By the age of seven, Plato began doing television commercials, reportedly appearing in over 100 spots for companies as diverse as Kentucky Fried Chicken, Dole, and Atlantic Richfield.

In the mid-1950s, Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Col. Harland Sanders came to Fort Wayne to find restaurateurs with established businesses in order to try to sell KFC franchises to them.

The film has been parodied and referenced in places such as the 1976 film The Pink Panther Strikes Again, the satirical publication The Onion, the Japanese game-show Takeshi's Castle, and the 1977 John Landis comedy anthology film Kentucky Fried Movie ( in its lengthy " A Fistful of Yen " sequence ) and also in the film Balls of Fury.

In 1984 Dick Chudnow ( Kentucky Fried Theater ) founded ComedySportz in Milwaukee, WI.

There are several chains with mass-produced items of Southern cuisine on their menus, such as Cracker Barrel, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Bojangles ' Famous Chicken ' n Biscuits, Church's Chicken, Mrs. Winner's, Sonny's, Tudor's Biscuit World and Popeye's.

In Kentucky Fried Movie ( 1977 ), the sequence titled " Danger Seekers " features a stuntman effecting the dangerous stunt of shouting " Niggers!

The franchise company was started in 1969 as National Fast Food Corp. National Fast Food's principals at the time included S. Robert Davis, a real estate developer who built and leased several Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken properties, his friend Dave Thomas, who sold his Colonel Sanders franchises back to that company for $ 3, 000, 000 and went on to found Wendy's, and L. S. Hartzog, who at the time ran a chain of bakeries selling biscuits to Colonel Sanders franchisees nationally.

" She also starred in a number of commercials for Kentucky Fried Chicken, singing and scatting to the fast-food chain's longtime slogan, " We do chicken right!

* The Kentucky Fried Movie

However, Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants use a combination of pressure cooking and frying, with special pressure fryers in which chicken juices supply the water.

Subway's trademark application for " footlong " has yet to be approved by the federal government ; A & W, Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, Long John Silver's and other restaurants are opposing that application.

* Kentucky Fried Cruelty

A number of animated cartoons were produced, including the Bugs Bunny cartoon Southern Fried Rabbit ( 1953 ), in which Bugs disguises himself as Uncle Tom and sings My Old Kentucky Home in order to cross the Mason-Dixon line ; Uncle Tom's Bungalow ( 1937 ), a Warner Brothers cartoon supervised by Tex Avery ; Eliza on Ice ( 1944 ), one of the earliest Mighty Mouse cartoons produced by Paul Terry ; and Uncle Tom's Cabaña ( 1947 ), an eight-minute cartoon directed by Tex Avery.

As part of their involvement, the band produced an adverstisement protesting Kentucky Fried Chicken's ( KFC's ) alleged cruelty to animals.

North Corbin, just north of Whitley County is home to Sanders Cafe, which is the birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

The first Kentucky Fried Chicken was started in Laurel County in Colonel Harland Sanders hometown of North Corbin.

During 1993, Perkins performed with the Kentucky Headhunters in a music video remake, filmed in Glasgow, Kentucky, of his song " Dixie Fried.

Henryville is home to Indiana's oldest state forest Clark State Forest, and birthplace of Colonel Harlan Sanders, whose iconic image appears in the Kentucky Fried Chicken logo.

Henryville is the birthplace of " Colonel " Harland Sanders ( 1890-1980 ), founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

In 2010 the city gained national attention for having accepted money from Kentucky Fried Chicken for the rights to display the KFC and Fiery Grilled Wings logos on city fire hydrants.

* Colonel Harland Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame lived in Shelbyville from 1960 until his death in 1980.

There are several fast-food restaurants including: Kentucky Fried Chicken, Bojangles, Papa John's, Wilco, Maryland Fried Chicken, Advanced Auto Parts, Hardee's, Subway, Pizza Hut, Domino's Pizza, Wendy's, and McDonald's.

* The world's first Kentucky Fried Chicken ( now KFC ) franchise was established in 1952 by Harland Sanders and Pete Harman in what is now part of South Salt Lake.

The Harland Sanders Café and Museum, the restaurant where Colonel Harland Sanders developed the fried chicken recipe that would later become famous as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is located in the Laurel County portion of North Corbin.

The restaurant where Colonel Sanders developed Kentucky Fried Chicken

In addition to generic destinations such as the city's police station, rail terminal and lookout point, passengers may also request to be taken to Pizza Hut, Tower Records, the FILA sportswear store, Levi's store or Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Wallace retracted the invitation, and ( after considering Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Colonel Harland Sanders ) chose Air Force General Curtis LeMay of California.

Its chorus mentions the fast food restaurants McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and Kentucky Fried Chicken.

The Big Chicken is a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Marietta, Georgia, which features a 56-foot-tall ( 17 m ) steel-sided structure designed in the appearance of a chicken rising up from the top of the building.

Their impolitic occupation of Columbus, Kentucky on September 3, 1861, two days before Johnston arrived in the Confederacy's capital, Richmond, Virginia, after his cross – country journey, drove Kentucky from its stated neutrality and the majority of Kentuckians into the Union camp.

Fort Henry on the Tennessee River was in an especially unfavorable low – lying location commanded by hills on the Kentucky side of the river.

* 2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.

* 1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.

** Ron Cyrus ( 1935 – 2006 ), Kentucky politician

Dayton is situated within the Miami Valley region of Ohio just north of the Cincinnati – Northern Kentucky metropolitan area.

* Midway College – Midway, Kentucky

* Transylvania University – Lexington, Kentucky

* Lexington Theological Seminary – Lexington, Kentucky

* 1861 – American Civil War: the Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy.

* 1981 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.

* 1958 – A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River.

* John Duncan Young ( 1823 – 1910 ), US congressman from Kentucky

* 1869 – Ruby Laffoon, 43rd Governor of Kentucky ( d. 1941 )

* 1990 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12.

* 1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.

* 1774 – Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.

* 1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.

* 1963 – Rand Paul, American politician, Junior Senator from Kentucky

Brown, Jr. ( born 1933 ), Kentucky governor, 1979 – 1983

* John Young Brown III ( born 1963 ), Kentucky Secretary of State, 1996 – 2004

Brown ( 1835 – 1904 ), Kentucky governor 1891 – 1895, U. S. representative ( D – KY, 1859 – 1861, 1873 – 1877 )