1901 – US Army War College is established in Washington, D.C. 1910 – New...
History
1896 – Amos Alonzo Stagg of the University of Chicago creates football huddle. 1916...
* The Bank of North Carolina hosted a dinner at White Lake for officials...
1867 – Congress commission looks into “impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.” 1905 – Telimco...
1896 – First absentee voting law enacted by Vermont. 1916 – Mexican and United...
1863 – Patent granted for a process of making color photographs. 1904 – III...
1910 – Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs. 1919 – Labor conference committee...
1852 – Duke University, founded in 1838 as Union Institute, chartered as Normal College....
1902 – Deo LeFevre and Henri Desgrange create the Tour de France bicycle race....
1805 – Lewis and Clark expedition, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, reaches...
* The general store of R.J. Bedsole in White Oak was destroyed by fire....
1883 – US and Canadian railroads set and synchronize four standard time zones –...
1913 – The first ship sails through the Panama Canal, connecting the Atlantic and...
1914 – Federal Reserve System formally opens. 1920 – First postage stamp meter is...
1492 – Christopher Columbus notes first recorded reference to tobacco. 1869 – Free postal...
1888 – St Andrews Golf Club in Yonkers, New York opens with just 6...
1900 – Baltimore Orioles (now New York Yankees) enter baseball’s American League. 1909 –...
Here were some of the stories making news in Bladen County in 1973: •...
1880 – Best selling American novel “Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ” by soldier...
1909 – Construction of a US Navy base begins at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 1911...
1908 – First Gideon Bible put in a hotel room. 1911 – Andrew Carnegie...
1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Close to 1,000 buildings were destroyed....
1837 – Mount Holyoke Seminary in Massachusetts founded. It’s the first US college founded...
1874 – 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol by Thomas Nast. 1904...
1860 – Republican Abraham Lincoln of Illinois elected the 16th President of the United...
1895 – First US patent granted for gasoline driven automobile to George B. Seident....
1841 – First wagon train arrives in California after a 5½-month, 1,730-mile journey over...
“A week of festivities celebrating the 200th birthday of the town of Elizabethtown began.”...
1896 – J.H. Hunter patents portable weighing scales. 1900 – First automobile show opens...
1898 – Cheerleading begins in the United States as Johnny Campbell leads the crowd...
1800 – John Adams becomes the first President to live in the White House....
1906 – George Bernard Shaw’s play “Caesar & Cleopatra” premieres in New York City....
1904 – First intercity trucking service (Colorado City & Snyder, Texas) 1918 – German...
*Barry Carlew of Goldsboro is sentenced to 18 years in prison for robbing the...
1858 – R.H. Macy & Co opens 1st store at 6th Ave, New York...
1871 – Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, New York, Boss Tweed is arrested after...
1881 – Gunfight at the OK Corral: The most famous shootout in the Wild...
1870 – Postcards first used in the United States. 1905 – 1st College Football...
1908 – Billy Murray hits the charts with “Take Me Out To the Ball...
1915 – 1st national horseshoe throwing championship at Kellerton, Iowa. 1917 – 1st Infantry...
1879 – Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb. 1907 – Panic of...
1902 – A five month strike by United Mine Workers ends. 1915 – William...
By Trever Lloyd If you are an athlete or former student in the Bladen...
“The Bladen County Board of Commissioners approved low bids on buildings for the welfare...
1878 – Edison Electric Light Company incorporated. 1895 – Henry Perky patents a machine...
* In a light turnout, voters in Bladen County turned down a bond issue...
1792 – “Old Farmers Almanac” is first published and edited by Robert Thomas. 1902...
1890 – Daughters of American Revolution founded. 1906 – San Francisco Board of Education...
1871 – The Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, leaving approximately...
Here were some of the stories making news in Bladen County in 1973: •...
1908 – New York Giants set Major League Baseball season attendance record at 910,000...
1916 – Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, defeats Cumberland 222-0. It’s the most...
By Trever Lloyd As the regular season of football winds down in Bladen County,...
1884 – Naval War College forms in Newport, Rhode Island. 1893 – Nabisco Foods...
1905 – Orville and Wilbur Wright make a circling flight on “Flyer III” of...
1899 – J.S. Truman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaners. 1913 – Federal income tax signed...
1902 – Beatrix Potter’s “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” is published by Frederick Warne...
1868 – “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott is published in America by Roberts...
*A Lumberton man was electrocuted in Bladenboro while working on an a/c unit at...
1898 – City of New York established. 1915 – Boston Red Sox clinch American...
1903 – Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the...
1892 – First public appearance of John Philip Sousa’s New Marine Band, at Stillman...
1875 – Billy the Kid escapes jail in Silver City, New Mexico, by climbing...
1789 – Federal Judiciary Act passes, creating a six-person Supreme Court. 1890 – The...
*Area Chairmen were named for the Cystic Fibrosis Research Fund in Bladen County. They...
1884 – American Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine, the beginning of data...
1789 – Congress passes an act requiring the first Postmaster General to report to...
1897 – New York Sun ran the famous “Yes, Virginia there is a Santa...
1893 – The first gasoline powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts. 1904 – Orville...
1921 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Germantown CC, Philadelphia: Bill Tiden successfully defends...
1789 – 1st loan is made to pay salaries of the president and Congress....
Here were some of the stories making news in Bladen County in 1973: •...
1559 – Joshua Abraham Norton, English-born resident of San Francisco, proclaims himself his Imperial...
1782 – Great Seal of the United States of America used for the first...
1857 – Timothy Alder of New York patents a typesetting machine. 1912 – Boston...
Picture: Mathematicians Pat Boyd (left) and Margaret Block were among the North Carolina women...
1872 – Britain pays $15.5 million for damages during Civil War. 1899 – Henry...
1902 – Chicago Cubs infielders Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers and Frank Chance appear together...
1909 – World’s first patent for synthetic rubber granted to German chemist Fritz Hofmann....
1903 – The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is...
Here were some of the stories making news in Bladen County in 1973: •...
1846 – Elias Howe takes out a US patent for a lockstitch sewing machine....
1908 – Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hour airplane flight, Fort Myers, Virginia. 1926 –...
1892 – 1st appearance of “Pledge of Allegiance” in Youth’s Companion magazine. 1900 –...
1907 – Ocean liner RMS Lusitania begins her maiden voyage sailing from Liverpool to...
1899 – Carnation processes its first can of evaporated milk. 1901 – President William...
1774 – The 1st Continental Congress, a meeting of delegates from 12 of the...
1888 – George Eastman patents the first roll film camera and registers the brand...
Here were some of the stories making news in Bladen County in 1973: •...
1891 – Cotton pickers organize union and stage strike in Texas. 1916 – President...
1798 – First bank robbery in the US: Bank of Pennsylvania robbed of $162,821...
1898 – First forestry school in America opens at Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North...
1895 – 1st pro football game. Quarterback John Brallier and the Latrobe YMCA defeated...
1890 – President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat...
1861 – American Civil War: US Navy squadron captured forts at Hatteras Inlet, North...
1884 – First known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, South Dakota....
Here were some of the stories making news in Bladen County in 1973: •...
1881 – Hurricane hits Florida & Carolinas; about 700 die. 1894 – Congress passes...
1907 – Harry Houdini escapes from chains underwater in 57 seconds at Aquatic Park...
1910 – Yellow Cab was founded. 1916 – US Department of Interior forms National...
