Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
Feb. 17, 1915 — A man either seeking work or seeking to avoid it fell from a Lake Shore train last night near the Hobart M. Cable factory in East LaPorte.
Feb. 17, 1965 — President Johnson seeks advice from former President Dwight D. Eisenhower on the Vietnam crisis.
Feb. 17, 1990 — PNC students and staff rally for fired history instructor Bernard Lootens.
Feb. 17, 2005 — Michigan City crime rates drop for the eighth year.