Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
Jan. 16, 1917 — Judge Gallaher refuses to grant a divorce after listening more than a day to the most salacious evidence heard in a LaPorte court room in years, although there is no likelihood the couple will live together.
Jan. 16, 1967 — A mammoth runaway fire all but destroys Chicago’s huge McCormick Place, one of the world’s great exhibition halls.
Jan. 16, 1992 — Four-term State Sen. Dennis Neary of LaPorte County will not run again.
Jan. 16, 2007 — Former Vice President Al Gore’s documentary film on global warming is titled “An Inconvenient Truth.”
