A Kentucky duel, a famous trial, and the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Toby Gibbs has a look at some of the local connections making news this week in Kentucky History.

August 1st, 1790, Kentucky had its first ever duel between Captain James Strong and Henry Craig.

Craig was wounded and strong, died.

We don't know the cause of the duel.

The first census in Kentucky began the next day, August 2nd, 1790.

Kentucky had a total population of 73,677.

Two years before statehood, Kentucky's Governor, John Crittenden, resigned on July 31st, 1850, to become Attorney General under President Millard Fillmore.

A Kentucky native was at the center of one of the most famous trials of the 20th century.

When John Scopes taught evolution in a Dayton, Tennessee school in violation of Tennessee law, it led to the famous Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925.

You may not know his Kentucky connections.

He was born in Paducah on August 3rd, 1900, and graduated from the University of Kentucky.

The Baseball Hall of Fame inducted Abe Happy Chandler on August 1st, 1982.

He'd been baseball commissioner from 1945 to 1951 and served when Jackie Robinson integrated the game in 1947.

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

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