Kentucky Trivia
July 23, 1819, Bushrod Boswell, a Lexington merchant, and Samuel Q. Richardson, a Cincinnati attorney, met in a duel with pistols on the Fayette/Woodford county line. Richardson broke his arm, and Boswell escaped injury. The matter had been long-standing. The Squire’s Sketches of Lexington, by J. Winston Cleman, Jr., pg: 32
On July 23, 1877, the 1st passage train ran over the entire length of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad from Cincinnati to Lexington onto Chattanooga, a distance of 157.5 miles. To make it happen, the railroad company had to build Jessamine County’s High Bridge over the Kentucky River Palisades. The Squire’s Sketches of Lexington by J. Winston Coleman, Jr. pg: 59
July 23, 1879, in one of Kentucky’s most sensational trials, a jury found Thomas Buford guilty and sentenced him to life imprisonment for the murder of John Elliott, a federal judge, in Frankfort. On an appeal, another court found him not guilty by reason of insanity, and he went to the Kentucky Insane Asylum in Anchorage. Sometime later, he escaped but returned to die. The Kentucky Encyclopedia edited by John E. Kleber; pg: 291
July 23, 1948, Oldham County native David Wark Griffith passed away.
July 23, 1952, Army CPL David J. Kelley from Knott County died in the Korean War.
July 23, 1953, Air Force A3C Grant D. Carter, Jr. from Louisville died in the Korean War.
July 23, 1968, Navy P01 John F. Bobb from Erlanger in Kenton County died in the Vietnam War.
July 23, 1972, Army SP4 Ronnie L. Gipson from Benton in Marshall County died in the Vietnam War.
July 23, 2015, astronomers discovered Kepler-452b, Earth’s cousin.