Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
Sept. 23, 1914 – Nine miles of trenches, still with unburied dead, were the fruits of yesterday’s fighting by the British troops now making up the allied left wing.
Sept. 23, 1964 – The county plan commission denies Paul and Dorothy Kray’s rezoning petition to establish a funeral home south of LaPorte.
Sept. 23, 1989 – A giant of American music, Irving Berlin, is dead at 101.
Sept. 23, 2004 – A late property tax draw delays LaPorte sidewalk replacement.