Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets
July 6, 1788, the 6th Convention for statehood, opened in Danville.
July 6, 1852, Governor Powell appointed David Meriwether to fill Henry Clay’s empty senate seat.
July 6, 1859, two surveyors representing Kentucky and Tennessee wandered off course from a marked Beech Tree on the bank of Drakes Creek in current Simpson County. They turned their compasses ¾’s of a mile north from a Black Jack Oak creating a 100 acre indentation. Today this error is known as Black Jack Corner or the Middleton Offset.
The Kentucky Encyclopedia edited by John E. Kleber; pg: 635
July 6, 1884, Todd County lynched Dick Henderson, a black male, for cutting a white boy.
July 6, 1888, Henderson lynched Miles Petty, a black male, for murder.

Picture by Jack Boucher
Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Louisville native Ned Beatty, born in 1937.
July 6, 1963, Wise Charge wins the $37,000, six furlongs Junior Derby in Miles Park.
July 6, 1966, Army SFC William C. Fraley from Ashland in the Vietnam War.
July 6, 1968, Army PFC William R. Curry from Columbia in Adair County died on the Vietnam War.
July 6, 1969, Army PFC David E. Buttery from Berea died in the Vietnam War.
July 6, 1971, Dale and Roy Rogers appeared at the State Fair.
July 6, 1990, Danville native William Richard Higgins died at the hands of his capturers in Lebanon.