A Nobel Prize winning scientist was born in Kentucky.

And do you know about a civil war battle in northern Kentucky?

Our Toby Gibbs does, and he has more in tonight's Look at this week in Kentucky history.

Two civil war battles occurred in Boone County.

One of them was on September 25th, 1862, when Snow's pond.

As Confederate forces fought union troops moving south.

The battle left two union soldiers wounded as the Confederates took 65 union prisoners.

Happy birthday to Thomas Hunt.

Morgan Born September 25th, 1866, in Lexington.

Morgan was a zoologist and geneticist whose work with fruit flies was key in developing the chromosome theory of heredity.

Morgan won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1933.

Pioneer Daniel Boone died September 26th, 1820, not in Kentucky, but Missouri.

He moved there in 1799.

His body was later moved to a cemetery in Frankfort, overlooking the Kentucky River.

When the federal government announced U.S. Census information on September 30th, 1920, Kentucky had a population of 2.4 million, making it the 15th most populated state at the time.

100 years later, in 2020.

Kentucky had 4.5 million people and ranked 26th among the states.

Independent TV station W.K.

Exp signed on in Lexington on September 30th, 1957.

Later, Tet Broadcasting would buy the station and change its call.

Letters to WUKY.

T. President Dwight Eisenhower campaigned in Lexington on October 1st, 1956, as he sought a second term.

The president arrived at Bluegrass Field, as it was called at the time, and took part in a parade through downtown.

Those are some of the highlights of This Week in Kentucky history.

I'm Toby Givens.