Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets
Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Owensboro native Jeff Jones, born in 1960.
June 29, 1968, jockey Eddie Delahoussaye won his 1st race, at Evangeline Downs, aboard Brown Shill.
June 29, 1969, Army WO1 Harrell S. Mefford from Irvine in Estill County died in the Vietnam War.
June 29, 1971, Army CPL Harry T. Walton, Jr. from Lexington died in the Vietnam War.
Kentucky Trivia: Enslaved people completed most of the early mapping in Mammoth Cave, including freed slave Stephen Bishop. He and several other family members rest near the cave entrance in the Old Guide’s Cemetery. The onsite cemetery holds not only their remains but also those of several Tuberculosis (TB) patients that passed there. For a short time, in the early 19th century, TB patients lived in the caves hoping that the environment would help heal their lungs.
June 29, 2009, Bernie Madoff received 150 years for America’s largest Ponzi scheme.