Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
March 19, 1914 – A little comedy was enacted at the meat market at the corner of E and Second streets in LaPorte. Three parties were involved in a disagreement on the store’s ownership.
March 19, 1964 – Irvin Swanson, an all-time LaPorte High School basketball great, receives recognition for his efforts as a four-year letterman in an all-state honors event in Indianapolis.
March 19, 1989 – Todd Lake gets 23 years for the robbery and beating death of a man in a Lincoln Way apartment in LaPorte.
March 19, 2004 – Nektarios Vasilottos is champ of the LaPorte County Spelling Bee. This is his second consecutive championship.