Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets
June 24, 1778, George Rogers Clark and 175 men “shot the falls” of the Ohio River in canoes during a total eclipse of the sun.
Gateway : Dr. Thomas Walker and the Opening of Kentucky by David M. Burns; pg: 44
June 24, 1890, Breckinridge County lynched Henry Watson, a black male, for an alleged rape.
June 24, 1951, Army PFC Jessie J. Bretz from Nicholas County died in the Korean War.
June 24, 1966, Marine Corps PVT Ronnie C. Jones from Louisville died in the Vietnam War.
June 24, 1967, Army PFC Jeffrey D. McGuire from Louisville died in the Vietnam War.
June 24, 1968, Army SSG Carl B. Helm from Louisville died in the Vietnam War.
June 24, 1969, Army SSG James T. Moore from Bloomfield in Nelson County died in the Vietnam War.
Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Whitesburg native Jessamyn Laurel Duke, born in 1986.
June 24, 1994, two coal trucks stopped and had lunch at Burger Queen in Bell County.
June 24, 2001, the 1st year Kentucky celebrated Kentucky National Guard Day in the Commonwealth.