Around Columbus
May 13
2011
Officials announced the headline performers for the annual Rock the Park concert would be southern rock band .38 Special and the Hospice of South Central Indiana concert in September would feature Grand Funk Railroad.
1996
The Republic began seven-day-a-week morning publication after 124 years as an afternoon paper.
1971
A crowd of employees gathered outside the entrance gates at Golden Foundry in the early morning hours to start a wildcat strike, the same thing some Cummins employees decided to do just the day before.




