The Wright Brothers flew the first airplane in this state.  
Two senators from this state who led the opposition to the creation of Martin Luther King, Jr.   Day were John Porter East and Jesse Helms. Another senator from this state, who chaired the  Watergate Committee, was Sam Ervin. In 1960, a series of sit-ins in this state led to the integration   of Woolworth's. The first English baby born in the Americas, Virginia Dare, was born in what is now  this state. She was born in Roanoke Colony. The Wright Brothers flew the first airplane in this state.  Name this state, the site of a lost colony settled by the namesake of its capital, Walter Raleigh.
Two senators from this state who led the opposition to the creation of Martin Luther King, Jr.   Day were John Porter East and Jesse Helms.
North Carolina