Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets

March 5, 1921, Frankfort native Albert Bacon Fall became the 28th U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
March 5, 1942, Kentucky’s General Assembly “declared an emergency” and approved daylight saving time throughout the Commonwealth. Many Kentuckians vehemently resisted the change.
March 5, 1953, Army CPL Marvin Temple from Jefferson County died in the Korean War.
March 5, 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King and former baseballer Jackie Robinson led a march of 10,000 people to the Kentucky Capitol steps. The men and women called for an end to legal segregation and enforce equal access and treatment in stores, restaurants, hotels, theaters, other businesses and public places.
March 5, 1971, Army SP4 Larry Patrick Johnson from Louisville died in the Vietnam War.
March 5, 2016, a Kentucky bred wins Aqueduct’s GIII $400,000 Gotham Stakes for three-year-olds.