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More than 40 Potawatomi die from disease and the stress of the march.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358511107#July–September", "title": "1838 in the United States", "revid": 1358511107, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1844, "year_label": "1844 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 15", "text": "January 15 – The University of Notre Dame, based in the city of the same name, receives its charter from Indiana.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372570203#January–March", "title": "1844", "revid": 1372570203, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1850, "year_label": "1850 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 28", "text": "October 28 – Delegate Edward Ralph May delivers a speech on behalf of African-American suffrage, to the Indiana Constitutional Convention.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365770371#October–December", "title": "1850", "revid": 1365770371, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1876, "year_label": "1876 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "May 10", "text": "May 10 – Major pharmaceutical brand Eli Lilly is founded in Indiana, United States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363589433#May", "title": "1876", "revid": 1363589433, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1907, "year_label": "1907 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Indiana, in the United States, becomes the world's first legislature to place laws permitting compulsory sterilization for eugenic purposes on the statute book.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373349351#Date_unknown", "title": "1907", "revid": 1373349351, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1907, "year_label": "1907 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Indiana becomes the world's first legislature to place laws permitting compulsory sterilization for eugenic purposes on the statute book.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355974939#Undated", "title": "1907 in the United States", "revid": 1355974939, "section": "Events › Undated"}}, {"year": 1918, "year_label": "1918 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "June 22", "text": "June 22 – Hammond Circus Train Wreck: A locomotive engineer fell asleep and ran his troop train into the rear of a circus train near Hammond, Indiana. The circus train held 400 performers and roustabouts of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359276216#April–June", "title": "1918 in the United States", "revid": 1359276216, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1922, "year_label": "1922 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "November 12", "text": "November 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.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369983934#November", "title": "1922", "revid": 1369983934, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1925, "year_label": "1925 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "March 18", "text": "March 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.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367485783#March", "title": "1925", "revid": 1367485783, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1925, "year_label": "1925 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "March 18", "text": "March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado rampages through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri; and Griffin, Indiana. The storm's damage path is indicated at 378 km (235 mi).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370308234#January–March", "title": "1925 in the United States", "revid": 1370308234, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1936, "year_label": "1936 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "July 13", "text": "July 13–14 – Peak of July 1936 heat wave: The U.S. states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana all set new state records for high temperature. At Mio in northern Michigan, it soars to 113 °F.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373956397#July–September", "title": "1936 in the United States", "revid": 1373956397, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1991, "year_label": "1991 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July 22", "text": "July 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.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371487470#July", "title": "1991", "revid": 1371487470, "section": "Events › July"}}]}