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1980s
226 dated events in 1980s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 226 dated mentions
1980s
- 1980The shooting of Vernon Jordan · Fort Wayne in the first CNN broadcast
On the night of 29 May 1980 Fort Wayne became, for a week, the dateline of the national civil-rights story.
Fort Wayne
- 1980Samuel Little · two Fort Wayne women, one night in 1980
Valeria Boyd was eighteen and Mary Ann Porter was thirty-one, both of Fort Wayne, and both were reported missing to the Fort Wayne police by their families in late October 1980.
Fort Wayne
- 1980The moved houses
Placed on the National Register in 1979, the house was moved from its original site in 1980 with the help of the Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana — the state organization now called Indiana Landmarks…
Fort Wayne
- 1980Mark di Suvero: Keepers of the Fire
The work: The city's signature piece of public art is thirty-two feet of red-painted steel standing in the St. Joseph River by the dam outside Century Center: Keepers of the Fire (1980), by Mark di Suvero, the American sculptor whose monumental I-beam constructions stand in museum grounds and cities across the country.
South Bend
- 1980Simeri's Old Town Tap — and Dorbin's after it
Forty-four years: Simeri's Old Town Tap, at 1505 West Indiana Avenue on the west side, dated itself "a neighborhood tradition since 1980," and WNDU's account of its last day gives the family frame: founded by the mother of the family in the 1980s, run in its later years by a brother-and-sister team…
South Bend
- 1980Tippecanoe Place: the mansion's restaurant, 1980–2026
Continental Restaurant Systems bought the mansion in 1979 and spent $2 million converting it; Tippecanoe Place the restaurant opened in 1980, in the Tribune's January 2026 account of its closing.
South Bend
- 1980–1982United States v. Mercer — the opinion read whole; the negative verified
What the opinion says: Mercer pleaded guilty to bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) at a plea colloquy on April 16, 1980.
South Bend
- 1980–1987Mary DiStanislao and the Division I step, 1980–1987
The second coach: Mary DiStanislao succeeded Petro in 1980 and coached seven seasons, going 115–79.
Notre Dame
- 1980–1998Volleyball — the Steve Anderson dynasty: seven finals, three titles
The titles: 1980–81, over Twin Lakes (8-15, 15-4, 15-10), the team finishing 21–1; 1983–84, over Muncie Burris (15-9, 11-15, 16-14) — Burris came in 44–1 and left beaten — the Cavemen 30–3; and 1988–89, over Carroll of Fort Wayne (16-14, 15-9), the team 37–2.
Mishawaka
- 1980–2012The World Wiffle Ball Championship — Mishawaka's gift to the backyard game
The founding: On 12 June 1980, at College Park beside Bethel College in Mishawaka, nineteen-year-old Jim Bottorff laid out a new-look Wiffle Ball field — six-foot home-run fences, copyrighted rules, and a restored rounders rule under which a runner could be retired by being hit with the ball.
Mishawaka
- 1980–2020Samuel Little · two Fort Wayne women, one night in 1980
Valeria Boyd was eighteen and Mary Ann Porter was thirty-one, both of Fort Wayne, and both were reported missing to the Fort Wayne police by their families in late October 1980.
Fort Wayne
- 1980–2026Dynasty numbers as conventions: Penn's twenty-four, counted under a stated rule — and the resident coach's two
The resident coach's count, stated separately: The ground's own dynastic figure is not Penn's coach but Notre Dame's, who lived here: Ara Parseghian, resident of Granger, whose Notre Dame record stands 95-17-4 across 1964–74, whose teams won consensus national championships in 1966 (9-0-1) and 1973 (11-0)…
Granger
- 1980–2026Wrestling: one state champion, and the program's firsts
The firsts stand in order: first qualifier Mitchel Kane, 1980; first placer Frank Fraser, 1997. An individual state title is a team-history fact at this size — the champion's biography belongs to the Sports Players leg, and this section carries the title, the year and the program roll at the strength of the sport's own record.
New Carlisle
- 1980–todayAfter the Scout: collapse, Homecoming, and a revival in South Carolina
International Harvester entered the 1980s in collapse — sustained losses through the fiscal years 1980–84 and a crippling strike in 1979–80 among them — and the Scout line, a low-volume passenger vehicle inside a truck and farm-equipment company, was ended in October 1980 as the company contracted.
Fort Wayne
- 1980–todayThe Consent Decree: the Corporation's Institutional Course
The case: In February 1980 the United States sued the corporation — United States v. South Bend Community School Corporation, No. 3:80-cv-00035 in the Northern District of Indiana — under Title IV of the Civil Rights Act and the Equal Educational Opportunities Act.
South Bend
- 1980–todayThe public art program: commissions and their process
The Committee for Art in Public Places, chaired by Andrew W. Nickle, led the effort that brought Mark di Suvero's Keepers of the Fire to the riverfront in 1980 — the sculpture stands in Artists…
South Bend
- 1981A medical school's research campus: IU School of Medicine—Fort Wayne
The program began in 1981 with four students on the IPFW campus; under its second director, Ragatz, from 1987, it built the apparatus of research — a student research fellowship program, a cardiovascular research program and an endowed professorship…
Fort Wayne
- 1981The smallest patients: the neonatal unit and couplet care, 1981
The mother stays in the room: Newborn intensive care at Memorial began in 1981, and its advancement was a way of arranging care as much as a technology.
South Bend
- 1981North Liberty High School: The Shamrocks, and a Closing Nobody Dated
The conference record, at snippet strength, runs the school's affiliations: a member of the Northern Indiana Valley Conference from 1932 to 1966, then of the Northern State Conference from 1966, leaving it in 1981 — "none (consolidated into Glenn)."
North Liberty
- 1981–1985Gerry Faust, 1981–1985
The record: Gerry Faust coached Notre Dame for five seasons, 1981–85, and finished 30–26–1 in the University Archives' coaching table.
Notre Dame
- 1981–1992The independent thread — Nine Feet Tall , and an animation pioneer
Computer Creations (1981): The other independent entry is earlier and stranger.
South Bend
- 1981–1997The mall's middle course: the drain, the cinemas, the renovation
The two malls even quarreled over the season's logistics: at Christmas 1981 their employee-parking arrangements were in dispute in the record.
Mishawaka
- 1981–2000The record itself: two listings, two filers, and the survey under them
Under both filings lies the fieldwork that made them possible: the Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory of St. Joseph County, published at South Bend in 1981, the county survey in which the state's investigators first recorded the town's buildings one by one.
New Carlisle
- 1981–2007The surveys: how this ground was read, and by whom
The South Bend volume's lineage is documented two ways, printed whole because they differ in date, not in substance: Notre Dame Magazine records that John W. Stamper, then director and planner of the local Historic Preservation Commission, began the meticulous inventory of South Bend and St. Joseph County sites in…
Granger
- 1981–2015William O'Rourke — the program's founder, on paper
William O'Rourke taught English at the University of Notre Dame from 1981 to 2015 and founded its graduate creative writing program — the institution's course stands in Arts, and the program's own tribute history names him the founder, with the poets John Matthias and Sonia Gernes his faculty colleagues of the founding.
Notre Dame
- 1981–2019The smallest patients: the neonatal unit and couplet care
No neonatal unit has ever stood in the CDP, because no hospital has; the unit that takes this ground's smallest patients stands at Memorial Hospital of South Bend, and its founding and its care-model first both date: Beacon's own state-recognition release of 2 December 2019 states the founding plainly…
Granger
- 1981–2024HIV in the official record only, and COVID-19 in three dated parts
The series continues annually — the 2022 and 2024 reports carry the same county structure (new reports for the year, deaths reported by county, persons living with HIV disease by county, with total Indiana deaths among persons with HIV disease reported since 1981 standing at 8,402 in the 2024 report)…
Granger
- 1981–2026The prosecutors — Richards's twenty years and the chief deputy who waited
She had entered it in 1981 as the first woman to serve as a deputy prosecutor in its criminal division, and she won the office itself at the election of 2002 — the first woman elected Allen County prosecutor — taking her seat in January 2003 and holding it through five terms.
Fort Wayne
- 1981–todayTrinity School at Greenlawn
Founded: Trinity School was founded in 1981 by the People of Praise, the charismatic Christian community itself founded in South Bend in 1971, with fewer than thirty students.
South Bend
- 1982The flood fight
The award followed in the National Civic League's 1982–83 cycle — the League's own roll of winners prints “Fort Wayne 1982-83,” while the city's accounts usually say 1983 — the first of four All-America City titles (1998, 2009 and 2021 followed).
Fort Wayne
- 1982The flood fight
Sandbag lines at Memorial Coliseum, the Pemberton dike saved, President Reagan on the line on 16 March, and the All-America City award in 1983.
Fort Wayne
- 1982International Harvester announces the end
On Monday 27 September 1982, International Harvester announced it would close its Fort Wayne works; the announcement front-paged the Journal Gazette the next morning.
Fort Wayne
- 1982The Flood Fight · March 1982, and the city that saved itself
The waters began rising on the night of 12 March 1982. The forecast crest — just over nineteen feet — proved badly wrong; the rivers kept rising, dikes began to fail, and Fort Wayne went to war with its own geography in what became the most famous week in the city's modern history.
Fort Wayne
- 1982After the waters: thirty years of arguing about the walls
The argument's frame: The flood fights that were not lawsuits were budget fights, and they ran for thirty years after the great flood of March 1982 — the flood that followed a winter of 81.2 inches of snow, the most since 1911, and put the Maumee within sight of the 1913 record.
Fort Wayne
- 1982Vera Bradley: a 1982 company whose public win landed in the web era
Not a dot-com startup — printed here because its win belongs to the era: Vera Bradley was founded in Fort Wayne in 1982 by Barbara Bradley Baekgaard and Patricia R. Miller, selling quilted cotton handbags from a city that had no reason to expect a national fashion brand; its full history sits in the Business record.
Fort Wayne
- 1982Barbara Bradley Baekgaard and Patricia R. Miller — Vera Bradley
In March 1982, waiting for a flight in Atlanta, Barbara Bradley Baekgaard and Patricia R. Miller noticed the lack of feminine luggage in the airport.
Fort Wayne
- 1982Vera Bradley: the quilted bag as a Fort Wayne fashion house
In March 1982, Fort Wayne neighbors Patricia R. Miller and Barbara Bradley Baekgaard, waiting out a flight in Atlanta, noticed that the luggage rolling past them was hard-sided, dark, and — in the word the company's own histories keep — not feminine.
Fort Wayne
- 19821982–1991: the bulletin and chronology cases
Oxford Street, 1982: The A.P.R.O. Bulletin — the journal of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, one of the era's two national civilian groups…
Fort Wayne
- 1982Pete Buttigieg — Mayor Pete, then the Cabinet
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg was born in South Bend on January 19, 1982, the only child of two Notre Dame professors — Joseph A. Buttigieg, a scholar of English literature, and Jennifer Anne Montgomery…
South Bend
- 1982Saint Mary's Cushwa-Leighton Library
The boundary note: Saint Mary's College, across the river, opened its Cushwa-Leighton Library in 1982 — construction began in October 1980, the building was completed in June 1982, and it was dedicated on 3 September 1982 — named for Margaret Hall Cushwa of the class of 1930 and Mary Lou Morris Leighton.
South Bend
- 1982Chapin Park — an Estate Become a Neighborhood
The district: The Chapin Park Historic District, listed on the National Register on 4 February 1982, holds some 270 buildings on the nomination's count — 260 contributing buildings and three contributing sites in the Register's summary…
South Bend
- 1982The river's strangest numbers: 10.90, twice — then 12.70
Until February 2018, the highest crest ever recorded on the gauge stood at 10.90 feet — and it was reached twice: on 15 March 1982, in the snowmelt flood the Geological Survey documented across three states, and again, to the same tenth of a foot, on 6 January 1993.
South Bend
- 1982The river in flood: the great flood, the later pair, and the fight
The great flood, March 1982: The documented great flood of this reach before the record flood was a snowmelt flood: the rapid melting of a snowpack holding two to six inches of water, with moderate rain, flooded the whole northern tier of Indiana, and the U.S. Geological Survey's report on the flood assigns the St.…
Mishawaka
- 1982Ben Goldwasser: a birth certificate and a world career
The tie, exactly: Benjamin Nicholas Hunter Goldwasser was born December 17, 1982, in Mishawaka and raised in Westport, New York — Indiana Music Makers spells the town "West Port" — and this entry claims exactly the birth and nothing past it.
Mishawaka
- 1982The river in flood: 1982, 2016, 2018
In March 1982 the rapid melting of a snowpack holding two to six inches of water, with moderate rain, flooded the whole northern tier of Indiana; the U.S. Geological Survey's report on that flood assigns the St. Joseph River's flooding a recurrence interval of about fifty years, and the crest at the South Bend gauge…
Mishawaka
- 1982The live stage after the palaces: a school auditorium and a storefront stage
The Battell Community Center at 904 North Main Street — the building's whole course is the schools and parks records' — was built in 1900 as Battell Elementary School, with additions in 1920…
Mishawaka
- 1982The council: five seats, four wards and the town at large
Wards 1 through 4 are residency wards, their boundaries laid out in the code in metes and bounds; Ward 5 is not a district on the map at all but the whole town itself, the at-large member's constituency, and the 2002 restatement of the section (Ordinance 2002-08, passed September 3, 2002, restating an ordinance first…
Walkerton
- 1982The Miller Test — the Standard Source, Unreached
John W. Miller, Indiana Newspaper Bibliography: Historical Accounts of All Indiana Newspapers Published from 1804 to 1980 and Locational Information for All Available Copies, Both Original and Microfilm (Indiana Historical Society, 1982…
Lakeville
- 1982–1983Harvester's end · the closing of the Fort Wayne Works, 1982–1983
In March 1982 — in the very weeks the city was sandbagging against the flood — the company announced that unless government incentives changed the arithmetic, one of its two great truck plants, Fort Wayne or the seventeen-year-old plant at Springfield, Ohio, would close.
Fort Wayne
- 1982–1993The river's record before the record · 1982 and 1993
The St. Joseph River's documented crest history at South Bend, as the gauges carry it, is shorter than the city's memory of floods — and the gap is printed plainly: Until February 2018, the highest crest ever recorded at South Bend stood at 10.90 feet, and it was reached twice: on 15 March 1982 and again on 6 January 1993.
South Bend
- 1982–2001Golden Dome Productions (1982–2001) — the city's production company
Golden Dome Productions began inside the university's broadcasting arm — Bazil O'Hagan, who came to WNDU as chief engineer in 1956 and rose to president and general manager of Michiana Telecasting Corporation, the university's broadcasting company, created it, in the Indiana Broadcast History Archive's words, as a…
South Bend
- 1982–2011The Branch Years — 1982 to 2011, Under Five Names
The name over the door followed the successor chain link by link — St. Joseph Bank and Trust Company from the 1982 merger; then the Society names in turn (Society Bank, Indiana; Society National Bank, Indiana from 1992; Society Bank, Michigan); then KeyBank National Association from 1996…
Lakeville
- 1982–2018The disaster-and-recovery beats: the floods, with the argument about the numbers
That record, from the federal gauges: on the Kankakee River near Shelby, the greatest discharge of record is 7,650 cubic feet per second on 26 March 1982, and the greatest gage height 12.98 feet on 24 March 1982…
New Carlisle
- 1982–2018The flood sequence as a series: the record before the record, then the record
On the Kankakee River near Shelby, the flood of March 1982 holds two of the basin's marks at once: the greatest discharge of record, 7,650 cubic feet per second on 26 March, and the greatest gage height, 12.98 feet on 24 March…
New Carlisle
- 1982–2021The library on the wire: catalog, web page, and Studio 304
It purchased its first computer system, from CLSI, in 1982, and in 1983 became one of Indiana's first public libraries with an online catalog.
South Bend
- 1982–2022The County in Numbers — the Verified Series
St. Joseph County, Census of Agriculture: 1982 — about 1,000 farms, 172,500 acres in farms (the county plan's Table 3-2, its farm count flagged approximate in the plan itself); 1987 — about 900 farms, 174,226 acres; 1992 — about 780 farms, 172,348 acres; 1997 — about 680 farms, 154,142 acres; 2017…
Lakeville
- 1982–2022The county in numbers: the Census of Agriculture series, 1982–2022
St. Joseph County's farm census, as the published carriers print it: about 1,000 farms on 172,500 acres in 1982; about 900 farms on 174,226 acres in 1987; about 780 on 172,348 in 1992; about 680 on 154,142 in 1997…
North Liberty
- 1982–2022Conversion, measured: consolidation, an honest uptick, and what remains
The measured arc, from the series article above: land in farms ran about 172,500 acres in 1982, 174,226 in 1987, 172,348 in 1992, 154,142 in 1997, 151,975 in 2012, 149,981 in 2017 — and 153,034 in 2022, a slight rise against 2017.
North Liberty
- 1982–2026The ladder as it stands: the building wave, the additions, and the closings that did not happen here
The ladder as it stands today is five buildings deep and every rung dates from the growth era or survives from just before it: Mary Frank, renovated whole in 1982 with a gymnasium and eighteen classrooms; Prairie Vista, opened 1989; Horizon, opened 1995; Discovery, opened 1996; Northpoint, opened 1998 and enlarged in 2001…
Granger
- 1982–2026Suburban Conversion — Consolidation at County Scale, Pressure at the Corridor
At county scale, the verified series is the only acreage measure reached: 172,500 acres in farms (1982) → 154,142 (1997) → 149,981 (2017) → 153,034 (2022) , farm numbers falling throughout, average size reaching 280 acres — consolidation with a late acreage uptick , not continuous conversion.
Lakeville
- 1982–todayVera Bradley
Founded: In March 1982, waiting for a flight in Atlanta, neighbours Barbara Bradley Baekgaard and Patricia R. Miller noticed the lack of feminine luggage and decided to make some.
Fort Wayne
- 1982–todayBusiness U.S. 31: Created 1982, Still on the Road
A Business U.S. 31 was created in 1982, running along Main and Michigan Streets — the former U.S. 31 — and Cleveland Road; it is still extant in November 2026, no decommissioning date appearing in any carrier searched.
Roseland
- 1983Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana
Founding: Community Harvest was incorporated in 1983, founded by leaders of the city's business, religious and government sectors in the wake of the factory closures that defined Fort Wayne's early-1980s — its own current materials name the International Harvester plant closure specifically.
Fort Wayne
- 1983A Pulitzer for the newspaper: the News-Sentinel and the flood
The 1983 Pulitzer Prize in Local General or Spot News Reporting went to the Editorial Staff of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, in the Pulitzer board's citation, "for its courageous and resourceful coverage of a devastating flood in March 1982."
Fort Wayne
- 1983The city's own: All-America City, four times over
The National Civic League's All-America City Award belongs to the city itself, and Fort Wayne has won it four times — 1983, 1998, 2009 and 2021 — a count that puts it in the award's four-time winners' circle; the League has named ten communities a year since 1949.
Fort Wayne
- 1983Rails — and a canal — into trails · the mechanism
The legal device that keeps an abandoned railroad corridor intact in the United States is railbanking: under the 1983 amendments to the National Trails System Act, a railroad and a trail sponsor may agree that a line proposed for abandonment instead be preserved as a trail on an interim basis, holding the corridor together…
Fort Wayne
- 1983The Botanical Conservatory: winter, abolished for an afternoon
The Conservatory opened in November 1983 at 1100 South Calhoun Street, owned and operated by the Parks Department, and the first plant installed in the gardens was a beefsteak begonia, a houseplant for a city's house.
Fort Wayne
- 1983Four buildings in one November
The building wave: In November 1983 the library opened four new branch buildings in a single month — Tutt and River Park first, then Western and LaSalle — as its history records.
South Bend
- 1983The Club and the Program
The club's own history is short and printed whole: "Our organization was established in 1983. We rode together for 17 years as the South Bend Snowmobiles Club."
South Bend
- 1983Studebaker: Less Than They Promised (1983) — the documentary of the closing
The standing: The Peabody Awards' own winners' book lists the film under WBBM-TV, Chicago, and Craig's Chicago Tribune obituary states the honour plainly: he won a Peabody Award in 1983 for "Studebaker: Less Than They Promised," about the 1963 collapse of the Studebaker automobile empire in South Bend and the human impact of its closing.
South Bend
- 1983The case this city sent to the Supreme Court
Between March 1983 and March 1985, about eleven people were arrested there under Indiana's public indecency statute, Indiana Code § 35-45-4-1, for appearing in a state of nudity; raids on March 27, 1985 ended the live performances.
South Bend
- 1983Adam Driver: the hometown at the center of the record
The tie, exactly: Driver was born November 19, 1983. His birthplace stands in conflict on the record and is printed in conflict: the current standard biography gives Fontana, California; the Mishawaka school district's own published account, IMDb, and earlier biographies give San Diego, California.
Mishawaka
- 1983The sesquicentennial, 1983: the ritual, fifty years on
A fifteen-member Sesquicentennial Commission planned a yearlong celebration for the 150th birthday in 1983: a costume ball in University Park Mall attended by 1,700 people — the mall, opened four years earlier and already the region's commercial center, standing in for the Hotel Mishawaka of 1909 as the city's grand room…
Mishawaka
- 1983A Governor's Museum Inside a College Library
Bethel University's Otis R. and Elizabeth Bowen Library, constructed in 1983 and named for Otis Bowen — Indiana's governor through the 1970s and afterward U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Reagan…
Mishawaka
- 1983Bodine: The Hatchery on This Ground, at Animal Size
The works stand in the parks file — the 1981 lease of 10.9 acres from American Electric Power, the Richard Clay Bodine State Fish Hatchery completed in 1983 on Mishawaka's east side.
Mishawaka
- 1983The mechanism that never ran here: railbanking, and the state's money
The mechanism: the National Trails System Improvements Act of 1983 amended the Trails Act to let a railroad corridor be railbanked — held in interim trail use under the Surface Transportation Board's authority, the corridor's legal continuity preserved against abandonment's reversion, a trail manager stepping in as interim user.
Lakeville
- 1983The field-specific highest honor: the presidency of the American Statistical Association
Richard Loree Anderson, born in North Liberty on 16 November 1917, was president of the American Statistical Association in 1983.
North Liberty
- 1983–1984The 1983 contract — and the government's own warning
The award: On 22 March 1983 the Army awarded AM General the production contract: $1.2 billion, multiyear, for 55,000 vehicles in five basic models and fifteen configurations over five years, 39,000 of them for the Army itself, with a first increment of 2,334 vehicles.
Mishawaka
- 1983–1985The Grand Wayne Center opens
The Grand Wayne Center rose at 120 West Jefferson Boulevard, on the site of the old Jefferson Theater — ground was broken in April 1983, in a season of 20 percent interest rates with the 8,000-employee International Harvester plant in the act of closing…
Fort Wayne
- 1983–1992Ownership: the LTV and Renco years
In September 1983 — the dating is the Government Accountability Office's, from its report on the Humvee program — the LTV Corporation bought AM General, and the company became a subsidiary of LTV Aerospace and Defense.
Mishawaka
- 1983–1998Deregulation and the loss of the headquarters
The thrifts go first: On 30 November 1983 the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's histories record a single day's work: the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Fort Wayne — the city's own, established 1933…
Fort Wayne
- 1983–1999The abandonment ledger: G-SP-2 settled, and the Three I's open end
The Indiana Department of Transportation's "Indiana Railroad Abandonments" list, read first-hand, carries the Fourth District's end segment by segment (distances and dockets as the list prints them): Gary to Dillon, 41.72 miles, 1983, Docket AB-10(24); Ashley-Hudson to Wakarusa, 30 miles, 1985, Docket AB-10(21F)…
North Liberty
- 1983–2009Rod Woodson: from Snider High School to Canton
Roderick Kevin Woodson was born on 10 March 1965 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the youngest of three siblings, and attended R. Nelson Snider High School, class of 1983, starring in football, basketball, and track.
Fort Wayne
- 1983–2013Eric Wedge: Northrop's state champion who managed a pennant race
Eric Michael Wedge was born on 27 January 1968 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, played in the city's Wallen Little League, and attended Northrop High School, where as a freshman he played on Northrop's 1983 state champion baseball team.
Fort Wayne
- 1983–2026Invention claims, tested: no "invented here" — but the patent record seats inventors on this ground by the page
Donald I. Ansbaugh of Granger patented a link-and-flight assembly for blast-treatment machinery in 1983. Thomas P. Benson of Granger co-invented a time-domain NMR analysis method for Ascensia Diabetes Care.
Granger
- 1983–2026The public-school art teachers: named points at Penn, a named gap inside the CDP
The 1983 Bittersweet yearbook carries the Penn art department as Mrs. Pat Bunner and Mr. Robert Saltzgaber. The 2010 Bittersweet carries Beth McKechnie teaching sculpture and ceramics.
Granger
- 1983–todayThe works divided — Bosch, Honeywell, and the wheels-and-brakes plant
The succession, printed once here: The Bendix Corporation's own course out of the city is told across this section: headquarters to Detroit in the late 1930s and to Southfield in 1971; the corporation bought by the Allied Corporation in 1983; AlliedSignal formed in the 1985 merger…
South Bend
- 1983–todayThe Old School After 1983 — What the Record Supports, and What It Does Not
The claim's own chain is weak at its root: the town reference article states the school "closed in 1983, and now houses a community center," citing the nomination at p. 2 — while the nomination's own Current Functions field reads "WORK IN PROGRESS."
Lakeville
- 1984Fairmount Place: flood land sold for a song
The buyout: In 1984 the city spent $350,000 to buy seventeen homes along Fairmount Place, just north of the St. Marys River off Wells Street, and demolish them for flood protection.
Fort Wayne
- 1984David Ruoff — "I dug the first ditch"
He worked in the mortgage industry from 1959, and in 1984 he founded the Dave Ruoff Mortgage Company in Fort Wayne with eighteen employees.
Fort Wayne
- 1984The Greater Fort Wayne Aviation Museum
The Greater Fort Wayne Aviation Museum was started in 1984 by local aviation enthusiasts, with Myers as its first president and longtime curator, and grew into some 6,000 square feet of cases on the second floor of the Lieutenant Paul Baer Terminal at Fort Wayne International Airport…
Fort Wayne
- 1984Formats: the comedy room, the retro club, the martini bar
The business record dates Snickerz Inc. to January 1, 1984, incorporated June 24, 1985, with Kevin Ferguson as president.
Fort Wayne
- 1984Snickerz: the first stand-up room, 1984 to the mid-2010s
The Better Business Bureau's profile of Snickerz Inc. dates the business to January 1, 1984, with incorporation on June 24, 1985, and Kevin Ferguson as president.
Fort Wayne
- 1984The National Inventors Hall of Fame: Philo Farnsworth
The National Inventors Hall of Fame inducted him in 1984, thirteen years after his death, for the electronic television system.
Fort Wayne
- 1984The Festival of Trees: the Embassy at Christmas
The founding bracket: The Embassy Theatre dates its Festival of Trees to 1984, and its own 2014 history of the festival explains the arithmetic: in 1984 Maryellen Rice, a member of the theatre's board, asked her neighbor Barb Wigham, general manager of WPTA-TV, for a fundraiser idea, and Wigham recalled a festival of…
Fort Wayne
- 1984The river in use: the race reborn, the lights, and the front yard
A generation later the city dug it out again and rebuilt it as a river work of a new kind: the East Race Waterway, opened in 1984, some 2,000 feet of course — 1,900 feet from start to finish in the visitors' bureau's telling…
South Bend
- 1984The remaking
The recovery, when it came, was built out of the ruins and the river: Its symbolic first act was the East Race Waterway of 1984 — the old mill race dug out and reborn as a downtown whitewater course, billed as the first artificial one in North America.
South Bend
- 1984Before the web: the bulletin boards
SouthWinds ran the longest of the early boards, 1984 to 1996. Gerry Opperman's River City Network appears on two numbers across 1985 to 1994, on PCBoard and then TBBS software.
South Bend
- 1984The East Race runs again, 1984
The opening: In 1984 the city dug its buried millrace back out and made it a river again.
South Bend
- 1984Sunburst: the race that finished on the fifty-yard line
The institution: The Sunburst Races began in 1984 and grew into the largest footrace gathering on the city's calendar, held on the first Saturday of June.
South Bend
- 1984A whitewater course in the mill race
The East Race — the channel dug in the 1840s to power the city's industry, filled and forgotten after its working life — was dug out and rebuilt from August 1982, and in 1984 the city reopened it as an engineered whitewater course through downtown, a drop of about twelve feet in a run the sources state at 1,900 feet…
South Bend
- 1984CJ's Pub: downtown's burger tavern since 1984
Its own account, carried on its site and menu, runs: RJ — an entertainer and people person his whole life — opened CJ's on Labor Day 1984 and made it the institution it is, on the then-novel concept of the best and biggest burger around, the "Super Pub Burger."
South Bend
- 1984The East Race: whitewater through downtown
In the early 1980s, under Parent's administration, the city dug its own millrace back out and rebuilt it as a whitewater course, and in 1984 the East Race Waterway opened: by the visitor bureaus' account, the first man-made whitewater course in North America, 1,900 feet of Class 2 rapids running through the middle of…
South Bend
- 1984Rudy Yakym: the sitting congressman, whose official hometown is Granger
The course: Rudolph Chester Yakym III, born 24 February 1984, took degrees at Indiana University South Bend (A.S. 2009, B.S. 2011) and a Notre Dame M.B.A. in 2019, worked on Representative Jackie Walorski's staff, sat on the Indiana judicial nominating commission, and from 2019 was director of growth initiatives at Kem Krest.
Granger
- 1984–1985The plant remade for the Humvee
The two tellings: What happened on McKinley Highway in 1984 is told two ways, and both are printed.
Mishawaka
- 1984–1986General Motors comes
The replacement anchor arrived two years after Harvester's announcement: GM's coming was celebrated on 31 August 1984, on a plant investment reported at about $500 million and some 3,000 jobs.
Fort Wayne
- 1984–1986General Motors chooses Fort Wayne · the replacement anchor
In August 1984, thirteen months after the last Harvester truck, General Motors announced it would build an all-new full-size pickup plant on greenfield ground at Lafayette Center Road and Interstate 69, southwest of the city — a $500 million initial investment and about 3,000 jobs.
Fort Wayne
- 1984–1988Building the Cove, 1984–1988
The chase: South Bend's leaders began seeking a minor-league team in 1984, thirty-six years after the Twins' single summer and four decades after the Blue Sox had shown what a team could mean here.
South Bend
- 1984–2000Before the web: the bulletin boards on Mishawaka numbers
The earliest is also the strangest: in 1984 a Mishawaka number, 219-255-8803, carried a board calling itself RBBS IBM PC South Bend — a board named for the other city, seated in this one, in the registry's plain showing that the scene never respected the municipal boundary.
Mishawaka
- 1984–2026The Osceola Music Festival: the town's one standing institution
Every August the town gathers itself into one park for the institution it built and kept: the Osceola Music Festival began in 1984, during Osceola Businessman Appreciation Days, and a few years later settled into the form that carried it for three decades…
Osceola
- 1984–todayRuoff Mortgage — first the Dave Ruoff Mortgage Company
Founded: 1984, in Fort Wayne, as the Dave Ruoff Mortgage Company, by David Ruoff, who had worked in the mortgage business since 1959.
Fort Wayne
- 1984–todayThe East Race — Olympic trials water in the middle of downtown
The place: In 1984 the city reopened the old East Race of the St. Joseph River — the mill channel that had powered its industry — as a engineered whitewater course through downtown: a drop of about twelve feet in a run whose length the sources state differently (the visitor bureau and the city give 1,900 feet…
South Bend
- 1984–todayThe AM General Plant, 13200 McKinley Highway — the ground the Humvee came from
The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle — the HMMWV, the Humvee — was designed and is built by AM General at its military assembly plant at 13200 McKinley Highway, on the city's east side, and the first production vehicle came off the line here in 1984.
Mishawaka
- 1985Eleven days of Mayor Simon
On 8 July 1985 Mayor Winfield Moses Jr. resigned, having pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor violations of the campaign-finance laws arising from his re-election campaign.
Fort Wayne
- 1985The cargo decades: Burlington, Kitty Hawk, and the second airport inside the airport
For twenty years the freighters ran the night: Fort Wayne's second airport — the cargo airport inside the southwest field — began in 1985, when Burlington Air Express, later BAX Global, opened a hub on the field…
Fort Wayne
- 1985The transplant era: a heart in 1985, a kidney in 2007, the close in 2023
Northern Indiana's first heart transplant: In 1985 a Lutheran Hospital team led by Dr. Michael Schatzlein performed the first heart transplant in northern Indiana — the scope most accounts give it…
Fort Wayne
- 1985The city's own answer: the Grand Wayne Center and its Hilton, 1985
A hotel as public works: The Grand Wayne Convention Center opened on January 18, 1985, after five years of planning and construction and a $12 million investment, under the Fort Wayne–Allen County Convention and Tourism Authority.
Fort Wayne
- 1985Eleven days of Mayor Simon
The episode: On 8 July 1985 Mayor Winfield Moses Jr. resigned, having pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor violations of the campaign-finance laws arising from his re-election campaign.
Fort Wayne
- 1985Irwin Press and Rod Ganey — the professors who measured the patient
The founding act: Press Ganey was founded in 1985 by Irwin Press and Rod Ganey, two professors at the University of Notre Dame, on the company's own history: the belief that when organizations listen to people, they can make their lives easier…
South Bend
- 1985The schools' foundations: from Public Education Foundation to the Education Alliance
The older began in 1985 as the South Bend School Boosters, an advocacy effort formed by Louis Baker to save School Field stadium from demolition, and grew into the South Bend Alumni Association…
South Bend
- 1985Press Ganey: the measurement of the patient's voice, 1985
The founding is the company's own history's: Press Ganey was founded in 1985 by Irwin Press and Rod Ganey, two professors at the University of Notre Dame, just north of South Bend.
South Bend
- 1985The unnamed · the Howard Johnson John Doe, and the names that came back
The Howard Johnson John Doe: On June 9, 1985, a family walking their dog behind the Howard Johnson Motor Lodge — a hotel that stood in the area of Cleveland Road and State Road 933, and is no longer there — smelled something terrible, went to investigate, and found a dead man.
South Bend
- 1985Mark Hazinski: The Table Tennis Olympian
Mark Hazinski was born April 20, 1985, in South Bend — the Tribune's Athens photograph caption calls him "Mishawaka's Mark Hazinski," and both addresses stand, birth here and the neighboring city's claim beside it.
South Bend
- 1985Nelund Field: the Mishawaka airport in the federal list
The record: Exactly one airport in the current federal record carries Mishawaka as its associated city, and it is one no Mishawaka history reached mentions: Nelund Field, identifier 9II2, a private strip three miles northeast of the city's center, activated in June 1985.
Mishawaka
- 1985The Hospital Foundation: Foundation of Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center
Lead: The second health system's foundation tells its own origin plainly: the Foundation of Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Inc. (EIN 35-1654543) was "Established in 1985 in South Bend, Indiana," in the words its Form 990 carries…
Mishawaka
- 1985–1990The Serial-Killer Tests: A Home-Grown Negative, One Suspected Tie
Thomas Lionel Rohr, 41, manager of a Mishawaka coin shop, was killed on August 28, 1985, during a robbery of the shop.
Mishawaka
- 1985–1997The last years: Uniroyal Plastics and the closing of 1997
The sell-down: In 1985 the plant was transferred within the corporate family to the subsidiary Uniroyal Plastics, and the marker's account of the last years is a sell-down: Uniroyal Plastics progressively sold off the plant's other product lines, and employment fell as the lines went.
Mishawaka
- 1985–2008The first-rank producer at credit level: Sydney Pollack — the producing filmography, Mirage Enterprises, and the credits through death
He founded Mirage Enterprises in 1985 — the company's own and the trade record agree on the year (the Empire trade account of the Minghella partnership states it in so many words: "Mirage, which was founded in 1985 by … Sydney Pollack").
Osceola
- 1985–2012The second unwinding · 1985, 1989, 2011
Studebaker's closing was the catastrophe; the decades after it were an unwinding, plant by plant: In 1985 White Motor closed the original Oliver works — Factory No. 1 on the river, the plant of the chilled plow that had made South Bend a factory city alongside Studebaker.
South Bend
- 1985–2026The Howard Johnson John Doe — the documented silence since the exhumation
The Unsolved file carries the man found shot to death on June 9, 1985, behind the Howard Johnson Motor Lodge at Cleveland Road and State Road 933, buried at Tutt Cemetery, and exhumed on September 15, 2025, by the county police and the Coroner's Office for genetic genealogy, Detective Allan Barnes named in the coverage.
South Bend
- 1985–todayThe Genealogy Center's national standing
Genealogy visitors numbered 26,000 in 1985. By 1990 the department held more than 169,000 volumes and 185,000 microtext items — the largest genealogy collection in a public library in the United States, second under one roof only to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
Fort Wayne
- 1985–todayThe county sheriffs
St. Joseph County , decided 9 June 2015, records that Sheriff Michael Grzegorek — elected in 2010 — had appointed as his assistant chief a man who had himself been sheriff from 1985 to 1998.
South Bend
- 1985–todayPress Ganey — the survey company in Ignition Park
Founded: Press Ganey was founded in South Bend in 1985 by two Notre Dame professors: Irwin Press, a medical anthropologist, and Rod Ganey, a sociologist and statistician.
South Bend
- 1985–todayThe measurement invention: Press Ganey and the patient's voice
The advancement this county exported to every hospital in America was not a drug or a device; it was a question — asked of the patient, counted, and sold back to the hospital as data: Press Ganey Associates was founded in South Bend in 1985 by Irwin Press, a medical anthropologist, and Rod Ganey, a sociologist-statistician…
Granger
- 1986General Motors arrives
General Motors began construction of its Fort Wayne Assembly plant in 1984 — a $500 million commitment on greenfield ground southwest of the city at Lafayette Center Road and I-69, technically in Roanoke…
Fort Wayne
- 1986Habitat for Humanity of Greater Fort Wayne
Founding: Habitat for Humanity of Greater Fort Wayne was established in 1986 as a grassroots affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International (founded nationally in 1976), spearheaded by local church leaders and community members.
Fort Wayne
- 1986More family tables: China Palace and RMY's
RMY's Restaurant, on Wayne Trace, carries the other migration: Yolanda Johnson and her mother Maggie Fuqua have run it since 1986 on recipes from the family's Alabama years — fried chicken, candied yams, collard greens, peach cobbler — handed down, in Yolanda's words, from "the women who came before."
Fort Wayne
- 1986The claim that fails: Hoosiers was not filmed here
A borrowed classic: No false claim in Fort Wayne's film record is hardier than the one that gives the city a piece of Hoosiers (1986), Indiana's beloved basketball picture.
Fort Wayne
- 1986Granger Community Church (Boundary — Granger)
Boundary: Granger Community Church was founded in 1986 by Mark and Sheila Beeson in their living room in Granger, holding its first public service in December 1986…
South Bend
- 1986The clinic that stayed: the Sister Maura Brannick Health Center
In October 1986, with the medical center's sponsorship, the first West Washington Street Health Center opened in a converted garage of some four hundred square feet…
South Bend
- 1986The city's own hall: the South Bend Community Hall of Fame
The South Bend Community Hall of Fame was begun in 1986 by the South Bend Alumni Association — founded in 1985 to support the city's public schools — to recognize individuals whose accomplishments have left a lasting impact on South Bend…
South Bend
- 1986The South Bend Community Hall of Fame: carried in the halls
The cross-reference: The city's standing civic honor, the South Bend Community Hall of Fame, was begun in 1986 by the South Bend Alumni Association and elects those who lived and worked in South Bend for at least ten years; its plaques hang at Century Center, and its annual banquet reached its thirty-ninth edition on 13 October 2026.
South Bend
- 1986Seated here, II: the Mishawaka High School Athletic Hall of Fame
The hall: Mishawaka High School's Athletic Hall of Fame began in 1986, the oldest of the city's three institutional halls, and its banquet in recent years has been held at Riverside Terrace.
Mishawaka
- 1986Granger Community Church
The suburb's second great congregation began in a living room the same decade the census first counted the place: in 1986 Mark Beeson, who had moved his family to Granger in the mid-1980s, began Granger Community Church with his wife Sheila and a handful of others in their home.
Granger
- 1986Granger Community Church: the living room and the cinema, 1986–2019
The largest Protestant congregation in the place's history began with fewer than ten people in a living room: in 1986 Mark Beeson, a United Methodist pastor newly transplanted to Granger, his wife Sheila, and a handful of others began meeting in the Beesons' home…
Granger
- 1986The type case at full length: Larry Beehler, forty years an elected trustee
The corporation's own record dates the start three ways, and all three print: its Board Members & Terms page prints his term as begun in 1996; its release of January 2018 counted him as entering his thirty-second year of service, which counts back to 1986; and its 2026 releases state it outright…
Granger
- 1986The matinee record: one cinema story, and a children's programme that prints as unnamed
The cinema story (Churches & Religion, whole there, pointer here): in 1986 Granger Community Church, unable to find a hall in Granger to rent, rented a cinema then under construction on the Grape Road corridor and held its first public service there on the first Sunday of December 1986, passersby reading its "Coming…
Granger
- 1986–1988The takeover: the commission takes the branches, 1986–1988
The patronage system's end began in 1986, and it was announced as a service scandal as much as a political one: the Indianapolis Business Journal's retrospective states the sequence plainly…
South Bend
- 1986–1988The takeover: the commission takes the branches, 1986–1988
The patronage system's end began in 1986, and it was announced as a service scandal as much as a political one: the Indianapolis Business Journal's retrospective states the sequence plainly…
Granger
- 1986–1988The takeover: the commission takes the branches, 1986–1988
The patronage system's end began in 1986, and it was announced as a service scandal as much as a political one: the Indianapolis Business Journal's retrospective states the sequence plainly…
Osceola
- 1986–1988The murder case: Pittman v. State , 1986–1988
At about 10:00 p.m. on February 14, 1986, LaBere entered the Walkerton Police Station and reported that his home had been broken into and he had been stabbed.
Walkerton
- 1986–1988The takeover: the commission takes the branches, 1986–1988
The patronage system's end began in 1986, and it was announced as a service scandal as much as a political one: the Indianapolis Business Journal's retrospective states the sequence plainly…
Walkerton
- 1986–1988The takeover: the commission takes the branches, 1986–1988
The patronage system's end began in 1986, and it was announced as a service scandal as much as a political one: the Indianapolis Business Journal's retrospective states the sequence plainly…
New Carlisle
- 1986–1994Before the web: the bulletin boards, and the unanswered ISP question
The record names them: Secret Service, running in 1986; NEI BBS, Doug Tanner's Wildcat! board, 1986 to 1989; The Silicon Alternative, Don Gump's board, 1988 to 1994; Byte Carrier, also listed as NE Indiana Net, Ron Kuhn's system, 1989 to 1991; The Outpost, Eric Asberry's, from 1989…
Fort Wayne
- 1986–1996Lou Holtz and the 1988 championship
The tenure: Lou Holtz coached Notre Dame from 1986 to 1996 and went 100–30–2. The stretch from 1988 to 1993 went 64–9–1 and included a school-record winning streak of 23 games.
Notre Dame
- 1986–2023Bethel beyond basketball — Martinez's six, the track program, and the 2022 soccer title
The rest of the ledger at its true size: Baseball's three NCCAA titles came in 1986 and 1990 under Dick Patterson and in 2002 under Mike Hutcheon.
Mishawaka
- 1986–todayGM Fort Wayne Assembly: the living plant, at its true address
The plant's record: Construction began in 1984; the first pickup was built on 8 December 1986, with about 3,000 employees and a payroll above $100 million at the opening.
Fort Wayne
- 1986–todayPERSI and the Witcher era
PERSI: The Periodical Source Index was created in 1986 by Genealogy Center and ACPL Foundation staff, edited by Clegg and others, and funded by the Foundation's Christman Fund, built on a bequest of about 60,000 dollars.
Fort Wayne
- 1986–todayAM General — the headquarters
What is in South Bend, and what is not: AM General's corporate headquarters stands at 105 N. Niles Avenue, South Bend — the address on the company's own releases — where it came in February 1990, the headquarters having moved to South Bend from Livonia in 1986, on the Tribune 's record.
South Bend
- 1986–todayThe machinery, honestly: Zone 125, a customs airport that is South Bend’s, and somebody else’s port
The zone serving St. Joseph County is Foreign-Trade Zone No. 125, South Bend, Indiana, granted to the St. Joseph County Airport Authority and approved by the Foreign-Trade Zones Board on 11 March 1986 (Board Order 326, 51 FR 10564, 27 March 1986).
Granger
- 1986–todayThe North Liberty Branch: Opened 1986, on Market Street Today
The branch first opened in 1986 at 105 West Center Street, then the system's newest branch; it stands today at 105 East Market Street, and the year it moved is not stated by any carrier reached.
North Liberty
- 1987Ashley C. Ford — the Fort Wayne childhood that became Somebody's Daughter
Born and raised in Fort Wayne: Ashley C. Ford was born in Fort Wayne in January 1987 and raised here by her mother and grandmother.
Fort Wayne
- 1987Science Central
Founding: Science Central was incorporated as a nonprofit in 1987 — originally the Science Collective of Northeast Indiana — by teachers, parents, engineers, and community leaders who wanted a hands-on science discovery center for the region's children.
Fort Wayne
- 1987Sycamore Hills Golf Club
The club's own clubhouse history dates its founding to July 1987, and its federal social-club ruling is dated December of that year.
Fort Wayne
- 1987DeBrand: the chocolate house on Auburn Park Drive
In October 1987 she opened DeBrand Fine Chocolates — "De," the French prefix for "from," before her maiden name — in a room her parents gave her in their business, by other accounts in her childhood home on Wells Street; the Wells Street location was destroyed by fire three years later, and she rebuilt.
Fort Wayne
- 1987The Australian Adventure, 1987
The build: In 1987 the zoo opened the Australian Adventure, a five-acre exhibit built at a cost of $2.5 million — the zoo's second great expansion and, by the zoo's own account, one of the first exhibits in the nation to immerse visitors in a continent's culture as well as its animals, using Australian architecture…
Fort Wayne
- 1987Four Winds Field — the ballpark the fans voted best in the country
The Sports history in this record owns the park whole: its opening as the Stanley Coveleski Regional Stadium (the year stands open in the Sports record — 1987 in the visitor bureau's account, 1988 in the club history's season line), the 2012 transformation, and the 48-million-dollar renovation whose second deck opened in 2026.
South Bend
- 1987Ferrettie/Baugo Creek County Park
Henry R. Ferrettie/Baugo Creek County Park — named for a former county commissioner, on Ash Road at Osceola on the county's eastern edge — opened to the public in 1987…
South Bend
- 1987Habitat for Humanity: the county's builder comes to Mishawaka
Twenty-three houses in a week, then the office itself: Habitat for Humanity of St. Joseph County was founded in 1987 and helped over 637 families in its first thirty-seven years, on the figure its president and chief executive gave at the 2024 groundbreaking.
Mishawaka
- 1987The Princess as a statue: Sufi Ahmad, 1987
The second object is a statue: Princess Mishawaka , a bronze by the sculptor Sufi Ahmad, dated 1987, recorded by the Smithsonian's Save Outdoor Sculpture Indiana survey of 1993 at City Hall, owned by the City of Mishawaka.
Mishawaka
- 1987–1988Copshaholm — the Oliver Mansion as a house museum
The printed record holds two datings of the gift, and both stand: the National Park Service's additional documentation states that the home and its contents were donated to the forerunner of today's History Museum in the 1970s, while the fuller chronology has the transfer completed at the end of the line…
South Bend
- 1987–1988The Cove: the ballpark that taught the minors how to feel
Stanley Coveleski Regional Stadium went up on the south edge of downtown for 11 million city dollars, construction completed in April 1987 and the gates opened July 2, 1987; its first tenant season came the following spring, 1988, as the South Bend White Sox.
South Bend
- 1987–1988The McGraw hire, 1987
The hire: Notre Dame announced her hiring on May 18, 1987, under athletic director Gene Corrigan. She was the program's third head coach, thirty-one years old, taking over a team that had won two conference titles in a minor league and had never played in the NCAA tournament.
Notre Dame
- 1987–1992Glenbrook Commons: the mall's power-center shadow
Glenbrook Commons, on Lima Road directly beside the mall, was built in two campaigns, 1987 and 1992, originally developed by the mall's own builders, Landau & Heyman, though it passed under separate ownership and was managed by Zamias Services while the mall belonged to General Growth.
Fort Wayne
- 1987–2015The Tasmanian Devils: A North American Record and a Return
The first era: From 1987 — the Australian Adventure's opening year — to 2004, the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo housed twelve Tasmanian devils, more than any other North American zoo, in the zoo's own release's words; the zoo's compiled history gives the distinction at United States scope, and both scopings stand as their sources give them.
Fort Wayne
- 1987–2020The anchor manufacturer: I/N Tek and I/N Kote — founding, peak form, and fate
The largest industry this town ever held was announced in March 1987, and it was a partnership between Chicago steel and Japan.
New Carlisle
- 1987–2025Accreditation: Held Continuously Since 1987
Lead: The Potawatomi Zoo was first accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums in 1987, and it has been accredited ever since — "continuously accredited since 1987," in the zoo's own published words, a standing fewer than a quarter of the country's zoos held when the zoo's director counted them for a county…
South Bend
- 1987–2026Seated care arrives: the clinic era, 1987 to the present
The date is 1987, and it comes from the newspaper record as the local-history catalogue preserves it: in that year, in the telling of the South Bend Tribune 's coverage as catalogued by the Michiana Bibliographic Review, Dr. S. Jesse Hsieh and a colleague began their work in Granger at the Granger Country Oaks strip…
Granger
- 1987–2026The county park's game: disc golf, water, and the tubing hill
The town's second sporting ground is a county park, and its signature game is played with discs: Ferrettie/Baugo Creek County Park — opened to the public in 1987, grown to 214 acres, its ground and name carried whole in this build's Parks leg…
Osceola
- 1987–2026Ferrettie/Baugo Creek County Park — 214 acres at the town's edge, opened 1987
It opened to the public in 1987, named for former County Commissioner Henry Ferrettie; its land was reclaimed — the park's ground included the former Mishawaka municipal dump, and approximately twenty acres of its northern portion were reclaimed from a former landfill.
Osceola
- 1987–todayBethel basketball — the Lightfoot era and three NAIA titles
The inheritance: Mike Lightfoot became Bethel's head coach in 1987, succeeding Homer Drew, and arrived — on the university's own account — at a program that had never reached the NAIA tournament and never won a league title.
Mishawaka
- 1987–todayMalloy, Jenkins, and Dowd — the Line Carried Whole
Edward A. "Monk" Malloy, president from 1987 to 2005, governed eighteen years of rapid growth in the institutional history's accounting: the endowment grew from $350 million to more than $3 billion, the annual operating budget from $177 million to more than $650 million, annual research funding from $15 million to…
Notre Dame
- 1988The machinery: a customs station and Foreign-Trade Zone 182
By a final rule of the U.S. Customs Service effective 27 July 1988 (Treasury Decision 88-35), the newly approved Customs facility at Fort Wayne was designated a Customs station…
Fort Wayne
- 1988"International": the customs station and the name, 1988–1991
By Treasury Decision 88-35, published in the Customs Bulletin of 6 July 1988 and effective 27 July 1988, the U.S. Customs Service designated the newly approved customs facility at Fort Wayne as a customs station, placed under the supervision of the Indianapolis port of entry in the Cleveland district, expressly to…
Fort Wayne
- 1988The Hoosier Lottery arrives
On November 8, 1988, the state's voters lifted the ban, approving the lottery referendum by 62 percent. The General Assembly ratified the Lottery Act on May 3, 1989, and the governor signed it a week later; a director and a commission were in place by midsummer.
Fort Wayne
- 1988Two eleventh hours: the bridge and the station
The bridge that left the list: ARCH's history names the Wells Street Bridge as the early success "moved off" its Most Endangered List: the 1884 iron bridge over the St. Marys — the first iron bridge built over the city's rivers…
Fort Wayne
- 1988Seated here, I: the Komets Hall of Fame
The hall: The Fort Wayne Komets' Hall of Fame, established in 1988, honours the club in three sections — Executive Builders, Team Personnel and Media — and lives with the club at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum.
Fort Wayne
- 1988The Center for the Homeless
Founding: The Center for the Homeless was founded in 1988 by Father Edward "Monk" Malloy, the president of the University of Notre Dame, together with city and business leaders — the founding account is Notre Dame Magazine's, and the Center's own materials agree in substance.
South Bend
- 1988The big rooms of the 1980s: Mitchell's Indiana Club and Pardner's
Its documented exemplar is Mitchell's Indiana Club, which frequently hosted Notre Dame and Saint Mary's senior-class events — the Weddingless Reception and the Senior Christmas Formal among them, both, the senior class president told the Observer , events that "went over really well"…
South Bend
- 1988The Hoosier Lottery arrives
On November 8, 1988, the state's voters lifted the ban, approving the lottery referendum by 62 percent. The General Assembly ratified the Lottery Act on May 3, 1989, and the governor signed it a week later; a director and a commission were in place by midsummer.
South Bend
- 1988The accident record: the NTSB whole
On 3 July 1988 a Raven S55A balloon, on a short evening flight, landed in an open field in Mishawaka; on landing the gondola turned over and was dragged, one passenger was seriously injured, the pilot was uninjured, and the aircraft was undamaged…
Mishawaka
- 1988Kevin Gosztola: the reporter in the courtroom
The tie, exactly: Kevin Gosztola was born March 10, 1988, in Mishawaka, and his standard biography states the tie in its plain form: he is from Mishawaka.
Mishawaka
- 1988The one that closed · Theresa Burns
On January 11, 1988, she came home during a break in her school day and was talking with her boyfriend on the telephone; he heard her doorbell ring as their call ended.
Mishawaka
- 1988Kevin Gosztola — the courtroom books
Kevin Gosztola was born in Mishawaka on 10 March 1988 and is, in his standard biography's plain form, from Mishawaka; Columbia College Chicago formed him, and the beat that made his name — the whistleblower and national-security cases — is Chicago's and the world's.
Mishawaka
- 1988–1995The Midwestern Collegiate years — the first power, 1988–1995
The league: Notre Dame joined the Midwestern Collegiate Conference in 1988 and promptly ran it. The Irish won the conference's regular-season championship in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994 and 1995 — the 1990 team going 16–0 in league play — and its tournament in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1994, ten conference crowns in seven seasons.
Notre Dame
- 1988–1997Joe E. Kernan: the comptroller who became governor
He took office on 3 January 1988. (His earlier life — Notre Dame, the Navy, six years a prisoner of war in Vietnam — belongs to his profile in the People record; what belongs here is the mayor.)
South Bend
- 1988–1997The White Sox years, 1988–1997
The arrival: The South Bend White Sox took the field in the Midwest League in 1988, and won the league championship in their second season, 1989 — the city's first baseball title since the Blue Sox' playoff championship of 1952.
South Bend
- 1988–1999The Helmke years
Paul Helmke , a Republican in a Democratic city, won three straight terms (1988–1999) — the last Fort Wayne mayor to do so.
Fort Wayne
- 1988–2008The Zoo's Fixtures: Farm, Carousel, Train, and the Winter Lights
The city's published profile of the zoo dates the Zoo Farm — the petting-zoo farm in the line of the 1949 farm barn — to 1988, and the seasonal butterfly exhibit, "Butterflies in Living Color," to a first opening in 2008.
South Bend
- 1988–2014The memory-keepers: the town's history of itself
What a town without a newspaper keeps instead is a book: J. Harold Kiracofe's History of Osceola , published by the Osceola Historical Society in 1988, is the town's own account of itself…
Osceola
- 1988–2016Theresa Burns, 1988–2016: The Cold Case the Gun Decided
Theresa Burns, sixteen years old, was killed in her Mishawaka home on January 11, 1988. She was home on a school break, on the telephone with her boyfriend, Shawn Matthews, who heard her doorbell ring as the call ended; her brother Steve found her that evening.
Mishawaka
- 1988–2018April Tinsley · the case that waited thirty years
On Good Friday, 1 April 1988, she was playing between friends' houses in her Fort Wayne neighborhood when, at about three in the afternoon, she went back to one house to fetch her umbrella.
Fort Wayne
- 1988–2026Juday Creek Golf Course: the Rogers family's public course, the 2024 fire, and the rebuild
Built by Linda and Mike Rogers, the course is still owned and operated by the Rogers and their daughter Michelle Wittig," the club's own account reads; Linda Rogers, by then a state senator, fixed the building year in the fire coverage of 2024: "they built it from the ground up in 1988."
Granger
- 1988–2026The township's aviation record at its true size
The earliest dated aviation event inside the township is not a field opening but the accident of 22 May 1988 (see its article), which proves a grass strip in use here two years before the first activation date of record.
North Liberty
- 1988–2026The Modern Course: Two Consolidation Waves and the Kiosk Test
The longer frame is an IBJ editorial of 7 October 2022: the branches were culled "from 189 in 1988 to 124 today," and a statute requires at least one license branch in each of Indiana's 92 counties.
Roseland
- 1988–todayJuday Creek Estates: the creek-side plat and its golf course
A subdivision built with its own golf course: Juday Creek Estates — 139 parcels inside the boundary in the parcel file, in Harris Township along the creek the Land file reads at full size…
Granger
- 1989Aboite Branch
The Aboite Branch was built in 1989, in the building program of Director Jeffrey Krull's first years, together with the Dupont Branch.
Fort Wayne
- 1989Dupont Branch
The Dupont Branch was built in 1989 with the Aboite Branch, serving the Dupont Road corridor on the city's northwest side.
Fort Wayne
- 1989Trauma, verified: the first verified centers outside Indianapolis
Parkview created its Trauma Services Department in 1989 with the stated goal of verification by the American College of Surgeons as a Level II trauma center.
Fort Wayne
- 1989Boys & Girls Clubs of Fort Wayne
Founding: The Boys & Girls Clubs of Fort Wayne began in 1989 in a small three-room office on Minor Street, serving low-income children and youth with the national movement's program of academic success, character and leadership, and healthy lifestyles.
Fort Wayne
- 1989Study Connection
Founding: Study Connection was founded in 1989 by Don Wolf, the retired chief executive of Do it Best Corp. — the same man who had founded Big Brothers of Greater Fort Wayne seventeen years earlier (see that entry).
Fort Wayne
- 1989Heather Headley: Trinidad to Northrop to a Tony Award
In 1989, when she was fifteen, her father, a pastor, was called to the McKee Street Church of God in Fort Wayne, and the family emigrated to Indiana.
Fort Wayne
- 1989A home of its own: Carroll Road, 1989
The founding: In 1989 the Allen County Fair got the thing it had never had, a permanent home built for it. With an original land grant from the county, the Allen County Fairgrounds began as a self-supporting organization in 1989, and the Allen County Fair was held for the first time on the grounds that year.
Fort Wayne
- 1989The choral institutions: Chamber Singers, Vesper Chorale, and the college choirs
Its founding year is a printed conflict: the ensemble's own website carries both "Established In 1987" and a "38th Season" banner — the thirty-eighth season, 2026–27, counts from 1989 — while Menk's biographies and Saint Mary's news releases state that she founded the choir and has directed it since January 1989.
South Bend
- 1989Where the telling is filed — the code, and the scrapbooks in Town Hall
The first is official: the town code's own history chapter, §11.01 — a codified local history carried through the town's code since the 1989 codification (its population line still reads the 2010 count, a dating marker the frame pass noted), from which this build's founding record, early course, flag and speed-trap sentence all come.
Roseland
- 1989–1992The missing · two names the record still carries
Sargent Micek, 22 — South Bend, May 4, 1989. Micek left his home that day and went out to a couple of bars with friends.
South Bend
- 1989–1995The Humvee at war: Panama, the Gulf, Somalia
First combat: The HMMWV first saw combat in Operation Just Cause, the invasion of Panama, in 1989.
Mishawaka
- 1989–1996Colin Chin: the hometown captain
From 1989 to his retirement in 1996 he wore the captain's letter, the longest captaincy in franchise history. He led the Komets to the Turner Cup championship of 1993, followed it with a career-best 100-point season, and served as player-coach in 1994-95, near the end.
Fort Wayne
- 1989–2005The County's Two Executions: The Third Name
90 on the Department of Correction's list: offense dated March 4, 1989; sentenced May 11, 1990; crime, murder in two counts, with battery and criminal confinement; county of conviction, Lake; executed by lethal injection on September 28, 2005.
South Bend
- 1989–2005Alan Matheney and the Killing of Lisa Bianco, 1989–2005
On March 4, 1989, Alan Lehman Matheney murdered his former wife, Lisa Bianco, in Mishawaka.
Mishawaka
- 1989–2024IU South Bend: one trust's decade, and the banker's gift that named a school
The unfigured and the collective: The campus's library bears a fortune's name on a gift whose amount no source reached publishes: Franklin D. Schurz, chairman of Schurz Communications and publisher of the South Bend Tribune, donated the money to complete construction of the Franklin D. Schurz Library, dedicated in…
South Bend
- 1989–2026The frame, and the remaining tests
Indiana's lottery, authorised by referendum in 1988, sold its first tickets in October 1989, and North Liberty's retailers have sold the state game since that era as part of the town's ordinary store trade (businesses leg)…
North Liberty
- 1989–todayThe culture, part two: pulls at the county fair, and Arcola's weekend
The fair's pull strip: The Allen County Fair's own history belongs to the Farms section (one line: its permanent home since 1989 is the Allen County Fairgrounds at 2726 Carroll Road, founded that year as the home of the fair and of Allen County 4-H).
Fort Wayne
- 1989–todayAshley Flowers: born in South Bend, built in Indianapolis
The South Bend start: Ashley Flowers was born on 19 December 1989 in South Bend, Indiana.
South Bend
- 1989–todayPrairie Vista Elementary School
Prairie Vista opened in 1989 as the first school of Granger's building wave, and it is the wave's decorated veteran: the district's own history page dates the opening to 1989 and sets the building in "a lovely, park-like setting"…
Granger
- 1989–todayThe Superintendents — a Line with Its Gaps Printed
Dr. David L. Pruis was superintendent in 1989: the Indiana Court of Appeals' opinion in Jackson v. Union-North United School Corp. , 582 N.E.2d 854 (decided 16 December 1991), a case over 1989–93 school-bus contracts, records a board meeting of 24 May 1989 and names him.
Lakeville