2006
Authorities evacuated seven residents and shut down roads after two would-be thieves caused a leak in an anhydrous ammonia tank in a cornfield near Ogilville.
1991
A fireworks show at Bartholomew County Fairgrounds went on as planned, but all personal pyrotechnics were banned in the county because of tinder-dry conditions.
1966
Despite concerns about a “Medicare rush” happening on the day the national health plan went into affect, Bartholomew County Hospital did not experience an onslaught of elderly patients.
