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A daily look at some of The News & Observer headlines on this date in past years.<\/i><\/p>\n

Read more NC family pulls $1 million scholarship over anti-DEI policy. Here’s what to know<\/a><\/p>\n

On this day in 2012<\/b>, NASCAR luminary Junior Johnson announces he will sell his 10,000-square-foot estate sitting on 150 acres in Yadkin County, opting at 81 for a simpler life in Charlotte free of 450 head of cattle.<\/p>\n

The racer who won 50 races in his career and earned a pardon from President Ronald Reagan for a 1956 moonshine conviction offered his mansion equipped with crown-molding ceilings, black walnut bookshelves and the kitchen where he regularly served breakfast for 20.<\/p>\n

Later that year, it sold at auction for $2.3 million \u2014 still not included.<\/p>\n

The Wake County library system announced best-selling books could only be checked out for seven days, noting that \u201cThe Bridges of Madison County\u201d was drawing 20 requests per day. Exception: heavyweight novels with more than 500 pages.<\/p>\n

A robber dressed in an olive green suit and straw hat managed to steal $5,251.50 from the First Union Bank in Goldston after pointing a pistol at the manager and announcing, \u201cI\u2019d like to make a withdrawal, please.\u201d Manager Peggy Elkins handed over all available cash from the small Chatham County bank, noting the suit-wearing bandit represented her second robbery in as many years.<\/p>\n

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In 1926<\/b>, Gov. Angus McLean ran seriously afoul of 52,000 potential voters when he went back on his promise to conduct a survey of women in North Carolina industry.<\/p>\n

On the front page of The N&O, Dr. Delia Dixon declared herself insulted when McLean looked her \u201cstraight in the face\u201d during their confrontation in the governor\u2019s office \u201cand asked me if I were employed by Northern interests.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cKnowing that he would not dare insult any man in North Carolina with that question, my indignation almost made me forget my sex,\u201d she wrote. \u201cIt was a moment or two before I could control myself sufficiently.\u201d<\/p>\n

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