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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…
Thursday night NFL action … KC Chiefs 30 – Denver Broncos 6. MLB results … Houston Astros 8 – New York Yankees 3. Astros lead…
1829 – Delaware River & Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opens. 1855 – Bessemer steelmaking process patented. 1904 – Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens…
1829 – Tremont Hotel, 1st US hotel opens (Boston) 1848 – 1st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania. 1875 – Brigham Young University is…
Monday night NFL action … Green Bay Packers 23 – Detroit Lions 22. MLB Playoff National League Washington Nationals 8 – St. Louis Cards 1…
1789 – 1st presidential tour-George Washington in New England. 1846 – Dr. William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether. 1881 – 1st American…
1834 – First African-American granted a US patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter. 1884 – George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film. 1892 – Arthur…
1775 – First US Navy forms when Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet. 1892 – “Old Farmers Almanac” is 1st published and edited…
The towns of Bladenboro and Elizabethtown were awarded the Governor’s Community of Excellence Awards. This award goes to towns that demonstrate excellence in all phases…
1609 – Children’s rhyme “Three Blind Mice” published in London. 1740 – English evangelist George Whitefield preaches to 30,000 people in Boston in the US…
1881 – David Houston patents roll film for cameras. 1887 – A. Miles patents elevator. 1890 – Daughters of American Revolution founded. 1929 – JC…
1845 – Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis. 1871 – The Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, leaving…
1837 – Steamboat “Home” sinks off Okracoke, North Carolina, killing 100. 1855 – American inventor Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor. 1888 – Washington Monument…
1633 – Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its first government. 1860 – Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens. 1918 – American soldier Alvin…
1492 – Christopher Columbus misses Florida when he changes course. 1765 – Stamp Act Congress (First Congress of the American Colonies) convenes in New York…
1866 – 1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000) 1889 – Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture. 1893 – Nabisco Foods invents…
1857 – The City of Anaheim is founded. 1892 – Dalton Gang ends in shootout in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup. 1905 – Orville and Wilbur…
Ellen Kaner, a flutist, was announced as the new resident artist at Bladen Technical Institute In August of 1984 the unemployment rate in Bladen County…
1880 – University of California founded in Los Angeles. 1915 – Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado & Utah is established. 1926 – Dahlia is officially…
1789 – Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day on November 26. 1849 – American author Edgar Allen Poe is found delirious in a gutter in…
1789 – George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the states for ratification. 1866 – J. Osterhoudt patents…
1800 – Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty. 1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison…
1777 – Continental Congress flees to York, Pa., as British forces advance. 1846 – Anesthetic ether used for 1st time by American dentist Dr. William…
1859 – 1st passenger train service to Peekskill, New York (New Haven Railroad) 1879 – National League baseball owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause,…
Hurricane Diana swept thru Bladen County causing over $1 million worth of damages. Republican candidate for governor Jim Martin campaigned in Bladen County. Building permits…
1710 – Divorce legalized in Maryland. 1850 – US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment. 1892 – 1st night football game played (Mansfield, Pa) 1904 –…
1852 – George L. Aiken’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” premieres in Troy, N.Y. 1864 – Jesse James’ gang surprise attack train: 150 killed. 1892 – Book…
1772 – New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to practice medicine. 1872 – The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) was established in New York…
1639 – First printing press in America. 1789 – US Congress proposes the Bill of Rights. 1804 – Twelfth Amendment to the US Constitution, establishing…
1789 – US Congress establishes Post Office Department following the new constitution. 1798 – US Federal Judiciary Act passes, creating a six-person Supreme Court. 1890…
1806 – Lewis & Clark return to St. Louis from Pacific Northwest. 1862 – Lincoln’s Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers. 1884 – American Herman…
1851 – City of Des Moines, Iowa incorporated as Fort Des Moines. 1862 – US President Abraham Lincoln says he will free slaves in all…
1792 – Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser becomes the 1st successful daily newspaper in the United States. 1827 – According to Joseph Smith, Jr., the…
The Duck’s Unlimited banquet for Bladen County was scheduled to be held at the Bay Tree Lakes Clubhouse. The Bladen County Hospital Employee of the…
1814 – “Star Spangled Banner” published as a song, lyrics by Francis Scott Key, tune by John Stafford Smith. 1859 – George Simpson patents electric…
1778 – The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States. 1796 – George Washington’s farewell address as president. 1849 – 1st commercial…
1679 – New Hampshire becomes a county in Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1789 – 1st loan is made to pay salaries of the president & Congress.…
1787 – The US Constitution is signed by delegates at the Philadelphia Convention. 1859 – Joshua Abraham Norton, English-born resident of San Francisco, proclaims himself…
1858 – 1st overland mail for California. 1901 – Alturas, California, is incorporated as the only city in Modoc County. 1906 – Douglas Mawson, Edgeworth…
1789 – US Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State. 1831 – The locomotive “John Bull” operates for the first time in New Jersey…
Bladen County was preparing for another hurricane attack. Hurrican Diana was bearing down on the southeastern coast of North Carolina. Bladen County Cablevision was coming…
1716 – 1st lighthouse in American colonies lit (Boston Harbor) 1814 – Francis Scott Key pens the poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry, later known as…
1789 – 1st loan to US government (from NYC banks) 1869 – Jay Gould & James Fisk attempt to control US gold market. 1919 –…
1787 – American statesman George Mason suggested the addition of a Bill of Rights to the Constitution modeled on previous state declarations, but the motion…
1773 – Benjamin Franklin writes “There never was a good war or bad peace” 1847 – 1st singing of Stephen Foster’s “Susanna” (in Pittsburgh) 1923…
1846 – Elias Howe takes out a US patent for a lockstitch sewing machine. 1897 – Lattimer Massacre – a sheriff’s posse kills twenty unarmed…
1776 – Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (from the United Colonies) 1850 – California is admitted as the thirty-first…
1565 – 1st permanent European settlement in the US founded at St. Augustine, Florida. 1858 – Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech “You may…
A club championship tournament was held at Oak Grove Golf Course. The ladies club champion was Pam Taylor and the men’s club champion was Terry…
1630 – The city of Boston, Massachusetts if founded. 1913 – “Uncle Sam” 1st used to refer to the US, by Troy Post of New…
1716 – 1st lighthouse built in North America (Boston) 1819 – Thomas Blanchard patents lathe. 1837 – Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4…
1774 – With the meeting of the Continental Congress, Philadelphia becomes the 1st capital of United States. 1836 – Sam Houston elected President of the…
1781 – Los Angeles is founded by 44 Spanish speaking mestizos in the Bahia de las Fumas (Bay of Smokes) 1807 – Robert Fulton begins…
1826 – USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe. 1891 – Cotton pickers organize union & stage strike in Texas. 1916…
1798 – First bank robbery in the US: Bank of Pennsylvania robbed of $162,821 at Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia. 1864 – Union General William T. Sherman…
1752 – Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia. 1799 – Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan) 1862 – Federal tax levied…
1837 – Ralph Waldo Emerson gives his famous “The American Soldier” speech to Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, declares American literary…
It was announced that the Jaycee Chapter in Elizabethtown was number one in North Carolina in their population group. Bladen County unemployment for the month…
1836 – The City of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen. 1890 – President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S.…
1830 – 1st American built locomotive, “Tom Thumb” races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history…
1859 – 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Pennsylvania, by Edwin Drake. 1881 – Hurricane hits Florida and Carolinas; about 700 die. 1894 –…
1791 – John Fitch granted US patent for his working steamboat. 1843 – Charles Thurber patents a typewriter. 1895 – Electric generator at Niagara Falls…
1814 – British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books (War of 1812) 1829 – President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but…
Mark Little of Clarkton was announced as the new head baseball coach and assistant football coach at West Stanley High School. Bobby Davis, head pro…
1814 – British forces capture Washington, D.C. and destroy many landmarks (War of 1812) 1853 – 1st potato chips prepared by chef George Crum at…
1850 – 1st US National Women’s Rights Convention convenes in Worchester, Massachusetts. 1869 – 1st carload of rail freight (boots & shoes) arrive in San…
1848 – The United States annexes New Mexico. 1865 – William Sheppard is issued the first US patent for liquid soap. 1901 – Cadillac Motor…
1841 – John Hampton patents venetian blind. 1878 – American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY. 1888 – American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the…
1866 – President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over. 1896 – Dial telephone patented. 1912 – Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect. 1925…
1812 – US warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere. 1849 – NY Herald reports gold discovery in California. 1911 – NY Giant Christy Mathewson loses…
1735 – Evening Post begins publishing (Boston, Mass) 1838 – United States Exploring Expedition headed by Charles Wilkes departs for the Pacific Ocean and Antarctica.…
Sylvia Horton was elected president of the Elizabethtown chapter of the American Business Womens Association. Livingston Roberts was announced as the new county executive of…