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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 2019, crowds lined up to see a rare plant bloom for the first time in three years, launching an 8-foot flower that smelled like meat gone bad.
NC State University’s “corpse plant” performed its fetid ritual in Raleigh thanks to a doctoral student in horticultural sciences, who bought it as an infant from a botanical garden in California, then offered tickets to interested flora-philes.
Brandon Huber named his oddball plant Lupin, in honor of the Wolfpack football team and his favorite Harry Potter character.
“I would say it smells like roadkill or rotting seafood,” he said. “It’s not a pleasant smell.”
A 7-year-old boy died of a lightning strike outside Fuquay-Varina after taking shelter under his grandfather’s tree. The child and his grandfather heard thunder and began collecting his toys when the bolt struck the old oak.
The 64-year-old grandfather survived being thrown 20 feet from the lightning’s impact.
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The University of North Carolina suspended its summer swimming courses and stopped selling season tickets to its campus pool because Black children had shown interest in participating.
UNC, acting on advice of NC’s attorney general, learned it could not deny entry based on race due to the recent Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation at public facilities, but it had every right to shut those facilities down.
In 1926, a street preacher nicknamed “Uncle Billy” spent two days in jail after police in Dunn discovered “a supply of beer” in his kitchen.
The 77-year-old W.A. Stewart owned a reputation around the Harnett County town as “a rather peculiar character” given to making impromptu sermons in public.
Officers enforcing Prohibition granted no consideration to Uncle Billly’s spiritual leanings.
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