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October 31, 1902 Wilbur Shaw, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1937, 1939, 1940), born in Shelbyville.
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October 31, 1950 Jane Pauley, American newscaster (Today, NBC Weekend), born in Indianapolis.
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October 28, 1798 Levi Coffin is born in North Carolina. In 1826 he moves to Newport, Indiana (now Fountain City) and operated what has become known as the “Grand Central Station” of the Underground Railroad.
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October 31, 1963 A propane tank exploded during a performance of “Holiday on Ice” at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum, killing 74 people and injuring more than 400,
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November 1, 1920 Julia D. Nelson of Delaware County is the first woman elected to the Indiana legislature.
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Our Where in Indiana? from last week was taken in Huntington, of the Huntington County courthouse.
Where in Indiana?
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Take time to forage in an Indiana forest.
Indiana Hazelnuts.
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