Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
Jan. 20, 1914 – A boy who drowned while using an umbrella for a sail crossing thin ice on a lake in Syracuse will be buried in LaPorte. Two recently purchased pulmotors could not be located in time.
Jan. 20, 1964 – Peter G. Torosian, president of American Rubber and Plastics Corporation in LaPorte, died suddenly at his home in Chicago.
Jan. 20, 1989 – George Herbert Walker Bush becomes the 41st president of the United States.