Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
Aug. 19, 1913 – Joseph Klassen, 16, drowned in Stone Lake.
Aug. 19, 1963 – Total LaPorte County Fair attendance is feared to be below former years due to the weather.
Aug. 19, 1988 – Republican vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle of Indiana was your average run-of-the-mill Huntington High School student.
Aug. 19, 2003 – The Carson & Barnes 5-ring circus comes to LaPorte on Aug. 21.