This Week In Kentucky History (10/30/23)
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We're looking back on some sports news involving some iconic Kentuckians.
We're looking back on some sports news involving some iconic Kentuckians. And Kentucky's had many different capitol buildings and not always in Frankfort.
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This Week In Kentucky History (10/30/23)
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We're looking back on some sports news involving some iconic Kentuckians. And Kentucky's had many different capitol buildings and not always in Frankfort.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipWe're looking back on some sports news involving some iconic Kentuckians.
And Kentucky's had many different capital buildings and not always.
And Frankfort, our Toby Gibbs tells us more.
And this look at this week in Kentucky history.
Kentucky lawmakers met in Frankfort for the first time on November 4th, 1793, at the Wilkinson House.
Kentucky's second temporary state capital.
The first had been a log home in Lexington.
31 years later, on November 4th, 1824, a fire burned the Kentucky Capitol building after just eight years of use.
It was a two story brick building.
The fire burned the main section and West Wing.
While the East Wing was saved.
The only Kentucky born president, Abraham Lincoln, married Lexington native Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois, on November 4th, 1842, Louisville's Muhammad Ali fought George Foreman and one of the best known heavyweight fights in sports history.
The Rumble in the Jungle in Zaire, now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
On October 30th, 1974, Foreman was undefeated, but Ali won the fight in eight rounds.
Seabiscuit and War admiral both followed in Lexington, met in what was called the match of the Century at Pimlico Race Track on November 1st, 1938, War Admiral was the favorite, but Seabiscuit pulled away with 200 yards to go and won by four lengths, in his own words, by Paul I.
And that's what happened this week in Kentucky history.
I'm Toby Gibbs.
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