Louisville, Kentucky Timeline of Events

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Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

Timeline of Events

1890

3.27.1890

A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.

1960

10.29.1960

In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.

1981

2.13.1981

A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.