Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
Dec. 9, 1914 — The German kaiser is ill with pneumonia.
Dec. 9, 1964 — Robert Rahfeldt is appointed to the $5,630-a-year post of LaPorte County building commissioner.
Dec. 9, 1989 — Experts say world hunger could be halved in a decade.
Dec. 9, 2004 — Two teacher’s aides are injured while breaking up a fight at Kesling Middle School.