Sam Terry's Kentucky

September 9, 1944 - 19-year old Venus Ramey, an Ashland, Kentucky native was crowned Miss America.

September 8, 1775 - Having spent nearly six months clearing a trail through the Cumberland Gap, Daniel Boone and his family plus a party of about 35 axemen and women arrived in what would become Fort Boonesborough.

September 7, 1896 - In step with the most popular pastime of 1896, a 100-mile bicycle race between Lexington and Covington, Kentucky occured on this date.

September 6, 1808 - It’s the birthdate of Dr.

September 5, 1816 – Elected without opposition, George Madison was inaugurated as Kentucky’s sixth Governor.

September 4, 1804 - Christopher Greenup was inaugurated as Kentucky’s third governor under a stately elm tree on the south lawn of the Capitol.

September 3, 1867 - John LaRue Helm was inaugurated as Kentucky’s 24th Governor at his home, Helm Place, in Elizabethtown.

September 2, 1851 - Lazarus Whitehead Powell of Henderson, Kentucky and namesake of Powell County, was inaugurated 19th Governor of Kentucky.

August 31, 1919 - The SS Kentuckian arrived in Norfolk carrying nearly 8,900 American troops home from France at the end of World War I.

August 30, 1944 - The gates of the newly-completed Kentucky Dam were closed, impounding the Tennessee River to create Kentucky Lake covering 160,309 acres.

August 29, 1901 - “DELIGHTFUL VISIT TO THE SAGE OF ‘GLEN LILY’”

August 28, 1963 - Kentucky native Mary Travers joined Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey, together known as Peter, Paul and Mary, in performing “Blowin’ in the Wind” in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

August 26, 1975 - Eleanor Beckham paid a call on Governor Julian Carroll’s family, then the current residents of the Kentucky Governor’s Mansion.

August 25, 1828 - After only two years of service on the nation's high court, Supreme Court Justice Robert Trimble of Kentucky died of *"malignant bilious fever."

August 24, 1746 - Hannah Boone, the twelfth and youngest child of Squire Maugridge Boone and his wife, Sarah Morgan Boone, was born in Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

August 23, 1814 - Nazareth Academy, the third oldest educational institution west of the Allegheny Mountains was founded by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth whose motherhouse remains a short distance from Bardstown in ...

August 21, 1931 - At 1:30 p.m.

August 20, 1966 - Vice President Hubert H.

August 19, 1782 – regarded by many historians as the last battle of the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Blue Licks in present-day Robertson County, Kentucky, occurred exactly 10 months after Lord Charles Cornwallis surr...

August 18, 1855 - Former Kentucky Governor Thomas Metcalfe died of cholera at “Forest Retreat,” his Nicholas County home built by his own hands.

August 16-17, 1920 - Ray Chapman, a native of McHenry, a small community near Beaver Dam, Kentucky, and his wife visited their new home under construction on Alvason Road in Cleveland, Ohio.

August 16, 1956 - Procter & Gamble purchased the brand name Duncan Hines from Hines-Park Foods, Inc., a partnership of Bowling Green resident Duncan Hines and Roy Park.

August 15, 1782 - British rangers Captain William Caldwell and Alexander McKee (who chose to abandon his support of the American Revolution and pledge allegiance to the British) led 50-60 Canadian loyalists and 500-600 N...

A momentary change of focus today - there are many people and moments in Kentucky history that could be recalled today, but on this day we need to pause to honor America's "Greatest Generation" on this, the 81st annivers...

August 13, 1990 - Washington, Kentucky citizens voted to merge with neighboring Maysville in Mason County.

August 11, 1807 - David Rice Atchison, Kentucky's "other" president, was born at Kirklevington in Lexington.

August 9, 1803 - John Kennedy began operating the first stagecoach line in Kentucky, running between Lexington and Olympian Springs at Mud Lick in Bath County.

August 8, 1801 - Cane Ridge Meeting House near Paris in Bourbon County was the scene of the largest camp meeting in the Great Revival movement.

August 6, 1855 - “Bloody Monday” - American Nativists, commonly known as “Know Nothings,” in Louisville, Kentucky attacked German and Irish Catholic immigrants.

August 5, 1818 - Drs.

August 4, 1920 – It's the birthday of Helen Thomas, the “First Lady of the Press” known as the “Sitting Buddha,” who covered every U.S.

August 2, 1916 - Newport, Kentucky native Brig.

On August 1, 1956, the Kentucky Turnpike, stretching 39 miles from Louisville to Elizabethtown, opened as the first section of a future interstate highway connecting the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.

July 31, 1880 - Little did members of St.

July 30, 1815 - The Market Street Church in Lexington was dedicated with the Rev.

July 29, 1826 (some sources give July 23) - The Kentucky Association for the Improvement of the Breeds of Livestock was formed in Lexington by a group of 60 individuals which included then-Secretary of State Henry Clay, ...

July 27, 1970 - Earle Bryan Combs, a native of Pebworth in Owsley County, Kentucky was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

July 26, 1863 - John Jordon Crittenden, one of Kentucky’s most influential political figures, died.

Born in Mount Pleasant, Florida, Thelma Banks Johnson appeared destined to follow in her parents’ footsteps working in the cotton fields of Georgia.

July 24, 1971 - "Darlin' Harlan," more properly known as the USS Harlan County and named for Harlan County, Kentucky, was launched and commissioned the following April.

July 23, 1966 – the only national forest entirely within Kentucky’s boundary was renamed Daniel Boone National Forest.

July 22, 1799 - A constitutional convention convened in Frankfort to draft Kentucky’s second constitution.

July 21, 1923 - Often cited as the first radio reception inside Mammoth Cave, Fred Harlow (a junior operator for WHAS) W.A.

July 20, 1847 - the bodies of 28 Kentuckians who died in the Mexican War were reinterred in the Frankfort Cemetery during a ceremony said to have attracted 20,000 spectators.

July 19, 1996 - Louisville, Kentucky native Muhammed Ali ended months of speculation and emerged as the last of 12,000 torch-bearing relay runners and had the honor of lighting the Olympic Flame during the opening ceremo...

July 18, 1922 - The nation had 439 commercial radio stations on the air and not a single one was located in Kentucky.

July 16, 1816 - the cornerstone of St.

July 14, 1776 - Ten days after the Continental Congress officially declared Independence from Great Britain, early settlers in Kentucke were also making history.

July 13, 1926 - 100 Years Ago Today - Ale-8-One soft drink was introduced by G.L.

July 12, 1880 - It’s the birthday of Charles Albert Browning, Jr., who was born in Louisville, Kentucky.