2008
Irwin Financial Corp. reported losing $26 million in the fourth quarter of 2007 and $55 million for the year in 2007, the first full-year loss in the corporation’s 17-year history.
1993
Two North Vernon police officers were killed when their police cruiser was rammed by a vehicle driven by a man involved in an armed standoff a week earlier.
1968
Local drivers Bob Black, Orval Yeadon and Butch Wilkerson raced in the Bloomington Raceway season-opener.