Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
Oct. 20, 1914 — LaPorte’s new United States Slicing Machine plant will be ready Dec. 20 and employ 175 men.
Oct. 20, 1964 – The battle for life is lost by Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st president of the United States. He was 90. Burial will be in West Branch, Iowa, overlooking the cottage where he was born.
Oct. 20, 1989 – The student charette team’s idea for the western “entryway” into downtown LaPorte is an overhead canopy from the sidewalk to the hospital in a park-like setting.
Oct. 20, 2004 – Families of two Pines bank employees killed in an August 2002 robbery attempt to talk to the trial jury.