Mishawaka, Indiana · 20th century
1980s
32 dated events in 1980s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 32 dated mentions
1980s
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.