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Tomorrow we will start posting 90 Fun Facts about Fort Wayne. These 90 posts in 90 days will lead up to the celebration...
Posted by The History Center on Wednesday, March 23, 2011Wednesday, March 23, 2011 post by The History Center on Facebook.
Tomorrow we will start posting 90 Fun Facts about Fort Wayne. These 90 posts in 90 days will lead up to the celebration of the 90th Anniversary of the Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society which will be on June 21 with our Annual Meeting. Join us as we explore some of the interesting facets of Fort Wayne history from 1921 to the present.
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90 Fun Facts: Art Smith, the "Birdboy of Fort Wayne" once claimed to be the world's greatest flyer. He is credited with...
Posted by The History Center on Wednesday, March 30, 2011Wednesday, March 30, 2011 post by The History Center on Facebook:
90 Fun Facts: Art Smith, the "Birdboy of Fort Wayne" once claimed to be the world's greatest flyer. He is credited with being the originator of skywriting and is one of the pioneers of the US Air Mail Service. In he was killed in 1926 in a plane crash. See our blog for more info on Smith.
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90 Fun Facts: For all of you baseball fans--in 1927, the semi-pro team Lincoln Lifers played a game against the Yankees with Lou Gehrig on 1st base and Babe Ruth hitting a homerun.
Posted by The History Center on Thursday, March 31, 2011Thursday, March 31, 2011 post by The History Center on Facebook:
90 Fun Facts: For all of you baseball fans--in 1927, the semi-pro team Lincoln Lifers played a game against the Yankees with Lou Gehrig on 1st base and Babe Ruth hitting a homerun.
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90 Fun Facts for April 4 & 5 (we were busy yesterday showing you photos from the weekend) In 1930 Indiana Institute of...
Posted by The History Center on Tuesday, April 5, 2011Tuesday, April 5, 2011 post by The History Center on Facebook:
90 Fun Facts for April 4 & 5 (we were busy yesterday showing you photos from the weekend) In 1930 Indiana Institute of Technology emerged from Indiana Technical College. In 1934, Home Van Meter of the John Dillinger gang was gunned down in St. Paul, MN and returned to Lindenwood Cemetery for burial.
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90 Fun Facts: In 1938, Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of the television, brought his t.v. manufacturing company to...
Posted by The History Center on Friday, April 8, 2011Friday, April 8, 2011 post by The History Center on Facebook:
90 Fun Facts: In 1938, Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of the television, brought his t.v. manufacturing company to Fort Wayne, bought the Capehart Company and began making the world's first mass-produced televisions.
90 Fun Facts: In 1945, the words "Enola Gay" were lettered on the nose of a B-29 by the hand of a Fort Wayne artist named Miller.
Posted by The History Center on Friday, April 15, 2011Friday, April 15, 2011 post by The History Center on Facebook:
90 Fun Facts: In 1945, the words "Enola Gay" were lettered on the nose of a B-29 by the hand of a Fort Wayne artist named Miller.