History, News and Stories of Kentucky, USA

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• 1769 - First visit made by Daniel Boone to Kentucky
  
  The World Almanac of the U.S.A, by Allan Carpenter and Carl Provorse, 1996
  
• 1792 - Kentucky became 15th U. S. state
  
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• 1797 - Mammoth Cave main section discovered by Robert Houchins
  
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•   February 6, 1807 - It was the famous "Cold Friday" in the Midwest and South. The temperature did not rise above zero in Ohio and Kentucky.
  
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  February 6, 1807
  
• 1812 - Earthquake occurred; tidal waves created on Mississippi River, river flowed backward, created Kentucky Bend, formed Reelfoot Lake area
  
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• 1812 - In the War of 1812 more than half of all Americans killed in action were Kentuckians.
  
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• 1818 - Western portion of Kentucky purchased by President Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians (Jackson Purchase)
  
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• 1830 - Louisville and Portland Canal opened
  
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• 1848 - No Dueling Allowed
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• 1861 - May 20 - American Civil War: Kentucky proclaims its neutrality
  
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  May 20, 1861
  
• 1861 - September 3 – American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
  
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• 1861 - December 10 – American Civil War: Kentucky is accepted into the Confederate States of America.
  
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  December 10, 1861
  
•   1868 - A Kentucky statue gives to the widow and minor children of a person killed by the careless, wanton or malicious use of deadly weapons, an action against the person committing the killing.
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  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  April 18, 1868
  
•   1869 - In Taylor county, Ky., the other day, two young men were poisoned by eating hemlock root. It was thought one of them could not recover.
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  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  July 3, 1869
  
• 1895 - Kentucky
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• 1899 - December 16 - Augusta High School in Augusta, Kentucky, burns down due to a heating plant failure.
  
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  December 16, 1899
  
• 1900 - Over 1,500 armed civilians took control of Capitol for two weeks; governor declared martial law, activated Kentucky militia; Governor William Goebel shot by assassin
  
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• (1905 - 1909) Black Patch War - farmers burned barns and fields belonging to large tobacco interests; ended tobacco-buying monopoly (Kenturcky)
  
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• 1926 - Mammoth Cave National Park established
  
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• 1936 - Last legal public hanging in Kentucky occurred
  
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• 1944 - Kentucky Dam completed
  
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• January 28, 1963 - The low of -34 degrees at Cynthiana, KY, equalled the state record established just four days earlier at Bonnieville.
  
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