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| Indiana Facts |
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In 1862, Richard Gatling, of Indianapolis, Indiana, invented the rapid-fire machine gun. |
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James Dean, a popular movie star of the 1950s in such movies as "East of Eden" and "Rebel without a Cause", was born February 8, 1941, in Marion, Indiana. He died in an auto crash at age 24. |
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Indiana was part of the huge Northwest Territory, which included present day Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, which were ceded to the United States by the British at the end of the Revolutionary war. |
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