Courtesy of the David L. Rice Library University Archives & Special Collections at the University of Southern Indiana.
January 26, 1937
Evansville is under martial law as the Ohio River floods to 54 feet.
January 26, 1978
The state is paralyzed by a snowstorm that becomes known as the “Blizzard of ’78.” Wind gusts up to 55 mph bring snow depths of 20 feet in the central section to 40 feet in the south.
January 26, 1826
The “Boatload of Knowledge” (scientists and scholars from the East) arrives in the community of New Harmony.
January 27, 1967
A flash fire aboard the Apollo I test capsule took the lives of Hoosier astronaut Gus Grissom and two fellow astronauts.
January 28, 1822
George Smith and Nathaniel Bolton published the Indiana Gazette, the first newspaper in Indianapolis.
January 30, 1930
Frank Lewis O’Bannon was born in Corydon. He grew up to become Indiana’s 47th governor, serving from 1997 until his death in 2003.
January 31, 1871
Land was purchased to build the U.S. Quartermaster Depot in Jeffersonville.
February 1, 1870
A railroad bridge was built over the Ohio River at Jeffersonville.
