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1989 - Bynum organizes SAVE - Students Against Violence Everywhere.
After Alex Orange from West Charlotte is killed when he tries to break up an off-campus fight, his friend Angie Bynum organizes SAVE. It soon becomes a national organization.
June 5, 1991 - First Lady Barbara Bush and Muggsy Bogues promote the "Stay in School" program.
First Lady Barbara Bush and Charlotte Hornet Muggsy Bogues share a light moment during a visit to Piedmont Open Middle School during part of the NBA's "Stay in School" program.
May 1775 - Charlotte's Committee of Safety, men who keep order among the citizens, learns that Britain's Parliament has decreed the colonists are in a state of actual rebellion. The Crown will not tolerate this revolt against its authority and will send troops to suppress the uprisings.
August 16, 1780 - More than four years after colonists proclaimed their independence from Britain, fighting continues. Soldiers in the Southern American army, commanded by General Horatio Gates, are defeated by British troops at Camden, South Carolina.
October 12, 1780 - The people of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County continue to vex General Cornwallis. Skirmishes such as the Battle of the Bees just nine days earlier have shown the British commander that a military victory won't be easily won.
October 12, 1780 - The people of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County continue to vex General Cornwallis. Skirmishes such as the Battle of the Bees just nine days earlier have shown the British commander that a military victory won't be easily won.
Jan. 15, 1767 - Lord Augustus Selwyn agrees to sell 360 acres of land to Abraham Alexander, Thomas Polk and John Frohock. Since there is no American currency yet, the price is determined in British units of money, called pounds. The price for the land is 90 pounds.
<p>Marriage: Mr. John P. Arnold and Miss Alice McKelvey Location: Gaston County, NC Married by W.G. Rutledge, Esq. Family Information: Unknown - Add to this story below. Source: Charlotte Democrat - 5/10/1878</p>
March 3, 1835Charlotte is becoming the gold mining capital of the U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the law authorizing Charlotte as a site for a branch of the U.S. Mint, so coins can be made here without transporting the gold to a Mint far away.
Critically acclaimed artist, Romare Bearden (1911-1988) was born in Charlotte on September 1911 in the house of his great-grandfather, Henry B. Kennedy, at 401 South Graham Street. His family later move to New York City and Bearden grew up midst the Harlem Renaissance.
April 21, 1941 - Morris Field is dedicated. New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia speaks at the ceremony. This facility which adjoins Charlotte's Douglas Airport, begins to train pilots and repairmen of the 29th Air Service Group as U.S. involvement in World War II approaches.
The modern, or reform, Jewish congregation separates from Temple Israel, which is more traditional. The new temple will be called Beth El. While many Charlotte Jews will distinguish themselves through civic and charitable work, no one will cause more controversy than Harry Golden.
May 18, 1959 - Wilbert Harrison's "Kansas City" is number one on the pop charts.
February 1, 1960: Charlotte's Franklin McCain and three other North Carolina A & T students are refused service at the F.W. Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. They begin a sit-in that spreads to eight other cities in the state, and finally, to every state in the South.
August 30, 1967 - Marshall is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
October 3, 1780 - Dwindling supplies force Lord Cornwallis to send a foraging party out into the Mecklenburg countryside. Three hundred British troops make their way up Beatties Ford Road toward the Hopewell Presbyterian Church.
Welcome Soldier! was published by the Charlotte Junior Chamber of Commerce to help newly stationed troops become familiar with the city.
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