Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
May 11, 1913 – The new head of the Rumely Co. declares in a Sunday address that smoking unfits men for work.
May 11, 1963 – George F. Fargher, LaPorte High school sophomore, is a national science fair winner.
May 11, 1988 – Three-year-old Tabatha Foster of Pittsburgh is the longest known survivor of a five-organ transplant.
May 11, 2003 – High winds knocked down scores of trees and limbs in LaPorte County yesterday.