1887 – Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads. 1914 – US Congress...
History
1876 – Albert Spaulding invests $800 to start sporting goods company, manufacturing first official...
1802 – 1st leopard exhibited in US, Boston (admission 25 cents) 1869 – James...
1790 – US Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (NYC) 1840 – Oldest continuous...
Here were some of the stories making news in Bladen County in 1973: •...
1800 – US population: 5,308,483; African American population 1,002,037 (18.9%) 1873 – “Around the...
1834 – President Jackson orders first use of US troops to suppress a labor...
1880 – Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp. 1915 – US Marines occupy Haiti....
1784 – Benjamin Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as American symbol. 1871 – US...
1877 – Congress establishes the Electoral Commission to determine the disputed presidential election between...
1848 – James Marshall finds gold in Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. 1908 –...
• The Elizabethtown Jaycees had their DSA Banquet with main speaker Lou Holtz, coach...
1903 – The Hay-Herran Treaty concerning the USA’s right to the Panama Canal is...
1899 – Opel manufactures its first automobile. 1908 – “Sullivan Ordinance” is passed in...
1887 – Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor. 1920 – The American...
1825 – Ezra Daggett and nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans....
1896 – 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in US (NYC) 1916 – A...
1899 – US takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific. 1916 – Rodman...
• The first snow and ice of the year brought things to a halt...
1879 – January record 13 inches of snow falls in NYC (broken January 7,...
1831 – 1st US built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run....
1868 – North Carolina constitutional convention meets in Raleigh. 1919 – John McGraw, Charles...
1912 – -40 degrees F, Oakland Maryland (State Record) 1920 – NY Times editorial...
1896 – 1st X-ray photo in the US (Dr. Henry Smith, Davidson, N.C.) 1906...
1873 – First livestock market newspaper published, Drover’s Journal, Chicago. 1913 – 1st sedan-type...
1901 – Oil discovered at Spindletop, Beaumont, marking the start of the Texas oil...
• Jim Holshouser Jr., of Boone, was sworn in as the 63rd Governor of...
1903 – Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchase the American League’s Baltimore baseball franchise...
1790 – 1st President George Washington delivers 1st State of the Union address. 1835...
1896 – Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook “The Boston Cooking School Cook Book”...
1898 – 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake. 1914 –...
1914 – Industrialist Henry Ford announces his $5 minimum per-day wage, doubling most workers’...
1847 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government....
1842 – Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine leave Liverpool, England for America on...
1900 – John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China....
1890 – The Rose Parade, then known as the Tournament of Roses, was first...
1862 – Union ironclad ship “Monitor” sank off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. 1904 –...
1917 – Minus 32 degrees in Mountain City, Tennessee (state record) 1918 – John...
1848 – Gas lights 1st installed at White House (Polk’s Administration) 1891 – Edison...
1732 – Benjamin Franklin under the pseudonym Richard Saunders begins publication of “Poor Richard’s...
1845 – Ether 1st used in childbirth in the US in Jefferson, Georgia. 1902...
• The East Bladen Senior Band, under Band Master Ray Haney, was invited to...
1799 – George Washington is eulogized by Colonel Henry Lee as “1st in war,...
352 – 1st definite date Christmas was celebrated on December 25th. 1621 – Governor...
1851 – Fire devastates the US Library of Congress in Washington, destroys 35,000 volumes....
1862 – Union General Ben “Beast” Butler is proclaimed a “felon, outlaw & common...
1882 – 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison. 1910 –...
1909 – 1st junior high school established (Berkeley, California) 1913 – 1st crossword puzzle...
1790 – 1st successful US cotton mill begins spinning yarn in Pawtucket, Rhode Island...
1777 – Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania for the winter. 1854...
1917 – The 18th Amendment to the Constitution, authorizing prohibition of alcohol, is approved...
1900 – New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million. 1903 – The...
1773 – Boston Tea Party incident – Sons of Liberty protesters throw tea shipments...
• Bladen County and its towns received $287,317 in Federal Revenue Sharing from January...
1903 – NY Wall Street vendor Italo Marchiony (Marcioni) granted patent for a mound...
1849 – 1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert in Boston....
1816 – Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston. 1918 –...
1899 – George F. Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee. 1914 –...
1872 – Pickney Benton Stewart Pinchback takes office as the first African American US...
1884 – “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain is first published in the...
1878 – Joseph Pulitzer buys the St. Louis Dispatch for $2,500. 1889 – US...
• Two newly elected County Commissioners were sworn in. They were C. Edgar Stevens,...
1914 – Irving Berlin’s musical “Watch your Step” premieres in NYC. 1923 – German-US...
1842 – New York’s Philharmonic’s 1st concert. 1891 – 52nd US Congress (1st to...
1790 – The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1865...
1915 – Frank Friday Fletcher is first US Admiral to receive Congressional Medal of...
1901 – At the MLB meeting, the Milwaukee Brewers franchise is officially dropped from...
Contributed Raleigh, NC – The North Carolina Museum of History will host a special...
1901 – King C. Gillette begins selling safety razor blades. 1916 – National Baseball...
1782 – Britain signs agreement recognizing the US independence. 1866 – Work begins on...
1877 – US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrated his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time....
1907 – In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie...
1870 – The New York Times dubs baseball “The National Game” 1901 – U.S....
1842 – The University of Notre Dame is founded. 1896 – Amos Alonzo Stagg...
• Bladen County Hospital purchased 32.08 acres of land for $70,000 from Miss Mary...
1834 – Delmonico’s, one of NY’s finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak,...
1896 – 1st US absentee voting law enacted by Vermont. 1903 – Clyde Coleman...
1897 – Portable pencil sharpener patented by American inventor John Lee Love. 1904 –...
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…...
1895 – American inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell patents the pencil. 1906 – London selected...
• The 200th birthday of the town of Elizabethtown was to be celebrated October...
1883 – Four standard time zones for the Continental US introduced – Eastern, Central,...
1877 – Russia launches a surprise night attack that overruns Turkish forces at Kars,...
1801 – First edition of New York Evening Post. 1841 – Life preservers made...
1869 – Free postal delivery formally inaugurated. 1901 – James J. Jeffries TKOs Gus...
1856 – American Gail Borden is issued a patent for technology related to his...
1789 – Benjamin Franklin writes, “Nothing … certain but death & taxes.” 1861 –...
1880 – Best selling American novel “Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ” by soldier...
1890 – D. McCree patents portable fire escape. 1909 – Construction of US navy...
Contributed The Bladenboro High School, graduating class of 1967 celebrated their 55th reunion on...
*Bladen County was in the middle of an election year which found our county...
1898 – Wilmington, North Carolina Coup D’etat: White Supremacists violently overthrow local government, killing...
1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872…close to 1,000 buildings destroyed. 1904 –...
1892 – Grover Cleveland (D) elected 24th US President. 1904 – Inventor and Manufacturer...
1874 – 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by Thomas Nast. 1876...
1860 – Republican Abraham Lincoln of Illinois elected the 16th President of the United...
*People’s Savings and Loan opened it’s new office in Bladenboro. *Thornton Wilder’s comedy “The...
1862 – American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling patents the hand cranked Gatling machine gun...
1896 – Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female state senator in the...
