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A daily look at some of The News & Observer headlines on this date in past years.
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On this day in 2010, a 79-year-old resident at a Raleigh assisted living center took a limousine ride to see “Annie” in downtown Raleigh, part of a new monthly program to grant a dream for one lucky senior.
Asked by the staff from Elmcroft at Northridge, Joanne Strickland confessed that all her life she wanted to see a Broadway play — and while she was at it, see an old flame from 60 years ago, a blind date she called her first love.
So on the big day, the staff secretly brought in Sam McNeill, tracking him down in North Wilkesboro after a lot of wrong numbers. He was divorced; Strickland had never married.
And they drove off to Memorial Auditorium inside a silver stretch Chrysler 300 — Strickland’s walker stashed in the trunk.
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One person died in a traffic accident in Orange County as the remnants of Hurricane Bob soaked North Carolina. Though a weakened storm, Bob dumped 1.9 inches of rain in Raleigh overnight.
An 8-year-old boy from Farmville traveled to Washington, D.C., for a personal audience with President John F. Kennedy. Vance Daniell wanted to shake the hand of JFK on his earlier Chapel Hill visit but couldn’t get close enough. So his local congressman arranged for Vance, who was suffering from a serious heart condition, to place his paw in the hands of power.
In 1926, Durham opened a new baseball park nicknamed “El Toro,” and though The N&O described the field as “lavishly decorated” it dedicated the bulk of its coverage to noting that Gov. Angus McLean would join Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the white-haired commissioner of baseball, for a round of golf and a luncheon.
After a game between the Raleigh and Durham teams, which went unnamed in this dispatch, the governor and commissioner were to enjoy “a big barbecue supper.”
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