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1998 Ricky Sanderson, stabbed 16-year old girl in NC, executed at 38

1997 NC's Dean Smith winningest college basetball coach retires

1995 Addison Vance, 18, of Hickory NC, crowned 7th Ms Venus Swimwear

1994 American Eagle commuter plane crashes in NC, killing 15

1994 37 dies in U.S. Air DC-9 crash in NC

1986 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die

1986 Michael J Smith, Beaufort NC, Commander USN, astr, dies in Challenger

1981 Kimberley Ann Smith, of NC, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss

1981 Mary Lou Williams, black musician, dies at 71 in Durham NC

1979 5 mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC

1978 USF-led Bill Cartwright scores 23 points as the Dons oust NC

1978 Annabel Ellwood, Canberra Australia, tennis star, 1995 Futures NC

1974 56th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 276 at Tanglewood NC

1974 Lea Ghirardi-Rubbi, Colombes France, tennis star, 1994 Futures NC

1971 National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC

1961 Maria Beale Fletcher (NC), 19, crowned 34th Miss America 1962

1955 Hurricane Connie, kills 43 in NC, SC, Virginia and Maryland

1954 1st army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC

1953 1st privately operated atomic reactor, Raleigh NC

1951 9th Ryder Cup: U.S. wins 9 -2 at Pinehurst CC NC

1944 Hurricane, kills 389 in NC

1936 19th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pinehurst CC Pinehurst NC

1933 Linwood C Ivey, North Carolina, Mayor-Garysburg NC

1920 1st U.S. coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)

1909 SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC

1898 Owen Smith of NC, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia

1896 1st X-ray photo in U.S. (Dr. Henry Smith, Davidson NC)

1865 Shaw University forms in Raleigh NC

1865 Battle of Bentonville-Confederates retreat from Greenville NC

1865 Union occupies Fort Anderson, NC

1865 Drunken sailor attacks munitions at Ft. Fisher NC, 40 die

1865 Union fleet bombs Fort Fisher NC

1864 Battle of New Bern, NC

1863 Battle of Kinston, NC

1862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, NC

1862 General Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E Virginia and NC

1862 Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern

1862 Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound

1862 Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island NC

1861 Battle of Fort Hatteras NC

1709 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC

1587 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off NC

1562 1st French colonists in US: Jean Ribaut and Hugenots at Parris Is NC


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