Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
April 16, 1914 – The businessmen of LaPorte offer prizes for contests which will feature the giving of entertainment by fiddlers, singers and dancers.
April 16, 1964 – George C. Wallace, running in the Democratic Party presidential primary election, got a greeting of pickets when he arrived at Indiana’s Butler University yesterday.
April 16, 1989 – Judy Cantrell receives a heart at St. Vincent Hospital in an unusual transplant procedure from a living donor.
April 16, 2004 – The Greater LaPorte Economic Development Corporation has placed director Matt Vigneault on administrative leave with pay.