1. In 1864, American Civil War General John Hunt Morgan was shot and killed by Union soldiers in Greeneville, Tennessee. Morgan was born in Huntsville, Kentucky in 1825 and is best known for his raids on Union forces during the Civil War.

2. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of shooting Kennedy, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana but spent much of his childhood in the Louisville, Kentucky area.

3. In 1942, a fire at the Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston, Massachusetts killed 492 people. Among the victims were several Kentuckians, including actress Beatrice Prentice, whose family owned a thoroughbred horse farm in Lexington.

4. In 1919, Kentucky Governor Augustus Owsley Stanley signed a bill giving women the right to vote in the state. Kentucky was the 23rd state to grant suffrage to women.

5. In 1987, the Kentucky Wildcats football team defeated the Tennessee Volunteers 27-23 in Knoxville. The victory is notable as one of the few times Kentucky has beaten Tennessee on the football field, and it marked the beginning of a stretch of success for the Wildcats under coach Jerry Claiborne.