Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets

June 30, 1802, the hated Federal Excise tax on whiskey, making sales and transportation of distilled spirits was repealed. There was much celebration in the streets. “The Lexington Light Infantry paraded and fired 17 vollies of musquetry, the beels rang joyful peal, the bonfires blazed and shouts filled the air.”
The Squire’ Sketches of Lexington by J. Winston Coleman, Jr.; pg: 24
Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Louisville native Matt Winn, born in 1861.
June 30, 1968, Army SGT James V. Denham from Richmond died in the Vietnam War.
June 30, 1969, Army CPL Rex D. Harlow from Glasgow in Barren County died in the Vietnam War.
June 30, 1974, Miles Park’s stewards put up the wrong horse as the winner in a photo finish.
June 30, 1978, Spectacular Bid won his first race, at Pimlico, by 3 1/4 lengths.
