Today, February 12th, we celebrate the birthday of Kentucky's most famous citizen.

Our Toby Gibbs has that and more in tonight's Look at this week in Kentucky history.

The most famous Kentuckian of all, Abraham Lincoln, was born in LaRue County on February 12th, 1809.

He's the only president born in Kentucky.

100 years later, on February 12th, 1909.

President Theodore Roosevelt visited LaRue County and spoke as the cornerstone was laid at the new Lincoln Memorial Hall.

Senator Robert Kennedy arrived at Lexington's Bluegrass Field, now Bluegrass Airport on February 13th, 1968, to begin a tour of Appalachia that included stops in Perry and Bradford counties.

Happy birthday to photographer Moni.

That's Slate Junior born February 14th, 1926, in Owensboro.

Slate won a Pulitzer Prize for his picture of Coretta Scott King in mourning at the funeral of her husband, Martin Luther King Jr. Slay died in 1996.

The Louisville Times, the afternoon companion newspaper to the Louisville Courier-Journal, was published for the last time on February 14th, 1987.

The Kentucky coffee tree became the state's official tree on February 16th, 1976, to celebrate Governor Gillian Carroll planted one on the Capitol grounds in 1994.

The tulip poplar became this Kentucky state tree.

And that's a look back at this week in Kentucky history.

I'm Shelby Gibson.