Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
May 2, 1914 – A unique idea to combine the moving picture with the textbooks of Indiana schools was suggested to the state board of education.
May 2, 1964 – Communist terrorists sink a U.S. ship in the Saigon Harbor and a few hours later wound four Americans in a grenade attack along the waterfront.
May 2, 1989 – Hungary’s Iron Curtain, the electrified double barbed-wire fence, is toppling, creating the first East-West border without barriers in 40 years.
May 2, 2004 – A trail for bicycles and horses is being planned for Bluhm County Park north of Westville.