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1590- John White returns to Roanoke to find that the settlers have all disappeared.
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Details: Nathaniel Batts was the first European man who settled in North Carolina.
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Details: Bath is a town in Beaufort County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 249 at the 2010 census. Incorporated in 1705, Bath was North Carolina's first port of entry, located on the Pamlico River near its mouth. It developed a trade in naval stores, furs, and tobacco.
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Details: The Tuscarora War between Native Americans and European settlers. After two years of fighting a number of military expeditions, the Tuscarora ended the war, marking the last significant effort by eastern Indians to stop the wave of white settlers crowding them out of their land.
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Details: During the next six months, the Queen Anne’s Revenge served as the flagship of a pirate fleet featuring up to four vessels and more than 200 men.
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Details: Tryon Palace is known for being North Carolina’s first permanent state capitol, but we’re remembered for capturing imaginations.
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Details: The Edenton Tea Party was one of the earliest organized women’s political actions in United States history.
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- Details: February 27,1776: The Battle of Moores Creek Bridge is the first battle of the American Revolution to be fought in North Carolina. -Details: April 12, 1776: North Carolina becomes the first state to vote in favor of independence.
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- Details: November 21: North Carolina becomes the 12th state of the United States of America. Details: December 11: The University of North Carolina is chartered, becoming the first public school in the United States.
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Details: It is the story of an illiterate Hessian mercenary from Germany — an illegal immigrant — who deserted from the British army in Savannah and made his way to backwoods North Carolina, where he settled near Meadow Creek in Mecklenburg County, married, and raised a family.
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- Details: North Carolina becomes known as the "Rip Van Winkle" state because it makes so little progress that it appears to be asleep.
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Robert Vance, despite his passion for medicine, Vance switched careers because he suffered from a physical disability. Samuel Carson, a native of Marion, North Carolina, was a farmer who served in the North Carolina Senate from 1822 until 1824. In 1825, Vance and Carson competed for a seat in the 19th Congress.
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- Details: North Carolina Native Andrew Jackson becomes the 7th president of the United States.
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Students at the nearby University of North Carolina bought his love poems and lent him books. As his fame spread, he gained the attention of Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz, a novelist and professor’s wife who transcribed his poetry and helped publish it in her hometown newspaper
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At completion in 1840, this was the longest railroad in the world. By the American Civil War, North Carolina had an extensive north-south and east-west railroad network already in place.
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The amendment was proposed by the 62nd Congress in 1912 and adopted in 1913 upon being ratified by three-fourths (36) of the state legislatures. It was first implemented in special elections in Maryland (November 1913) and Alabama (May 1914), then nationwide in the November 1914 election.
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After 1868 the federal government will run an assay office at the mint, but no coins will be produced.
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The legislation requires that schools remain open at least 2.5 months per year.
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Workmen fire proofing roof of State Capitol set building on fire; Nat Turner slave insurrection in Virginia caused execution of dozen North Carolina slaves .
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At 4 P.M. on April 17, 1864, an advanced Union patrol on the Washington Road was captured by Confederate cavalry.
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More than 100 manufacturers agree to maintain a 66-hour work week and not to employ children under age 12 during the school year (with exceptions for children of widows and the disabled).
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The American Tobacco Company was a tobacco company founded in 1890 by J. B. Duke through a merger between a number of U.S. tobacco manufacturers including Allen and Ginter and Goodwin & Company.
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In 1929 the society opens a gallery (the forerunner of the North Carolina Museum of Art) in Raleigh.
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The General Assembly passes an act consolidating the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina State College in Raleigh, and the Woman’s College in Greensboro into one system of higher education.
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He first came to prominence with a series of radio broadcasts for the news division of the Columbia Broadcasting System during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States. During the war he assembled a team of foreign correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys.
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Most North Carolina schools are not fully desegregrated until the late 1960s.
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Congress asserted its authority to legislate under several different parts of the United States Constitution, principally its power to regulate interstate commerce under Article One (section 8), its duty to guarantee all citizens equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment and its duty to protect voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment.
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The Paris Peace Accords, officially titled the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973 to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War.
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The explosion became one of the most significant events of the 1980s, as billions around the world saw the accident on television and empathized with any one of the several crewmembers killed.
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The declaration acknowledged the independence of the former Soviet republics and created the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), although five of the signatories ratified it much later or not at all.
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This museum is the oldest established museum in North Carolina and the largest museum of its kind in the Southeast.
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is an American politician who served in both the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush presidential administrations, as well as in the United States Senate.
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served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.
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honors drivers who have shown exceptional skill at NASCAR driving, all-time great crew chiefs and owners, and other major contributors to competition within the sanctioning body.
museum space dedicated to the exhibition of mid-20th-century modern art. The modern art museum is part of the new Levine Center for the Arts in Uptown. The museum building was designed by architect Mario Botta. -
Police in North Carolina shot and killed a man running toward them Saturday morning -- but he may have just been looking for help after a car wreck.
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Initial estimates by Duke were that 50,000 to 82,000 tons of coal ash, along with 27 million gallons of contaminated water, had been released into the Dan River as of Monday.
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He was held for five days in Atlanta before being rescued by the FBI. Seven people were soon arrested in the case. Janssen’s daughter had prosecuted a high-ranking member of the Bloods street gang.
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He had struck a similar pose just six months earlier at his swearing-in ceremony to become the mayor of North Carolina's largest city.
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Craig Stephen Hicks (46) turned himself in to the nearby Chatham County Sheriff’s Office and was charged with three counts of first-degree murder. Police found at least a dozen firearms and a large stash of ammunition at the home of Hicks.
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In a 662-word "open letter from a police chief" on Sept. 3, Halstead wrote that "this Black Lives Matter group is nothing more than an American-born terrorist group brought on by the lie of the hands up, don't shoot during the criminal thug Michael Brown incident."
