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Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is the smallest state in the continental US west of the Appalachian Mountains...

Timeline of Events

1812

9.3.1812

24 settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana.

1816

12.11.1816

Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.

1844

1.15.1844

University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana.

1925

3.18.1925

The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.

1930

12.16.1930

Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a posse of 200, following a botched bank robbery in Clinton, Indiana.

1969

9.9.1969

Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana.

1990

6.2.1990

The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana, is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths.

2005

11.6.2005

The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.