Krispy Kreme Doughnuts is founded.
The now-international doughnut company was founded by Kentuckian Vernon Rudolph.
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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.
Kentucky became the 15th state to join the United States of America.
Colonel Harland Sanders founded KFC in North Corbin, Kentucky.
