Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets
May 16, 1799, John Bradford, the Kentucky Gazette proprietor, announced that he would take payment for subscriptions: “corn, wheat, country made linen, linsey, sugar, whiskey, ash flooring and cured hams.” The Squire’s Sketches of Lexington by J. Winston Coleman, Jr.; pg: 24
May 16, 1951, Army PVT Archie J. Bowling from Hardin County died in the Korean War.
May 16, 2007, Pikeville native Mark Reynolds made his MLB debut for the Arizona Diamondbacks.