1908 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately...
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1898 – First United States troops land and occupy Puerto Rico at Guanica Bay....
1915 – Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 people die. 1929 –...
1829 – William Austin Burt patents America’s first “typographer” or typewriter. 1904 – Ice...
by Kayla Bell The Seven Wonders of the World have captivated imaginations for centuries....
by Kayla Bell History isn’t all about memorizing dates and battles. Sometimes, the most...
1893 – Katharine Lee Bates writes “America the Beautiful” in Colorado. 1918 – Lightning...
1880 – Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel in New...
*Bladen County Hospital approved a pest control contract with McDuffie Pest Control of Elizabethtown....
1868 – First use of tax stamps on cigarettes. 1894 – 2,000 federal troops...
1849 – First women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, organized by...
1897 – Cap Anson is first Major League Baseball player to get 3,000 hits....
1861 – Congress authorizes paper money. 1898 – Spanish-American War: Spaniards surrender to United...
1909 – Detroit Tigers and Washington Senators play longest scoreless game in American League...
1870 – The last confederate state, Georgia, is readmitted to the United States. 1912...
1877 – General strike brings railroads in the United States to a standstill. 1914...
* The Economic Development Administration approved a $600,000 loan to Clarkton Mills to build...
1923 – The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los...
1882 – The first pier along the Atlantic City Boardwalk — Ocean Pier —...
A staff report Bladen County’s Babe Ruth 13U all-star team finished 2nd place in the...
1914 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth makes his Major League...
1911 – State record 105 degrees in North Bridgton, Maine. 1919 – President Woodrow...
1878 – Inventor Henry Tibbe patents an improved corn cob pipe design. 1910 –...
1870 – North Carolina Governor William Woods Holden declares Caswell County to be in...
1900 – Boston Beaneaters pitcher Kid Nichols notches his 300th career Major League Baseball...
Here were some of the stories making news in Bladen County in 1974: •...
1785 – Congress unanimously resolves the name of United States currency to the “dollar”...
1891 – Hail kills 16 horses in Rapid City, South Dakota. 1904 – New...
1884 – Statue of Liberty presented to the United States in Paris. 1895 –...
1884 – Dow Jones publishes its first stock index, the Dow Jones Transportation Average....
Here are three things to know for Tuesday, July 2: 1. Bagpipe Music: Saturday,...
1865 – One-time Methodist Reform Church minister William Booth and his wife Catherine Booth...
1899 – Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels. 1908 – Chicago’s White...
1905 – 27-year-old clerk Albert Einstein published his theory of special relativity, the relationship...
Here were some of the stories making news in Bladen County in 1974: •...
1891 – United States National Forest Service organized. 1906 – Congress passed the Hepburn...
1776 – Final draft of Declaration of Independence submitted to Continental Congress. 1870 –...
1893 – Great stock market crash on New York stock exchange. 1915 – A...
1900 – Dr. Walter Reed begins research that cures Yellow Fever. 1911 – Nieuport...
1903 – Boston Beaneater Wiley Piatt is the only 20th-century pitcher to lose 2...
1898 – American troops drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas, Cuba. 1902 – Target...
1917 – Ernie Shore enters the game after Boston Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth...
A staff report *The Health Planning Section Office of the N.C. Department of Human...
1915 – Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT), later the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), begins...
1879 – Frank Winfield Woolworth opens his first successful “Woolworth’s Great Five Cent Store”...
Stormy weather in numerous places across the USA … Heavy rainfall in South Texas...
1867 – President Andrew Johnson announces the Alaska Purchase. 1921 – 11.5 inches of...
1865 – Union General Gordon Granger declares slaves are free in Texas which is...
1898 – Steel Pier, the first amusement pier, opens in Atlantic City, New Jersey....
1901 – The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the...
1858 – Abraham Lincoln says “A house divided against itself cannot stand” in accepting...
By Zaire Jones It was a very close encounter between Bladenboro and Clarkton in early April of 1987. The...
*Oliver Gause joined the Elizabethtown Police Force. *12 million pounds of Bladen tobacco was...
1898 – US House of Representatives passes resolution to annex Hawaii. 1907 – Researcher...
1900 – Having been annexed to the United States on August 12, 1898, Hawaii...
1905 – New York Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Christy Mathewson throws...
1899 – New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in United States history kills...
1895 – Charles Duryea patents a gas-driven automobile. 1905 – Pennsylvania Railroad debuts fastest...
1898 – United States Marines land in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. 1905 –...
1902 – First Automat restaurant opens at 818 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 1909 – Alice...
1905 – President Theodore Roosevelt sends identical notes for Japan and Russia urging them...
1909 – Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16. 1912...
1901 – British Open Men’s Golf, Muirfield: Scotsman James Braid wins first of five...
Here are three things to know for Wednesday, June 5: 1. High School Graduations:...
1884 – William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying “I will not accept if...
1896 – Henry Ford takes his first Ford through the streets of Detroit. 1912...
1911 – “Come Josephine in My Flying Machine” record by Fred Fisher and Alfred...
1901 – Benjamin Adams arrested in New York for playing golf on Sunday. 1913...
1890 – United States census at 62,622,250. 1908 – John Krohn begins to walk...
1893 – Whitcomb Judson of Chicago patents a hookless fastening (zipper) 1900 – United...
1908 – First federal workmen’s compensation law approved. 1913 – John McGraw joins Fred...
1787 – “Virginia Plan” by James Madison and Edmund Randolph proposed to the Constitutional...
1892 – Sierra Club formed by John Muir and others in San Francisco for...
1896 – Tornado hit St. Louis, killing 255 and leaving thousands homeless. 1904 –...
1896 – Dow Jones index begins with an average of 12 industrial stocks and...
*W.C. Daniels, Jr. of Clarkton graduated with honors from UNCC and earned a Bachelor...
1895 – Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for gross indecency. 1906 –...
1899 – First auto repair shop opens in Boston, Massachusetts. 1915 – Thomas Edison...
1903 – First direct primary election law in the United States adopted by Wisconsin....
1892 – Dr. Washington Sheffield invents the toothpaste tube. 1900 – Associated Press organizes...
1861 – Richmond, Virginia is designated the Confederate capital. 1906 – Louis H. Perlman...
1892 – George Sampson patents clothes dryer. 1902 – United States withdraws its troops...
1917 – Congress passes Selective Service Act, authorizing the federal government to raise a...
1900 – “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” is first published by L. Frank Baum...
1816 – Republican convention in Chicago selects Abraham Lincoln as candidate. 1891 – George...
1896 – Tornado kills 78 people in Texas. 1905 – Las Vegas founded in...
1908 – First passenger flight in an airplane. 1913 – Washington Senators pitcher Walter...
1846 – Congress votes in favor of President James K. Polk’s request to declare...
1901 – President William McKinley visits San Francisco. 1908 – Wireless Radio Broadcasting is...
Here were some of the stories making news in Bladen County in 1974: *East...
1907 – A derailment outside Lompoc, California, kills 32 Shriners when their chartered train...
1877 – President Rutherford B. Hayes has first White House telephone installed in the...
1914 – President Woodrow Wilson proclaims Mother’s Day. 1926 – First flight over the...
1861 – Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederacy in the United...
1912 – Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories...
1835 – James Gordon Bennett Sr. published the first issue of the New York...
1893 – Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the New York Stock...
1904 – The United States begins construction on the Panama Canal. 1915 – At...
1901 – Fire destroys 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida. 1910 – Intercollegiate Athletic Association...
1908 – Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer register their popular song “Take Me...