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Mausoleum of Charles Fairbanks at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2022. Fairbanks died of nephritis in his home on June 4, 1918, at the age of 66, and he was interred in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis. [7] Fairbanks received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1901, and from Northwestern ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Steve Allee, jazz musician and composer (Indianapolis) Omar Apollo, singer (Hobart) DJ Ashba, lead guitarist of Sixx:A.M. David Baker, jazz trombonist, author, educator (Indianapolis) Mark Battles, rapper, songwriter, producer (Indianapolis) Joshua Bell, violinist (Bloomington)
Crown Hill Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at 700 West 38th Street in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana.The privately owned cemetery was established in 1863 at Strawberry Hill, whose summit was renamed "The Crown", a high point overlooking Indianapolis.
The following is a list of 74 individuals whose deaths have been related to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, located in Speedway, Indiana: 42 drivers, 1 motorcyclist, 13 riding mechanics, and 18 others including a pit crew member, track personnel, and spectators have sustained fatal injuries or have had fatal medical conditions.
Greenlawn Cemetery was established in 1821, as part of the original layout of the city of Indianapolis. It was located along the White River just north of what would later become Kentucky Avenue. [1] Greenlawn was the initial burial place of over 1100 Hoosier pioneers, 1200 Union soldiers and 1600 Confederate prisoners of war. [1]
Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (1889–1893); lived and died in Indianapolis; Thomas A. Hendricks, 21st Vice President of the United States (1863–1869) Eric Holcomb, Governor of Indiana; William A. Ketcham, Indiana Attorney General (1894–1898), Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic (1920–1921).
The station first signed on the air on July 1, 1954 [4] at 6 p.m. Founded by C. Bruce McConnell—owner of WISH radio (1310 AM, now WTLC)—it was the third television station to sign on in the Indianapolis market, after WFBM-TV (channel 6, now WRTV), which signed on in May 1949 and Bloomington-licensed WTTV (channel 10, now on channel 4), which signed on six months later in November 1949.