1869 – Janet Scudder was born in Terre Haute. A talented sculptor known for lovely fountains in gardens and parks across the nation, she was one of three Hoosier women chosen to create statues for the Indiana Building at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
1892 – First Lady Caroline Scott Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison, died of tuberculosis at the White House. Services were held in Washington and Indianapolis before her burial at Crown Hill Cemetery.
1928 – Evangelist Billy Sunday preached to a large crowd at Cadle Tabernacle in Indianapolis. He said that prohibition was “the greatest moral question of the century.” Sunday and his family had a home at Winona Lake in Kosciusko County.
1929 – One person was killed and seven injured in Madison when a cannon exploded during a reception for President Herbert Hoover. The president was visiting the city on the U.S. Coast Guard Greenbrier, a paddlewheel steamboat. Others on the boat included Indiana Governor Harry G. Leslie and Mrs. Leslie.
1950 – Thousands of bells rang throughout Indiana as the state participated in the United Nations world-wide “Message of Freedom” celebration. At the Statehouse, Governor Henry Schricker rang the Liberty Bell replica in the rotunda.
1978 – The legendary “House of Blue Lights” was set for demolition by the Indianapolis Board of Parks and Recreation. The home on the northeast side of the city had belonged to millionaire Skiles Test. For many years it had been the subject of mysteries and urban myths.