Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
April 14, 1915 — In a local divorce complaint, a man says he was beaten up so badly by his wife and one of his sons in 1907 that he was unable to go to work for many weeks.
April 14, 1965 — President Johnson walks through the rubble of tornado-devastated Indiana towns.
April 14, 1990 — Two Fairfield of America realtors commission the development of an addition to a subdivision on LaPorte’s south side with 40 new home lots.
April 14, 2005 — LaPorte businessman Jeffrey Ake is shown on video at gunpoint two days after he was reportedly kidnapped from a water treatment plant near Baghdad.