We're looking back at several interesting Kentucky Derby milestones and more as our Toby Gibbs reviews this week in Kentucky History.

On May 8th, 1915, regret became the first filly to win the Kentucky Derby.

Seattle Slew won the Derby on May 7th, 1977, and later won the Preakness and Belmont to become the 10th Triple Crown winner.

Former presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter attended the Kentucky Derby on May seven, 1983.

President Ford would attend 13 derbies.

It was President Carter's only Derby.

Wave TV in Louisville provided the first TV coverage of the Derby on May 7th, 1949.

Wave set film of it to NBC for nationwide broadcast.

Three years later, in 1952, CBS broadcast the Derby live nationally for the first time.

We have a trio of noteworthy Kentucky birthdays this week.

Montgomery Blair was born May 10th, 1838, in Franklin County, and studied law at Transylvania University in Lexington.

He served as Lincoln's postmaster general from 1861 to 1864.

Actor writer director George Clooney was born in Lexington on May six, 1961, and comedian Foster Brooks, known for his drunk act on the Dean Martin Show and other popular TV shows of the 1960s and seventies was born May 11th, 1912, in Louisville.

And those are a few of the big events this week in Kentucky history.

I'm Toby Gibbs.