NC History
Submitted by Allyson Lorick on Wed, 02/20/2013 - 8:51am.READ MORE:
North Carolina first lady Ann McCrory is turning over her inaugural gown to the NC Museum of History, which will include it in an exhibition about governors and their spouses.
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Submitted by WWAY on Fri, 02/01/2013 - 1:54pm.READ MORE:
On February 1, 1960, four African American college students sat down at the lunch counter at Woolworth’s Department Store in downtown Greensboro and asked to be served.
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Submitted by WWAY on Thu, 01/24/2013 - 2:29pm.READ MORE:
On January 24, 1961, a B-52G Stratofortress Bomber carrying two nuclear weapons crashed in rural Wayne County, ten miles northeast of Seymour Johnson Air Force Base.
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Submitted by WWAY on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 11:28am.READ MORE:
On January 15, 1865, Fort Fisher, nicknamed “Gilbraltar of the South” fell to Union troops. Built on a peninsula named Federal Point at the mouth of the Cape Fear River, 18 miles south of Wilmington, Fort Fisher was the largest earthen fortification in the Confederacy.
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Submitted by WWAY on Tue, 01/08/2013 - 12:28pm.READ MORE:
On January 8, 1975, David M. “Carbine” Williams, designer of the short stroke piston, died. More than eight million Allied soldiers carried the M-1 carbine, a light, semiautomatic rifle, in World War II. General Douglas MacArthur described the weapon as “one of the strongest contributing factors to our victory in the Pacific.” J. Edgar Hoover and others had similar praise for “Carbine” Williams, the weapon’s designer.
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Submitted by WWAY on Tue, 01/01/2013 - 11:27am.READ MORE:
On January 1, 1942, the Rose Bowl was played in Durham—the only time the game has not been played in Pasadena, California.
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Submitted by WWAY on Mon, 12/31/2012 - 11:32am.READ MORE:
On December 31, 1862, the USS Monitor, sank during a storm off the coast of Cape Hatteras. Four officers and twelve crewmen were lost.
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Submitted by WWAY on Wed, 12/12/2012 - 2:10pm.READ MORE:
On December 12, 1989, the ca. 1751 Palmer-Marsh house at Historic Bath caught fire, but what could have been a tragedy was turned out to be a win for preservationists.
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Submitted by WWAY on Mon, 12/10/2012 - 11:58am.READ MORE:
On December 10, 1718, Stede Bonnet, the “Gentleman Pirate,” was hanged in South Carolina. An unlikely buccaneer, Bonnet was born in 1688 in Barbados, orphaned at a young age and inherited a sizable plantation. By 1715, Bonnet was married and held the rank of major in the militia. In 1717, he gave up his life among the Barbadian planter elite, deserting his family to become a pirate.
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Submitted by WWAY on Tue, 11/27/2012 - 11:41am.READ MORE:
Braxton Bragg attended West Point, where he graduated fifth in his class. He served with distinction in the Mexican War and returned to Warren County in 1848.
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Submitted by WWAY on Thu, 11/22/2012 - 10:52am.READ MORE:
The “Golden Age of Piracy” flourished briefly along the North Carolina coast in the early 18th century. Foremost among the pirates was Edward Teach, aka “Blackbeard.” He lived briefly in the town of Bath during the summer of 1718.
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Submitted by WWAY on Fri, 11/16/2012 - 1:16pm.READ MORE:
On November 16, 1933, the Blue Ridge Parkway project received approval. The Blue Ridge Parkway, part of the National Park Service system, extends 469 miles through the Southern Appalachians, linking the Shenandoah National Park in northern Virginia with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee.
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Submitted by WWAY on Thu, 11/15/2012 - 3:49pm.READ MORE:
On November 15, 1846, Peter Stuart Ney, a teacher from Rowan County, is said to have made a deathbed confession that he was, in fact, Napoleon Bonaparte’s most trusted commander, Marshal Michel Ney. Marshal Ney was rumored to have escaped execution in 1815 and fled to America.
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Submitted by WWAY on Tue, 11/06/2012 - 10:38am.READ MORE:
On November 6, 1865, the CSS Shenandoah lowered the Confederate flag and James I. Waddell surrendered command of the vessel to British authorities in Liverpool. The surrender came a full six months after Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.
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Submitted by WWAY on Mon, 11/05/2012 - 2:56pm.READ MORE:
On November 5, 1820, soldier, politician, and founder of the University of North Carolina, William R. Davie died at the age of 64.
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