Living in Louisville

Unique Louisville Facts

-Host to 2008 Ryder Cup
-Host to Ironman
-Kaelin's Restaurant claims to be the birthplace of the Cheeseburger - it cost 15 cents on the first menu in 1934
-Home to Humana, YUM!, Brown-Forman, UPS Hub, GE, Ford, Papa Johns, Texas Roadhouse
-Louisville is home to one of the best Extreme Sports Parks in the nation%u2026at least according to according to champion skateboarder Tony Hawk
-GE invested $25 Million into our school system to nurture math and science education
-Largest new urban parks project in North America
-Healthcare: First artificial heart transplant, first hand transplant, and the vaccine to wipe out cervical cancer
-The Happy Birthday song was written by two Louisville sisters named Mildred and Patty Hill.
-The Old Fashioned - a potent mix of bourbon, sugar, and bitters - was invented in Louisville at the Pendennis Club
-Established in 1875, the Kentucky Derby is the oldest annual sporting event in the world, known as the "most exciting two minutes in sports."
-Thunder Over Louisville, the opening to the 2 week festival leading up to the Kentucky Derby is the largest fireworks show in North America
-Louisville is one of only 12 US cities with a resident professional opera, orchestra, theater, ballet, and children's theater
-The "high five" was invented in Louisville, during the 1979-1980 University of Louisville's men's basketball season
-The Brown Hotel invented the Hot Brown - an open faced turkey sandwich with and smothered in cheese
-The bat leaning against the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory stands 120 feet tall
-Louisville is the birthplace to boxing legend Muhammad Ali

http://www.ypal.org

Louisville has been the site of many important innovations through history. Notable residents have included inventor Thomas Edison, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, boxing legend Muhammad Ali, newscaster Diane Sawyer, actor Tom Cruise, the Speed family (including U.S. Attorney General James Speed and Abraham Lincoln's close friend Joshua Fry Speed), the Bingham family, industrialist/politician James Guthrie, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and writers Hunter S. Thompson and Sue Grafton.

Notable events occurring in the city include the largest installation to date (in 1883) and first large space lighted by Edison's light bulb and the first library in the South open to African Americans. Medical advances included the first human hand transplant in the United States, the first self-contained artificial heart transplant,[4] and development of the first cervical cancer vaccine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Louisville,_Kentucky