December 30

1862
The USS. Monitor sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Just nine months earlier, the ship had been part of a revolution in naval warfare when the ironclad dueled to a standstill with the C.S.S. Virginia (Merrimack) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, in one of the most famous naval battles in history--the first time two ironclads faced each other in a naval engagement. By December, the Monitor was no longer needed in Virginia, so she was sent to Beaufort, North Carolina to join a fleet being assembled for an attack on Charleston, South Carolina.

2004
Scotty Rhodarmer did his last show on WWNC-AM 570, in Asheville, North Carolina. Rhodarmer did the morning show for 50 years beginning in 1954.