1. In 1782, Kentucky frontiersman Daniel Boone was captured by a Shawnee tribe while hunting and held as a prisoner for several months before being released.
2. August 11, 1804 marked the day of the infamous Burr Conspiracy, where former Vice President Aaron Burr was indicted for treason for allegedly plotting to create a separate nation in the Southwestern United States with the help of Spanish forces.
3. In 1856, the first railroad in Kentucky opened, connecting Lexington and Frankfort.
4. Kentucky Governor Simeon Willis signed the state's first workers' compensation law on August 11, 1914, providing benefits for workers injured on the job.
5. On August 11, 2006, Patrick Kennedy and Shelia Kuehl held a campus rally at the University of Louisville to campaign for mental health insurance equity, which ultimately led to the passage of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act in 2008.