Fifty-nine years ago today, Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars wowed an audience at UNC’s Memorial Hall with this tune. Thanks to our friends at the State Archives for bringing this to our attention!
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Strutting with some barbecue
Posted in History, On This Day, UNC History on May 8, 2013 | 2 Comments »
Cole got listeners out of bed, farmers out of mud
Posted in On This Day, tagged charlotte nc, collier's magazine, grady cole, kerr scott, wbt on April 19, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1952: Collier’s magazine profiles Grady Cole as “Mr. Dixie.” Cole, a homespun announcer who wakes up the Piedmont every morning on WBT, has been Charlotte’s premier celebrity since 1929. “Cole says he’s still not a professional radio man,” Collier’s notes. “But he snows under all rivals, and his droll news and [...]
For Manteo and Wanchese, destiny was geography
Posted in On This Day, tagged manteo, nc indians, roanoke island, wanchese on April 9, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1585: Manteo and Wanchese, the first American tourists to visit Europe, leave England in a ship of colonists bound for North Carolina. The two N.C. Indians were invited to London by explorers commissioned by Sir Walter Raleigh. Manteo was made Lord of Roanoke while in England, but Wanchese was alienated by [...]
Salisbury women take command of homefront
Posted in On This Day, tagged civil war nc, salisbury nc on March 18, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1863: Hungry and unable to pay inflated prices, 75 Salisbury women, most of them wives of Confederate soldiers, arm themselves with axes and go in search of hoarded food. The railroad agent turns them away from the depot, claiming he has no flour. They break into a warehouse, taking 10 barrels, [...]
When even Senator Sam was stumped….
Posted in On This Day, tagged everett dirksen, sam ervin on March 15, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1960: Sen. Sam Ervin explains to Sen. Everett Dirksen, R.-Ill., why he required more information on a point of floor debate: “I am unable to unscrew the inscrutable.”
‘Those who want to, please pray’ — and a song is born
Posted in On This Day, tagged a wing and a prayer, harris teeter, hugh ashcraft on February 26, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1943: Returning from a World War II mission over Germany, a B-17 bomber piloted by Hugh Ashcraft of Charlotte is flak-riddled and minus one engine. “Those who want to,” Ashcraft tells his crew, “please pray.” The “Southern Comfort” makes it back to England, receiving wide attention and inspiring both a hit [...]
Wrestlers gather to remember the biggest of them all
Posted in On This Day, tagged acromegaly, andre roussimoff, andre the giant, ellerbe nc, hulk hogan, the princess bride on February 24, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1993: Hulk Hogan and other professional wrestlers convene in Ellerbe to scatter the ashes of “Andre the Giant” Roussimoff, perhaps the best-known wrestler in the world, at Roussimoff’s 200-acre ranch. Four weeks earlier Roussimoff, 46, died of a heart attack while in Paris for his father’s funeral. The French-born Roussimoff, who [...]
The Tar Heel celebrates its 120th birthday
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, On This Day, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk, UNC History on February 22, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
The UNC-Chapel Hill student newspaper printed its first issue on February 23, 1893. The Tar Heel‘s editors explained that the paper, issued every Thursday morning, would include “a summary of all occurrences in the University and village of Chapel Hill.” The paper vowed to cover UNC sports, “all society news, personals and every subject of [...]
The State Legislative Building Opened 50 Years Ago Today
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, On This Day, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on February 6, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“In late 1959, Thomas J. White, a former state representative of North Carolina and a powerful figure in the state’s political circles, was appointed chairman of the commission to build the new North Carolina State Legislative Building. The commission had already heard from a number of North Carolina architects who had expressed a strong interest [...]
The unintended consequence of a killer’s execuition
Posted in On This Day, tagged honey buns, last meals, nc death penalty, ricky lee sanderson on January 30, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1998: By accident, the execution of Ricky Lee Sanderson, 38-year-old murderer, brings to an end the era of the gas chamber at Central Prison in Raleigh. Although many states have already replaced gas with the more clinical method of lethal injection, North Carolina will make the change out of concern for [...]
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