1871 – 1st cable car patented, by Andrew Smith Hallidie in the US (begins service in 1873) 1899 – US takes possession of Wake Island…
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1865 – Drunken sailor attacks munitions at Ft. Fisher, NC, 40 die. 1868 – Refrigerator car patented by William Davis, a fish dealer in Detroit.…
1861 – Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis. 1865 – Ft. Fisher, NC, falls to Union troops. 1870 – Donkey first used as symbol Democratic…
1799 – Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets. 1868 – North Carolina constitutional convention meets in Raleigh. 1878 – US Supreme Court rules…
1794 – Congress changes US flag to 15 stars and 15 strips. 1863 – Chenille yarn making machine patented by William Carter in NYC. 1913…
Garland Roth was elected President of The Bladen County Law Enforcement Association. Karen Storms of Bladenboro was the Southeastern Community College Homecoming Queen. Building permits…
1773 – First public museum established in north America colonies (Charleston, SC) 1812 – 1st cargo arrives from New Orleans by steam, from Natchez. 1865…
1838 – First public demonstration of telegraph messages sent using dots and dashes at Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey by Samuel Morse and Alfred…
1776 – “Common Sense” pamphlet by Thomas Paine, published advocating American Independence. 1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil. 1901 – Oil discovered at…
1848 – 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established. 1894 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery operated telephone switchboard in Lexington,…
1790 – 1st US President George Washington delivers 1st state of the union address. 1835 – US national debt is $0 for the first and…
1714 – Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built later) 1830 – 1st US Railroad Station opens (Baltimore) 1890 – African American inventor William Purvis…
1639 – Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed. 1838 – Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail demonstrate their telegraph machine in New…
1836 – Davy Crockett arrives in Nacogdoches, Texas, to aid the revolution. 1854 – Steamship San Francisco wrecked off US eastern seaboard, 300 die. 1886…
1847 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government. 1865 – New York Stock Exchange opens its 1st permanent headquarters…
1871 – Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton, NY. 1888 – 1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C. Stone in Washington, D.C. 1899 –…
1811 – US Sen. Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the US) 1865 – Welterweight Con Orem…
1673 – Regular mail delivery begins between NY & Boston. 1797 – Albany replaces New York City as capital on New York. 1818 – Official…
1776 – Rhode Island establishes wage & price controls to curb inflation: Limit is 70 cents a day for carpenters, 42 cents for tailors. 1841…
1835 – Georgia gold rush forces the Cherokees to move across the Mississippi. 1854 – Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in US, incorporated in NYC.…
1782 – 1st nautical almanac in US published by Samuel Stearns, Boston. 1813 – British burn Buffalo, New York during war of 1812. 1848 –…
1832 – John C Calhoun becomes 1st VP to resign (differences with President Jackson) 1867 – United States claims Midway Island, the first territory annexed…
1845 – Ether 1st used in childbirth in US in Jefferson, Georgia. 1862 – Battle of Elizabethtown, Kentucky. 1903 – “Sweet Adeline”, a barbershop quartet…
1799 – George Washington is eulogized by Colonel Henry Lee as “1st in war, 1st in peace & 1st in hearts of his countrymen” 1848…
352 – 1st definite date Christmas was celebrated on December 25th. 1621 – Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony (now in Massachusetts) forbids game playing…
1818 – Christmas carol “Silent Night” composed by Franz Xaver Gruber is first sung at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, Austria. 1851 – Fire devastates…
1776 – Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France. 1788 – Maryland votes to cede a 10 square mile area for District of Columbia. 1862…
1807 – U.S. Congress passes Embargo Act and President Thomas Jefferson signs into law. Prohibits American ships from trading in foreign ports, as result of…
Bladen County Hospital showed a profit for October 1984. Wilbur Register was elected Chairman of the Bladen County Board of Commissioners. Bladenboro High School class…
1620 – 102 Mayflower Pilgrims and about 30 crew land at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts. 1864 – General Sherman conquers Savannah, Georgia. 1891 – 1st game…
1790 – 1st successful US cotton mill begins spinning yarn in Pawtucket, Rhode Island built by Samuel Slater based on Richard Arkwright’s design. 1820 –…
1732 – Benjamin Franklin under the name Richard Saunders begins publication of “Poor Richard’s Almanack” 1843 – “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens is published,…
1860 – South Carolina declared an “independent commonwealth” 1892 – Peter IIyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet “Nutcracker Suite” premieres. 1898 – Automobile speed record set (39 mph)…
1821 – Kentucky abolishes debtors’ prisons. 1900 – New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million. 1903 – The Wright brothers make the fist…
1773 – Boston tea party incident – Sons of Liberty protesters throw tea shipments into Boston harbor in protest against British imposed Tea Act. 1835…
1791 – 1st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania. 1791 – US Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gives its approval, becomes amendments…
The Bladen Technical College Board of Trustees named Lynn King of Dublin as the new President of the institution. Tar Heel High School halfback Laconial…
1849 – 1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert (Boston) 1862 – Battle of Kinston, fought in Lenoir, North Carolina begins (Goldsboro…
1816 – Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston. 1879 – First federal fish hatching steamer launched (Wilmington, Delaware) 1903 – Italo…
1800 – Washington, D.C., established as the capital of the United States of America. 1874 – Hawaii King David Kalakaua is 1st king to visit…
1620 – 102 Mayflower Pilgrims and about 30 crew land at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts. 1902 – The US signs a treaty with Cuba allowing for…
1672 – New York Governor Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York & Boston. 1690 – Massachusetts Bay becomes first American colonial government to…
1793 – Noah Webster establishes New York’s 1st daily newspaper, the “American Minerva” 1861 – American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of…
1792 – 1st cremation in US: Henry Laurens. 1863 – Abraham Lincoln issues his Amnesty Proclamation and plan for Reconstruction of the South. 1886 –…
1787 – Delaware is the 1st state to ratify the US constitution. 1842 – New York Philharmonic’s 1st concert. 1891 – 52nd US Congress (1st…
1790 – The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1865 – 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing…
1792 – George Washington re-elected as US President. 1831 – Former US President John Q Adams takes his seat as a member of House of…
1816 – James Monroe is elected to become the 5th President of the United States, defeating Rufus King of the Federalist Party. 1881 – The…
1775 – First official US flag raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard naval vessel USS Alfred. 1835 – First US mutual fire insurance company issues first…
1812 – James Madison re-elected President of the US, Elbridge Gerry, Vice-President. 1823 – President James Monroe declares his “Monroe Doctrine”, a US foreign policy…
Bladenboro resident Cecil Nance was named Resident Director of Saul’s Resident Hall at Campbell University. The 1983-84 financial statement for the Elizabethtown ABC store showed…
1824 – US House of Representatives begins to decide outcome of election deadlock between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson (Jackson wins) 1878 – 1st…
1753 – Benjamin Franklin receives the Godfrey Copley medal “on account of his curious Experiments and Observations on Electricity” 1861 – Harper’s Weekly publishes EE…
1877 – US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time. 1887 – US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii.…
1853 – Olympia forms as capital of Washington Territory. 1861 – Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to Confederacy. 1871 – Ku Klux Klan trials began…
Contributed Moores Creek National Battlefield will be holding a “Christmas in the Colonies” event on Saturday, Dec. 7. Park staff, volunteers, and other historians will…
1889 – 1st permit issued to drive a car through Central Park (Curtis P Brady) 1901 – U.S. Army War College is established in Washington,…
1716 – 1st lion exhibited in America, in Boston. 1789 – 1st national Thanksgiving in America. 1859 – Last weekly installment of Charles Dickens’ “A…
1715 – First English patent granted to an American, for processing corn. 1792 – Benjamin Franklin first publishes his Farmer’s Almanac. 1834 – Delmonico’s, one…
1835 – Texas Rangers, mounted police force authorized by Texas Provisional Government. 1874 – American inventor Joseph Glidden patents barbed wire. 1896 – 1st US…
1783 – Annapolis, Maryland becomes US capital (until June 1784) 1835 – Henry Burden patents horseshoe manufacturing machine (Troy, NY) 1863 – Patent granted for…
The 31 members of the Bladen County Blue Ribbon Commission began it’s study of the Bladen County School System. Jim Bradley of The Southeastern Times…
1842 – Mount St Helens in Washington erupts. 1884 – T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper. 1903 – Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor…
1908 – 154 men die in coal mine explosion at Marianna, Pennsylvania. 1914 – World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New…
1866 – Howard University founded (Washington, D.C.) 1888 – Willard Bundy patents timecard clock. 1914 – US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports. 1919…
1805 – Lewis and Clark expedition, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, reaches the Pacific Ocean, first European Americans to cross the west. 1861…
1820 – Antarctica sighted by US Navy Capt. Nathaniel B Palmer. 1865 – Mark Twain publishes “Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” 1872 – Suffragette…
In September of 1984 Bladen County Hospital showed a profit of $2,258.23 for the month. Bladen County had it’s 10th road fatality of 1984. The…
1901 – First edition of New York Evening Post. 1824 – New York City’s Fifth Avenue opens for business. 1871 – National Rifle…
1620 – Myles Standish leads 16 men in a foot exploration of the northern portion of Cape Cod. 1763 – Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon…
1832 – First streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in NYC; fare 12 cents ride on 4th Avenue between Prince and 14th streets. 1851 – “Moby-Dick”…
1789 – Benjamin Franklin writes “Nothing…..certain but death & taxes” 1843 – Mt. Rainier in Washington State erupts. 1865 – P.T. Barnum’s New American museum…
1915 – Theodore W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry. 1921 – Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments. 1922 – The…
1647 – Massachusetts passes first compulsory school attendance law in the American colonies. 1851 – Alvan Clark patents telescope. 1890 – D McCree patents portable…
1775 – The Second Continental Congress forms Continental Marines, precursor to the United States Marine Corps. 1885 – German engineer Gottlieb Daimler unveils the world’s…
1821 – 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia. 1857 – Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published. 1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872.…
1731 – In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st library in the North American colonies. 1789 – Bourbon Whiskey 1st distilled from corn by Elijah Craig…
1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition first sights the Pacific Ocean at the mouth of the Columbia River. 1864 – 2nd session of congress of…
1860 – Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-ILL) elected 16th American President. 1888 -Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats President Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received…
1639 – First Post Office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts. 1773 – John Hancock is elected as moderator at a Boston town…
1841 – First wagon train arrives in California. 1862 – Dr. Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis. 1879 – James Ritty patents first…
1868 – Ulysses Grant (R) wins US presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D) 1883 – US Supreme Court decides federal courts have no jurisdiction over…
1852 – Franklin Pierce elected as President of US. 1867 – Women’s fashion magazine “Harper’s Bazaar” is 1st published. 1889 – North Dakota becomes 39th…
1800 – John Adams becomes the first US President to live in the White House. 1834 – First published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat…
1837 – Collision of river boats Monmouth & Trement on Mississippi; 300 die. 1868 – Standard uniform approved for US postal carriers. 1906 – George…
1768 – First Methodist church in North American colonies initiated (Wesley Chapel, NYC) 1866 – Jesse James’ gang robs bank in Lexington, Missouri ($2000) 1873…
1872 – J. S. Risdon patents metal windmill. 1904 – First intercity trucking service (Colorado City & Snyder, Texas) 1929 – “Black Tuesday” Wall Street…
1636 – Harvard University, Cambridge, founded by a vote of the Massachusetts General Court. 1793 – Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin.…
1682 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is founded by Englishman William Penn. 1838 – Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to…
1776 – Benjamin Franklin departs for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution. 1858 – Hamilton Smith patents rotary washing…
Rufus Edmisten, candidate for Governor of North Carolina, visited Bladen County. The student body president of Bladen Technical Institute was Jane Brown of Elizabethtown. Lisa…
1780 – John Hancock becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts. 1870 – Postcards first used in USA. 1906 – US inventor Lee de Forest patents…
1861 – West Virginia secedes from Virginia. 1881 – Levi P Morton, US ambassador to France drives first rivet in Statue of Liberty. 1901 –…
1813 – The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in…
1836 – Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected President of the Republic of Texas. 1861 – 1st telegraph line linking West & East coasts completed.…
1797 – The USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) is launched in Boston. 1869 – 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore. 1902 – In…
1774 – American Continental Congress orders discouragement of entertainment. 1803 – US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase. 1864 – US President Abraham Lincoln formally establishes…
Steve Wallace was elected President of the Elizabethtown Kiwanis Club. Mary Pait was the Bladen County Hospital Employee of the Month. The team of Terry…
1630 – In Boston, the 1st general court is held. 1870 – 1st African American (4) elected to US House of Representatives. 1914 – US…
1767 – Mason Dixon line, the boundary between Maryland & Pennsylvania agreed upon. 1776 – In a bar decorated with bird tail in Elmsford, New…