Topics Related to This Day in North Carolina History
On November 6, 1973, the State Capitol became a National Historic Landmark. The designation by the U.S.
On November 6, 1755, Captain Hugh Waddell was named North Carolina’s commissioner in treaty negotiations with the Catawba and Cherokees.
On November 6, 1865, the CSS Shenandoah lowered the Confederate flag and James I. Waddell surrendered command of the vessel to British authorities in Liverpool.
On November 5, 1957, North Carolina State Trooper Wister Lee Reece was shot and killed near Ellerbe and, less than an hour later, Trooper James Thomas Brown was murdered near Sanford. The crimes would grip the nation.
On November 5, 1922, medical pioneer Karl von Ruck died in Asheville.
On November 5, 1820, soldier, politician, and founder of the University of North Carolina, William R. Davie died at the age of 64.
On November 5, 1827, Congressman Samuel Price Carson shot Robert Brank Vance, his predecessor in the House and uncle of Civil War-era Governor Zebulon Vance.
On November 4, 1862, Richard Gatling patented his 6-barrel repeating gun known as the Gatling Gun.
On November 4, 1782, John Branch, governor of North Carolina, was born in Halifax.