Animal fossils found in North Carolina became the oldest known in the US.
Source
Cherokee warriors defeated British forces at the Battle of Echoee, during the Anglo-Cherokee War.
PayPal withdrew a $3.6 million investment in North Carolina due to the state passing anti-gay legislation.
North Carolina became the 12th state to join the United States of America.
Shaw University, the first historically Black university in the southern United States, was founded.
An African American man, Keith Lamont Scott, was shot dead by police on Old Concord Road, Charlotte, North Carolina.
