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January 1795 -- The University of North Carolina
January 1958 -- The Lumbees Face the Klan
January 1849 -- Dorothea Dix Hospital
January 1870 -- North Carolina State Penitentiary Opens
January 1961 -- Bombs Over Goldsboro
February 1820 -- Bunkum
February 1971 -- The Wilmington Ten
February 1927 -- "The Old North State"
February 1885 -- North Carolina Recognizes the Lumbee
February 1881 -- The Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
March 1825 -- Lafayette visits Fayetteville
March 1863 -- The Salisbury Bread Riot
March 1840 --Wilmington & Weldon Railroad
March 1948 -- The Death of Zelda Fitzgerald
March 1865 -- Executions Spark the Lowry War
April 1896 -- Reed Gold Mine
April 1947 -- Freedom Ride
April 1899 -- North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company
April 1776 -- The Halifax Resolves
April 1854 -- The Fayetteville and Western Plank Road
May, 1969 -- Howard Lee
May 1925 -- Carolina Coal Company Mine Explosion
May 1908 -- Statewide Prohibition
May 1972 -- First Presidential Primary
May 1868 -- The Death of Tom Dooley
June 1929 -- Strike at Loray Mill
June 1756 -- Birth of William Richardson Davie
June 1870 -- The "Kirk-Holden" War
June 1940 -- USS North Carolina
June 1861 -- Battle of Bethel
July 1833 -- Frankie Silver Hanged
July 1963 -- The North Carolina Fund
July 1937 -- The Lost Colony
July 1885 -- John Richard (Romulus) Brinkley
July 1916 -- Western North Carolina Floods
August 1751 -- North Carolina's First Newspaper
August 1918 -- Rescue at Sea
August 1887 -- The Goophered Grapevine
August 1956 -- Grandfather Mountain Highland Games
September 1987 -- The Blue Ridge Parkway
September 1802 -- Spaight-Stanly Duel
September 1711 -- The Death of John Lawson
September 1940 -- Dedication of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
October 1954 -- Hurricane Hazel
October 1864 -- Rose O'Neal Greenhow
October 1896 -- Rural Free Delivery
October 1960 -- The Andy Griffith Show
November 1718 -- Death of Blackbeard
November 1765 -- The Stamp Act Crisis in North Carolina
November 1920 -- Exum Clement
November 3, 1979 -- Greensboro Killings
November 1997 -- Cherokee Casino Opens
December 1870 -- Cape Hatteras Lighthouse December -- Old Christmas
December 18, 1776 -- North Carolina Constitution
December 1804 -- The Walton War
December 1789 -- North Carolina Cedes Western Lands to the Federal Government
