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On July 19, 1982, former Superior Court Justice Fitzroy Donald Phillips died in Rockingham.
On July 19, 1906, Osley Bird Saunooke, super heavyweight wrestler and Chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (ECBI), was born in Cherokee.
On July 19, 1937, country music star George Hamilton IV was born in Winston-Salem.
On July 19, 1816, 23 delegates from four Quaker meetings organized the North Carolina Manumission Society in Guilford County. The delegates represented 147 members in local societies.
On July 18, 1918, Union County World War I soldier Samuel I. Parker advanced directly into machine-gun fire, killing the gunner with his pistol.
On July 18, 1585, the Indian village of Aquascogoc was burned by men from the second of three Roanoke Voyages.
On July 18, 1963, Governor Terry Sanford announced the establishment of the North Carolina Fund, an interracial antipoverty initiative that predated and anticipated President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “War on Poverty.”
On July 18, 1670, German-born explorer John Lederer ended his trip through the Carolina Piedmont north of what’s now Roanoke Rapids. Lederer’s expedition predated the much better-known trip led by naturalist John Lawson by 30 years.