
This Week In Kentucky History (9/9/2024)
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Cars, sports, and fried chicken.
Cars, sports, and fried chicken in this week's look back at what happened This Week In Kentucky History.
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This Week In Kentucky History (9/9/2024)
Clip: Season 3 Episode 71 | 1m 50sVideo has Closed Captions
Cars, sports, and fried chicken in this week's look back at what happened This Week In Kentucky History.
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As our Toby Gibbs looks back at this week in Kentucky history.
Happy birthday to one of the world's most famous Kentuckians.
Colonel Harland Sanders was born on September 9th, 1890 in Indiana, but he moved to Kentucky and became famous as the creator of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Another iconic Kentucky and bluegrass legend.
Bill Monroe was born September 13, 1911, in Ohio County.
He also died this week in 1996.
On September 9th, Kentuckians watched a night baseball game for the first time on September 14th, 1931, when the traveling house of David baseball team brought portable lights to Parkway Field in Louisville.
Louisville's first Ford Motor Company plant opened September 12th, 1915, on two and a half acres on South Third Street.
53 people worked to build 15 Model-T Fords per day.
14 months after the first moon landing, a NASA tour brought the Apollo 11 command module to the Kentucky Capitol.
Starting September 11th, 1970, 19 year old Venus Ramey of Ashland won the Miss America pageant on September 9th, 1944.
Phyllis George won the Miss America Pageant on September 12, 1970.
She was Miss Texas and later became Kentucky first lady as the wife of Governor John Y.
BROWN And those are some of the big events from this week in Kentucky history.
I'm Toby Gibbs.
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Clip: S3 Ep71 | 3m 37s | The growth of CVG in Northern Kentucky is helping the region take flight. (3m 37s)
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Clip: S3 Ep71 | 3m 56s | A German-inspired sausage that was first sold in Covington back in 1876 is still being made. (3m 56s)
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Clip: S3 Ep71 | 3m 14s | Students with special needs are learning to communicate in new ways. (3m 14s)
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Clip: S3 Ep71 | 2m 20s | Manhunt continues for suspect accused of shooting five people along I-75 in Laurel County. (2m 20s)
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Clip: S3 Ep71 | 4m 13s | Several Kentucky communities are hoping to lure remote workers to their cities. (4m 13s)
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Clip: S3 Ep71 | 3m 41s | Newport on the Levee is capturing people's attention, and causing them to check out Northern KY. (3m 41s)
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