On This Day in Indianapolis History

by Dawn E. Bakken

Book Overview

Although best known for The Greatest Spectacle in Racing, Indianapolis claims countless fascinating stories that happened off the track--one for every date on the calendar.

In a single day on January 1, 1970, Indianapolis jumped from the nation's twenty-sixth largest city to number eleven. On July 25, 1934, gangster and native son John Dillinger was laid to rest in Crown Hill Cemetery, where chips of his four successive gravestones became...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626197571
• ISBN13: 9781626197572
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"