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During the late evening of Friday, December 10, 2021, a violent, long-tracked EF4 tornado moved across Western Kentucky, producing severe to catastrophic damage in numerous towns, including Mayfield, Princeton, Dawson Springs, and Bremen. [ 2] The second significant tornado in an exceedingly long-tracked tornado family, this tornado began just ...
June 1, 1792 • Kentucky became the fifteenth state to be admitted to the union and Isaac Shelby, a military veteran from Virginia, was elected the first Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. 1795 • Free Frank McWorter builds and manages a farming settlement in Pulaski County, Kentucky while enslaved by his father, George McWhorter; his ...
On December 9, 2023, an intense tornado struck the northern parts of the Clarksville metropolitan area in Tennessee before moving through Todd County and into Logan County in Kentucky. The tornado claimed the lives of three people, including a child, and injured an additional 62 others. [ 1][ 4][ 5] The tornado destroyed 114 homes, damaging 857 ...
1917: No. 7 mine explosion in Webster County kills 62 men. On the morning of Aug. 4, 1917, a methane gas explosion at the Western Kentucky Coal Company’s No. 7 mine in Webster County killed 62 ...
December 12, 2023 at 7:18 AM. Gov. Andy Beshear will kick off his second term in office Tuesday with his inauguration. The Democratic governor, who won a second term by defeating Republican ...
December 7, 2023 at 10:00 AM ... according to “Mountain Rising,” a 1986 history by Darrell C. Richardson. ... Gritton said in a recent post in Kentucky Today that the school has 97 students in ...
December 9 is the 343rd day of the year (344th in leap years) ... Historical Events on December 9 This page was last edited on 14 July 2024, at 14:59 ...
May 20, 1861 • Kentucky, trying to remain neutral in the American Civil War, issues a proclamation asking both sides to stay off Kentucky soil. May 29–31, 1861 • Delegates from 5 Jackson Purchase counties meet in Mayfield along with delegates of 12 Tennessee counties to discuss secession, but the plan is abandoned following Tennessee's ...