On September 30, 1861, Kentucky legislators began calling for the resignation of Governor Beriah Magoffin several months into the Civil War. Magoffin adhered to a states’ rights position, including the right of a state to secede from the Union sympathizing with the Confederate cause. Nevertheless, when the Kentucky General Assembly adopted a neutrality position in the war, Magoffin ardently held to it, refusing aid calls from the Union and Confederate governments. Finally, unable to provide effective leadership due to a hostile legislature, Magoffin agreed to resign in August, only after choosing his successor.
September 30, 1862, the Confederates lost a small skirmish in Russellville . Fighting in Louisville and Glasgow also occurred.
September 30, 1889, a great four-mile race in Louisville for $14,000 where Wagner beat Grey Eagle in the last heat by only 10 inches . The time recorded: 7:48, 7:44. Five days later Grey Eagle ran again and won for $1,500.
On September 30, 1920, Kentucky’s population, according to the 1920 census , reached 2,416,013.
September 30, 1922, the Louisville Football Cardinals played Western Kentucky Hilltoppers for the 1st time . Louisville hosted in Eclipse Park and got shutout 6-0.
Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Lexington native Audrey Grevious . Born in 1930; she became a civil rights leader in Lexington and throughout the Commonwealth.
September 30, 1933, Stoll Field in McLean Stadium hosted the 1st Southeastern Conference (SEC) football game. The Wildcats defeated Sewanee 7–0.
On September 30, 1937, Deputy Sheriff Lawrence Johnson, Harlan County Sheriff’s Office , died from a gunshot while executing a search warrant for liquor at his home in Lynch.
On September 30, 1948, Marshal George Prentice Southwood, Burnside Police Department , died at the Burnside Bridge by a gunshot from a local constable when he attempted to arrest him for drunkenness. The constable opened fire with a pistol as Marshal Southwood approached his truck.
September 30, 1950, 20-year-old Army CPL Troy Cornett from Perry County died while fighting in the Korean War.
On September 30, 1957, a new independent television station WKXP went on air in Lexington . Less than a year later, Taft Broadcasting bought it and changed its call letters to WKYT.
Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Danville native Gerald Edward “Eddie” Montgomery , born in 1963. He was half the duo of Montgomery Gentry. When Montgomery was thirteen years old, he played drums in his parents’ band, Harold Montgomery and the Kentucky River Express.
On September 30, 1977, Jimmy Buffett performed at Memorial Coliseum. Together with his Coral Reefer Band, Buffett played before 8,000 fans for a two-hour set. Tickets for the show were $6 and $5. During the show, Buffett recalled the first time he played UK. It was at the student center grill, and he said he was a young entertainer trying to make ends meet on the “coffeehouse circuit.” Click 4 Pic
Kentucky Trivia : Sleet began working for Ebony in 1955 and over the next 41 years, he captured photos of young Ali, Dizzy Gillespie, Stevie Wonder, Haile Selassie, Jomo Kenyatta, former ambassador Andrew Youngs, Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah, Liberia’s William Tubman, and Billie Holiday. When Coretta Scott King found out that no African American photographers had been assigned to cover her husband’s funeral service, she demanded that Sleet be a part of the press pool. If he wasn’t, she threatened to bar all photographers from the service.
On September 30, 2000, highly radioactivity plutonium in and around Kevil and the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant was hundreds of times higher than previously revealed.
September 30, 2010, Marine Lance CPL Timothy M. Jackson, 22, of Corbin , died in Afghanistan while fighting in Operation Enduring Freedom.
On September 30, 2016, while working on a burned-down house in Augusta, crews found some human bones. The state called in archaeology experts from UK, and they excavated six sets of ancient human remains resting near the Ohio River town. The skeletons ranged from 500 to 3,000 years old.
September 30, 2017, Santa Anita held four stakes and Kentucky breds won three . Keeneland graduates failed to win but did come in second in each of the four. The GI $301,380 Rodeo Drive Stakes attracted a field of eight.
On September 30, 2020, the presidential debate was an embarrassment for American politics with a heavy dose of insults and very little substance. One candidate had dementia. The other was an egomaniac. The two were a result of voting for the lesser of two evils for decades. In Kentucky, AG Daniel Cameron asked for more days to release the grand jury audio for Breonna Taylor’s killing. The Commonwealth topped a 1,000 positive cases for the 2nd straight day.
In a Congressional hearing on September 30, 2021, Rand Paul asserted to the 25th Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services , Xavier Becerra, that natural immunity was as good as the vaccine.
On September 30, 2022, as Governor A. Beshear welcomes Georgetown’s 1st woman president, Rosemary Allen , Thomas Massie rallies against America’s proxy war on Russia’s border.
On September 30, 2023, Governor A. Behsear and his wife received the flu shot as their dog stood guard. The 1st couple then traveled to Commonwealth Stadium to watch the Wildcats defeat Florida 33-14 to go 5-0. Meanwhile, Thomas Massie from Washington posted about the drama over another government shutdown.