1. In 1778, the Battle of Blue Licks took place, which was the last battle of the American Revolutionary War to occur in Kentucky. It was also a significant event in the frontier war between Native Americans and European settlers.

2. On June 28, 1830, the famous American author and abolitionist, Harriet Beecher Stowe, arrived in Maysville, Kentucky on her first trip to the South. While there, she observed the impact of slavery and used her experiences to inform her later writing, including her famous novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

3. In 1864, during the Civil War, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and his cavalry captured and burned the town of Lebanon, Kentucky. This was part of a larger Confederate raid into Kentucky, which saw Morgan's forces trying to disrupt Union supply lines and cause general chaos.

4. On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was assassinated in Sarajevo. While this event took place far from Kentucky, it was a major trigger for the events that led up to World War I, which impacted many people in the state.

5. In 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the case of Janus v. AFSCME that non-union employees cannot be required to pay union fees as a condition of employment. This ruling had a significant impact on labor unions in Kentucky and across the country.