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On July 11, 1979, Boone celebrated “Windmill Day” with a street festival to dedicate NASA’s Mod-1, the world’s largest megawatt industrial windmill on Howard’s Knob.
On July 11, 1879, private detective, bootlegger and all-around con man Gaston Means was born in Concord.
On July 10, 1920, broadcaster David Brinkley was born in Wilmington.
July 10, 1930, Otto Wood made his final escape from Central Prison.
On July 9, 1945, Foster McKenzie III, known to punk music fans as Root Boy Slim, was born to a fishmonger in Asheville.
On July 8, 1979, members of the communist Greensboro Workers Viewpoint Organization (WVO) protested a screening of the white supremacist film Birth of a Nation held by the Ku Klux Klan at the town hall of small Rowan County town of China Grove.
John Romulus Brinkley rose to fame in 1922 with his development of an operation whereby the sex glands of goats were transplanted into the bodies of impotent men.
On July 7, 1863, the North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation to create the Home Guard.