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January 1

Gubernatorial Veto Instituted, 1996

January 1

No Parade as Duke Lost Rose Bowl Game in Durham, 1942

January 1

Parker Robbins, U.S. Colored Troops Officer, Lawmaker and Inventor

January 2

At the Corner of Cucumber and Vine

January 2

First Woman Takes Oath as Chief Justice of N.C. Supreme Court

January 3

Origins of BB&T in Wilson

January 3

“Old Bill” Williams and the Old West

January 3

Cherokee Chief and Solidifier Nimrod Jarrett Smith

January 4

Modern-Day Conjoined Twins in Charlotte

January 4

Origins of Maco Light Legend Date to 1856

January 4

The Durants of Durants Neck

January 5

“Brother Exum” Takes Her Seat, 1921

January 5

Governor Daniel Fowle Settles In

January 5

Justice and Law Teacher Richmond Pearson

January 6

Pioneering Black Physician, James F. Shober of Wilmington

January 6

Banjo Master and Innovator Earl Scruggs

January 6

Central Prison Opens in Raleigh

January 6

Federal Investment, 1965, Boosted RTP

January 7

Gertrude McKee, Groundbreaking Lawmaker

January 7

Nineteenth Century Silver Mining in Davidson County

January 7

Public Schools Prospered under Calvin Wiley

January 8

“Carbine” Williams, Inventor and Inmate

January 8

Slapstick Comic, TV Pioneer Soupy Sales

January 9

James Hogun Made Brigadier General in Revolutionary War

January 9

Tabitha Holton, a First for Tar Heel Courtrooms

January 9

Thomasville Chair, Fit for Paul Bunyan

January 9

Vestige of the Age of Steam, the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal

January 10

Bromine Extraction at Kure Beach

January 10

Jazz Drummer Max Roach, N.C. Native

January 10

John Penn’s Second Distinction

January 10

Progressive Farmer Editor Clarence Poe Born

January 11

Calvin Wiley, Education Visionary

January 11

Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Founder of Palmer Institute, Died

January 11

Tab Smith and the Birth of Rhythm and Blues

January 11

Thomas Robeson, Patriot Leader at Moore’s Creek Bridge

January 12

Campus Hijinks at Davidson Involved X-rays, 1896

January 12

Juvenile Offenders Remanded to Concord, 1909

January 13

St. Augustine's: Freedmen’s School to University

January 13

Birthday of State’s Oldest Newspaper

January 13

Mary Martin Sloop and Education in Avery County

January 14

Black Delegates Had Voice at 1868 Convention

January 14

Freemasonry Grand Master, Joseph Montfort

January 14

William Polk, Last of N.C.'s Revolutionary Officers

January 15

Death of Editor Josephus Daniels

January 15

Harold Cooley, Powerful Agriculture Committee Chair

January 15

The Original Queen’s College in Charlotte

January 15

The Fall of Fort Fisher

January 16

Award-Winning Musician Ronnie Milsap Born

January 16

Asheville’s “Old Kentucky Home,” Now State-Owned

January 16

“Giant” Peter Francisco No Chicken

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