North Carolina Statehood Day
North Carolina Statehood Day is held on November 21. 1789. This event in the third decade of the month November is annual. Help us
North Carolina is known as the "Tar Heel State". North Carolina is the birthplace of Pepsi-Cola. Yes, Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered aircraft flights at Kitty Hawk on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Dec. 17, 1903. The feat is a bragging point in North Carolina, featured on driver's licenses and standard-issue license plates that remain optional.
The first state owned art museum in the country is located in Raleigh. Fontana Dam is the tallest dam in the Eastern United States, at 480 feet high. Many people believe that North Carolina was the first state to declare independence from England with the Mecklenburg Declaration of 1775.
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