Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky opened on the 15th of February 1882 with 190 students and 10 professors. John Bryan Bowman proposed the institution to the Kentucky General Assembly in 1865 before it began operations at Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate.
Lyman T. Johnson became the first African American admitted to graduate programs in 1949 after winning a court case against racial segregation under the Day Law. Doris Yvonne Wilkinson graduated as the first African American undergraduate student in 1958 following the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Official colors of royal blue and white were chosen after a football game against Centre College on the 19th of December 1891. The specific shade came from a necktie used during that match.
Adolph Rupp led teams to four NCAA championships in 1948, 1949, 1951, and 1958 while Joe B. Hall won another title in 1978. Rick Pitino secured victory in 1996, Orlando Tubby Smith claimed the next championship in 1998, and John Calipari coached the team to its eighth national title in 2012.
Endowment grew from $195.1 million in 1997 to $1.407 billion by the 30th of June 2020 through The Campaign for the University of Kentucky which launched in 2000 raising over $1 billion by March 2007.