{"id":4972,"date":"2026-07-19T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=4972"},"modified":"2026-07-19T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:08:09","slug":"richard-pettys-new-car-and-baseball-loving-bear-cub-today-in-triangle-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=4972","title":{"rendered":"Richard Petty\u2019s new car and baseball-loving bear cub \u2014 Today in Triangle history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article280707640.html\">Read our AI Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>A daily look at some of The News &amp; Observer\u2019s headlines on this date in past years.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=4970\">A guide to NASCAR Cup race at North Wilkesboro: Who will win? Predictions, odds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On this day in <b>2018<\/b>, Raleigh artist Dare Coulter began painting over the graffiti scrawled across the mural she had created on South Salisbury Street \u2014 touch-up work that started by covering over the Confederate flag.<\/p>\n<p>The mural \u201cDare to Dissent\u201d lasted more than a year in downtown Raleigh before vandals scrawled racist messages across it using red markers.<\/p>\n<p>Donations poured in to help Coulter restore her images of protest topped with a \u201cWe the People\u201d banner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want this to be the lasting impression, or for people to feel bad or negative,\u201d she told The N&amp;O. \u201cI want to go back to the love there was before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=4968\">Boxer Hannah Rapp Dead at 26 After Driver Reversed Into Her While on Bike<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A sample of other historical happenings on July 19:<\/p>\n<p>After a winless year, NASCAR superstar Richard Petty dropped his Dodge for a new Chevrolet Monte Carlo, declaring after a loss at Daytona, \u201cThe car just wouldn\u2019t do what we wanted it to do down there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A 24-year-old Burlington man sank while swimming in the Haw River and survived despite spending 20 minutes underwater. A power line employee, who also held a Red Cross certificate, dove in after the drowning man, pulled him to safety and kept him alive by artificial respiration until the ambulance arrived \u2014 two hours later.<\/p>\n<p>In <b>1926<\/b>, a busy week of amateur baseball games included a matchup between the Prisoners and the Highwaymen at what was then called State\u2019s Prison. The Prisoners, it should be noted, had a 4-month old bear cub named Rosie for a mascot, and they fed it candy and soda pop.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=4966\">Like &#8216;The Odyssey&#8217;? 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