Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets
People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it. Marsha Norman
September 21, 1967, Navy P03 Joseph Anthony Combs, 21, from Owensboro, died in the Vietnam War.
September 21, 1975, the President of the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association and Vice Chairman of the Kentucky Tobacco Research Board alarmed Kentucky tobacco farmers that “we could take an awful beating from foreign growers.” Not everyone shared his concern. In 1973 more than 100,000 Kentucky tobacco farmers received more than $470 million for their crops.
Positives: 406 / 61,917
Deaths: 1 / 1,112 – 1st Death 3/16/20
50&over: 1,081 / 49-30: 30 / 29&under: 1