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===== Events =====
==== Boone County ====
  *  Charles [[Kottmeyer family|Kottmyer]] buys the [[Anderson Ferry]], along with two acres of land for $2,800.


==== Kentucky ====
  * The University of Kentucky is founded in Lexington.
  * The state of Kentucky refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment.  Along with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, it will not pass the state legislature until 1976.

==== U.S. & World ====
  * April 14 - President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated.  He is succeeded in office by his Vice-President, Andrew Johnson.
  * The Freedmen's Bureau is founded.
  * The Thirteenth Amendment is ratified, outlawing [[slavery]] in the U.S.
  * The Secret Service is founded to combat the wave of currency [[counterfeiting]] around the country.


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