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, Cmdr 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
1958 1st color video recording on magnetic tape
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 Gen 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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