Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
Sept. 3, 1919 — A woman from near Chesterton on her way to attend a wedding in Otis in a buggy dies when pigs run across the road in front of her, scaring her horse and overturning the buggy.
Sept. 3, 1969 — Angelo Bernacchi, LaPorte businessman who came to this country 62 years ago from Italy, dies at age 77.
Sept. 3, 1994 — More than 28,000 Cubans have tried to cross to Florida in the past month, most on flimsy rafts. Cuban President Fidel Castro hopes to force the U.S. to reverse its economic embargo of Cuba.
Sept. 3, 2009 — About 70 percent of trees in LaPorte are maples. An increasing number of them are affected by a fatal disease that causes trees to lose leaves, wilt and brown in color.