Indiana Fast Facts
I have lived in Indiana since I was 2 years old. As a part of last year’s challenge, I wrote some fast facts about Indiana and added them to my sidebar. Here there are:
- During WWII the P-47 fighter-plane was manufactured in Evansville at Republic Aviation.
- Marcella Gruelle of Indianapolis created the Raggedy Ann doll in 1914.
- The first professional baseball game was played in Fort Wayne on May 4, 1871.
- Santa Claus, Indiana receives over one half million letters and requests at Christmas time.
- The first successful goldfish farm in the United States was opened in Martinsville, Indiana, in 1899.
- There have been five men from Indiana who have been elected vice president: Schuyler Colfax, Thomas A. Hendricks, Charles W. Fairbanks, Thomas Marshall and Dan Quayle. They have earned Indiana the nickname “Mother of Vice Presidents.”
- David Letterman, host of television’s “Late Show with David Letterman,” was born April 12, 1947, in Indianapolis.
- Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis is the burial place for many famous figures in Indiana History. Benjamin Harrison, Oliver P. Morton, Kin Hubbard, James Whitcomb Riley and John Dillinger are among those buried here.
- In 1880, Wabash became the first city in the United States to have electric streetlights.
- The first long-distance auto race in the U. S. was held May 30, 1911, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
- Jim Davis, creator of Garfield, was born in Indiana.
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All photos are from flickr.com.
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