A string of deadly tornadoes touched down in the state and a Kentuckian heads to space and eventually lands in the history books.

It happened this week in Kentucky history.

Here's Toby Gibbs with more.

Daniel Boone and his party arrived in the area that would become Fort Boonesborough on April 1st, 1775.

The group set up a campsite at Sycamore Hollow near the shore of the Kentucky River.

Delegates to a Kentucky statehood convention met on April 2nd, 1792, and drafted a constitution in preparation for Kentucky.

Joining the union, which occurred June 1st of that year.

James B Clark, a native of Warrensburg who moved to Missouri, became speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on April 4th, 1911.

Better known as Champ Clark, he would remain as speaker until 1919.

63 Kentuckians died as 30 tornadoes touched down in Kentucky on April 3rd, 1974.

Most of the tornadoes were Air Force and at least one was an EF five.

The first flight of the space shuttle Challenger on April 4th, 1983, included Story Musgrave, the astronaut from Lexington.

He would be the only astronaut to fly on all five space shuttles.

Kentuckians viewed a partial eclipse of the sun on April 7th, 1940 as the moon covered three fourths of the sun.

And those are some of the highlights this week in Kentucky history.

I'm Toby Gibbs.