On July 4, 1963, the Peninsula Enterprise reported that all of U.S. Route 13 on the Delmarva Peninsula will be a four-lane highway before the end of 1965 — except for the stretch between Accomac and Bayview.
On July 4, 1956, movie star Kim Novak, of Hollywood, Calif., was a visitor to Chincoteague Island. She was accompanied in her Cadillac by Harry Burroughs. Novak was in Washington D.C. introducting “The Eddy Duchin Story,” in which she is starring, and heard about the Chincoteague Pony Penning and carnival.
On July 4, 1956, John Walter Kellam, 16, drowned and four others — Forrest Hiden Stevens Sr., 30, Forrest Kiden Stevens Jr., 7, Paige Voyles, 12, and Thomas Kellam, 13, a brother of the drowning victim — had a narrow escape when their boat overturned in Machipongo Creek about a half-mile south of the bridge leading from Mappsburg to Quinby. The five people were in an 11-foot boat.
On July 4, 1947, the Peninsula Enterprise newspaper reported that Dr. Kennon Hancock, a graduate of Cape Charles High School, had been selected by the physicians and surgeons of Atlanta to teach obstetrics and gynecology at the John Crawford Long Hospital, also in Atlanta.
On July 4, 1937, robbers threw a brick through the front window the Glick & Sons store in Onancock, taking about $100 in men’s clothing.
On July 4, 1936, stores in Cape Charles decided to close for business all day “out of respect for Independence Day," the Peninsula Enterprise reported.
