As usual, we have an interesting mix of personalities to talk about, including a legendary train engineer and a game show host as our Toby Gibbs looks back at this week in Kentucky history.

Whitney Young Junior drowned while swimming in Nigeria on March 11th, 1971.

Young was a civil rights leader born in Shelby County.

He graduated from Kentucky State University and went on to serve as executive director of the National Urban League.

The Kentucky General Assembly rejected the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on March 12th, 1869.

The amendment guarantees the right to vote regardless of race, even though Kentucky rejected it.

Other states ratified it and it became part of the U.S. Constitution in early 1870.

Kentucky finally approved it in 1976.

Famed engineer John Luther K.C.

Jones was born in Missouri on March 14th, 1863, but his family moved to K.C., Kentucky, in Fulton County, and that's where he picked up the nickname K.C.

as Caseys Train.

The Cannonball approached a mississippi town on April 30th, 1900.

He realized there were already three trains at the station.

He slowed down enough to minimize the impact of the crash.

He was killed, but all of his passengers survived.

Chuck Woolery, the host of Love Connection and the first host of Wheel of Fortune, was born in Ashland on March 16th, 1941.

He served in the Navy, then became a salesman, singer and actor before hosting Wheel of Fortune starting in 1975.

Speaking of television, Lexington's first TV station WLS, signed on March 15, 1955.

The station gave Governor Laurence Weatherby a coonskin cap since the X was Lexington's Pioneer Station.

And that's a look back at this Week in Kentucky History.

I'm Toby Gibbs.