Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
Jan. 15, 1915 — The list of the dead from the Rome earthquake may number 50,000 persons.
Jan. 15, 1965 — It is hoped that LaPorte’s new 16-classroom Lincoln Elementary School building will be ready for use by April 1.
Jan. 15, 1990 — In his first ever State of the City Address, LaPorte Mayor Elmo Gonzalez says the city’s “apathy” is gone.
Jan. 15, 2005 — Edward Johnson is sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for the botched robbery attempt at The Pines branch of 1st State Bank of Porter in 2002.