Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
March 18, 1915 — A well-to-do New Carlisle lady shot herself in the head and died after her son asked if she heard a loud noise and she replied through her door that it must have been “a tornado on the railroad track.”
March 18, 1965 — More than 15,000 singing and flag-waving demonstrators march on the Alabama capitol.
March 18, 1990 — The Latta trial here in LaPorte holds more drama than any TV show.
March 18, 2005 — Nekrarios Vasilottos wins the LaPorte County Spelling Bee for the third time.