.S. government to encourage women to go to work
in support of the war effort.
(www.yvonnesplace.net/news/rosemonroe.htm)
1997 Dec 29, In Newport, Indiana,
Orville Lynn Majors (36), a former nurse, was arrested for murder and
suspected in the deaths of 130 out of 147 patients that died while he
was on duty between 1993 and 1995. In 1999 Majors was convicted in the
deaths of 6 patients in 1994 at Vermillion County Hospital and
sentenced to 6 consecutive 60-year terms in jail.
(SFC,12/30/97, p.A2)(SFC, 10/18/99, p.A11)
1998 Mar 20, An Indiana man, Chris
Dean (35), was arrested for sending the pipe bomb that killed
Christopher Marquis of Vermont. Marquis had defrauded Dean in a $400
trade of Citizens Band radio equipment arranged on the Internet.
(SFC, 3/21/98, p.A3)
1998 Apr 30, In Indiana Antoine
Whitehead (19) robbed the KeyBank in Carmel and killed Penny Schmitt
(32) and shot 3 co-workers. He had just been refused a loan and killed
himself following an intensive manhunt.
(SFC, 5/1/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 18, In Portage, Ind., a
commuter train struck a truck and dislodged a steel coil that crashed
into the first train car and crushed 3 people to death.
(SFC, 6/19/98, p.A3)
1998 Jul 28, In Indiana explosions
at the coal-fired generating plant of Southern Energy Co. in Hammond
injured 16 people.
(SFC, 7/29/98, p.A3)
1998 Aug 2, In Indiana a stolen
pickup carrying a homemade bomb crashed into the Tippecanoe County
Courthouse in Lafayette. The driver escaped and there were no injuries.
(SFC, 8/4/98, p.A3)
1998 Oct 30, Four abortion clinics
in 3 states, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee, received letters claiming
to contain deadly anthrax bacteria. The letters were tested and found
to be free of anthrax.
(SFC, 10/31/98, p.A3)(SFEC, 11/1/98, p.A11)
1999 Jan 4, In Indianapolis
William Kyle (6) was shot dead during a bad drug deal. His father
Michael Kyle (37) used his children as shields during drug deals. Kyle
was charged with murder as was Donnell L. Hughley (21), the alleged
gunman.
(SFC, 1/30/99, p.A2)
1999 Jan 20, Eugene S. Pullman,
publisher of the Indianapolis Star and the Indianapolis News, died at
age 84.
(SFC, 1/22/99, p.E4)
1999 Feb 23, Federal authorities
reported that Jay Scott Ballinger (36) of Indiana had admitted to
burning as many as 50 churches in the last 5 years. He was charged with
arson in 7 burnings in southern Indiana.
(SFC, 2/24/99, p.A5)
1999 May 30, Kenny Brack won the
crash-marred Indianapolis 500, driving a car owned by racing legend
A.J. Foyt.
(AP, 5/30/00)
1999 Jun 19, In Franklin Ronald
Lee Shanabarger smothered to death his 7-month old son, Tyler, in
revenge against his wife, Amy, who had refused to cut short a vacation
in 1996 when his father died. It was later learned that Shanabarger had
a $100,000 insurance policy for the boy.
(SFC, 6/29/99, p.A2)(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.A5)
1999 Jul 4, In Bloomington, Ind.,
Benjamin Nathaniel Smith killed Won Joon Moon (26), a Korean-born
Indiana Univ. student. Later the same day he shot himself dead during a
police chase in Salem, Ill. Authorities believe Smith was also
responsible for killing former college basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong
during a three-day rampage targeting minorities.
(SFC, 7/5/99, p.A1,5)(AP, 7/4/00)
1999 Nov 17, In Elkhart Sasezley
Richardson (19) was shot by Jason Powell (19) in a random driveby
shooting. Richardson died Nov 20. Powell was reportedly seeking
admission to the Aryan Brotherhood and wanted a spiderweb tattoo for
having killed a black person. Driver Alex Witmer (18) was also jailed.
(SFC, 11/24/99, p.A9)
1999 Nov 21, Kevin R. Noles (36)
killed 3 people and then himself after he was expelled from a party in
Angola.
(SFC, 11/22/99, p.A4)
2000 Mar 25, Judy Kirby (31) drove
into oncoming traffic and killed 4 of her children and 3 people in an
oncoming minivan near Martinsville. She was charged with 7 counts of
murder. Her lawyer later argued that she suffered from postpartum
depression.
(SFC, 5/10/00, p.C3)
2000 Sep 10, Bob Knight, Indian
Univ. basketball coach, was fired for unacceptable behavior. Knight had
led the team to 3 NCAA titles over 29 years.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 12, Robby Bott (45), a
mechanic from Brooklyn, was found dead in the trunk of his burning
Mercury Cougar.
(SFEC, 10/22/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 17, Police in San
Francisco captured Joshua Maxwell and Tessie McFarland of Indianapolis,
wanted for killings in two states following a gun-shooting chase.
Maxwell and McFarland were wanted for the recent murder of Sgt. Rudy
Lopes in San Antonio, Texas, and for the murder of Robby Bott in
Brooklyn, Indiana.
(SFC, 10/18/00, p.A1,5)
2001 Mar 30, Neal Boyd (16) was
shot and killed by a former student (17) in the parking lot of Lew
Wallace High School in Gary.
(SFC, 3/31/01, p.A4)
2001 Apr 1, Notre Dame won its
first national championship in women's basketball, defeating Purdue,
66-64.
(AP, 4/1/02)
2001 Jun 19, Juan Raul Garza (44),
Texas drug kingpin, was executed by injection in Terra Haute, Ind. He
was the 2nd federal inmate to die since 1963.
(SFC, 6/20/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 6/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 6, In Indiana Robert L.
Wissman, an employee of the Nu-Wood Decorative Millwork plant on the
edge of Goshen killed manager Greg Oswald, wounded 6 others, and then
killed himself. A love triangle was later aid to be the cause.
(SFC, 12/7/01, p.A3)(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A7)
2001 Dec 14, George O'Leary
resigned as Notre Dame football coach five days after being hired,
admitting he'd lied about his academic and athletic background.
(AP, 12/14/06)
2001 Dec 31, Notre Dame tapped
Tyrone Willingham to be its football coach, replacing George O'Leary,
who'd resigned because of misstatements about his academic and athletic
achievements on his resume; Willingham became the first black head
coach in any sport for the Irish.
(AP, 12/31/02)
2001 Michael Martone authored "The
Blue Guide to Indiana.
(SSFC, 9/9/01, DB p.70)
2002 Mar 5, It was reported that a
team of physicists claimed nuclear fusion utilizing a burst of
ultrasound on a bubble of gases in a phenomenon known as
sonoluminescence. Details were to appear the journal Science. In 2008
Purdue Univ. said physicist Rusi Taleyarkhan was guilty of misconduct
in his research.
(SFC, 3/5/02, p.A4)(SFC, 7/19/08, p.A4)
2002 Apr 1, Maryland beat Indiana
64-52 in the NCAA basketball finals.
(SFC, 4/2/02, p.C1)
2002 May 17, Midwest flooding left
as many as 9 people dead over the last 2 weeks. Missouri Gov. Bob
Holden asked Pres. Bush to declare 37 counties as disaster areas.
Illinois and Indiana were also hard hit.
(SFC, 5/18/02, p.A3)
2002 May 26, Helio Castroneves won
his second straight Indianapolis 500 despite a protest filed by Paul
Tracy.
(AP, 5/26/03)
2002 Sep 17, Elizabeth Coblentz
(66), Amish cooking columnist, died. Her cook books included "The Amish
Cook Cookbook" and "An Amish Christmas."
(SFC, 9/23/02, p.B5)
2003 Sep 13, Frank O'Bannon (73),
Indiana Gov. since 1996, died. He had suffered a massive stroke in his
Chicago hotel room on Sep 8. He was succeeded by Lt. Gov. Joe Kernan.
(SFC, 9/9/03, p.A3)
2003 Nov 2, Frank McCloskey (64),
who represented Indiana's 8th District in Congress (1983-1995), died in
Bloomington.
(SFC, 11/4/03, p.A21)
2003 Dec 31, Chicago
regained the title of America's murder capital. It finished 2003
with 599 homicides. That was down from 648 a year earlier and the first
time since 1967 that the total dipped below 600. Gary, Ind., appeared
to finish 2003 with the nation's highest per capita homicide rate for
the ninth straight year.
(AP, 1/1/04)
2004 Jan 15, Legislation was
proposed to raise salaries for Indiana judges and legislators.
Legislator earned and average of $37,210 for 2002. Trial judges had a
base salary of $90,000, among the lowest in the USA.
(USAT, 1/16/04, p.10A)
2004 Mar 10, Robert D. Orr (86),
former 2-term Indiana governor, died.
(SFC, 3/12/04, p.B7)
2004 May 10, In Bloomington,
Indiana, Brood X of the 17-year Cicadas started emerging from the
ground. Billions and possibly even trillions of cicadas were expected
to emerge across much of the eastern half of the United States over the
next few weeks.
(Reuters, 5/15/04)(Econ, 5/8/04, p.75)
2004 May 30, Buddy Rice won the
Indianapolis 500 in the rain.
(AP, 5/30/05)
2004 Aug 16, J. Irwin Miller (95),
former head of Cummins Engine Corp., died in Columbus, Indiana. Miller
had used his wealth to promote good architecture for the city of
Columbus.
(WSJ, 9/1/04, p.D10)
2004 Nov 2, Mitchell Daniels (R)
was elected governor of Indiana.
(SFC, 11/4/04, p.A18)
2005 May 25, In Michigan City,
Ind., Gregory Scott Johnson (40) died by injection at 12:28 a.m. for
beating and stomping an 82-year-old woman to death in 1985, then
setting her house on fire to hide the crime. Gov. Mitch Daniels
rejected a request for a reprieve to allow Johnson to donate part of
his liver to his ailing sister.
(AP, 5/25/05)(SFC, 5/25/05, p.A3)
2005 Sep 19, In Ohio Katelind
Caudill (13) was shot and killed by Melvin Keeling (43) because she
told authorities her best friend was being molested. Keeling fled the
Cincinnati area. He was also sought for the killing of 2 convenience
store clerks, Lisa Kendall (29) and Kendora Furr (38) at the Family
Express store in Remington, Indiana. On Sep 28 more than a dozen
investigators on the Keeling task force combed the woods in Gary,
Indiana and found the fugitive's wallet, ID and other personal items a
few blocks from where Keeling abandoned his van. Tracking dogs also
followed Keeling's scent from the wooded area to nearby train tracks.
He was an apparent suicide.
(SFC, 9/22/05,
p.A6)(www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=34686)
2005 Oct 24, Abigail Brinkman
(28), of Columbus, Ind., died and three companions spent three days
floating in the stormy Caribbean off Belize after their weekend diving
trip went awry.
(AP, 10/26/05)
2005 Nov 6, A tornado ripped
across southwestern Indiana and northern Kentucky, killing at least 22
people, wrecking homes and knocking out power to thousands.
(AP, 11/6/05)(WSJ, 11/7/05, p.A1)
2005 Nov 15, Nearly 3 dozen
tornadoes hit Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee destroying dozens of
homes and killing 2 people.
(SFC, 11/17/05, p.A14)
2005 Indiana passed legislation
requiring voters to provide a giovernment issued photo ID. In 2008 the
US Supreme Court upheld the law.
(Econ, 5/3/08, p.40)
2005 There was a measles outbreak
among school children in Indiana. In 2006 the CDC attributed it to
home-schooled children whose parents avoided vaccinations out of safety
concern. The outbreak was later traced to a 17-year-old girl who had
traveled to Romania without getting vaccinated.
(WSJ, 8/3/06, p.A1)(SFC, 12/22/06, p.A18)
2006 Feb 28, In Gas City, Indiana,
a museum chronicling the short life of James Dean closed after
struggling financially since its opening in 2004. David Loehr said he
would soon be setting up a small display in the National Automotive
& Truck Museum in Auburn.
(AP, 3/30/06)
2006 Mar 11, Rural house fires in
Tennessee and Indiana killed 15 members of two families, and most of
the victims were children.
(AP, 3/12/06)
2006 Mar 12-2006 Mar 13, Swarms of
tornadoes killed at least 10 people across the Midwest states of
Indiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, South Dakota, Minnesota and
Wisconsin. It caused so much damage in Springfield, Ill., that the
mayor compared it to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 13, South Korea’s Kia
Motors Corp. said it will build a $1.2 billion factory in West Point,
Ga., its first in the US. Toyota said it will build a plant in
Lafayette, Ind.
(SFC, 3/14/06, p.D3)
2006 Apr 12, The Indiana Toll Road
was leased for $3.8 billion to a Spanish-Australian consortium that is
to maintain and run it for 75 years.
(WSJ, 4/13/06, p.A1)
2006 May 28, Sam Hornish Jr. won
the second-closest Indianapolis 500 ever.
(AP, 5/28/07)
2006 Jun 1, In Indiana 7
Covarrubias family members, the youngest just 5 years old, were shot to
death in their Indianapolis home. The next day police arrested suspect
James Stewart (30) without incident after a traffic stop. A second
suspect, Desmond Turner (28), turned himself in on June 3. Robbery was
the suspected motive.
(AP, 6/2-3/06)(SSFC, 6/4/06, p.A11)
2006 Jul 23, In southern Indiana 2
sets of sniper attacks within hours of each other left one man dead,
another wounded and four vehicles peppered with bullet holes. On July
25 police said a Gaston youth (18) confessed to weekend sniping.
(AP, 7/24/06)(WSJ, 7/26/06, p.A1)
2006 Aug 8, In Indianapolis,
Indiana, a fatal stabbing boosted the homicides to 13 in just one week
in the midst of an upsurge of violence that has police working longer
shifts and saturating high-crime areas.
(AP, 8/8/06)
2006 Aug 13, In Michigan City,
Indiana, fire swept through a two-story house, killing at least six
people. An unknown number of others were missing. It was not clear
whether they had left the scene or were still inside the home.
(AP, 8/13/06)
2006 Oct 25, A US federal judge
ruled that Indiana’s do-not-call list applies to political
telemarketers in a House race.
(WSJ, 10/26/06, p.A1)
2006 Nov 1, In Indiana Stephanie
Wagner, a missing 16-year-old girl, was found dead in a field.
Authorities jailed Danny R. Rouse (51), her restaurant co-worker and a
convicted child murderer, who confessed to killing the teen. Rouse was
released from prison in March after serving more than 26 years for
murdering a 5-year-old Kansas boy in 1979.
(AP, 11/2/06)
2006 Dec 15, In Indianapolis
health officials closed an Olive Garden restaurant after receiving over
300 calls from people who said they had become ill after eating there.
(SFC, 12/16/06, p.A3)
2006 Dec 18, In South Bend,
Indiana, Daniel Sharp (56) began killing homeless men suspected in
stealing scrap metal. In February 2006 Sharp admitted that he and Randy
Lee Reeder (50) killed 4 men between Dec 18 and Dec 21 for stealing
metal that he and Reeder had collected to sell for salvage. In 2007
Sharp pleaded guilty to the killings.
(SFC, 2/5/07, p.A3)(SFC, 5/31/07, p.A3)
2007 Jan 17, A US snow and ice
storm was blamed for at least 64 deaths in nine states. These included
20 deaths in Oklahoma, 9 in Missouri, 8 in Iowa, 4 in New York, 5 in
Texas, 4 in Michigan, 3 in Arkansas, and 1 each in Maine and Indiana.
(AP, 1/17/07)(SFC, 1/18/07, p.A3)
2007 Jan 21, Lovie Smith became
the first black head coach to make it to the Super Bowl when his
Chicago Bears won the NFC championship, beating the New Orleans Saints
39-14; Tony Dungy became the second when his Indianapolis Colts took
the AFC title over the New England Patriots, 38-34.
(AP, 1/21/08)
2007 Feb 4, Peyton Manning added
the missing ingredient to his Hall of Fame credentials by leading the
Indianapolis Colts to a 29-17 victory over the Chicago Bears in Super
Bowl XLI.
(Reuters, 2/5/07)
2007 May 27, Dario Franchitti won
a rain-abbreviated Indy 500.
(AP, 5/27/08)
2007 Aug 10, In southern Indiana 3
men were killed in a coal mine when a nylon sling used to transport
supplies up and down a shaft got caught, causing the bucket the men
were riding in to tip and send them plummeting more than 500 feet to
their deaths.
(WSJ, 8/11/07, p.A1)(AP, 8/10/08)
2007 Dec 16, Street and highway
crews were at work trying to clear roads across the Great Lakes states
into New England as a storm blamed for three deaths spread a hazardous
mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain. The storm was blamed for at least
10 deaths including 4 in Indiana, 2 in Michigan and Wisconsin, one in
Pennsylvania and one in Nova Scotia.
(AP, 12/16/07)(SFC, 12/18/07, p.A19)
2007 Dec 23, High wind and ice
coated power lines blacked out tens of thousands of people in the
Midwest. The storm was blamed for at least 22 deaths. At least 8 people
in Minnesota, 5 in Wisconsin, 3 each in Indiana and Wyoming and one
each in Michigan, Texas and Kansas were killed in traffic accidents.
(AP, 12/23/07)(WSJ, 12/24/07, p.A1)(SFC, 12/25/07,
p.A11)
2008 Jan 8, Flooding in northern
Indiana left 3 people dead.
(SFC, 1/10/08, p.A3)
2008 Jan 14, In Indianapolis two
mothers and their 2 babies were shot and killed. 2 men were seen
running form the victim’s home. Four men were later arrested in
connection with the fatal shootings.
(SFC, 1/16/08, p.A4)(AP, 1/20/08)
2008 Mar 19, Flooding forced
hundreds of people to flee their homes and closed scores of roads
across a wide swath of the US midsection as a huge storm system poured
as much as 10 inches of rain on the region. Flooding was reported in
parts of Arkansas, southern Illinois, southern Indiana, Missouri and
Kentucky with over a dozen deaths.
(AP, 3/19/08)(AP, 3/20/08)
2008 Apr 28, The US Supreme Court
upheld Indian’s voter-ID law, passed in 2005. It ruled that states can
require voters to produce photo identification without violating their
constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws.
(AP, 4/28/08)(WSJ, 4/29/08, p.A1)(Econ, 5/3/08, p.40)
2008 May 6, Sen. Barack Obama
climbed within 200 delegates of clinching the Democratic presidential
nomination. In the Indiana primary Clinton won 51% to 49%. In North
Carolina Obama won 56% to 42%.
(AP, 5/7/08)(SFC, 5/7/08, p.A1)
2008 Jun 8, Wicked weekend storms
pounded the US from the Midwest to the East Coast, forcing hundreds of
people to flee flooded communities, spawning tornadoes that tore up
houses and killing at least eight people in Indiana (1), Michigan (6),
Connecticut (1). Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle declared a state of emergency
in 29 counties and President Bush declared a major disaster in 29
Indiana counties, freeing up aid. Iowa Gov. Chet Culver declared an
emergency in nearly a third of the state's 99 counties.
(AP, 6/8/08)
2008 Nov 26, Edna Parker (115),
the world’s oldest person, died in Shelbyville, Indiana.
(WSJ, 11/28/08, p.A10)
2009 Jan 24, In Las Vegas Miss
Indiana Katie Stam was crowned Miss America 2009 by Miss America 2008
Kirsten Haglund.
(AP, 1/25/09)
2009 Jan 28, President Barack
Obama signed requests from Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear and Arkansas
Gov. Mike Beebe for federal emergency declarations as crews worked
around the clock to resurrect power lines downed by thick ice in both
states. Since the storm began building on Jan 26, the weather has been
blamed for at least six deaths in Texas, four in Arkansas, three in
Virginia, six in Missouri, two in Oklahoma, and one each in Indiana and
Ohio.
(AP, 1/29/09)
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