A boxer's big win and inventor's breakthrough and a milestone in Kentucky education.

Our Toby Gibbs has all of that and more in tonight's look.

Back at this week in Kentucky history.

The U.S. Patent Office approved Murray native Nathan Bates Double Fields Mechanical Telephone on February 21st, 1888.

The mechanical telephone used a tight wire to transmit sound from one sound box to another.

It did not use electricity.

Henry Clay Junior, the son of the famous Kentucky statesman, was shot and killed during the Mexican War battle of Buenos Vista on February 23rd, 1847.

On February 19th, 1951, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Kentucky's population at 2.9 million people.

Today, 73 years later, Kentucky's population is at four and a half million.

John Brian Bowman founded the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky University on February 22nd, 1865.

It would change names a few times, and by 1916 was known as the University of Kentucky.

Jockey Eddie Arcaro was born February 19, 1916, in Cincinnati.

His Kentucky Connection.

He won five Kentucky derbies and is the only jockey to ride two Triple Crown winners worldwide in 1941 and citation in 1948.

Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, defeated Sonny Liston in one of the most famous fights in history in Miami Beach on February 25th, 1964.

Clay had gone into the heavyweight championship fight at 7 to 1 underdog.

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

I'm Toby Gibbs.