Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
Jan. 9, 1917 — Each of the 243 students in the eighth grade of the county schools will be given pre-vocational training.
Jan. 9, 1967 — House Democrats depose Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-N.Y.) as chairman of the Education and Labor Committee.
Jan. 9, 1992 — The late LaPorte High School Coach Bob LeRoy is named to the first class of inductees in the Indiana High School Tennis Coaches Hall of Fame.
Jan. 9, 2007 — See “Night at the Museum” at the LaPorte Cinema for $1 before 6 p.m.