Moving with his father, by 15 he was working in Fort Wayne, Indiana at the Hobby House Restaurant owned by the Clauss family.

When his father prepared to move again, Dave decided to stay in Fort Wayne, dropping out of high school to work full-time at the restaurant.

After his discharge in 1953, Thomas returned to Fort Wayne and the Hobby House.

In the mid-1950s, Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Col. Harland Sanders came to Fort Wayne to find restaurateurs with established businesses in order to try to sell KFC franchises to them.

D. Bayless Lodge No. 359 Fort Wayne, Indiana, and a member of the Shriners ; he received the honorary 33rd degree in 1995.

Category: People from Fort Wayne, Indiana

Category: People from Fort Wayne, Indiana

Category: Fort Wayne Friars players

* 1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The Hawks shifted from " Tri-Cities " ( the area now known as the Quad Cities ) to Milwaukee ( in 1951 ) and then to St. Louis, Missouri ( in 1955 ); the Royals from Rochester, New York to Cincinnati ( in 1957 ); and the Pistons from Fort Wayne, Indiana to Detroit ( in 1957 ).

* 1790 – Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.

* 1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.

Draining into Lake Erie, the Maumee River was not necessarily well-suited for large ships, but it did provide an easy connection to Indiana's Fort Wayne.

" The dispute prompted the family to move again, to Fort Wayne, and convert to the Presbyterian church.

In Fort Wayne, Marshall attended high school, graduating in 1869.

** Vernon Jordan is shot and critically injured in an assassination attempt in Fort Wayne, Indiana by Joseph Paul Franklin ( the first major news story for CNN ).

* Fort Wayne Female College is founded ; it will later be renamed Taylor University.

The defense group, centered around Fort Wayne, IN, remained independent under the Magnavox Electronic Systems name, first under Philips and later in the Carlyle Group, until it was acquired by Hughes Electronics in 1995.

The remainder of the operations now falls under Raytheon's Network Centric Systems in Fort Wayne, IN.

Whistler was replaced by Captain Nathan Heald, who had been stationed at Fort Wayne, Indiana.

* S. C. A. N, Stop Child Abuse and Neglect, non-for profit organization based in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Lombard was born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

She spent her early childhood in Fort Wayne, near the St. Mary's River.

Lombard's Fort Wayne childhood home has been designated a historic landmark.

Category: People from Fort Wayne, Indiana

* 1985 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.

On September 7, all four Flight 93 hijackers flew from Fort Lauderdale to Newark International Airport aboard Spirit Airlines.

On September 7, all four Flight 93 hijackers flew from Fort Lauderdale to Newark International Airport aboard Spirit Airlines.

He retired in 1965 and moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was Founding Chairman of the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

This is the origin of the name of the Hewanorra International Airport in Vieux Fort.

On September 7, all four of Flight 93 hijackers flew from Fort Lauderdale to Newark International Airport aboard Spirit Airlines.

On September 7, 2001, all four of Flight 93 hijackers flew from Fort Lauderdale to Newark International Airport aboard Spirit Airlines.

In his short story " The Giant, the Insect and The Philanthropic-looking Old Gentleman ", published many years later for the first time by the International Fortean Organization in issue # 70 of the " INFO Journal: Science and the Unknown ", Fort spoke of sitting on a park bench at The Cloisters in New York City and tossing some 60, 000 notes, not all of his collection by any means, into the wind.

Some examples are the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas, the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition in Salt Lake City, Utah, the Cleveland International Piano Competition, Ohio, and the Hilton Head International Piano Competition, South Carolina.

* Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport

* Fort Worth Meacham International Airport

Fort Worth is a part of the Sister Cities International program and maintains cultural and economic exchange programs with its eight sister cities.

* Butler International, a defunct engineering services firm based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

The International Swimming Hall of Fame is located near the Atlantic Ocean in Fort Lauderdale.

Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport is located a few miles south of the county.

* The Presence of the Past, The International Architecture Exhibition from the Venice Biennale, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA, U. S. A.

* Southwest Florida International Airport in nearby South Fort Myers serves over 8 million passengers annually.

Ossian is still served by Indiana State Road 1, while four miles north is Interstate 469, the beltway around Fort Wayne, and also just seven miles south of Fort Wayne International Airport.

CFOB-FM ( 93. 1 FM ) also serves International Falls, and is licensed to Fort Frances, Ontario.

* In the 1980s, Fort Mill was the home to TV evangelist Jim Bakker's now defunct Heritage USA ( now reopened as Heritage International Ministries ).

Boat launch facilities along Fort Loudon Lake can be found at Gallahar Creek and International Harbor.