September 8, 1972 Kennedy (Lisa Kennedy Montgomery), television personality, born in Indianapolis.

September 8, 2003 Indiana Governor Frank O'Bannon suffered a stroke at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. He died five days later at age 73 and was buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Corydon.

September 9, 1890 Harland Sanders was born near Henryville. He developed a popular recipe for frying chicken in a pressure cooker, becoming famous as the Kentucky Colonel of KFC restaurants.

September 10, 1914 Robert Wise, American Award-winning film director (The Day the Earth Stood Still; West Side Story; The Sound Of Music), born in Winchester.

September 10, 1913 The route of the Lincoln Highway was revealed. The idea of Indiana's Carl Fisher, it was the first coast-to-coast paved road. In Indiana, the Lincoln Highway went through Elkhart, South Bend, and LaPorte.

Our Where in Indiana? from last week was taken of Olympia Candy Kitchen in Goshen.

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Indiana Quick Quiz

1. What year was Indiana's first round barn built?

2. What Indiana city is known as the Limestone Capital of the World?

3. Where can you find the largest anatomically correct sculpture of the human brain?

4. How many men from Indiana have been elected as the vice president of the United States?

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1. 1874

2. Bedford

3. Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University.

4. 6

“And I was like, 'Oh, we're going to have to run today. Like, there's no messing around….’ And I told myself, 'Don't be soft. You got to go with it or you're going to regret this for the rest of your life if you don't go with it.' ”

- Indianapolis native Cole Hocker on his thrilling come from behind effort on the final laps to set an Olympic record of 3:27.65 and win the 1,500m at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

A wonderful statement of Hoosier character and grit!