Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
April 15, 1914 – The LaPorte Masons will formally open their new temple on Jefferson Avenue on May 7.
April 15, 1964 – Sen. Barry Goldwater takes Illinois’ GOP presidential primary by nearly 65 percent over Maine’s Sen. Margaret Chase Smith.
April 15, 1989 – As many as 50 people are killed in a stampede of thousands of soccer fans during a match in Sheffield about 150 miles northeast of London.
April 15, 2004 – Tax forms are so complex they’re taking more time to complete. The total estimated time to complete common forms is 28 hours 30 minutes, 42 minutes longer than last year.