Happy Birthday Kentucky
June 1, 1789, Transylvania Seminary held their first session in Lexington after moving from Danville.
The Squire’ Sketches of Lexington by J. Winston Coleman, Jr.; pg: 16
June 1, 1800, Kentucky’s second constitution goes into operation and is unchanged for 50 years.
June 1, 1952, Army CPL Earnest L. Vinson from Lewis County died in the Korean War.
June 1, 1968, Army 1LT Thomas L. Butler from Monroe in Hart County died in the Vietnam War.
June 1, 1969, Army SGT Bertram A. Carr from Louisville died in the Vietnam War.
June 1, 1970, Marine Corps SGT Roe Hopson, Jr. from Milo in Martin County died in the Vietnam War.
June 1, 1981, the 1st Corvette rolled off the assembly line in Bowing Green.
June 1, 1982, Governor J. Brown, Jr. created Garden Week, the first week of June.
June 1, 1992, Kentuckians celebrated 200 years of statehood.