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Indiana

state of the United States of America

9 dated entries naming Indiana, drawn from 9 separate years between 1794 CE and 1991 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 1794October 22 – Fort Wayne founded in what is now the U.S. state of Indiana.source

19th century

  • 1816December 11 – Indiana is admitted as the 19th U.S. state.source
  • 1844January 15 – The University of Notre Dame, based in the city of the same name, receives its charter from Indiana.source
  • 1850October 28 – Delegate Edward Ralph May delivers a speech on behalf of African-American suffrage, to the Indiana Constitutional Convention.source
  • 1876May 10 – Major pharmaceutical brand Eli Lilly is founded in Indiana, United States.source

20th century

  • 1907Indiana, in the United States, becomes the world's first legislature to place laws permitting compulsory sterilization for eugenic purposes on the statute book.source
  • 1922November 12 – Sigma Gamma Rho (ΣΓΡ) Sorority, Incorporated is founded by seven educators in Indianapolis, Indiana. The group becomes an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter is granted to the Alpha chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis.source
  • 1925March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in U.S. history, rampages through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois; West Frankfort, Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri; and Griffin, Indiana.source
  • 1991July 22 – U.S. boxer Mike Tyson is arrested and charged with the rape, three days earlier, of Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, in Indianapolis, Indiana.source

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