Krispy Kreme Doughnuts is founded.
The now-international doughnut company was founded by Kentuckian Vernon Rudolph.
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Colonel Harland Sanders founded KFC in North Corbin, Kentucky.
Kentucky became the 15th state to join the United States of America.
World's First Self-Contained Artificial Heart Transplant.
A field in Bath County, Kentucky, was showered by a steady rain of mystery meat. This became known as the Kentucky meat shower.
