1816 – In Corydon, 43 delegates gathered to write a constitution for the new state of Indiana. Jonathan Jennings was chosen as president of the committee and William Hendricks was made secretary. Both would go on to serve as governors.
1842 – Former U.S. President Martin Van Buren visited Indianapolis. He stayed at the Palmer House Hotel and paid a visit to Governor Samuel Bigger at the Statehouse. He also attended a church service led by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher at the Second Presbyterian Church.
1865 – The last Confederate prisoner of war was released from Camp Morton in Indianapolis. The camp had occupied about 30 acres in the area now known as the Herron-Morton neighborhood. After the Civil War, the site was restored to its former use as the state fairgrounds. It served in that capacity until 1892 when the fair moved to its present location on East 38th Street.
1893 – Antoinette Dakin Leach was granted the right to practice law by the Indiana Supreme Court. The first female attorney in the state, she spent most of her life in Sullivan.
1909 – Indiana Governor Thomas Marshall issued a proclamation urging citizens to observe Flag Day on June 14. Some Hoosier cities had been celebrating the flag on this date for many years. The holiday received national endorsement by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
1936 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt was in Vincennes to dedicate the George Rogers Clark Memorial. Among thousands at the ceremony were First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Indiana Governor Paul V. McNutt. In his speech, the President noted that “events in history take on their due proportion when viewed in the light of time.”