01 – National Freedom Day
04 - $300.00 appropriated to pay for a plan for a state armory (1818).
05 – Battle of Hill 440 began (1951)
06 - Fall of Fort Henry followed by Fort Donelson (Civil War, 1862).
06 – Anniversary of KyANG C-130 crash in Evansville, Indiana (1992)
08 - Daniel Boone and 27 men with him captured at Blue Licks by Indians (1778).
10 - Gen John Adair receives "the highest approbation and thanks of the legislature" of Kentucky, for his gallantry at the battle of New Orleans, and more particularly for the deep interest he took in vindicating a respectable portion of the troops of Kentucky from the inappropriate imputation of cowardice, most unjustly thrown upon them" by Gen. Andrew Jackson (1816).
11 - Governor of Kentucky directed to procure suitable gold medals, to present, in the name of the state, to each of the surviving Kentucky volunteers in the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813. [Com. Perry's victory] (1860).
12 – Operation Homecoming began (1973)
13 - United States Property & Fiscal Officer (USP&FO) Kentucky offices and warehouse facilities located on Bowman Field was destroyed by fire . Total property loss exceeded $250,000. (1957) - (Biennial Report of the Adjutant General 1955-1957)
15 – Sinking of the USS Maine (1898)
16 – Siege of Wonsan began (1951)
16 – Federal recognition of the Kentucky Air NG units granted by NGB. Original units of the KyANG were: HQ 123d Fighter Group, HQ Det, 223d Air Service Group, Det A, 223d Air Service Group, 165th Fighter Squadron, 165th Utility Flight, 165th Weather Station (1947).
19 – US Marines landed on Iwo Jima (1945)
19 - Act passed directing the "the following names of battles and campaigns be inscribed upon the bands of the Military Monument (Frankfort cemetery): Boonesborough, Blue Licks, Estill's Defeat, St. Clair's Defeat, Harmar's Defeat, Wayne's Campaign, Indian Wars, Tippecanoe, Raisin, Mississiniwa, Fort Meigs, Thames, New Orleans, Monterey, Cerro Gordo, Buena Vista, Mexico; that the names of such distinguished citizens of Kentucky as fell in said battles, campaigns and Indian Wars be inscribed on the shaft, beneath said bands; and that the dedication on the monument shall show that it is erected by a grateful country in honor of the private soldiers, equally with that of the officers." (1849).
20 - From the Kentucky Legislature. The thanks and gratitude of the people of Kentucky, and a sword, tendered to Sergeant William F. Gaines of Georgetown, "the boy defender of the glorious banner of the 2d Regiment of the Kentucky Infantry at the Battle of Buena Vista;" his name to be inscribed on a plate of metal, and attached to the flagstaff of the colors (1850).
22 – Operation Junction City began (1967)
22 and 23 - General Zachary Taylor, after two days of remarkably severe fighting, wins a great victory over the Mexicans at Buena Vista (Mexican War, 1847).
Buena Vista, Mexico — A small American army under the command of General Zachary Taylor defeats a much larger force commanded by General Santa Anna, President of Mexico. About ninety percent of Taylor’s army was composed of state volunteer (Guard) units, several of which were heavily engaged in the fight. The 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, led by Lieutenant Colonel Henry Clay, Jr. (son of the famous former secretary of state and speaker of the House of Representatives) was killed while commanding his men in blunting the Mexican assault. The 1st Mississippi Rifles, under the command of Colonel Jefferson Davis (future secretary of war and president of the Confederacy) and the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry charged into the flank of the Mexicans and routed them off the field.
23 – U.S. Marines raised flag on Mt. Suribachi (Battle of Iwo Jima – 1945)
23 – Post-Tet Offensive began (1969)
23 - Resolutions passed by the Kentucky Legislature, complimentary to the Louisville Legion, and to Generals Zachary Taylor and William O. Butler for their gallantry, etc., in Mexico, and directing the presentation of a sword to each of those generals, and to the widow of Major Philip Norbourne Barbour. Major Barbour fell at Monterey, and his body was directed to be buried in the state cemetery at Frankfort (1847).
23 - Kentucky Legislature directs a sword to be presented to Henry E. Read, of Larue county, late ensign in Colonel Andrews' regiment of voligeurs, for gallant services in bearing the flag of his country through all the battles in the valley of Mexico, until he fell covered with wounds under the walls of Chapultepec (1854).
24 – Operation Desert Storm ground campaign began (1991)
25 - $15,000 appropriated to pay for a military monument in the state cemetery, "to commemorate the deeds of Kentucky's gallant dead." (1848).
25 - In making excavations at Monroe, Michigan, 30 human skulls and numerous bones were exhumed-the remains of Kentuckians massacred following the disastrous battle of the River Raisin (1871).
26 – Battle of 73 Easting (1991)
27 – Battle of Medina Ridge (1991)
27 – Battle of Norfolk (1991)
28 - General Doniphan defeats the Mexicans at Sacramento, in Chihuahua (Mexican War, 1847).
28 - Dr. John M. Johnson, petitions the Kentucky Legislature an appropriation for the purpose of re-interring, in cemetery grounds at Atlanta, Georgia, the Kentucky Confederate dead who fell at Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Dalton, Atlanta, Decatur, Jonesboro, and in East and Middle Tennessee; about 300 identified and 200 unidentified (1867).
28 - Prestonsburg School Bus Disaster - What was then called the "worst traffic accident involving school children in the history of the United States" happened near Prestonsburg, Kentucky when a school bus containing forty-two children hit a wrecker and swerved into the flood swollen Levisa Ford of the Big Sandy River and disappeared. Sixteen children escaped the bus before it sank and was swept away. The last body was not recovered until May 10th. (1958)