<Li> January 31, 1865 The Constitutional Amendment ending slavery in the U.S. is passed and enough states ratify it by December - Kentucky's legislature, not under federal "reconstruction," refused to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment until Kentucky woman legislator, Mae Street Kidd won this battle in 1976 . </Li> <Li> May 17, 1875 The first Kentucky Derby was won by a colt named Aristides ridden by African - American jockey, Oliver Lewis in front of an estimated crowd of 10,000 people . </Li> <Ul> <Li> January 1937 A massive flood occurs as the result of snowmelt and record rainfall effecting nearly every Kentucky town and city along the Ohio River, its tributaries and the Mississippi . </Li> <Li> 1954 A twelve - year - old then known as Cassius Clay approached a Louisville police officer named Joe Martin to report that his bicycle had been stolen . Martin, then the coach of Louisville's city boxing program, tells Cassius that instead of "whooping" the thief, he should learn to box . The next day, the boy takes his first boxing lessons, the first step on a journey that would take him to a legendary boxing career . </Li> <Li> February 28, 1958 Prestonsburg bus disaster--A school bus traveling on US 23 in Floyd County collides with a wrecker truck and plunges into a flooded Levisa Fork River . The driver and 26 children drown in what remains the deadliest bus disaster in U.S. history . </Li> <Li> May 28, 1977 Beverly Hills Supper Club fire--A fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club, a nightclub in Southgate in Campbell County, kills 165 and injures over 200 . </Li> <Li> May 14, 1988 Carrollton bus collision--Larry Mahoney, intoxicated and driving the wrong way on Interstate 71 in Carroll County, hits a converted school bus carrying a youth group from First Assembly of God in Radcliff . The crash and the ensuing fire kill 27, which equals the toll from the Prestonsburg disaster 30 years earlier . </Li> <Li> December 1, 1997 Heath High School shooting--Michael Carneal, an emotionally troubled freshman at Heath High School in McCracken County, opens fire on a group of his fellow students who were leaving a preschool prayer meeting . Three are killed and five wounded, with one of the wounded left a paraplegic . Carneal is eventually sentenced to three concurrent life sentences plus 120 years . </Li> </Ul> <Li> January 1937 A massive flood occurs as the result of snowmelt and record rainfall effecting nearly every Kentucky town and city along the Ohio River, its tributaries and the Mississippi . </Li>

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