February 21, 1940 Fire swept through the winter headquarters of the Cole Brothers Circus in Rochester, Indiana killing over 100 animals.  Elephants and camels roamed the area until they were captured the next day

1955 Doctors began the first mass inoculation of children with the Salk polio vaccine, produced by Eli Lilly Laboratories in Indianapolis.

February 22, 1930 James McGarrell, painter, born in Indianapolis.

February 24, 1826 What may be the earliest use of the word “hoosier” was penned in a letter from James Curtis of Missouri to his uncle Joseph Beeler in Indianapolis.

Marjorie Main was born in Acton, Indiana. After attending Franklin College, she went to Hollywood where she appeared in many MGM movies.  She is best known in her role as “Ma” in the “Ma and Pa Kettle” series.

Our Where in Indiana? from last week was taken at the Vigo county courthouse, in Terre Haute.

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Indiana Quick Quiz

1. What is the name of the High School that had a basketball team who was the first black high school in the country to win a state championship in any sport?

2. Where was the first electronic basketball scoreboard used in the country?

3. In 1911, who won the first Indiana high school state boys basketball tournament?

4. The first eight Indiana boys basketball state champions came from a three-county, thirty-mile radius. Name the teams?

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1. Crispus Attucks High School

2. Wingate, IN

3. Crawfordsville High School

4. Crawfordsville, 1911; Lebanon, 1912, 1917, 1918; Wingate, 1913, 1914;  Thorntown, 1915; and Lafayette Jefferson, 1916.