Kentuckians of the Past have also showed off their athletic skills during the Olympics, and people in Lexington used to travel the city by mail driven streetcars.

Our Toby Gibbs looks at what happened this week in Kentucky history.

The U.S. government opened a war training airport for B-17 bombers in Boone County on August 12th, 1944.

They would eventually turn into the Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport.

Lexington Inns could hop on a mule driven streetcar starting August 12th, 1882.

The fleet contained 30 mules and 15 wooden cars moving across nine miles of track.

The Baseball Hall of Fame inducted mean County native Harold Pee Wee Reese on August 12th, 1984.

He was best known as a shortstop for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

And he was widely praised for supporting Major League Baseball's first black player, Jackie Robinson, in 1947.

Legendary racehorse Man of War lost his only race to a horse named Upset during the Sanford Stakes in Saratoga Springs, New York, on August 13th, 1919.

The U.S. Olympic team, which included members of the University of Kentucky, so-called Fabulous Five, won the gold medal on August 13th, 1948, beating France 64 to 21.

Owen County native Willis Lee won seven shooting medals at the 1920 Olympic Games in London.

Lee was later a vice admiral in the U.S. Navy.

The first Long John Silver's seafood restaurant opened in Lexington on August 18, 1969.

As of December 2023, there were 540 restaurants throughout the United States.

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

I'm Toby Gibbs.