Following the vote, Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina isdesignated the speaker pro tempore. McHenry's name topped a list submitted by McCarthy to the House clerk in January that laid out who would fill in as an interim speaker in case of a vacancy. McHenry immediately recesses the Hous...
February 1, 1960 - Four black college students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, North Carolina stage a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth lunch counter, protesting their denial of service. This action caused a national campaign, waged by seventy-thousand students,...
January 28, 2022: In a since-deletedvideoposted to their Instagram account, Millertells membersof a North Carolina chapter of the Ku Klux Klan to “kill themselves” with their own guns, or else “we’ll do it for you if that’s what you want.” It’s unclear if Miller is responding...
February 1, 1960:Four African American college students in Greensboro,North Carolinarefuse to leave a Woolworth’s “whites only” lunch counter without being served. The Greensboro Four—Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil—were inspired by the nonviolent protest ofGa...
President Obama will sit down with "Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts today at the White House for a wide-ranging interview, his first since Vice President Joe Biden publicly voiced his support for same-sex marriage and North Carolina voters imposed a new ban on all same-sex unions....
“Lindsey O. Graham was irate that senators were forced to flee their own chamber. He yelled at the Senate sergeant-at-arms. “What are you doing? Take back the Senate! You’ve got guns. Use them.” The South Carolina senator was adamant. “We give you guns for a reason,” he ...
1903 Pacolet Flood photo courtesy of National Weather Service. On June 5, 1903, low pressure tracked northeast from Alabama into western South Carolina. By June 6, the pressure cell had intensified, resting over western North Carolina. Rainfall amounts between 2 and 5 inches were reported in ...
1941:Indian Art of the United Statesshows at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. The exhibit was curated by Rene d’Harnoncourt. 1946: Qualla Arts and Crafts is founded on the Qualla Boundary in North Carolina by Eastern Band Cherokee artists, becoming the first arts and crafts coopera...
Presents a chronology of major events recorded and published by the American Journal of Nursing. Creation of Army Nurse Corps. by the Federal legislation in 1901; Recognition of Lena Rogers as the first American school nurse in 1902; Selection of North Carolina as the first state to legislate ...
This legislation allows slavery in the Missouri territory, but not in any other location west of the Mississippi River that was north of 36 degrees 30 minutes latitude, the current southern line of the state of Missouri. The state of Missouri would be admitted to the Union, under this ...