1863 — The Battle at Gettysburg ended with a Union victory. In the fighting were approximately 2,200 Indiana men from five infantry and two cavalry units. Over one-quarter of them were killed or injured.
1894 — Elwood Haynes demonstrated his newly-invented horseless carriage by taking a six-mile drive on Pumpkinvine Pike in Kokomo. The car reached a speed of six or seven miles per hour. The Haynes Automobile Company produced a variety of popular cars until 1924.
1911 — President William Howard Taft visited Marion, Ind. The city was decorated in red, white and blue bunting from the railroad station at Fourth Street all the way to the Veterans’ Hospital. Thousands greeted him all along the route.
1914 — Famed actor Otis Skinner concluded a one-week stay in Indianapolis at the home of his friends, Dr. and Mrs. Lafayette Page. During the visit, he met with poet James Whitcomb Riley, author Meredith Nicholson and publisher W. C. Bobbs.
1921 — The first all-female jury in Indiana sat for a trial in the Jennings County Courthouse in Vernon. The women were selected to hear the case against a man charged with “surety of the peace.”
1937 — The last radio contact was made by Amelia Earhart, who was attempting a circumnavigational flight of the globe. She and navigator Fred Noonan were flying a twin-engine Lockheed Electra owned by Purdue University. Earhart was a Purdue career counselor and adviser to the school’s Department of Aeronautics.