1820 – Commissioners appointed by Governor Jonathan Jennings traveled into Central Indiana in search of a site for a new state capital. They were guests at the farm of William Conner, whose home is now part of the Conner Prairie Museum complex.
1907 – President Theodore Roosevelt was in Indianapolis to dedicate the statue of Major General Henry Lawton in front of the Marion County Courthouse. He also placed flowers on the grave of Former President Benjamin Harrison at Crown Hill Cemetery.
1919 – Indiana author Booth Tarkington was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Magnificent Ambersons. Three years later he won another Pulitzer for Alice Adams.
1922 – Lillian Gay Berry and Juliette Maxwell became the first women to be named full professors at Indiana University. Berry taught Latin and Maxwell was director of women’s physical education.
1934 – The Veterans Civilian Conservation Corps began work on improvements to Brown County State Park, which had opened in 1929. The workers constructed many buildings, along with roads and trails.
1967 – Dedication ceremonies were held for the Elwood Haynes Museum in the inventor’s home in Kokomo. Haynes was an early manufacturer of automobiles and helped in the development of stainless steel and the metal alloy stellite.