1871 – Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, New York, Boss Tweed is arrested after...
History
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...
A Staff Report Elizabethtown, NC — In a significant tribute to the courage and sacrifices...
1893 – Tornado destroys the coast of Savannah, Georgia & Charleston, South Carolina; about...
1906 – Cuba’s 1st president, Tomes Estrada Palma, asks for US intervention. 1914 –...
1888 – American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine. 1897 – Oldsmobile...
Here were some of the stories making news in Bladen County in 1973: •...
1896 – Dial telephone patented. 1908 – America’s Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney,...
1692 – Five more people hanged for witchcraft (19 in all) in Salem, Massachusetts....
1909 – Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees...
1891 – Electric self-starter for automobiles patented. 1903 – Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million...
1870 – Fred Goldsmith demonstrates that a curve ball isn’t an optical illusion. 1898...
In an exciting development, Harmony Hall has unveiled its new website, inviting visitors to...
1906 – 1st freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago. 1911 – Procter &...
1901 – SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska and sinks, killing 70 people. 1912...
1889 – William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut patents the coin-operated telephone. 1907 – 1st...
1877 – To his amazement, Thomas Edison recorded himself reciting “Mary had a little...
1909 – SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC....
The Farmer’s Home Administration announced the approval of a $1,914,000 loan to the town...
1833 – Chicago incorporated as a village of about 200. 1889 – Dan Rylands...
1859 – Otis Tufts patents the first passenger elevator in the United States. 1898...
1844 – Brigham Young chosen as head of the Church of Jesus Christ of...
1912 – Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominated Theodore Roosevelt for US President. 1915 –...
1909 – Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first woman to complete a...
1884 – Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe’s Island in New York...
Here were some of the stories making news in Bladen County in 1973: •...
1821 – 1st editions of American magazine “The Saturday Evening Post” 1862 – Government...
1882 – Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration. 1900 – Firestone Tire and Rubber...
1776 – Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 50 people (date...
Here are three things to know for Tuesday, August 1: 1. Summer Reading Program:...
1907 – U.S. Army Signal Corps established a small Aeronautical Division. 1911 – Harriet...
Here are three things to know for Monday, July 31: 1. Summer Reading Program:...
1912 – US government prohibits movies and photos of prize fights (censorship) 1922 –...
1872 – Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy. 1928 – George Eastman shows first amateur...
Here were some of the stories making news in Bladen County in 1973: •...
1907 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England. 1914 – 1st transcontinental...
1896 – City of Miami incorporated. 1914 – Foxtrot first danced at New Amsterdam...
