On April 29, 1956, the first Chimney Rock Hill Climb took place. Hill climbing is an uphill motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock.
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On April 28, 1911, Cancetto Farmica died in Laurinburg.
Farmica, a musician, was murdered by a fellow carnival worker after an argument when he was hit in the head with a tent stake.
On April 28, 1993, Jim Valvano died of cancer at the age of 47. Valvano was born in Queens, New York, played basketball at Rutgers University and had several coaching positions before coming to North Carolina State as head coach in 1980.
On April 27, 1855, Benjamin N. Duke was born on the Duke family farm north of Durham.
On April 27, 1916, Hall of Fame baseball player Enos Slaughter was born near Roxboro to a farm family.
On April 27, 1935, Hugh Hammond Bennett of Anson County became director of the Soil Conservation Service, a position he held until his retirement in 1952. “Big Hugh,” as he came to be known, grew up in the dr
On August 26, 1942, the first African American troops in the United States Marine Corps arrrived at Montford Point at Camp Lejeune.
On April 26, 1865, the largest troop surrender of the Civil War took place on farm of James and Nancy Bennitt in what was then Orange County.
On April 26, 1956, at the port of Newark, New Jersey, Malcolm McLean watched as a giant crane swung his newly invented shipping containers onto a ship. As the ship steamed off toward Houston, Texas, the era of container shipping had begun.