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620Mil BC In 1975 animal fossils of
about this time were discovered in North Carolina.
(www.todayinsci.com/6/6_04.htm)
1524 Mar 19, Giovanni de Verrazano
of France sighted land around area of Carolinas.
(MC, 3/19/02)
1584 Mar 25, Sir Walter Raleigh,
English explorer, courtier, and writer, renewed Humphrey Gilbert's
patent to explore North America. He went on to settle the Virginia
colony on Roanoke Island (North Carolina), naming it after the virgin
queen.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.23)(MC, 3/25/02)
1585 Jul 13, A group of 108
English colonists, led by Sir Richard Grenville, reached Roanoke
Island, North Carolina. Roanoke Island near North Carolina became
England's first foothold in the New World. Sir Walter Raleigh sent a
detachment of 108 men to build a fort on the island. The detachment
included two scientists, Thomas Hariot, a surveyor, mathematician,
astronomer and oceanographer, and Joachim Gans, a metallurgist. John
White, English artist and surveyor, was part of the expedition.
(NG, Geographica, Jan, 94)(HN, 7/13/98)(ON, 10/01,
p.1)
1586 Jun 18, English colonists
sailed from Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England's
first permanent settlement in America. The Roanoke colonists returned
to England with 2 friendly Indians. They left behind 15
well-provisioned men to maintain the English claim.
(AP, 6/18/07)(ON, 10/01, p.1)
1586 Jun 23, Sir Francis Drake
encountered the Roanoke Island Hurricane off the Atlantic coast. Harsh
weather caused Drake to evacuate the settlers back to England.
(SFC, 6/23/09, p.D8)
1586 In America relations with the
local Indians soured after the English soldiers attacked a village, and
soon the English returned home.
(NG, Geographica, Jan, 94)
1587 Jul 22, A second English
colony of 114-150 people under John White, financed by Sir Walter
Raleigh, was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina. The
colony included 17 women and 9 children. Croatoan Indians informed them
that Roanoke Indians had killed the men from the previous expedition. A
three-year draught, the worst in 800 years, peaked during this time.
(AP, 7/22/97)(SFC, 4/24/98, p.A3)(SFEM, 11/15/98,
p.23)(ON, 10/01, p.1)
1587 Aug 9, A party of the English
Roanoke settlers attacked a Roanoke Indian village and killed some
Croatoan Indians by accident.
(ON, 10/01, p.2)
1587 Aug 13, Gov. White rewarded
Manteo, a Croatoan Indian who had accompanied him to England and back,
for his many services and declared him Lord of the Roanoke and
Dasamonquepeio.
(ON, 10/01, p.2)
1587 Aug 18, In the Roanoke Island
colony, Ellinor and Ananias Dare became parents of a baby girl whom
they name Virginia Dare, the first English child born on what is now
Roanoke Island, N.C., then considered Walter Raleigh’s second
settlement in Roanoke, Virginia. Virginia Dare, born to the daughter of
John White, became the first child of English parents to be born on
American soil. However, the colony she was born into ended up
mysteriously disappearing.
(HN, 8/18/98)(PC, 1992, p.203)(AP, 8/18/07)
1587 John White returned to
England to pick up needed supplies for the Roanoke colony.
(ON, 10/01, p.2)
1588 An eye-witness account of the
New World was provided by "A Briefe and True Account of the New Found
Land of Virginia," written by Thomas Harriot. It recounted English
attempts from 1584-1588 to colonize what later became known as eastern
North Carolina and encouraged further settlement and investment there.
In 1590 Flemish engraver Theodor de Bry published an illustrated
edition featuring paintings by English colonist John White.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.24)(Arch, 5/05, p.26)
1590 Aug 15, A fleet commanded by
John Wattes arrived at the Outer Banks of the Carolinas. Roanoke Gov.
John White was a passenger in the fleet.
(ON, 10/01, p.3)
1590 Aug 16, Captain Spicer and 6
men drowned when their landing boat capsized in heavy surf off Roanoke
Island.
(ON, 10/01, p.3)
1590 Aug 18, John White, the
leader of 117 colonists sent in 1587 to Roanoke Island (North Carolina)
to establish a colony, returned from a trip to England to find the
settlement deserted. No trace of the settlers was ever found. White
returned to England and died there around 1606.
(ON, 10/01, p.4)(HN, 8/18/02)
1663 Mar 24, Charles II of England
awarded lands known as Carolina in America to eight members of the
nobility who assisted in his restoration. [see Apr 6]
(HN, 3/24/99)
1663 Apr 6, King Charles II signed
the Carolina Charter. [see Mar 24]
(MC, 4/6/02)
1709 Sep 3, The 1st major group of
Swiss and German colonists reached the Carolinas.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1729 Jul 25, North Carolina became
a royal colony.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1711 Sep 22, The Tuscarora Indian
War began with a massacre of settlers in North Carolina, following
white encroachment that included the enslaving of Indian children.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1761 In western North Carolina
British soldiers razed Kituwha, the heart of the Cherokee Nation.
Punitive raids here were repeated in 1776.
(Arch, 9/02, p.70)
1771 Mark Catesby had his work:
“The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands”
printed in London.
(WSJ, 7/7/98, p.A14)
1775 May 20, North Carolina became
the first colony to declare its independence. Citizens of Mecklenburg
County, NC, declared independence from Britain.
(HN, 5/20/98)(MC, 5/20/02)
1776 Apr 12, North Carolina's
Fourth Provincial Congress adopted the Halifax Resolves, which
authorized the colony's delegates to the Continental Congress to
support independence from Britain.
(AP, 4/12/07)
1781 Feb 25, American General
Nathanael Greene crossed the Dan River on his way to his March 15th
confrontation with Lord Charles Cornwallis at Guilford Court House,
N.C.
(HN, 2/25/98)
1781 Mar 15, Gen. Nathanael Greene
engaged British forces under Cornwallis at Guilford Court-House, North
Carolina. Greene retreated after inflicting severe casualties on
Cornwallis’ army.
(ON, 12/01, p.10)
1781 Mar, The Continental cavalry
under Col. Henry Lee, the father of Robert E. Lee, surprised and cut to
pieces the Loyalist cavalry near Hillsborough, NC. Ninety Loyalists
were killed with no losses to Lee.
(AH, 10/07, p.29)
1784 Trenton was founded.
(SFC, 3/10/99, p.A3)
1789 Nov 21, North Carolina became
the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
(AP, 11/21/97)
1789 The University of North
Carolina was chartered. It was the first state university in the U.S.
to begin instruction, in 1795. The University of Georgia was the first
state university chartered, in 1785, but was not established until 1801.
(HNQ, 12/3/01)
1795 Feb 13, The University of
North Carolina became the first U.S. state university to admit students
with the arrival of Hinton James, who was the only student on campus
for two weeks.
(AP, 2/13/04)
1795 Nov 2, James Knox Polk, the
11th president of the United States, was born in Mecklenburg County,
N.C.
(AP, 11/2/97)(HN, 11/2/98)
1808 Dec 29, Andrew Johnson, the
17th president of the United States who succeeded Lincoln, was born in
a 2-room shack in Raleigh, N.C.
(AP, 12/29/97)(SFC, 12/21/98, p.A3)(HN, 12/29/98)
1813 Harriet Jacobs (d.1897) was
born in North Carolina. In 1861 she authored “Incidents in the Life of
a Slave Girl” under the pseudonym Linda Brent. Jacobs later escaped to
NY. In 2004 Jean Fagan Yellin (73) authored “Harriet Jacobs: A Life.”
(SFC, 6/23/04, p.E1)
1852 Nov 21, Duke Univ., founded
in 1838 as Union Institute, was chartered as Normal College.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1857 Sep 12, A wooden-hulled
steamship, the SS Central America under Capt. William L. Herndon, sank
off the coast of Georgia. The ship carried 21 tons of gold from
California to New York. The brig Marine and the Norwegian bark Ellen
rescued some 141 people. 425 (428) of 528 (578) passengers were
drowned. The survivors included Ansel Ives Easton (d.1868) and his new
wife Adeline. The wreck was in 8,000 feet of water and in 1987-1988
salvage operations were begun by Tommy Thompson. He hauled in $500
million worth of gold bars, coins and nuggets. After a court battle he
was awarded 92% of the gold. The story is told in the 1998 book “Ship
of Gold in the Deep Blue sea” by Gary Kinder. The loss of the gold
sparked “The Panic of 1857.” The SS Central America sank off Cape
Romain, SC.
(WSJ, 5/22/98, p.W3)(WSJ, 6/19/98, p.W9)(SFEC,
6/28/98, BR p.3)(WSJ, 12/3/99, p.W16)(WSJ, 1/28/00, p.B1)(ON, 7/01,
p.2)(MC, 9/12/01)(Ind, 12/1/01, 5A)
1859 North Carolina’s Bodie Island
lighthouse was built. It was blown up during the Civil War and rebuilt
in 1872.
(SSFC, 9/19/04, p.D14)
1861 May 20, North Carolina voted
to secede from the Union and became the 11th and last state to do so.
(AP, 5/20/97)(HN, 5/20/98)
1861 Jul 14, Naval Engagement at
Wilmington, NC. USS Daylight established a blockade.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1861 Aug 27, Union troops made an
amphibious landing at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
(HN, 8/27/98)
1861 Aug 28, The Battle of Fort
Hatteras, NC.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1862 Feb 7, Federal fleet attacked
Roanoke Island, NC.
(MC, 2/7/02)
1862 Feb 8, Union troops under
Gen. Ambrose Burnside defeated a Confederate defense force at the
Battle of Roanoke Island, N.C.
(HN, 2/8/99)
1862 Mar 14, Battle of New Bern,
NC. General Burnside conquered New Bern, a strategic port and rail hub.
(AM, 11/04, p.28)
1862 Sep 21, William Benjamin
Gould and 7 other black men stole a boat and rowed past Fort Caswell,
NC. They were picked up the next day by the Union warship Cambridge. In
2002 Prof. W.B. Gould published his great-grandfather’s diary “Dairy of
a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor.”
(SFC, 9/2/02, p.A1)
1862 Dec 31, The USS Monitor sank
in a storm off Cape Hatteras, NC., while being towed by the Rhode
Island. 16 officers and seamen died. In 1973 scientists from North
Carolina’s Duke University discovered the deteriorating relic 16 miles
from the coast, in 240 feet of water. In 1975 the site was designated
the nation’s first marine sanctuary, and it was the first shipwreck to
be named a National Historic Landmark in the United States. In
2002 the turret was raised.
(SFC, 8/6/02, p.A2)(HNQ, 11/29/02)(ON, 10/08, p.5)
1863 Jan 25, Battle of Kingston,
NC.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1863 Mar 18, Confederate women
rioted in Salisbury, N.C. to protest the lack of flour and salt in the
South.
(HN, 3/18/00)
1864 Feb 29, Lt. William B.
Cushing led a landing party from the USS Monticello to Smithville, NC,
in an attempt to capture Confederate Brig. Gen. Louis Hebert, only to
discover that Hebert and his men had already moved on Wilmington.
(HN, 2/29/00)
1864 Oct 1, The Condor, a British
blockade-runner, was grounded near Fort Fisher, North Carolina.
(HN, 10/1/98)
1864 Dec 20-27, Battle of Ft.
Fisher, NC.
(MC, 12/20/01)
1865 Jan 13-14, Union fleet bombed
Fort Fisher, NC.
(AH, 2/05, p.16)
1865 Jan 15, Union troops captured
Fort Fisher at Wilmington, North Carolina. It was the last major
Confederate port open to blockade runners.
(AH, 2/05, p.16)
1865 Jan 16, General Sherman began
a march through the Carolinas.
(HN, 1/16/99)
1865 Feb 18, Union troops forced
the Confederates to abandon Fort Anderson, N.C.
(HN, 2/18/98)
1865 Feb 22, Federal troops
captured Wilmington, N.C. (Fort Anderson).
(HN, 2/22/98)(MC, 2/22/02)
1865 Feb, Major General William
Tecumseh Sherman had made a swift and steady advance through Georgia
and South Carolina, and by late February 1865, his army was approaching
Charlotte, North Carolina.
(HN, 2/8/98)
1865 Mar 7-10, Battles were fought
around Kingston, NC.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1865 Mar 8, Battle of Kingston, NC
(Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks).
(MC, 3/8/02)
1865 Mar 10, Battle of Monroe's
Crossroads, NC.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1865 Mar 11, General Sherman and
his forces occupied Fayetteville, N.C. Union General William Sherman
considered Judson Kilpatrick, his cavalry chief, "a hell of a damn
fool." At Monroe's Cross Roads, N.C., his carelessness and disobedience
of orders proved Sherman's point.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1865 Mar 16, Union troops pushed
past Confederate blockers at the Battle of Averasborough, N.C., and
left 1,500 casualties.
(HN, 3/16/99)(MC, 3/16/02)
1865 Mar 19, Battle of
Bentonville: Confederates retreated from Greenville, NC. [see Mar 20-21]
(MC, 3/19/02)
1865 Mar 20, Battle of
Bentonville, N.C.
(HN, 3/20/98)
1865 Mar 21, The Battle of
Bentonville, N.C. ended, marking the last Confederate attempt to stop.
Union General William Sherman considered Judson Kilpatrick, his cavalry
chief, 'a hell of a damn fool.' At Monroe's Cross Roads, N.C., his
carelessness and disobedience of orders proved Sherman's point.
(HN, 3/21/98)
1865 Mar 23, General Sherman and
Cox's troops reached Goldsboro, NC.
(SS, 3/23/02)
1865 Apr 13, Union forces under
Gen. Sherman began their devastating march through Georgia. Sherman's
troops took Raleigh, NC.
(HN, 4/13/98)(MC, 4/13/02)
1865 Apr 18, Confederate Gen
Joseph Johnston surrendered to Gen W.T. Sherman in North Carolina.
(MC, 4/18/02)
1865 Apr 23, Union cavalry units
continued to skirmish with Confederate forces in Henderson, North
Carolina and Munsford Station, Alabama.
(HN, 4/23/99)
1865 Apr 26, Confederate Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the Army of Tennessee at Durham, NC, to
Union Gen. W.T. Sherman.
(HN, 4/26/98)(MC, 4/26/02)
1865 Princeville was founded by
freed slaves on the Tar River in a swamp across from Tarboro.
(SFC, 11/24/99, p.A12)
1866 Apr 2, Pres. ended war in
Ala, Ark, Fla, Ga, Miss, La, NC, SC, Ten & Va.
(MC, 4/2/02)
1868 Jun 25, Florida, Alabama,
Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were re-admitted
to the Union.
(AP, 6/25/97)
1869 Apr 12, North Carolina
legislature passed an anti-Klan Law.
(MC, 4/12/02)
1870 Feb 26, Wyatt Outlaw, black
leader of Union League in North Carolina, was lynched.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1870 North Carolina’s Cape
Hatteras lighthouse was built. In 1999 $10 million was spent to move
and save it from the encroaching sea.
(SSFC, 9/19/04, p.D14)
1870s Real estate speculators
developed Highlands a mountain resort town. In 2001 Randolph Shaffner
authored ”Heart of the Blue Ridge: Highlands, North Carolina.”
(WSJ, 7/31/01, p.A16)
1871 Mar 22, William Holden of NC
became the 1st US governor removed by impeachment.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1871 The 208-foot, brick Cape
Hatteras Lighthouse was built. In 1999 it was moved 2,900 feet inland.
(SFC, 6/18/99, p.A3)
1876 Benedictine monks in North
Carolina established Belmont Abbey as a monastery and school. In 2007
they introduced a program in Motorsports Management.
(WSJ, 10/4/07, p.A1)
1876 Lewis R. Redmond (1854-1906)
of North Carolina shot and killed a revenue agent near Brevard, NC,
when the agent tried to arrest him for making and transporting illegal
whiskey.
(WSJ, 3/20/09, p.W11)
1880 Richard Etheridge was
promoted to Keeper of the North Carolina Life-Saving Station #17. He
was the 1st black man to be appointed a Station Keeper in the US
Life-Saving Service.
(ON, 1/02, p.1)
1881 Apr 7, Lewis R. Redmond, a
North Carolina moonshiner wanted for murder, was cornered at his home.
He was shot 6 times while trying to escape, but survived and was
convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He served just 3 years
and returned to work for a licensed distillery.
(WSJ, 3/20/09, p.W11)
1881 Aug 27, A hurricane hit
Florida and the Carolinas; about 700 died.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1881 David and William White
founded their White Furniture Co. in Mebane, NC. The business continued
until 1993.
(SFC, 1/25/06, p.G2)
1882 Bishop Crittenden authored
the dime novel “The Entwined Lives of Miss Gabrielle Austin, Daughter
of the Late Rev. Ellis C. Austin, and Redmond, the Outlaw, Leader of
the North Carolina Moonshiners.”
(WSJ, 3/20/09,
p.W11)(www.theridgebooks.com/si/7107.html)
1884 Feb 19, A series of tornadoes
left an estimated 800 people dead in 7 US states (Miss, Ala, NC, SC,
Tenn., Ky & In).
(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)(MC, 2/19/02)
1887 James William Cannon founded
Cannon Mills in Concord, NC. It was bought by Fieldcrest Mills in 1986,
which in turn was bought by Pillowtex in 1997. In 2003 Pillowtex went
bankrupt.
(WSJ, 8/1/03, p.B1)
1888 Frederick Law Olmsted,
landscape designer, traveled to Ashville to plan the landscape of the
Biltmore estate of George Vanderbilt. He had his portrait painted there
by W.S. Sargent. Olmsted's son, Rick, sat in for the completion of the
painting.
(WSJ, 5/26/99, p.A20)
1888 William Henry Belk founded a
dry goods store in Monroe, NC. By 1960 the partnerships produced a
chain of 362 Belk Inc. department stores under the leadership of
his son, John Montgomery Belk (1920-2007).
(WSJ, 8/25/07,
p.A8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belk)
1889 National Geographic depicted
the area of Ashville, N.C. and inaugurated its famed map series. In
1998 a complete set of NG maps was made available on CD-ROM by
Mindscape.
(SFC, 11/3/98, p.D3)
1890s In New Bern N.C., Pharmacist
Caleb Bradham produced Brad’s drink, a mixture of syrup and soda water,
as a digestive aid and energy booster. It became a hit and was renamed
in 1898 to Pepsi-Cola. The story of Pepsi, “Pepsi, 100 Years” was later
written by Bob Stoddard of Upland, Ca.
(SFC, 2/18/98, p.B2)
1895 Feb 21, The NC Legislature
adjourned for the day to mark the death of Frederick Douglass.
(MC, 2/21/02)
1896 Jan 12, The 1st X-ray photo
on record in the US was made by Dr. Henry Louis Smith at Davidson, NC.
Dr. Henry Smith shot a bullet into the hand of a dead human body and
made a 15 minute x-ray exposure to reveal the bullet.
(SFEC, 6/14/98, Z1 p.8)(MC, 1/12/02)
1896 Oct 11, Richard Etheridge
(d.1900) and his life-saving team rescued the hurricane survivors of
the E.S. Newman on Pea Island. Pea Island later became part of Hatteras
Island.
(ON, 1/02, p.2)
1898 Nov
10, A race riot in Wilmington, NC, left many blacks killed. Reports
vary from a coroner’s total of 14 to unconfirmed eyewitness reports
claiming scores of deaths. The “riot” was caused by blacks attempting
to vote in the city elections.
(http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/bio/afro/riot.htm)(WSJ,
1/22/02, p.A11)
1900 Oct, The Wright Brothers
began active flying experiments at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
(SSFC, 12/14/03, p.D3)
1901 The Dixie Furniture Co. was
organized in Lexington, NC.
(SFC, 7/25/07, p.G2)
1902 Caleb Bradham launched the
Pepsi-Cola Co. from the backroom of his pharmacy in New Bern, N.C. He
was awarded the Pepsi-Cola trademark in 1903.
(SFC, 2/18/98, p.B2)
1902 The Wright Brothers built a
glider based on their new aerodynamics tables. Efficiency was almost
doubled and they made over 1,000 flights at Kill Devil Hills near Kitty
Hawk, NC.
(NPub, 2002, p.6)
1903 Mar 3, North Carolina became
the 1st state requiring registration of nurses.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1903 Dec 17, The Wright brothers'
Flyer I flew for 12 seconds in the first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina. The brothers were the sons of a Dayton, Ohio, bishop
(Church of the United Brethren). Orville Wright made the first powered,
controlled and sustained flight. Orville, lying prone at the plane's
controls, flew a distance of 120 feet in 12 seconds. Wilbur ran beside
Flyer's wing tip until it was airborne to keep the wing from dragging
in the sand. Four sustained flights were made on this day. The 4th
flight lasted fifty-nine seconds. The momentous events of that day
received little press attention, since the reticent Wright brothers
feared their ideas would be stolen by rival aviators. It was not until
1908, after making many refinements to their flying machine, that the
Wrights embarked on a series of public demonstrations that finally
earned them worldwide acclaim. A one-hour PBS documentary covered their
life as part of "The American Experience."
(WSJ, 2/8/96, p.A-12)(AP, 12/17/97)(HNPD,
12/17/98)(SSFC, 12/14/03, p.D3)(SSFC, 12/14/03, p.D3)(SFEC, 9/26/99,
p.B8)
1906 Aug 7, In North Carolina, a
mob defies a court order and lynches three African Americans which
becomes known as "The Lyerly Murders."
(HN, 8/7/99)
1906 James Cannon, textile tycoon,
founded his North Carolina company town Kannapolis.
(Econ, 4/23/05, p.30)
1906 The B.F. Huntley Furniture
Co. opened in Winston-Salem, NC. It had been organized as the Oakland
Furniture Co. in 1898. In 1929 it was purchased by the Simmons Co.,
then based in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
(SFC, 7/9/08, p.G5)
1908 Olive Dame Campbell came to
the Appalachian Mountains with her minister husband and began
researching the local music. Her music collection was published in 1915
by English musicologist Cecil Sharp. Their work laid the basis for the
John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C.
(WSJ, 6/7/01, p.A20)
1909 Aug 11, The SOS distress
signal was first used by an American ship, the Arapahoe, off Cape
Hatteras, N.C.
(AP, 8/11/97)
1918 Mar 25, Howard Cosell,
sportscaster (Monday Night Football), was born in Winston-Salem, NC.
(Internet)
1920 Jul 10, David Brinkley
(d.2003), broadcaster, was born in Wilmington, NC.
(HN, 7/10/01)(MC, 7/10/02)
1922 Aug 17, Ralph Roberts, actor
(Tradition, Gone are the Days), was born in NC.
(SC, 8/17/02)
1922 Dec 24, Ava Gardner, actress
(On the Beach, Night of the Iguana), was born in Grabtown, NC.
(MC, 12/24/01)
1923 Caleb Bradham sold the
Pepsi-Cola trademark and business for $35,000. He was forced into
bankruptcy after sugar prices plummeted from 22 1/2 cents a pound to 3
1/2 cents.
(SFC, 2/18/98, p.B2)
1924 James B. Duke, a cigarette
magnate, donated $40 million to Duke Univ.
(SFC, 10/4/99, p.A3)
1925 Jul 27, Charlie Poole
(1892-1931) and His North Carolina Ramblers recorded “Don’t Let Your
Deal Go Down Blues” at the NYC studios of Columbia Records.
(WSJ, 7/27/05,
p.D10)(www.emusic.com/artist/11579/11579058.html)
1925 Oct 10, James Buchanon Duke,
the founder of the American Tobacco Company (Lucky Strikes), died
leaving Doris Duke (1924-1993), his only daughter, to inherit his $125
million tobacco estate.
(SSFC, 2/25/07,
p.G5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan_Duke)
1926 Jan 8, Soupy Sales, comedian
(Soupy Sales Show), was born in NC as Milton Hines.
(MC, 1/8/02)
1928 Apr 8, The 1st Karastan rug,
a machine-made product woven through the back, came off the loom in
Leaksville, NC.
(SFCM, 10/10/04, p.10)
1933 Black Mountain College in
western North Carolina was founded by Theodore Dreir (d.1997), an
electrical engineer, to develop the educational ideas of John Dewey
with innovation in the arts as characterized by the Bauhaus movement.
Artists who taught there included Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Elaine
and Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, and Edward Dorn. It closed
in 1956.
(SFC, 5/10/97, p.A20)(SFC, 12/15/99, p.B2)
1934 Aug 23, Sonny (Christian)
Jurgensen, professional football player and sports announcer, was born
in North Carolina.
(HN, 8/23/00)
1934 Sep 10, Charles Kuralt (d.Jul
4, 1997), TV journalist, was born in Wilmington, NC. He was known for
his popular “On the Road” television program.
(SFC, 7/5/97, p.A5)(HN, 9/10/00)
1936 Henry Talmadge Link
(1889-1983) took over the Dixie Furniture Co. in Lexington, NC. Other
men joined Link and in the 1950s the corporation was broken up into 4
companies, each specializing in a different type of furniture.
(SFC, 7/25/07, p.G2)
1937 Mar 15, The 1st state
contraceptive clinic opened in Raleigh, NC.
(MC, 3/15/02)
1937 Vernon Rudolph (d.1973)
launched Krispy Creme, a donut operation, in Winston-Salem, NC. Heirs
sold the business to Beatrice Foods, which changed the recipe. Some 20
franchisees bought the company in 1982. the 1st shop outside the
Southeast opened in Indianapolis in 1995. The company went public in
2000.
(WSJ, 9/3/04, p.A5)
1941 Katherine Stinson (d.2001)
became the 1st female engineering graduate from North Carolina State
Univ.
(SFC, 8/2/01, p.C2)
1942 Camp Lejeune, a US Marine
Corps Base, was established near Jacksonville, N.C.
(www.atsdr.cdc.gov/sites/lejeune/)
1943 May 14, Elizabeth Ray,
congressman Wilbur Mills' lover, was born in Marshall, NC.
(MC, 5/14/02)
1945 Aug 3, Ron Hendren, TV host
(Entertainment Tonight), was born in Pinehurst, NC.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1945 Mary Caroline Richards
(d.1999 at 83) joined the faculty at Black Mountain College near
Ashville N.C. Her later books included "The Crossing Point" (1973),
"Opening Our Moral Eye" (1996), "Imagine Inventing Yellow" (1991) and
"Toward Wholeness: Rudolf Steiner Education in America."
(SFC, 9/21/99, p.E4)
1948 Mar 10, Author Zelda
Fitzgerald died in a fire at Highland Hospital, NC. She was locked in
on the 3rd floor while undergoing insulin-induced coma therapy. In 2001
Kendall Taylor authored "Sometimes Madness Is Wisdom: Zelda and Scott
Fitzgerald, a Marriage."
(HN, 3/10/01)(SSFC, 9/23/01, DB p.61)
1948 Buckminster Fuller and his
students erected the first geodesic dome near Ashville, N.C.
(SFC, 7/14/99, p.8)
1950 The first possible
"happening" occurred at Black Mountain College with John Cage, Charles
Olson, Robert Rauschenberg, Franz Kline and Mary Richards.
(SFC, 9/21/99, p.E4)
1950 Hoover Adams founded the
Daily Record in Dunn.
(WSJ, 8/10/01, p.A1)
1951 Aug 12, Charles E. Brady Jr.,
USN Commander, astronaut, was born in, Pinehurst, NC.
(SC, 8/12/02)
1952 Feb 16, The FBI arrested 10
members of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina.
(HN, 2/16/98)
1952 Hugh Morton (1921-2006)
inherited Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina and turned it into a
top tourist attraction. In 2008 the mountain and some 2,600 surrounding
acres of wilderness were purchased by the state for $12 million. The
area will eventually be added to the North Carolina State Park system.
(WSJ, 9/29/08,
p.A12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_Mountain)
1953 Sep 5, The 1st privately
operated atomic reactor opened in Raleigh NC.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1954 Frances Grey Patton (d.2000
at 94) authored her novel “Good Morning Miss Dove.”
(SFC, 4/4/00, p.A20)
1956 Feb 14, The B.F. Huntley
furniture plant in Winston-Salem, NC, was destroyed by fire. The
factory was rebuilt and the Huntley name continued until it was sold to
Thomasville Furniture Industries in 1961.
(SFC, 7/9/08, p.G5)
1956 Mar 11, Curtis L. Brown Jr.,
astronaut (STS 47, STS 66, 77, 85, sk:95), was born in NC.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1956 Black Mountain College in
western North Carolina, founded in 1933 by Theodore Dreir (d.1997),
closed.
(www.ibiblio.org/bmc/bmcaboutbmc.html)
1956 Malcom McLean (d.2001 at 87),
an entrepreneur from North Carolina, used a converted WW II tanker
called the Ideal X to sail 58 cargo filled containers from New Jersey
to Houston. He named his company Sea-Land Service and is considered as
the founder of container shipping. In 2006 Marc Levinson authored “The
Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World
Economy Bigger.”
(SFC, 5/28/01, p.A17)(SSFC, 2/5/06, p.J1)(Econ,
3/18/06, p.81)
1958 Sep 5, The 1st color video
recording on magnetic tape was presented in Charlotte, NC.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1959 May 4, Randy Travis, country
singer (Diggin' Up Bones), was born in Marshville, NC.
(MC, 5/4/02)
1960 Feb 1, Four black North
Carolina A&T students staged a sit-in in a dime store in
Greensboro, NC, lunch counter, where they'd been refused service, to
begin the first of the historic 1960s sit-ins.
(AP, 2/1/97)(AH, 2/05, p.16)
1960 Feb 23, Whites joined Negro
students in a sit-in at a Winston-Salem, N.C. Woolworth store.
(HN, 2/23/98)
1960 Wilbur Hardee (1917-2008),
opened his first Hardee’s restaurant, in Greenville, NC. The company
went public in 1963.
(SFC, 6/24/08, p.B5)(http://tinyurl.com/6ztal8)
c1960 Trucker Malcom McClean of
North Carolina put freight containers on a cargo ship and launched the
container ship business. His company became Sea-Land.
(WSJ, 3/15/00, p.B1)
1961 Jan 24, A B-52 carrying two
nuclear bombs near Goldsboro, North Carolina encountered a violent
gust. The giant plane rolled completely over, came upright, and
continued rolling inverted a second time before whipping into a vicious
flat spin and breaking up.
(www.willthomasonline.net/willthomasonline/Broken_Arrows.html)
1961-1965 Terry Sanford (d.1998 at 80) served as the
governor.
(SFEC, 4/19/98, p.C6)
1967 Jul 19, Race riots took place
in Durham, NC.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1967 Jul 22, Carl Sandburg (89),
historian and poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years), died in North
Carolina.
(AP, 7/22/07)
1969 Feb 13, In North Carolina the
Afro-American Society students of Duke Univ. led a black student
takeover of the Allen Building to spark University action on the
concerns of Black students. The takeover brought attention to issues
such as establishment of an Afro-American studies program, a black
cultural center, and increasing the number of black faculty and
students.
(http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/rbmscl/uabsa/inv/)
1969 US District Judge James
McMillan ruled that the Charlotte school district was intentionally
segregating students and ordered busing to achieve integration. This
led to the 1971 US Supreme Court ruling to approve the busing plan. The
program was ended in 1999.
(SFC, 9/11/99, p.A3)
1969 John Montgomery Belk
(1920-2007), head of the department store chain Belk Inc., began
serving as Mayor of Charlotte, NC. He served 4 terms to 1977.
(WSJ, 8/25/07, p.A8)
1969-1985 Terry Sanford (d.1998 at 80) served as the
president of North Carolina’s Duke Univ.
(SFEC, 4/19/98, p.C6)
1970 Feb 17, At Fort Bragg, North
Carolina, Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald’s wife and 2 daughters were murdered.
Dr. MacDonald was convicted of the murders but claimed that drug-crazed
assailants were responsible. The book "Fatal Vision" by Joe McGinniss
recounted the story. In 2005 evidence was presented that Helena
Stoeckley (1953-1983), a defense witness, had admitted to a prosecutor
that she was at MacDonald’s house on the night of the murder.
(WSJ, 4/16/97, p.A1)(WSJ, 12/14/05,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_R._MacDonald)
1971 Feb 6, In Wilmington, NC,
Mike's Grocery, a white-owned business, was firebombed. When
firefighters arrived to put out the flames, they were fired upon by
snipers positioned on the roof of Gregory Congregational Church. The
National Guard was mobilized to quell rioting. The violence resulted in
two deaths. Reverend Benjamin Chavis, Jr. of Oxford, North Carolina,
and nine others, eight African American men and one white woman, were
arrested and tried and convicted for arson and conspiracy in connection
with the firebombing. They were sentenced to nearly 28 years in prison.
Chavis Muhammad (b.1948), a member of the Wilmington 10, was sentenced
in 1972 to 34 years in prison. He spent 4 years in prison before his
conviction was overturned on appeal.
(SFC, 2/25/97,
p.A10)(www.notablebiographies.com/Ch-Co/Chavis-Muhammad-Benjamin.html)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_Ten)
1971 Feb 21, A series of tornadoes
cut through the lower Mississippi River Valley. The two-day outbreak,
which produced 19 tornadoes, killed 123 people across 3 states,
including 11 in Louisiana, 110 in Mississippi, and 2 in North Carolina.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Valley_tornado_outbreak_of_February_1971)
1971 Apr 20, The US Supreme Court,
in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, upheld the use of
busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools. The ruling allowed
Charlotte, NC., and other cities nationwide to use mandatory busing and
student assignment based on race to attempt to further integrate
schools. Swann v. Mecklenburg arose in 1965 when a black parent, James
E. Swann, challenged the system that kept Charlotte's black students
apart from the white majority. In 2001 an appeals court ruled that the
dual school system was dismantled and busing could end. A failed appeal
to the Supreme Court ended the case in 2002.
(http://tinyurl.com/6lntd5)(SFEC, 7/13/97, p.D1)(AP,
4/20/07)(SFC, 4/16/02, p.A3)
1972 Nov 7, Jesse Helms
(1921-2008) of North Carolina, who had switched to the Republican Party
in 1970, was elected to the US Senate, the first Republican from NC in
the 20th century.
(SFC, 7/4/08, p.A2)
1974 Mar 7, Duke Univ. and the
North Carolina Department of Archives and History announced the
discovery of the Civil War ship USS Monitor.
(http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/monitor01/finding/finding.html)
1974 Apr 3, A series of 148 deadly
tornadoes struck wide parts of the South and Midwest before jumping
across the border into Canada; some 330 people were killed in 13 states
(Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi,
North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West
Virginia. Total property damage was estimated at $600 million. In 2007
Mark Levine authored “F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violent
Tornado Outbreak of the 20th Century.”
(AP, 4/3/99)(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)(SSFC, 9/4/05,
p.A7)(WSJ, 6/16/07, p.P10)
1974 Sep 11, In North Carolina an
Eastern Airlines DC-9, Flight 212, crashed 3 miles from the Douglas
Municipal Airport. Of the 82 persons aboard the aircraft, 11 and two
crewmembers survived the accident. One passenger died 3 days after the
crash, and another died 6 days after the crash. One survivor died of
injuries 29 days after the accident.
(AP,
9/11/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines)
1975 Jun 4, The oldest animal
fossils to date in the US were discovered in North Carolina.
(www.todayinsci.com/6/6_04.htm)
1976 Jim Goodnight co-founded
software-maker SAS on the campus of the Univ. of North Carolina. By
2007 the company was a leader in business intelligence software and the
world’s largest privately owned software maker.
(Econ, 12/1/07, p.84)
1979 Nov 3, Five radicals were
killed when gunfire erupted during an anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration
in Greensboro, N.C., after a caravan of Klansmen and Nazis had driven
into the area. Named 'The Greensboro Massacre', the five marchers were
shot to death in broad daylight and another 8 were wounded.
(AP,
11/3/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_massacre)
1980-2008 In North Carolina the population of
Mecklenburg County, which includes Charlotte and its main suburbs, grew
from 400,000 people to 900,000.
(Econ, 11/29/08, p.35)
1981 Feb 5, A military jury in
North Carolina convicted Marine Pvt. 1st Class Robert Garwood of
collaborating with the enemy while a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Garwood was dishonorably discharged.
(AP, 2/5/06)
1982 Mar 29, In New Orleans
Michael Jordan’s 16-foot jump shot with 15 seconds remaining gave North
Carolina a thrilling 63-62 victory over Georgetown and the NCAA
basketball championship before 61,612 at the Superdome tonight. Six
players in that game: Floyd, Ewing, Anthony Jones, Michael Jordan,
James Worty and Sam Perkins, became NBA first-round draft choices.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_NCAA_Men's_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament)
1982 The Highlands-Cashiers
Chamber Music Festival began.
(WSJ, 6/29/99, p.A12)
1984 Nov 2, Velma Barfield
(b.1932), convicted of the fatal poisoning of her boyfriend, was put to
death by injection in Raleigh, N.C. She was the first woman executed in
the United States since 1962.
(AP,
11/2/99)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velma_Barfield)
1985 Jan 21, 19F (-28C) was
recorded at Caesar's Head, South Carolina, a state record. 34F (-37C)
was recorded at Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina, a state record.
(http://tinyurl.com/yaleou)
1985 Apr 23, Sam J Ervin Jr.
(b.1896), Democratic Senator from North Carolina, died. He was the
leader of the Watergate Hearings that led to Pres. Nixon's resignation.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Ervin)
1985 Sep 27, Hurricane Gloria,
having come ashore at North Carolina with winds of 130 mph, proceeded
to head up the Atlantic coast toward New England.
(AP, 9/27/97)
1986 Jul 14, In North Carolina
Harold Gentry’s gunshot-ridden body was found sprawled on the floor of
the home he shared with his wife, Betty Neumar. She collected at least
$20,000 in life insurance, plus other benefits from the military and
sold the couple's house and other items. In 2008 Neumar (76) was
charged with hiring a hit man to gun him down. After arresting her,
authorities realized that five times since the 1950s, she was married,
and each union ended with the death of her husband.
(AP, 6/13/08)
1986 Dec 15, Army cook Ronald A.
Gray raped and killed Army Pvt. Laura Lee Vickery-Clay of Fayetteville.
She was shot four times with a .22-caliber pistol that Gray confessed
to stealing. She suffered blunt force trauma over much of her body.
Gray (42) was convicted in connection with a spree of four murders and
eight rapes in the Fayetteville, NC, area between April 1986 and
January 1987 while he was stationed at Fort Bragg. He was convicted at
Fort Bragg in April 1988 and unanimously sentenced to death.
(AP, 7/29/08)
1986 Terry Sanford (d.1998 at 80)
was elected to the US Senate.
(SFEC, 4/19/98, p.C6)
1986 Blanche Taylor Moore (48)
murdered her boy friend in North Carolina. In 1990 she was convicted
and sentenced to death. In 2004 a new trial was denied.
(USAT, 2/5/04, p.6A)
1987 Mar 19, Televangelist Jim
Bakker resigned as chairman of his PTL ministry organization amid a sex
and money scandal involving Jessica Hahn, a former church secretary
from Oklahoma. Some $265,000 in ministry funds had been used to keep
Hahn quiet about a one-time sexual encounter in 1980.
(AP, 3/19/97)(SSFC, 7/22/07, p.B7)
1987 Oct 10, The Rev. Jesse
Jackson formally launched his bid for the Democratic presidential
nomination in Raleigh, N.C.
(AP, 10/10/97)
1988 Mar 31, The Charlotte (N.C)
Observer won the prize for public service for its coverage of the
Praise The Lord scandal.
(AP, 3/31/98)
1988 Dec 5, A federal grand jury
in North Carolina indicted PTL founder Jim Bakker and former aide
Richard Dortch on fraud and conspiracy charges. Bakker was convicted of
all counts; Dortch pleaded guilty to four counts and cooperated with
prosecutors in exchange for a lighter sentence.
(AP, 12/5/98)
1989 Aug 28, Former televangelist
Jim Bakker's fraud and conspiracy trial opened in Charlotte, N.C.;
Bakker was convicted of all 24 counts the next October and then served
4 ½ years of an 8 year sentence.
(AP, 8/28/99)(SSFC, 7/22/07, p.B7)
1989 Oct 5, A jury in Charlotte,
N.C., convicted former PTL evangelist Jim Bakker on all 24 counts of
fraud and conspiracy. He used his television show to defraud followers.
(AP, 10/5/99)
1989 Amelia Lewis was beaten to
death with a brick and left in an alley. Marcus Carter was convicted
for murder and attempted rape and sentenced to death. In 2000 Gov. Jim
Hunt commuted the death sentence to life in prison.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.A7)
1991 Sep 3, Twenty-five people
were killed when fire broke out at the Imperial Food Products
chicken-processing plant in Hamlet, N.C.
(WSJ, 8/28/97, p.A12)(AP, 9/3/01)
1991 Oct-1993, From Oct. of
‘91-1993 Pfiesteria piscicida dinoflagellates were linked to major fish
kills that occurred in the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers (North Carolina),
which empty into the Albemarle-Pamlico Sound, the second largest
estuary on the US mainland. The microbe continued to plague the
Chesapeake Bay region into 1997.
(Nat. Hist. 3/96, p.18)(SFC, 9/20/97, p.A6)
1992 Dec 23, An American mission
to save lives in Somalia lost the first of its own when a U.S. vehicle
hit a land mine near Bardera, killing civilian Army employee Lawrence
N. Freedman of Fayetteville, N.C.
(AP, 12/23/97)
1992 Terry Sanford (d.1998 at 80)
of North Carolina lost his bid for a 2nd term in the US Senate to Lauch
Faircloth, a former state Commerce Secretary.
(SFEC, 4/19/98, p.C6)
1992 Waste Reduction Partners was
founded in North Carolina to tap skilled retirees to assist on
environmental issues.
(SSFC, 10/31/04, Par p.16)
1993 Jul 23, In South Carolina
Larry Demery and Daniel Green came upon James Jordan sleeping in his
car and proceeded to rob him. As Jordan awoke Green shot Jordan, the
56-year-old father of basketball star Michael Jordan. Green was found
guilty of murder in April 1995, largely based on the testimony of his
life-long friend, Larry Demery, and was sentenced to life in prison.
Demery pleaded guilty in May 1995 and was sentenced to life in prison.
Both killers were sentenced at the Robeson County Courthouse in
Lumberton, North Carolina.
(SFC, 5/21/96,
p.A-3)(http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n1_v88/ai_16951730)
1993 Aug 31, Hurricane Emily hit
North Carolina's Outer Banks, killing three people.
(AP, 8/31/98)
1993 Oct 26, National Football
League owners selected Carolina as the 29th NFL franchise.
(www.panthers.com/team/history.jsp)
1994 Apr 5, President Clinton
presided over a 90-minute town hall meeting in Charlotte, N.C., in
which he called himself the victim of "false charges" in connection
with the Whitewater controversy.
(AP, 4/5/99)
1994 Jul 2, A US Air DC-9 crashed
in poor weather at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in North
Carolina, killing 37 of the 57 people aboard.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1994 Nov 21, Sen. Jesse Helms,
R-N.C., remarked in a newspaper interview that President Clinton
"better have a bodyguard" if he were to visit North Carolina; Helms
later called his comment a mistake.
(AP, 11/21/99)
1994 Dec 13, An American Eagle
commuter plane carrying 20 people crashed short of Raleigh-Durham
International Airport in North Carolina, killing 15.
(AP, 12/13/98)
1994 The Carolina Panthers and
Jacksonville Jaguars, expansion football teams, began playing. They
benefited from a newly established salary cap.
(WSJ, 1/10/97,
p.A1)(www.panthers.com/team/history.jsp)
1994 The gas chamber was last used
in the US in North Carolina.
(SFC, 6/28/97, p.A2)
1994 Quintiles, a medical contract
research organization, went public. It was founded by Prof. Dennis
Gillings of the Univ. of North Carolina.
(WSJ, 4/11/03, p.A2)
1994 A collision between a jet
fighter and a troop transport killed 24 soldiers at Pope Air Force
Base, NC.
(SFC, 7/9/97, p.A3)
1995 Jul 1, Rock-and-roll disc
jockey Wolfman Jack died in Belvidere, North Carolina, at age 57.
(AP, 7/1/00)
1995 Sep 27-Oct 6, Hurricane Opal
caused at least 50 deaths in Guatemala and Mexico and 20 deaths in the
United States. The storm hit Central America before striking Florida,
Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina.
(AP, 9/11/04)(www.wunderground.com)
1995 Oct 27, William Kreutzer, US
Army sergeant, opened fire on a field of 1300 soldiers at Fort Bragg,
NC. He killed a fellow 82nd Airborne soldier, Major Stephen Badger and
wounded several others. Defense lawyers in 1996 pleaded that he
suffered from depression. He was convicted of pre-meditated murder on
6/11/96. The next day he was sentenced to death. His death sentence was
later overturned. In 2009 Kreutzer pleaded guilty under a deal that
could get him life in prison at most.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A2)(SFC, 6/12/96, p.A2)(SFC,
6/13/96, p.A2)(AP, 10/27/05)(SFC, 3/12/09, p.A6)
1995-1998 John Edwards made nearly $27 million as a
personal injury lawyer.
(SFC, 7/10/04, p.A4)
1996 Jul 12, Hurricane
Bertha hit North Carolina's Cape Fear near Wilmington, then moved on to
batter a string of coastal towns.
(SFC, 7/13/96, p.A1)(AP, 7/12/97)
1996 Sep 5, Hurricane Fran hit at
Cape Fear, North Carolina. It tore through the Carolinas with winds at
115-mph.
(SFC, 9/6.96, p.A3)(AP, 9/5/97)
1996 In western North Carolina the
Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation acquired a few hundred acres of
ancestral pasture bordering the Tuckasegee River that contained the
Kituwha Mound. Legend held that this was the site where God had given
the Cherokee their laws and their first fire.
(Arch, 9/02, p.70)
1997 Feb 27, A jury in
Fayetteville, N.C., convicted former Army paratrooper James N.
Burmeister of murdering a black couple so he could get a skinhead
tattoo. He was later sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 2/27/98)
1997 Jul 8, A US Army Black Hawk
helicopter crashed at Fort Bragg, NC, and killed 8 soldiers.
(SFC, 7/9/97, p.A3)
1997 Jul 25, US immigration agents
rounded up 17 deaf Mexicans in Sanford, North Carolina. This followed
the revelation of 50 deaf Mexicans held in servitude in NYC and forced
to sell trinkets on the streets.
(SFC, 7/26/97, p.A5)
1997 Sep 23, Kevin (18) and Tilmon
Golphin (19) of Virginia shot and killed Patrol Troopers Ed Lowry and
David Hathcock on I-95 in North Carolina after they were pulled over in
a stolen car. The 2 brothers were sentenced to death May 13, 1998.
(SFC, 5/14/98, p.A6)
1997 Oct 5, David Scott Ghantt
(27) disappeared with $15-17 million in a Loomis, Fargo & Co. van
in Charlotte, N.C. 21 people were later charged in the heist and
purchased over 1000 items with the money. In 1999 an auction was held
to dispose of the property with the proceeds going to insurer Lloyds of
London.
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A7)(SFEC, 2/21/99, p.A2)
1997 Oct 5, In North Carolina an
attack on five Mexicans and a Guatemalan that left five dead. In 2003
suspects Alonso Cruz Osorio and Jose Luis Cruz Osorio were arrested in
the town of Acolman, Mexico.
(AP, 10/23/03)
1997 Oct 6, In Magnum, N.C., 5
migrant workers were shot to death by their housemates Jose Luis Cruz
Osorio (28) and his brother Alonso Cruz Osorio (18). A 6th man was also
shot but escaped and identified the attackers.
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A7)
1998 Mar 20, A twister killed 11
people in northeast Georgia and 2 people in North Carolina.
(SFC, 3/21/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 13, Bank of America
announced a plan to merge with NationsBank Corp. of Charlotte, N.C. The
new entity will be called BankAmerica Corp. with headquarters in
Charlotte.
(SFC, 4/13/98, p.A1)(SFC, 4/14/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 18, Former North Carolina
governor and U.S. Sen. Terry Sanford died in Durham at age 80.
(AP, 4/18/99)
1998 Jun 18, In North Carolina an
Amtrak train crashed into a tractor-trailer and killed the driver. Ten
others were injured.
(SFC, 6/19/98, p.A3)
1998 Jul 30, “Buffalo Bob” Smith,
host of the Howdy Doody Show from 1947-1960, died at age 80 in Flat
Rock, N.C.
(SFC, 7/31/98, p.D7)
1998 Aug 2, James Andrew Finley
(21) killed two campers at the Linville Gorge Wilderness Area in Burke
Ct. He was caught 3 days later.
(SFC, 8/6/93, p.A11)
1998 Aug 25, Hurricane Bonnie hit
North Carolina with winds up to 115 mph.
(SFC, 8/26/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 8, In Fayetteville, North
Carolina 2 women’s clinics that performed abortions were attacked with
firebombs.
(SFC, 9/9/98, p.A2)
1998 Nov, John Edwards (45) was
elected US Senator for North Carolina.
(SFC, 9/17/03, p.A6)
1999 Mar 9, The all-white town
council of Trenton agreed to annex 3 black neighborhoods.
(SFC, 3/10/99, p.A3)
1999 Apr 1, In Kittrell, N.C.,
William Harvey Bawcum Jr., (46), was shot to death from a .38 caliber
pistol by his 11-year-old twins, who also wounded their mother and
sister in a squabble over a hunting rifle. A trial was avoided after
the boys admitted to the shooting. The brothers were sentenced to 6
years in a state reformatory.
(SFC, 4/7/99, p.A5)(SFC, 8/3/99, p.A3)(SFC,
11/24/99, p.A13)
1999 Jun 26, In North Carolina the
Int'l. Special Olympics opened in Cary.
(SFC, 7/3/99, p.A2)
1999 Aug 30, Hurricane Dennis hit
the state. The storm then went out to sea and backtracked to hit a 2nd
time and lasted to Sep 5.
(SFC, 9/6/99, p.A5)
1999 Sep 7-19, Hurricane Floyd
caused one death in Caribbean and 56 in United States. Storm hit
Bahamas before striking Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Virginia, Delaware, New York, Connecticut, and Vermont.
(AP, 9/11/04)(www.wunderground.com)
1999 Sep 15, Hurricane Floyd hit
North Carolina and dropped 13-16 inches of rain.
(SFC, 9/16/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 17, The Tar River
engulfed the town of Princeville and water reached 20 feet deep.
(SFC, 10/1/99, p.D2)
1999 Sep 30, Residents of
Princeville began returning to their flooded homes. Residents in
November voted to rebuild the town rather seek a federal buyout.
(SFC, 10/1/99, p.D2)
1999 Oct 4, It was reported that
Edmund T. Pratt, an ex-Pfizer executive, planned to donate $35 million
to endow the Duke Univ. School of Engineering.
(SFC, 10/4/99, p.A3)
2000 Jan 12, Charlotte Hornets
guard Bobby Phills was killed in a crash during a drag race.
(AP, 1/12/05)
2000 Jan 25, A snow storm hit the
East Coast and left Raleigh, NC, with over a foot of snow.
(SFC, 1/26/00, p.A3)
2000 May 20, In North Carolina a
bridge collapsed at the Winston NASCAR stock car race in Concord. 107
people were treated and 53 were hospitalized.
(SFC, 5/22/00, p.A2)
2000 Dec 11, A US Marine Osprey
aircraft crashed in North Carolina and all 4 people aboard were killed.
The fleet was grounded the next day.
(SFC, 12/13/00, p.A3)
2000 Jeffrey Manchester (28) was
sent to prison in North Carolina to serve a 45-year sentence for
at least 40 robberies at MacDonald’s and other businesses in the Bay
Area and across the country. In 2004 he became the 1st person to escape
from Brown creek Correctional Institution in Polkton, NC. In 2005 he
was caught after hiding out in a Toys “R” Us Store.
(SFC, 1/11/05, p.A1)
2001 Jul 10, In North Carolina 3
Marines were killed in a helicopter crash near Camp Lejeune.
(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A5)
2001 Aug 4, Gov. Mike Easley
signed legislation that banned the execution of the mentally retarded,
define by an IQ recorded at 70 or lower before age 18.
(SSFC, 8/5/01, p.A10)
2001 Aug 22, Sen. Jesse Helms (79)
of North Carolina confirmed that he would not seek re-election next
year.
(SFC, 8/23/01, p.A6)
2001 Sep 3, A man died from a
shark attack off the Outer Banks.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 6, Joseph Allen Stein
(b.1912), architect, died in North Carolina. Much of his work was done
in India where he designed the India International Center in Delhi.
(www.virginia.edu/soasia/newsletter/Fall01/stein.html)(SFC, 4/7/07,
p.F6)
2001 Nov 6, Marshall Pitts Jr.
(37) was elected as the 1st African American mayor of Fayetteville.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.D4)
2001 Federal agents in Virginia
and North Carolina conducted Operation Lightning Strike to curtail
moonshine production in the region.
(SSFC, 9/9/01, p.A12)
2001 Mental Floss magazine was
launched by Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur at North Carolina’s
Duke Univ.
(SSFC, 12/12/04, p.D2)
2002 Feb 23, A Fort Bragg soldier
was mistakenly killed by a sheriff’s deputy near Robbins during a
role-playing exercise.
(SFC, 2/25/02, p.A3)
2002 May 3, In Bakersville, North
Carolina, 8 inmates died inside the Mitchell County jail after a fire
broke out.
{North Carolina}
(SSFC, 5/5/02, p.A8)(AP, 5/3/03)
2002 May 10, NBA owners approved
the Hornets' move to New Orleans, ending the team's 14-year era in
Charlotte, NC.
(AP, 5/10/03)
2002 Jul 3, It was reported that
Operation Xtermination, a drug investigation at Camp Lejeune, NC,
seized over $1.4 million in drugs and convicted over 80 marines and
sailors.
(SFC, 7/3/02, p.A5)
2002 Dec 5, A severe ice and snow
storm snarled the eastern US down into the Carolinas, where over a
million customers lost power. 29 deaths were blamed on the storm and
its aftermath.
(SFC, 12/6/02, p.A3)(SSFC, 12/8/02, p.A14)
2002 Dec 18, Robert Johnson, the
billionaire founder of Black Entertainment Television, became the 1st
African American to own a major sports team. The NBA awarded him rights
to the expansion franchise in Charlotte.
(SFC, 12/19/02, p.A2)
2002 Elizabeth Gilbert authored:
“The Last American Man,” a quasi-biography of Eustace Conway, developer
and keeper of Turtle Island, a primitive farming community in the
northern part of the state.
(SSFC, 5/26/02, p.M6)
2003 Jan 2, Sen. John Edwards of
North Carolina announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination
for president.
(WSJ, 11/3/04, p.A6)
2003 Jan 8, In Charlotte, NC, a US
Airways Express Beech 1900 turboprop crashed on takeoff and all 21
aboard were killed.
(SFC, 1/9/03, p.A3)
2003 Jan 29, In Kinston, NC, 6
people were killed and dozens injured in an explosion at West
Pharmaceuticals.
(SFC, 1/30/03, p.A3)(WSJ, 1/31/03, p.A1)(AP, 1/29/04)
2003 Feb 20, A 17-year-old Mexican
girl mistakenly given a heart and lungs with the wrong blood type
received a second set of organs at Duke University Medical Center in
North Carolina; however, Jesica Santillan suffered brain damage and
later died.
(AP, 2/20/04)
2003 Mar 14, Amanda Davis (32),
writing professor at Mills College in Oakland, Ca., was killed in a
small plane crash near Ashville, NC, along with her parents. She was on
a book signing tour for her novel “Wonder When You’ll Miss Me.”
(SFC, 1/19/02, p.D4)
2003 May 31, Eric Rudolph, the
longtime fugitive charged in the 1996 Olympic Park bombing and in
attacks at an abortion clinic and a gay nightclub, was arrested in the
mountains of North Carolina.
(AP, 5/31/03)
2003 Jul 30, Textile manufacturer
Pillowtex filed for bankruptcy saying it will close 16 plants and sell
its assets. 4,300 people in the Kannopolis, NC, area lost their jobs.
(WSJ, 1/2/04, p.R10)(Econ, 4/23/05, p.30)
2003 Sep 16, North Carolina (D)
Sen. John Edwards (50) entered the US presidential race.
(SFC, 9/17/03, p.A6)
2003 Sep 18, Hurricane Isabel
plowed into North Carolina's Outer Banks with 100 mile-an-hour winds
and pushed its way up the Eastern Seaboard; the storm was later blamed
for 30 deaths.
(AP, 9/18/08)
2003 Oct 13, It was reported that
scientists in North Carolina had built a brain implant that lets
monkeys control a robotic arm with their thoughts.
(SFC, 10/13/03, p.A1)
2004 Jan 19, In the Iowa caucus
John Kerry led the Democrats with 38%, John Edwards was 2nd with 32%,
Howard Dean was 3rd with 18% and Dick Gephardt 4th with 11%. Entrance
polls showed that economic issues held top priority.
(SFC, 1/20/04, p.A1)(WSJ, 1/21/04, p.A1)
2004 May, In High Point, North
Carolina, police presented nine suspected drug dealers with community
members, who confronted them on the harm they were causing as well as
incriminating evidence of their activities. The suspects were offered a
chance to stop dealing, which most accepted. Over 2 years later crime
was down 25% in the area. The program was the brain-child of Prof.
David Kennedy of New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
(WSJ, 9/27/06, p.A1)
2004 Jul 6, US Democratic
presidential candidate John Kerry selected former rival John Edwards to
be his running mate.
(AP, 7/6/04)
2004 Sep 17, The violent remains
of Hurricane Ivan pounded a large swath of the eastern United States,
drenching an area from Georgia to Ohio. Ivan left 70 dead in the
Caribbean and 40 dead in the US including 4 in Alabama, 16 in Florida,
4 in Georgia, 4 in Louisiana, 3 in Mississippi, and 8 in North Carolina.
(AP, 9/17/04)(SFC, 9/18/04, p.A16)
2004 Nov 2, Mike Easley (D) was
elected governor of North Carolina. Pres. Bush carried the state with
56.3% of the vote. Voting problems plagued the state and impacted local
races. A machine in Carteret County lost 4,438 votes.
(SFC, 11/4/04, p.A18)(SFC, 11/13/04, p.A6)
2004 Nov 3, Jeremy Jaynes of North
Carolina became the first person in the US to be convicted of a felony
for sending unsolicited bulk email. He was charged in Virginia because
his emails went through an AOL server there. In 2008 the Virginia
Supreme Court declared the state’s antispam law unconstitutional and
reversed Jaynes’ conviction.
(WSJ, 9/13/08,
p.A2)(www.phonebusters.com/english/legal_2004_nov3.html)
2004 Dec 26, Reggie White (43),
NFL defensive star, died in Huntersville, NC. White played 15 seasons
with Philadelphia, Green Bay and Carolina. He retired after the 2000
season as the NFL's career sacks leader with 198. The mark has since
been passed by Bruce Smith.
(AP, 12/27/04)
2005 Apr 4, The North Carolina
Tarheels won the NCAA men’s basketball championship over Illinois,
75-70.
(WSJ, 4/5/05, p.A1)
2005 Apr 11, Chelsea Cooley, the
reigning Miss North Carolina, was crowned Miss USA in the 54th annual
pageant.
(AP, 4/12/05)
2005 Apr 21, Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar
was convicted by a military jury at Fort Bragg, N.C., of premeditated
murder and attempted murder in an attack that killed two of his
comrades and wounded 14 others in Kuwait.
(AP, 4/21/06)
2005 May 27, In North Carolina
Junior Allen (65) walked out of prison after 35 years in prison for
stealing a black-and-white television set.
(AP, 5/29/05)
2005 Apr 28, A military jury at
Fort Bragg, N.C., sentenced Sgt. Hasan Akbar to death for the 2003
murders of two officers in Kuwait.
(AP, 4/28/06)
2005 Sep 15, Hurricane Ophelia
weakened slightly as it crawled along the North Carolina coast. Early
indications were that the storm had not caused the severe flooding many
feared.
(AP, 9/15/05)
2005 Nov 17, Robert Stein of North
Carolina, arrested on Nov 14, was charged with accepting kickbacks and
bribes during his tenure as a controller and financial officer of the
US occupation authority in Iraq. He steered construction contracts to
Philip Bloom, who was charged with a range of crimes on Nov 16.
(SFC, 11/18/05, p.A15)
2005 Dec 2, In North Carolina
Kenneth Lee Boyd, a double murderer who said he didn't want to be known
as a number, became the 1,000th person executed in the United States
since capital punishment resumed 28 years ago.
(AP, 12/02/05)
2006 Feb 24, In North Carolina
more than a thousand flounder, spot and pin fish beached themselves at
the Marine Corps' New River air base, and then swam away. State and
local wildlife experts believed it was related to a popular phenomenon
known in coastal Alabama as "jubilee." Scientists know that a jubilee
occurs when variety of factors deoxygenate the water, forcing fish to
the shore.
(AP, 2/26/06)
2006 Mar 13, The 47 lacrosse
players at Duke Univ., North Carolina, paid a couple of strippers to
entertain them. Events this night led to the arrest of 2 players on
April 18.
(Econ, 9/15/07, p.46)
2006 Mar 23, Police took DNA
samples from 46 members of the Duke University lacrosse team after a
woman hired to dance for a party charged she'd been raped.
(AP, 3/23/07)(SFC, 4/12/07, p.A2)
2006 Apr 5, Mike Pressler, the
lacrosse coach of Duke Univ., resigned amid allegations that 3 players
had raped a stripper at an off-campus party in March. Duke cancelled
the lacrosse season. The rape charges were later dropped, but the
players still faced allegations of sexual offense and kidnapping; all
maintained their innocence.
(SFC, 4/6/06, p.A2)(AP, 4/5/07)
2006 Apr 18, Two Duke University
lacrosse players were arrested on charges of raping and kidnapping a
stripper hired to dance at an off-campus party on March 13. The DA said
he hoped to charge a third person soon. A Dec pre-trial hearing
disclosed that no DNA material from the players had been found in the
stripper and that this information had been withheld in an initial
report. DNA evidence from several other men was found. In late December
rape counts were dropped when the alleged victim changed her story. On
April 11, 2007, all charges were dropped. Stuart Taylor and K.C.
Johnson soon authored “Until Proven Innocent” (2007), their evaluation
of the incident and following trial.
(AP, 4/18/06)(WSJ, 12/23/06, p.A1)(SSFC, 12/24/06,
p.A18)(Econ, 9/15/07, p.46)
2006 Jun 17, The Edmonton Oilers
shut out the Carolina Hurricanes 4-0 to take the Stanley Cup finals to
a seventh and deciding game.
(Reuters, 6/18/06)
2006 Jun 19, In Raleigh, NC, the
Carolina Hurricanes blunted an historic comeback bid by the Edmonton
Oilers with a 3-1 Game Seven win to lift their first Stanley Cup.
(Reuters, 6/20/06)
2006 Jul 3, Former Private Steven
D. Green was charged in federal court in Charlotte, N.C., with raping a
14-year-old Iraqi girl (Abeer Qassim al-Janabi) and killing her (March
11), her parents and sister. Four members of Green's unit were charged
as well; one later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 100 years in
prison.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2006 Oct 5, In Apex, North
Carolina, a fire began at the EQ Industrial Services hazardous waste
plant and a chlorine cloud rose high over the area. The next morning as
many as 17,000 people were urged to flee homes on the outskirts of
Raleigh.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 17, Pres. Bush signed
into law a bill to provide grant money for the Gullah/Geechee Cultural
Heritage Corridor. In September Congress had declared a swathe of
coastline from North Carolina to Florida the Gullah/Geechee Cultural
Heritage Corridor, in an effort to preserve the region’s distinctive
black culture and creole language.
(Econ, 2/2/08,
p.42)(www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6283153)
2006 Nov 16, In North Carolina a
tornado struck Riegelwood, a tiny riverside community, killing 8 people
as thunderstorms continued a path of destruction across the South.
Another person died earlier in Louisiana, and a car crash death near
Charlotte was also blamed on the storms.
(AP, 11/16/06)(SFC, 11/17/06, p.A4)
2006 Dec 22, Rape charges were
dropped against three Duke University lacrosse players, but kidnapping
and sexual offense charges remained. Those charges were later dropped
as well.
(AP, 12/22/07)
2007 Jan 12, Durham County, N.C.,
District Attorney Mike Nifong asked to be removed from the Duke
lacrosse rape investigation. State prosecutors later exonerated three
suspects.
(AP, 1/12/08)
2007 Jan 13, The North Carolina
state attorney general's office agreed to take over the sexual assault
case against three Duke University lacrosse players at the request of
embattled Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong. All three
players were later exonerated.
(AP, 1/13/08)
2007 Jan 19, North Carolina’s Gov.
Mike Easley said Google will invest up to $600 million to build a data
center in his state.
(SFC, 1/20/07, p.C1)
2007 Jan 26, It was reported that
Dr. Robert Bohannon, a Durham, North Carolina, molecular scientist, has
come up with a way to add caffeine to baked goods, without the bitter
taste of caffeine. Each piece of pastry is the equivalent of about two
cups of coffee.
(AP, 1/26/07)
2007 Feb 15, Jim Black (72), US
House speaker from North Carolina, pleaded guilty to illegally taking
thousands of dollars from chiropractors while pushing their legislative
agenda. Black was sentenced to 5 years in prison for political
corruption.
(SFC, 7/31/07,
p.A3)(http://preview.tinyurl.com/369jo9)
2007 Feb 16, An annual survey
released Forbes.com said Raleigh, North Carolina, topped the list of
the best US cities for getting a job.
(Reuters, 2/16/07)
2007 Mar 20, Rescuers found
Michael Auberry, a 12-year-old Boy Scout, who was dehydrated and
disoriented after four days in the wooded mountains of North Carolina.
(AP, 3/20/08)
2007 Mar 22, North Carolina Sen.
John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth made a joint announcement that he
will continue his bid for the White House despite the recurrence of her
breast cancer.
(SFC, 3/23/07, p.A1)
2007 Apr 1, In Charlotte, North
Carolina, 2 police officers shot during a struggle with a suspect
outside an apartment complex died, and a suspect was charged with
murder.
(AP, 4/2/07)
2007 Apr 11, North Carolina's top
prosecutor dropped all charges against three former Duke University
lacrosse players accused of sexually assaulting a stripper at a party,
saying the athletes were innocent victims of a "tragic rush to accuse."
(AP, 4/11/08)
2007 May 31, Former Presidents
Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush attended the dedication
of the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, N.C.
(AP, 5/31/08)
2007 Jun 12, The CDC said up to
75,000 US Marine family members may have drunk water at Camp Lejeune
tainted by dry-cleaning fluid over a 30-year period.
(WSJ, 6/13/07,
p.A1)(www.atsdr.cdc.gov/sites/lejeune/)
2007 Jun 15, During his ethics
trial, a tearful Mike Nifong announced he would resign as district
attorney of Durham County, NC, after admitting that he'd made improper
statements about three Duke University lacrosse players who were once
charged with raping a stripper. The players were later declared
innocent by state prosecutors.
(AP, 6/15/08)
2007 Jun 16, A North Carolina
State Bar disciplinary committee said disgraced prosecutor Mike Nifong
would be disbarred for his disastrous prosecution of three Duke
University lacrosse players falsely accused of rape.
(SSFC, 6/17/07, p.A4)(AP, 6/16/08)
2007 Aug 8, Researchers from the
University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill reported that coral
coverage in the Indo-Pacific, an area stretching from Indonesia's
Sumatra island to French Polynesia, had dropped 20 percent in the past
two decades. They said the decline was driven by climate change,
disease and coastal development.
(AP, 8/8/07)
2007 Aug 28, In North Carolina
Dwayne Allen Dail (39), a man who remained in prison for 18 years after
being wrongly convicted of a 1987 child rape, was released after new
DNA testing cleared him of the crime. In October of 2007 he received a
pardon from Gov. Mike Easley based on his innocence. Dail also received
some compensation from the state; he was eligible for $20,000 per year
of incarceration.
(AP,
8/28/07)(www.innocenceproject.org/Content/832.php)
2007 Aug 31, Mike Nifong,
the disgraced former district attorney of Durham County, N.C., was
sentenced to a day in jail after being held in criminal contempt of
court for lying to a judge when pursuing rape charges against three
falsely accused Duke University lacrosse players.
(AP, 8/31/08)
2007 Sep 1, The Mountaineers of
Boone, North Carolina, pulled off one of the greatest upsets in college
football history as Appalachian State beat No. 5 Michigan 34-32.
(AP, 9/2/07)
2007 Sep 1, It was reported that
it is now more expensive to execute someone in the US that to jail him
for life. In North Carolina each capital case was said to cost some $2
million to legal fees.
(Econ, 9/1/07, p.21)
2007 Oct 15, In North Carolina
Gov. Mike Easley asked residents to stop washing cars and watering
lawns as the Southeast US experienced a severe drought.
(SFC, 10/16/07, p.A3)
2007 Oct 28, A beach house erupted
into a storm of fire and smoke in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C. Six of the
seven students killed attended the University of South Carolina.
(AP, 10/29/07)
2007 Nov 30, Scientists at Duke
Univ. reported the creation of the first map of genes that are
inherited as “silenced genes.” The Duke map verified 40 and identified
another 156. Humans were first shown to have silenced genes in 1991.
They help explain why some people get sick and others do not.
(SFC, 11/30/07, p.A7)
2007 Nov, a new light rail system
began operating in Charlotte, North Carolina.
(Econ, 11/29/08, p.35)
2007 Dec 19, Lance Cpl. Maria
Frances Lauterbach (20) disappeared, just days after meeting with
military prosecutors to talk about her allegation that Marine Cpl.
Cesar Armando Laurean (21) raped her. Her cell phone was found Dec. 20
near the main gate at Camp Lejeune, NC. On Jan 11 her burned remains
were found in the backyard of Laurean’s home as a nationwide search for
Laurean continued.
(AP, 1/12/08)(SFC, 1/12/08, p.A4)
2008 Jan 30, Democrat John Edwards
exited the presidential race, ending a scrappy underdog bid in which he
steered his rivals toward progressive ideals while grappling with
family hardship that roused voters' sympathies.
(AP, 1/30/08)
2008 Mar 5, In North Carolina Eve
Carson (22), Univ. of North Carolina student body president, was found
dead on a street not far from the Chapel Hill campus. She had been shot
several times, including once in the right temple. On March 12 Lawrence
Alvin Lovette Jr. (17) and Demario James Atwater (21) were
charged with first-degree murder in the death of Carson. A day later
Lovette was also charged with first-degree murder in the death of
Abhijit Mahato, a doctoral student in computational mechanics, who was
found shot to death inside his apartment a few blocks south of Duke's
campus in January.
(AP, 3/8/08)(AP, 3/13/08)
2008 Mar 20, North Carolina
lawmakers voted 109-5 to boot Rep. Thomas Wright, a Wilmington
Democrat, from office for mishandling $340,000 in loans and
contributions.
(SFC, 3/21/08, p.A4)
2008 Apr 7, In North Carolina
Thomas Wright, a former state lawmaker, was convicted of mishandling
charitable contributions and fraudulently obtaining a loan. He was
sentenced to 6-8 years in prison.
(WSJ, 4/8/08, p.A2)
2008 Apr 10, In Mexico police,
working with FBI agents in the small town of Tacambaro, arrested Cpl.
Cesar Laurean (21). He is charged with first-degree murder in the
December, 2007, death at Camp Lejeune, NC, of Marine Lance Cpl. Maria
Lauterbach, who had accused him of rape.
(AP, 4/11/08)
2008 May 6, Sen. Barack Obama
climbed within 200 delegates of clinching the Democratic presidential
nomination. In the Indiana primary Clinton won 51% to 49%. In North
Carolina Obama won 56% to 42%.
(AP, 5/7/08)(SFC, 5/7/08, p.A1)
2008 May 14, Sen. Obama won the
support of John Edwards, former North Carolina Senator and presidential
candidate.
(WSJ, 5/15/08, p.A1)
2008 Jun 20, Wilbur Hardee
(b.1917), founder of the Hardee’s restaurant chain (1960), died in
Greenville, NC.
(SFC, 6/24/08, p.B5)
2008 Jun 24, In North Carolina a
federal grand jury indicted 26 suspected members of the MS-13 int’l.
gang on charges that included racketeering and drug trafficking.
(SFC, 6/25/08, p.A3)
2008 Jul 4, Jesse Helms (b.1921),
former 5-term US Senator from North Carolina, died in Raleigh, NC.
Helms had switched to the Republican Party in 1970 and was elected to
the Senate in 1972, the first Republican from North Carolina in the
20th century. The conservative senator earned the title “Senator No” as
a leading crusader against communism, liberalism, tax increases,
abortion, homosexuality, affirmative action and court-ordered busing to
desegregate schools.
(SFC, 7/4/08, p.A2)
2008 Jul 22, North Carolina-based
Wachovia Corp., the 4th largest US bank, lost $8.86 billion in the 2nd
quarter, and said it was slashing its dividend and cutting 6,350 jobs
after losses tied to mortgages soared.
(AP, 7/22/08)
2008 Aug 8, John Edwards, former
North Carolina senator and Democratic presidential candidate, admitted
that he had an extramarital affair with Rielle Hunter in 2006 he denied
fathering a daughter with her.
(AP, 8/9/08)(Econ, 8/16/08,
p.34)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rielle_Hunter)
2008 Aug, The population of North
Carolina stood at nearly 9 million people, up from 8 million in 2000.
(Econ, 8/16/08, p.31)
2008 Sep 6, Tropical Storm Hanna
blew hard and dumped rain in eastern North Carolina and Virginia, but
caused little damage beyond isolated flooding and power outages as it
quickly headed north toward New England.
(AP, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 19, Former Blink-182
drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ AM were critically injured in a
fiery Learjet crash in South Carolina that killed four people just
before midnight.
(AP, 9/20/08)
2008 Sep 29, Citigroup bought the
operations of Charlotte-based Wachovia Corp. for $2.2 billion in stock
and assumed $42 billion in losses on the bank’s risky $312 billion loan
portfolio, in exchange for the FDIC backstopping losses beyond that.
Citigroup agreed to give the FDIC $12 billion in preferred stock.
Wachovia shares fell 8.20 to close at $1.80. Wachovia’s new 48-story
headquarters in Charlotte, NC, was still under construction.
(AFP, 9/29/08)(SFC, 9/30/08, p.D1)(WSJ, 9/30/08,
p.C6)
2008 Nov 4, In North Carolina
Democrat Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue was elected governor. Democrat Kay
Hagan defeated Republican state Sen. Elizabeth Dole.
(SFC, 11/5/08, p.A14)(WSJ, 11/5/08, p.A1)
2008 Nov 15, In North Carolina
tornadoes killed 2 people.
(SSFC, 11/16/08, p.A2)
2009 Jan 15, Swiss pharmaceutical
giant Novartis AG said it has secured a $486 million contract to build
a new flu vaccine plant in North Carolina.
(AP, 1/15/09)
2009 Mar 17, In Utah Chiew Chan
Saevang (37), a suspected opium trafficker, killed himself and his
girlfriend, Yer Yang (40), after sheriff’s deputies chased them down on
a state highway. Saevang was also wanted in the March 12 slaying of
four Conover, NC, family members.
(SFC, 3/19/09, p.A5)
2009 Mar 29, In North Carolina
Robert Stewart (45) went on a terrifying rampage in the Pinelake Health
and Rehab center, killing seven residents and a nurse and wounding
three other people. He was stopped by a single shot to the chest fired
by Justin Garner, a decorated police officer responding to a 911 call.
Stewart survived and was charged with 8 counts of 1st degree murder.
(AP, 3/30/09)(SFC, 3/31/09, p.A7)
2009 May 13, In North Carolina,
the country’s top tobacco growing state by sales, legislators approved
a ban on smoking in restaurants and bars.
(SFC, 5/14/09, p.A4)
2009 Jun 8, North Carolina State
Univ. terminated former first lady Mary Easley’s $170,000-a-year job
after e-mails showed that former Gov. Mike Easley had served as an
intermediary when the school hire her.
(SFC, 6/9/09, p.A5)
2009 Jun 9, In Garner, North
Carolina, an unexplained explosion at a ConAgra Slim Jim factory left
at least 2 people dead.
(AP, 6/10/09)
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