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[edit] January
- January 1
- (1779) Bullitt County was created.
- (1867) The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky, becoming the longest suspension bridge in the world.
- (1974) Lexington and Fayette become first consolidated city-county in Kentucky.
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- January 7
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- January 8
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- January 9
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- January 10
- (1862) Battle of Middle Creek
- January 11
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- January 12
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- January 13
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- January 14
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- January 15
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- January 16
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- January 17
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- January 18
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- January 19
- (1862) Battle of Mill Springs
- January 20
- (1949) Alben Barkley becomes 35th U.S. Vice President.
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- January 30
- (1900) Governor William Goebel was shot by a sniper.
- January 31
- (1835) Lexington and Ohio Railroad buys what would become Midway.
[edit] February
- February 1
- (2006) Yum! Brands, Inc. announced a corporate sponsorship deal to call the Kentucky Derby: "The Kentucky Derby presented by Yum! Brands."
- February 2
- (1937) Ohio River flood of 1937 crests at Paducah at 60.8 feet.
- February 3
- (1900) Governor William Goebel dies, becoming the only U.S. governor to be assassinated.
- February 5
- (2008) Allen and Muhlenberg counties suffers severe damage from Super Tuesday tornado outbreak, killing 8.
- February 6
- (1862) Battle of Fort Henry
- (1865) Lexington's John C. Breckinridge named Confederate States Secretary of War.
- February 7
- (1862) Kentucky Confederate governor George W. Johnson flees Kentucky for Tennessee.
- February 8
- (1808) First inland diocese in the United States, Diocese of Bardstown, established.
- February 9
- (1904) Beckham County formed by Kentucky General Assembly.
- February 10
- (1865) Stephen G. Burbridge removed as military governor of Kentucky
- (2007) Snowball Series Mounted Games takes place at Kentucky Horse Park
- February 11
- (1862) Confederate forces evacuate Bowling Green during the American Civil War.
- February 12
- (1809) Abraham Lincoln is born in a log cabin in LaRue County on the Sinking Spring Farm, to Nancy Hanks and uneducated farmer Thomas Lincoln.
- February 13
(1862) Fires struck several building in Bowling Green as Confederates were evacuating the city.
- February 14
- (1862) Skirmishing on Kentucky side of the Cumberland Gap
- February 15
- (1913) First basketball game between University of Kentucky and University of Louisville.
- February 16
- (1838) Kentucky allows for women to attend schools under certain criteria
- February 17
- (1926) Kentucky adopts the cardinal as the state bird.
- February 18
- (1863) Federal forces stop Democrat convention in Frankfort, citing Pro-Confederate concerns
- (1887) Former Kentucky governor Preston Leslie becomes governor of Montana Territory.
- February 19
- (1831) John McConnell Rice born in Prestonsburg, Kentucky.
- February 20
- (1942) Mitch McConnell born in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
- February 21
- (1834) Kentucky governor John Breathitt dies while in office, due to tuberculosis.
- February 22
- (1834) Eli Metcalfe Bruce born in Flemingsburg, Kentucky.
- (1836) Hylan B. Lyon born in Lyon County, Kentucky.
- February 24
- (1865) Kentucky rejects the Thirteenth Amendment.
- February 25
- (1954) Maker's Mark 170-year old recipe burned.
- February 26
- (1849) Kentucky General Assembly passes common school law.
- February 27
- (2006) Ernie Fletcher's pardon of Bill Nighbert ruled invalid to violations of the state whistleblower-protection law.
- February 28
- (1866) Kentucky General Assembly officially declares the American Civil War over.
- February 29
- (2000) Short's goldenrod given a global rank of G1 (critically endangered)
[edit] March
- March 2
- (1967) Leonard McCoy drinks a Mint Julep in This Side of Paradise.
- March 3
- (1828) Louisville gains its first mayor, John Bucklin.
- March 4
- (1837) Richard M. Johnson becomes 9th U.S. Vice President.
- (1857) John C. Breckinridge becomes 14th U.S. Vice President.
- March 5
- (1850) Kentucky General Assembly charters the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
- March 6
- (1798) Bowling Green, Kentucky officially incorporated.
- (1962) Kentucky General Assembly and Governor Bert Combs mandates the University of Kentucky to form a community college system.
- March 7
- (1825) Henry Clay becomes United States Secretary of State.
- March 8
- (1988) Two U.S. Army helicopters collide in Fort Campbell, killing 17 servicemen.
- March 9
- (1829) William T. Barry becomes seventh United States Postmaster General.
- March 10
- (1775) Daniel Boone, along with 35 axmen, begin to blaze a trail which would later be called the Wilderness Road.
- March 11
- (1971) Whitney Young dies by drowning in Lagos, Nigeria.
- March 12
- (1865) Sue Mundy, a.k.a. Marcellus Jerome Clarke, captured at Brandenburg, Kentucky
- March 13
- (1941) Author Elizabeth Madox Roberts dies.
- March 14
- (1775) Treaty of Sycamore Shoals signed.
- March 15
- (1865) Marcellus Jerome Clarke, a.k.a. Sue Mundy, hanged in Louisville.
- March 16
- (1941) Chuck Woolery born in Ashland.
- March 17
- (1755) Cherokees sell Kentucky to the Transylvania Land Company for $50,000.
- March 18
- (1976) Kentucky finally approves the Thirteenth Amendment.
- March 19
- (1928) Kentucky General Assembly names My Old Kentucky Home the official state song.
- March 20
- (1861) Kentucky General Assembly calls for a border state convention to be held in Frankfort, that would never be held.
- March 21
- (2001) Rick Pitino hired to coach the Louisville Cardinals, angering many Kentucky Wildcat fans.
- March 22
- (1813) Col. R. M. Johnson puts out an order for raising a regiment of mounted volunteers in Kentucky.
- March 23
- (1948) Kentucky Wildcats win their first NCAA championship under Adolph Rupp.
- March 24
- (2001) Tom Hammond undergoes diverticulitis operation; recoveres in time to call the Kentucky Derby.
- March 25
- (1864) Battle of Paducah
- (1920) A fire destroys much of the Kentucky Confederate Home.
- March 26
- (1983) Mideast Regional final renews rivalry between University of Louisville and University of Kentucky.
- March 27
- (1978) Kentucky Wildcats win 1978 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament under Joe B. Hall.
- March 28
- (1861) Cassius Marcellus Clay becomes United States Ambassador to Russia.
- March 29
- (1917) Man o' War foaled outside Lexington.
- March 30
- (1998) Kentucky Wildcats win 1998 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament under Tubby Smith.
- March 31
- (1842) John J. Crittenden chosen to fill United States Senate seat that Henry Clay resigned from.
[edit] April
- April 1
- (1996) Kentucky Wildcats win 1996 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament under Rick Pitino.
- April 2
- (2004) Ernie Fletcher announces $40 million tax break for Ashland, Kentucky's Armco.
- April 3
- (1974) 72 Kentuckians die from Super Outbreak of tornadoes.
- April 4
- (2000) University of Kentucky students protest Nike at UK's administration building.
- April 5
- (1988) Happy Chandler discusses Zimbabwe's racial makeup, drawing student protests.
- April 6
- (2007) Billy Gillispie named new University of Kentucky basketball coach.
- April 7
- (1862) Kentucky Confederate governor George W. Johnson shot at the Battle of Shiloh.
- April 8
- (1808) Benedict Joseph Flaget appointed bishop of Diocese of Bardstown.
- (1862) Kentucky Confederate governor George W. Johnson dies from wounds from the Battle of Shiloh.
- April 9
- (1877) David Hayes Kincheloe born in Sacramento, Kentucky.
- April 10
- (2000) Editor of the Kentucky Irish American, Mike Barry, placed on the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame.
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- April 13
- (1750) Dr. Thomas Walker was the first recorded American of European descent to discover and use coal in Kentucky.
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- April 18
- (1936) Rainey Bethea released from jail in Daviess County.
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- May 14
- (1988) Carrollton bus collision kills 27 people.
- May 15
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- May 16
- (1861) Kentucky claims neutrality in the American Civil War.
- May 17
- (1875) First Kentucky Derby
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- May 20
- (1861) Kentucky proclaims its neutrality for the American Civil War.
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- May 28
- (1977) Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Southgate, Kentucky kills 165 people.
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- May 31
- (1862) Richard Hawes become Confederate governor of Kentucky.
[edit] June
- June 1
- (1792) Kentucky becomes the 15th state to join the United States.
- June 2
- (1990) Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak of June 1990 spawns seven tornadoes in Kentucky
- June 3
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- June 7
- (1769) Daniel Boone begins exploring Kentucky
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- June 14
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- June 15
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- June 16
- (1774) Kentucky's first permanent settlement, Harrodsburg, established
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[edit] July
- July 1
- (1941) Mammoth Cave National Park established
- July 2
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- July 4
- (1863) Battle of Tebbs Bend
- (1923) Official dedication of My Old Kentucky Home State Park
- July 5
- (1863) Battle of Lebanon
- (1999) U.S. Army Pfc. Barry Winchell is bludgeoned in his sleep at Fort Campbell by fellow soldiers; dies the next day from his injuries.
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- July 15
- (1862) John Hunt Morgan occupies Midway.
- July 16
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- July 17
- (1997) Kentucky's Civil War monuments listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a group.
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- July 31
- (1850) John J. Crittenden resigns from being Governor of Kentucky after becoming United States Attorney General again.
[edit] August
- August 1
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- August 5
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- August 6
- (1801) Week-long revival meeting at Cane Ridge, Kentucky begins, drawing thousands.
- August 7
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- August 8
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- August 10
- (1994) The 1994 Bambino World Series held in Henderson, Kentucky
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- August 14
- (1936) Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, in the last public execution in the United States.
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- August 19
- (1782) Battle of Blue Licks, the last battle of the American Revolutionary War, is fought.
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- August 27
- (2006) Comair Flight 5191, carrying 50 people, crashes shortly after take off from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky.
- August 28
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- August 29
- (1997) Serial killer Ángel Maturino Reséndiz kill Christopher Maier in Lexington, Kentucky.
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[edit] September
- September 1
- (2007) Largest ever naturalization service in Kentucky took place at the Kentucky Center.
- September 2
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- September 3
- (1861) Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
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- September 6
- (1861) Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control the mouth of the Tennessee River.
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- September 14
- (1862) Battle of Munfordville begins
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- September 19
- (1861) Battle of Barbourville at Barbourville.
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- September 22
- (1862) William "Bull" Nelson orders evacuation of Louisville after Confederate forces capture Frankfort.
- September 23
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- September 24
- (1992) The Kentucky Supreme Court, in Kentucky v. Wasson, holds that laws criminalizing same-sex sodomy are unconstitutional
- September 25
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- September 26
- (1990) Mammoth Cave National Park named a Biosphere Reserve.
- September 27
- (2008) First ever football game between the University of Kentucky and Western Kentucky University.
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[edit] October
- October 1
- (1995) Farm Aid '95: 10th Anniversary takes place in Louisville.
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- October 4
- (1982) Diana Sawyer begins anchoring CBS Morning News.
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- October 8
- (1862) Battle of Perryville is fought
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- October 11
- (2000) 250 million gallons of coal sludge spill in Martin County, Kentucky; considered a greater environmental disaster than the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
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- October 18
- (2001) Official debut of Kentucky's state quarter.
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- October 20
- (1951) University of Kentucky players Alex Groza, Ralph Beard, and Dale Barnstable are arrested for taking money from gamblers to shave points
- October 21
- (1861) Battle of Camp Wildcat
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- October 27
- (1981) Mammoth Cave National Park becomes a World Heritage Site.
- October 28
- (1912) First football game between University of Kentucky and University of Louisville.
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[edit] November
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- November 3
- (1955) Phil Simms born in Lebanon, Kentucky.
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- (1861) Battle of Ivy Mountain
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- November 10
- (1801) Kentucky outlaws dueling
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- November 16
- (1798) Kentucky becomes first state to nullify an act of the United States Congress
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- November 24
- (1948) Kentucky's first television station, WAVE (TV), premieres.
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[edit] December
- December 1
- (1997) Heath High School shooting sees Michael Carneal, an emotionally troubled atheist freshman shoot Christian students leaving an early morning prayer meeting.
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- December 10
- (1861) Kentucky granted statehood in the Confederacy.
- (1977) Adolph Rupp dies same night University of Kentucky celebrates "Adolph Rupp Night".
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- December 12
- (1985) Arrow Air Flight 1285 kills 248 soldiers returning to Fort Campbell.
- December 13
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- December 14
- (1793) First state road, from Frankfort to Cincinnati, is authorized
- December 15
- (1900) The Kentucky Standard begins publishing.
- December 16
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- December 17
- (1821) Kentucky abolishes Debtors' prison
- (1861) Battle of Rowlett's Station
- (1862) Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11 (1862), demanding Jews to leave certain parts of Kentucky.
- December 18
- (1865) Kentucky General Assembly reinstates citizenship of ex-Confederates by repealing the Expatriation Act of 1861.
- December 19
- (1795) First money appropriation for road building in Kentucky
- December 20
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- December 21
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- December 22
- (1945) Diane Sawyer born in Glasgow.
- December 23
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- December 24
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- December 25
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- December 26
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- December 27
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- December 28
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- December 29
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- December 30
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- December 31
- (2007) The Kentucky Post ceases publication
