We have a pair of interesting birthdays, one in politics, one in show business, and some interesting facts about a Revolutionary War battle in Kentucky.

Our Toby Gibbs explains in this look back at this week in Kentucky history.

72 Kentuckians died during the Battle of Blue Lakes in present day Robertson County on August 19th 1782, is considered the last major battle of the Revolutionary War and was a victory for the British.

President Harry Truman presented the Congressional Medal of Honor to U.S. Marine Corps Colonel William Earl Barber, a native of Morgan County, On August 20th, 1952.

Barber, as a captain, led a company of 220 men who held off more than 1400 Chinese soldiers during six days of fighting.

Cumberland Falls, often called the Niagara of the South, became a Kentucky State park on August 21st, 1931.

Happy birthday to Jackie DeShannon.

Born in Callaway County, August 21st, 1941, she's best known as the singer of the hit songs What the World Needs Now Is Love and put a little love in your heart.

John Sherman Cooper was born in Somerset on August 23rd, 1901.

He served as a Republican U.S. senator from Kentucky in the 1950s, sixties, and seventies, and was U.S. ambassador to India in the 1950s and East Germany in the 1970s.

The Battle of Louisville Riverboat partially sank on August 24th, 1997.

Police say a former employee opened a valve that went water into the boat.

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

I'm Toby Gibbs.