Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets
November 18, 1861, the Confederate Sovereignty Convention met in the Clark House in Logan County for three days. A total of 116 delegates from 65 counties passed an Act of Secession from the Federal Union and established Bowling Green as the capital and George W. Johnson from Scott County as provisional governor. This is Kentucky by Robert A. Powell pg: 116
November 18, 1883, all major cities in the U.S. operated under standard time. However, Lexingtonians lived and worked according to solar time (also called sun time or God’s time) because landowners (farmers) exercised a disproportionate amount of power in the region. Madam Belle by Maryjean Wall pg: 107

November 18, 1922, the Kentucky Wildcats shutout the Alabama Crimson Tide 6-0 in Lexington.
November 18, 1971, Army PFC Charles H. Richie from Berea died fighting in the Vietnam War.