Stanley Cup beer & a tall pageant queen: Today in Triangle history
A daily look at some of The News & Observer headlines on this date in past years.
On this day in 2006, the raucous celebration for the Carolina Hurricanes’ first-ever NHL championship raged on as defenseman Glen Wesley brought the Stanley Cup to Camp Lejeune for the Marines to gawk at.
Marines: How much beer does that thing hold?
Wesley: 14 cans.
Here’s some other notable July 14 happenings:
1988: Centennial Campus inception
Raleigh’s planning commission unanimously votes to turn 936 acres into what will become N.C. State University’s Centennial Campus.
1963: A towering Miss NC
The newest Miss North Carolina was crowned in Greensboro to an impressive Jeanne Flin Swanner, who not only played the ukulele but also, standing 6-foot-2, literally towered over the competition.
She would later become well known as humorist Jeanne Robertson, who penned the book “Don’t Bungee Jump Naked.”
And 100 years ago today …
In 1926, the state began an inquiry into conditions at the State Hospital for the Insane, not yet named for Dorothea Dix, after a patient’s suicide in what the coroner described as an empty, windowless, vermin-infested room on one of the hottest nights of the year in Raleigh.
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This story was originally published July 14, 2026 at 5:15 AM with the headline "Stanley Cup beer & a tall pageant queen: Today in Triangle history."