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100 unusual facts about Louisville


113th Ohio Infantry

The 113th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service July 6, 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky.

14th Ohio Infantry

The 14th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 11, 1865.

17th Ohio Infantry

The 13th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 16, 1865.

185th Ohio Infantry

Detained at Louisville, Kentucky, and assigned to guard duty at various points in Kentucky from Owensboro to Cumberland Gap, with headquarters at Eminence, until September.

1920 Louisiana hurricane

A train running from Louisville, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee was left stranded after being washed out near Chef Menteur Pass, and other rail operations were stopped between New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama.

1967 NHL expansion

Cleveland and Louisville had also expressed previous interest but were not represented.

1990 Atlantic hurricane season

However, Marco is more notable for the impact from the remnants, especially in Georgia and South Carolina, where rainfall from the storm peaked at 19.89 in (505 mm) near Louisville, Georgia.

1st Scripps National Spelling Bee

The 1st Scripps National Spelling Bee was held in Louisville, Kentucky in 1925, not by Scripps Howard but by the Louisville Courier-Journal.

20th Ohio Infantry

The 20th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 18, 1865.

21st Ohio Infantry

The soldiers were discharged from the army and paid on July 28, 1865, when the regiment mustered out in Louisville, Kentucky.

31st Ohio Infantry

The 31st Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 20, 1865.

32nd Ohio Infantry

The 32nd Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 20, 1865.

33rd Ohio Infantry

The 33rd Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 12, 1865.

37th Ohio Infantry

It then followed the fortunes of that well-known corps until the reaching of Washington, D.C. From Louisville, Kentucky, it went with the 2nd Division of the Corps to Little Rock, Arkansas, and was there mustered out in August 1865.

38th Ohio Infantry

The 38th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 12, 1865.

39th Ohio Infantry

The 39th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 9, 1865.

43rd Ohio Infantry

The 43rd Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 13, 1865.

46th Ohio Infantry

The 46th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 22, 1865.

4th Michigan Cavalry

After training and drilling, it left the state on September 26 for duty in Louisville, Kentucky, and was soon attached to the 1st Brigade, Cavalry Division, Army of the Ohio until November 1862.

66th Ohio Infantry

The 66th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 15, 1865.

68th Ohio Infantry

The 68th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 10, 1865.

74th Ohio Infantry

The 74th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 11, 1865.

78th Ohio Infantry

The 78th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 11, 1865.

80th Troop Carrier Squadron

Postwar the squadron was activated in the Air Force Reserve in 1947, first at Godman AFB, then at Standiford Field, Louisville, Kentucky, operating C-46 Commandos for Tactical Air Command Eighteenth Air Force; activated during the Korean War in 1951, its aircraft and personnel being used as fillers for active duty units, then inactivated.

81st Troop Carrier Squadron

Postwar the squadron was activated in the air force reserve in 1947, first at Godman AFB, then at Standiford Field, Louisville, Kentucky, operating C-46 Commandos for Tactical Air Command Eighteenth Air Force; activated during the Korean War in 1951, its aircraft and personnel being used as fillers for active duty units, then inactivated.

95th Ohio Infantry

The 95th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on August 19, 1865.

Angel Cordero, Jr.

The Kentucky Derby is held annually in Louisville, Kentucky and is considered by many as the most important race in American thoroughbred racing.

Austin Pryor

Pryor is a native of Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated from the University of Kentucky where he received a B.S. degree in Banking and Finance in 1967.

Ben Charles Green

He was an attorney for the Federal Land Bank in Louisville, Kentucky from 1933 to 1935 before returning to private practice in Cleveland from 1935 to 1961.

Brooke Berman

Her short play "Dancing with a Devil" was a co-winner of the Heideman Award at Actors Theater of Louisville in 1999, presented in “Life Under 30” at the Humana Festival, and nominated for an American Theater Critics Best New Play award.

Buechel

Buechel, Louisville, a neighborhood within the city limits of Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Caesar and Otto's Summer Camp Massacre

Caesar and Otto's Summer Camp Massacre made its world premiere on August 15, 2009 at the Fright Night Film Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, where it received a nomination for Best Horror Comedy.

Carl Brenders

30 of the artist's works were a part of the major retrospective exhibition Artistry in Nature: The Wildlife Paintings of Carl Brenders which opened at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky, and Shreveport, Louisiana.

Cascade Broadcasting Group

W24BW channel 24, Louisville, Kentucky (now WKYI-LD; owned by Greater Louisville Communications)

David Erb

In 2008, Dave Erb became the 29th jockey to add his handprint and signature in cement to the "Gallup to Glory" display at the Galt House hotel in Louisville, Kentucky.

David Pajo

A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Pajo played with three Louisville hardcore and hardcore-inflected bands in his early career.

David Schmoeller

David Schmoeller (born December 8, 1947 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter.

David W. Tandy

David Warren Tandy is an American Democratic Party politician in Louisville, Kentucky, who represents Louisville Metro's District 4.

Edward Gal

In a piece in The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky that ran before the 2010 Games, dressage trainer Susan Posner pointed out that Toto was only in his second year in dressage despite being 10 years old, and said that his success illustrated how capable Gal was as a rider.

Elizabeth Bevarly

Elizabeth Bevarly (b. Louisville, Kentucky, United States) is an American writer of over 55 romance novels since 1989.

Elwood L. Haines

He was Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Louisville, Kentucky when he was elected to be the fifth bishop of Iowa on March 8, 1944.

Engine Takes to the Water

Engine Takes to the Water is the debut album by Louisville-based math rock band June of 44.

Ernie Allen

Mr. Allen is also a former Director of Public Health & Safety for the City of Louisville, Kentucky.

Ford P platform

Production of the Super Duty trucks will continue at the Louisville, Kentucky truck plant.

George Grey Barnard

The first casting is at Lytle Park in Cincinnati, Ohio (Abraham Lincoln (George Grey Barnard), 1917), the second in Manchester, England (1919), and the third in Louisville, Kentucky (1922).

Girolamo Savoldo

Magdalen (1535–1540) Getty Center, Los Angeles; National Gallery, London; Contini-Bonacossi Collection, Florence; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, USA

Highlands Historic District

Original Highlands, Louisville, Kentucky, listed as Highlands Historic District on the NRHP in Kentucky

If You Could Say It in Words

The film was named Best Feature and Best of Festival at the 2008 Derby City Film Festival in Louisville, Kentucky.

IMR Test Labs

IMR first expanded with the acquisition of IMR Metallurgical Services, located in Louisville, Kentucky in October 2002.

In the Fishtank 6

In the Fishtank 6 is the recording of a live session in a Dutch studio by Louisville-based math rock band June of 44.

Issaquena County, Mississippi

About that same time, the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway was completed along a north-south route through the center of the county.

Jimmy LaSalvia

He has also previously worked as a development officer for Kentucky Opera and as a real estate broker in Louisville, Kentucky.

John Michael Hayden

A two-time Parade Magazine All-American at Trinity High School in Louisville, Kentucky, Hayden matriculated at Indiana University in 2002.

Jon Petrovich

Petrovich began as a reporter for WHAS-TV in Louisville, Kentucky before moving on to become assistant News Director for WDIV-TV in Detroit, Michigan.

Jorge Navarro Suárez

In 2010, Navarro was captured in an undercover video for ABC News during an event of the Council of United States Legislators in Louisville, Kentucky.

Kelly Downard

Downard graduated from St. Xavier High School in 1964, also graduated from the University of Dayton School of Business Administration and earned a Master of Business Administration from Bellarmine University.

Kentucky Travelers

They are based in Louisville (and affiliated with the ABA's official development league, the Louisville Basketball League), but play all their games on the road as the ABA's official travel team.

Kinnaird R. McKee

McKee was born in Louisville, Kentucky on August 14, 1929 and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1951.

Larry Elmore

Larry Elmore (born August 5, 1948 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American fantasy artist whose work includes creating illustrations for video games, comics, magazines and fantasy books.

Leane Zugsmith

Leane Zugsmith was born in Louisville, Kentucky on 18 January 1903 to Albert Zugsmith and Gertrude Appel.

Levi Strauss

Levi's sister Fanny and her husband David Stern moved to St. Louis, Missouri, while Levi went to live in Louisville and sold his brothers' supplies in Kentucky.

Louisville Lightning

Louisville was awarded the team in August with the ownership group of Wayne Estopinal and Ted Nichols and the new team was aptly named the Lightning as well.

Louisville Thunder

Louisville Thunder was an indoor soccer club based in Louisville, Kentucky that competed in the American Indoor Soccer Association.

Lyndon Lawless

In 2006, he stepped down as Director of the Orchestra Department at the Youth Performing Arts School in Louisville, Kentucky.

Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies

Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies, now called Magellan Strategies, is a survey research firm with offices in Louisville, Colorado and Geismar, Louisiana.

Margaret Vandercook

Daughter of Joel Mayo Womack and Nannie Gibson (O'Bannon) Womack, she was born in Louisville, Kentucky, where she attended both public and private schools.

Maria Jolas

Jolas was born in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, but became closely associated with European culture.

Marilyn Martin

Born in Tennessee but raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Martin gained notice as a back-up singer for such artists as Stevie Nicks, Joe Walsh, Don Henley, Tom Petty and Kenny Loggins, touring with Nicks and Walsh.

Middleton S. Barnwell

Middleton S. Barnwell was born September 9, 1882 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Monon, Indiana

The northern division came into Monon and turned ninety degrees heading south to Lafayette and Louisville, Kentucky.

Morrison County, Minnesota

A group of investors from Louisville, Kentucky, led by M. M. Williams, provided the financing for this dam.

Nathaniel Allen

Allen died in the Gault House hotel, while conducting business in Louisville, Kentucky, on December 22, 1832 (age about 52 years).

National League

After recruiting St. Louis privately, four western clubs met in Louisville, Kentucky, in January 1876.

Pheme Perkins

Pheme Perkins (born 1945 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a Professor of Theology at Boston College, where she has been teaching since 1972.

Plasan Sand Cat

It is based on a commercial Ford F-Series chassis shortened to a 2.84 m (112 in) wheelbase by Ford Qualified Vehicle Modifier, Manning Equipment of Louisville, Kentucky, United States.

Rank Strangers

The Rank Strangers were also headliners at the Station Inn in Nashville, and the Louisville, Kentucky, music festival, supporting guitar legend Tony Rice's bluegrass band.

Robert S. Murphy

Murphy was born in Louisville, New York but spent most of his childhood in Portland, Maine, where his family was active in the temperance movement.

Ron Gettelfinger

Gettelfinger started his union involvement in 1964 in Louisville, Kentucky, at the Louisville Assembly Plant run by Ford Motor Company while working as a chassis line repairman.

Roxie, Mississippi

The town was located at the crossroads of the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway and the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad, and most of the early residents were employed by the railroads, or worked in the logging industry or in sawmills.

Samuel Adams Drake

He went to Kansas in 1858 as telegraphic agent of the New York Associated Press, became the regular correspondent of the St. Louis Republican and the Louisville Journal, and for a while edited the Leavenworth Times.

Scott Ritcher

Scott Ritcher is a magazine publisher and graphic designer from Louisville, Kentucky, born September 27, 1969.

In 1998, Ritcher entered politics as the Reform Party's candidate for Mayor of Louisville.

Shelby Place Historic District

Shelby Place Historic District is a registered historic district in New Albany, Indiana, one mile north of the Ohio River, across from Louisville, Kentucky.

Sisters of the Holy Humility of Mary

In 1862 Father Louis Hoffer of Louisville, Ohio, U.S.A., applied for four sisters to teach in his school.

Strathmoor, Kentucky

Strathmoor is a former suburb of Louisville, Kentucky.

Stuart F. Reed

In addition, he was a member of the International Tax Conference at Louisville, Kentucky in 1909 and the Secretary of State of West Virginia 1909–1917.

Sullivan College of Technology and Design

Sullivan College of Technology and Design is a private post-secondary school in Louisville, Kentucky.

T-Bone Concerto

The first movement was premiered in February 1996 at the conference in Louisville, Kentucky, performed by the soloist Jeffrey Thomas.

The Significance of the Frontier in American History

Urban historian Richard C. Wade challenged the Frontier Thesis in his first asset, The Urban Frontier (1959), asserting that western cities such as Pittsburgh, Louisville, and Cincinnati, not the farmer pioneers, were the catalysts for western expansion.

Timothy Shay Arthur

He then found employment with a wholesale merchandiser and later as an agent for an investment concern, a job that took him briefly to Louisville, Kentucky.

Toronto Blessing

Randy Clark had been influenced by the ministry of Rodney Howard-Browne, a South African preacher, founder of the Rodney Howard-Browne Evangelistic Association in Louisville, Kentucky, and the earliest known proponent of the "holy laughter" revival phenomenon.

Trager Stadium

Trager Stadium is a field hockey stadium located on the campus of the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky.

Tropics and Meridians

Tropics and Meridians is the second album by Louisville-based math rock band June of 44.

UPS Airlines Flight 6

The captain, 48-year old Doug Lampe of Louisville, Kentucky, and the first officer, 38-year old Matthew Bell from Sanford, Florida, died.

Valentin Preda

Preda is a former member of the swimming team for the Louisville Cardinals, and a graduate of exercise science at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky.

William Benjamin Dearborn Simmons

Among his most important instruments were the 1855 organ built for Dover Hall in Boston, the 1859 organ for Harvard University, and the 1860 organ for St. Paul's Cathedral in Louisville, Kentucky.

WLIL

One day he was working in Louisville, Kentucky and could see inside a radio station from where he was working.

WLMB

WLMB is owned and operated by Dominion Broadcasting, which is not related to Dominion Media, owners of WWJS-CD in the Louisville, Kentucky area.

Woodlawn trophy

Considered one of the most valuable trophies in sports, the trophy has its roots at the Woodlawn Race Course, a 19th century race track near Louisville, Kentucky.

WWKY

From 1989 to 2001, the call letters WWKY were assigned to Louisville, Kentucky at 790 kHz, which had formerly been WAKY.


2009 Connecticut Huskies football team

Senior running back Andre Dixon ran for 153 yards and three touchdowns and Connecticut beat Louisville for the Huskies first Big East win of the season.

Anne Allen

Ann Taylor Allen (graduated 1965), professor of German history at the University of Louisville

Bluegrass Balloon Festival

By 2002, the event had grown to 85 registered balloons, and WHAS-TV 11, a local television station in Louisville, featured the evening Balloon Glow during its prime time broadcast.

Bryn Chapman

Whilst living in Kentucky Chapman won the Miss Louisville 2002 title and placed first runner-up to Miss Kentucky 2002.

Cumberland Gap, Tennessee

In 1888, a work camp was established at Cumberland Gap by Scottish-born entrepreneur Alexander Arthur (1846–1912) to house workers needed to build a tunnel for the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap & Louisville Railroad.

David Allan Young

He then taught science at the Louisville Public School System and later studied entomology at the Cornell University and obtained a Master of Science in 1942.

Frances Anderson

On June 29, 1969, Anderson attended the founding meeting of the American Art Therapy Association (AATA), in Louisville, Kentucky.

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

Housed within the office complex are nearly 1,000,000 original design records detailing work on many of America’s most treasured landscapes including the U. S. Capitol and White House Grounds; Great Smoky Mountains and Acadia National Parks; Yosemite Valley; New York's Central Park; and whole park systems in cities such as Buffalo, Seattle, Boston and Louisville.

Gregory Charvat

He built amateur radio equipment in high school, a radio telescope for which he won second place at the 1997 International Science and Engineering Fair in Louisville, KY, and developed many radar sensors in college.

Jess Weixler

She graduated in 1999 from Atherton High School in Louisville, Kentucky, where she also attended the Walden Theatre Conservatory Program and was in The River City Players acting group and in the Chamber Singers choral group.

Kentucky Oaks top three finishers

This is a listing of the horses that finished in either first, second, or third place and the number of starters in the Kentucky Oaks, the first leg of the defacto American Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing, an American Grade 1 race for three year-old fillies at 1-1/8 miles (9 furlongs) on the dirt held at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.

Kentucky–Louisville rivalry

In 1994, with former Kentucky player Howard Schnellenberger coaching Louisville, the series was revived after a 70-year dormancy.

Papa John's Cardinal Stadium

Most notably, PJCS is the regular host of two major city rivalries—the Catholic rivalry between St. Xavier and Trinity, which regularly draws crowds in the 35,000 range; and the Male-Manual game, a public-school battle which is the longest running, continuously played high school football rivalry in America.

Petrino

Bobby Petrino (born 1961), current head coach at University of Louisville

Prestonia, Louisville

Prestonia is a neighborhood five miles southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. Its boundaries are Preston Highway, Interstate 65, Interstate 264 and the Norfolk Southern Railway tracks.

Scott Padgett

In 2007, Padgett left the NBA and returned to Louisville, co-hosting The Dave and Scott show with former University of Louisville Football Player Dave Ragone.

Shackelford Miller, Jr.

His elder brother, Welman Miller, died in 1913 and his younger brother, Neville Miller, who died in 1977, was dean of the University of Louisville Law School and later Mayor of Louisville in 1933-37.

St. Michael Elementary School

On August 6, 2006, a new Community Center was dedicated by the Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly and the current mayor of Louisville Jerry Abramson.

Taco Bell chihuahua

Gidget "The Taco Bell Chihuahua" (February 7, 1994 - July 21, 2009) was a popular advertising figure and mascot, voiced by Carlos Alazraqui, and developed by TBWA and used by Taco Bell, a division of Louisville, Kentucky (USA)-based Yum! Brands.

Waterfront Development Corporation

An agreement to provide equal funding between the governments of Louisville, Jefferson County, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky led to the creation of the Waterfront Development Corporation.

William George McCloskey

He was rector until his promotion to the See of Louisville in May 1868, being consecrated bishop in the chapel of the college on May 24 of that year by Cardinal von Reisach, Archbishop of Munich, Bavaria, assisted by Mons.