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December 14, 1796, Montgomery County was created from Clark County and was named in honor of Richard Montgomery, military general killed at the Battle of Quebec. Mount Sterling is the county seat. Other cities and towns include: Camargo, Jeffersonville, Judy and Levee. Montgomery County was the 22nd county created and covers 199 square miles.




December 14, 1970, the survey below ran in the Lexington newspaper.


December 14, 1990, a UK nuclear physics professor announced that he had invented a device that would make airline travel safer by detecting plastic explosives and narcotics hidden in airplane luggage.

December 14, 2015, Jordan Smith won season nine of the singing competition The Voice.