Louisville is Kentucky's largest city and the 16th largest city of the United States. The settlement that became the City of Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark and is named after King Louis XVI of France. Louisville is most famous as the home of the Kentucky Derby, the most widely watched event in American horse racing. Louisville is situated on the Kentucky-Indiana border at the only natural obstacle in the Ohio River, the Falls of the Ohio. As of the 2000 census, Louisville had a total population of 256,231. However, in 2003, the city and Jefferson County merged into a single consolidated city-county government.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1936: Generalísimo Francisco Franco became the head of the Spanish State. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Franco)

1958: NASA began operations, replacing the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA)

1964: To-kaido- Shinkansen, the first Shinkansen line of high-speed railways in Japan, opened. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen)

1977: Brazilian football star Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé, played his last professional football game. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pel%C3%A9)

_____________________ Wikiquote of the day:

"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." -- Jimmy Carter (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter)