The Dark and Bloody 1900s in KKKentucKKKe

1900. Over 1,500 armed Confederates took control of Capitol for two weeks; governor declared martial law, activated Kentucky militia; Governor William Goebel assassinated by Devil Jim James Howard, a bushwhacker from Eastern Kentucky (Manchester, Clay County, Kentucky), hired by Confederates.

1905 – 1909. Black Patch War. Kentucky farmers burned barns and fields belonging to large tobacco interests; ended tobacco-buying monopoly.


1921. Kentucky passes a law passed allowing women to serve on juries.

1936. Last legal public hanging in Kentucky occurred.

1937. U. S. Gold Depository established at Fort Knox; Ohio River floods caused devastating damages.


1944. The Kentucky Dam completed.


1950. Atomic energy plant built near Paducah.


1958. School bus collided with wrecker truck, plunged into river, driver and 26 children drowned.


1,959. Cumberland Gap National Park dedicated.

1,965. Holly Creek Kentucky Kenneth White dug a perfectly preserved skeleton from under a large rock ledge along Holly Creek. It measured 8 feet 9 inches in length. The arms were extremely long and the hands were large. The skull was 30 inches in circumfrence. The eye and nose sockets were slits rather than cavities and the area where the jawbone hinges to the skull was solid bone.

1,966. Kentucky becomes the First Southern State to pass Comprehensive Civil Rights Law.


1,969. Steam-generating plant built in Paradise, Kentucky.

1973 AD. November 23. Tony Gripshover gets into a car wreck and dies, on Thanksgiving Day, in Boone County, Kentucky.

1,977 AD. Fire at Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate killed 165, injured over 200. Nobody is held responsible.

1,988 AD. Intoxicated driver hit bus carrying youth group; crash and fire killed 27; Voters approved state lottery

1,995 AD. For over three centuries the wreckage of La Belle lay forgotten until it was discovered by a team of state archaeologists in 1995. The discovery of La Salle's flagship was regarded as one of the most important archaeological finds of the century, and a major excavation was launched by the state of Texas that, over a period of about a year, recovered the entire shipwreck and over a million artifacts. The Belle remained mired in mud for 310 years, untouched but not forgotten. After years of unsuccessful searching, archeologists from the Texas Historical Commission (THC) finally found the prize in 1995. The crew discovered one of the Belle'scannons, an elaborately inscribed gun that confirmed the age and identity of the wreck http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/belle/images/clues-from-the-bones.html

1,997 AD. A teen-aged boy at Heath High School opened fire on fellow students, girls in a prayer circle, three killed, five wounded. Also, in 1997, a study conducted by NORML found Kentucky produced 800,000 marijuana plants annually, value of over $1.3 Billion. 1997. Over 300 years later, it was miraculously found and recovered from beneath the mud of Texas' Matagorda Bay. Much of the hull survived intact and over a million artifacts were recovered. In 1997, Texas A&M University's Conservation Research Laboratory began to preserve the priceless artifacts. Even the hull was carefully taken apart for conservation and re-assembled for eventual display. When the French explorer Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle's ship, La Belle, foundered during a storm off the coast of what is now Texas in 1686, she took a would-be colony's worth of goods to the seafloor with her. Here, follow in the footsteps of marine archeologists from the Texas Historical Commission, who painstakingly excavated the ship's every artifact, from tiny lead shot to a near-complete human skeleton. After more than 300 years underwater, all of the nearly one million recovered artifacts are undergoing conservation treatment at Texas A&M University's Conservation Research Lab. Steven D. Hoyt is State Marine Archeologist with the Texas Historical Commission in Austin, Texas.

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A Postmodern Kentucky Timeline. The 2000s.

2000. A New Millenium means New things, or at least, it was supposed to.

2,010 AD. Kentucky Man killed five people, self in argument about breakfast. Well... what do you expect? She didn't make the goddamned eggs right!!!