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Smith University</a></td><td><center>1867</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/edu/833/000128449/">Queens University of Charlotte</a></td><td><center>1857</center></td></tr></table> COMPANY HEADQUARTERS <table border=1 class="bordered"> <tr><th>Company</th><th>Founded</th></tr> <tr><td><a href="/company/661/000062475/">Sonic Automotive</a></td><td><center>1997</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/315/000058141/">Duke Energy</a></td><td><center>1997</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/266/000123894/">NationsBank</a></td><td><center>1991</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/879/000126501/">MedCath</a></td><td><center>1988</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/584/000164092/">Bojangles</a></td><td><center>1977</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/731/000124359/">Ruddick Corporation</a></td><td><center>1968</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/699/000098405/">Family Dollar Stores</a></td><td><center>1959</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/197/000123825/">First Union National Bank</a></td><td><center>1958</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/834/000128450/">EnPro Industries</a></td><td><center>1951</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/782/000125407/">Piedmont Natural Gas</a></td><td><center>1950</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/900/000126522/">Cato Corporation</a></td><td><center>1946</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/602/000098308/">Nucor</a></td><td><center>1940</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/450/000128066/">Carolinas HealthCare System</a></td><td><center>1940</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/446/000128062/">National Gypsum Company</a></td><td><center>1925</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/425/000125050/">Carlisle Companies</a></td><td><center>1917</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/674/000098380/">SPX Corporation</a></td><td><center>1911</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/607/000053448/">Bank of America</a></td><td><center>1904</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/878/000126500/">Duke Power</a></td><td><center>1904</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/809/000128425/">Coca-Cola Bottling Consolidated</a></td><td><center>1902</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/757/000124385/">Belk</a></td><td><center>1888</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/312/000058138/">Wachovia</a></td><td><center>1879</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/644/000059467/">Goodrich</a></td><td><center>1870</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/254/000357180/">Babcock & Wilcox</a></td><td><center>1867</center></td></tr></table> BIRTHS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_births"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/445/000119088/">Graham T. Allison</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Mar-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Kennedy School of Government</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/991/000162505/">John A. Allison</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Aug-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of BB&T</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/610/000029523/">Romare Bearden</a></td> <td><center>Painter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Sep-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Mar-1988</tt></td> <td>Collagist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/607/000056439/">Richard Darman</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-May-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jan-2008</tt></td> <td>Carlyle Group member, former OMB Director</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/245/000123873/">Walter Dellinger</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-May-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Duke University law professor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/355/000163863/">Charles Duke</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Oct-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>10th to walk on the Moon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/520/000206899/">William A. Emerson, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Feb-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Aug-2009</tt></td> <td>Editor, Saturday Evening Post, 1965-69</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/127/000366026/">Anthony Foxx</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Apr-1971</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Secretary of Transportation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/561/000022495/">Billy Graham</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Nov-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Televangelist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/515/000264720/">Tim Griffin</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Aug-1968</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman, Arkansas 2nd</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/138/000206517/">Charles Gwathmey</a></td> <td><center>Architect</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jun-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Aug-2009</tt></td> <td>Designed extension to the Guggenheim</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/914/000355846/">Anthony Hamilton</a></td> <td><center>Singer/Songwriter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1971</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Comin' from Where I'm From</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/661/000070451/">Wilbert Harrison</a></td> <td><center>Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jan-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Oct-1994</tt></td> <td>Let's Work Together</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/613/000024541/">Hamilton Jordan</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Sep-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-2008</tt></td> <td>White House Chief of Staff, 1979-80</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/830/000025755/">Sharon Lawrence</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jun-1961</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>NYPD Blue</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/394/000159914/">Chyler Leigh</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Apr-1982</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Dr. Lexie Grey on Grey's Anatomy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/965/000173446/">Davis Love III</a></td> <td><center>Golf</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Apr-1964</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Winner, 1997 PGA Championship</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/360/000087099/">Kevin J. Martin</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Dec-1966</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>FCC Chairman, 2005-09</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/784/000047643/">Ross McElwee</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Idiosyncratic documentary filmmaker</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/350/000140927/">J. Alex McMillan</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-May-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from North Carolina, 1985-95</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/980/000167479/">Sarah Parker</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Aug-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>North Carolina Chief Justice</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/627/000345589/">Jim Rash</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jul-1970</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Dean Pelton on Community</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/626/000162140/">Leon Rippy</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Oct-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Earl on Saving Grace</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/713/000346672/">Britt Robertson</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Apr-1990</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Cassie Blake on The Secret Circle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/916/000399716/">Charles G. Sellers</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Sep-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>James K. Polk</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/645/000026567/">John Shelby Spong</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jun-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Retired bishop of Newark, NJ</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/513/000040393/">John Spratt</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Nov-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from South Carolina, 1983-2011</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/947/000168443/">Isaiah Tidwell</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>EVP at Wachovia, 1996-2005</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/074/000354009/">Berlinda Tolbert</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Nov-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Jenny Willis Jefferson on The Jeffersons</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/770/000163281/">Richard Vinroot</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Apr-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Mayor of Charlotte, 1991-95</td> </tr> </table> DEATHS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_deaths"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/703/000121340/">William W. Barron</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Dec-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Nov-2002</tt></td> <td>Governor of West Virginia, 1961-65</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/313/000176782/">Mark R. Bernstein</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Apr-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Apr-2015</tt></td> <td>Parker, Poe, Adams & Bernstein LP</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/898/000345860/">Fielder Cook</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jun-2003</tt></td> <td>A Big Hand for the Little Lady</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/418/000132022/">Ivan Dixon</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Apr-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Mar-2008</tt></td> <td>Sgt. 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