Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
July 20, 1915 — It is reported that the Studebaker Corporation will move part of its Detroit plant to South Bend and employ 2,500 more men.
July 20, 1965 — Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg will succeed the late Adlai E. Stevenson as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
July 20, 1990 — Hoosiers soon may be wearing shoes produced at the new maximum-security prison being built in Sullivan County in southwestern Indiana.
July 20, 2005 — President Bush’s pick for Supreme Court chief justice, John Roberts, is a Long Beach native and a LaLumiere School graduate.