Search and filters
Search and filters · 1 active
3 dated events match your filters.
The White House.Open the sourceAll sources
Searched the full chronology of 9,006 dated events and 77 storylines, not only the highlights. Showing 1–3.Back to highlights
- Recent decades · 1976–2026
-
James Taylor wins the National Medal of Arts
The White House named James Taylor among the 2010 National Medal of Arts recipients for his contributions to American music, citing his voice, his guitar playing and his catalogue of songs. President Obama presented the medals at the White House on March 2, 2011.
-
Dean Smith is named a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
President Obama named Smith among sixteen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, citing his 36 seasons as UNC's head basketball coach (1961-1997), two national championships, a 96 percent graduation rate among his players and his civil rights advocacy.
-
James Taylor wins the Presidential Medal of Freedom
The White House named James Taylor among the recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom for more than 40 years of recording and touring, citing his baritone voice and his guitar playing.
Suggest a correction to an entry →
A dated event is a fact, filed on the page of the subject it belongs to: a person, a place, a theme, or a named event or history. Pages are subjects, with their own works and sources; the Place, community, or institution filter also gathers the institutions that recur in the entries without a page of their own. The page opens on the highlights; a search or any filter looks through every dated event and storyline, and each filter’s counts say how many entries choosing it would show alongside the others. A storyline is a longer history that gathers related dated events, and each storyline’s page lists its own. Counts give dated events and storylines separately. Dates come from the sources named on the cards and from the index’s event pages; where sources disagree, the card follows the county records. Entries marked approximate or needing research say so on the card; the rest were checked against the source named on it. The correction link under the entries opens the contact form; name the entry and its date and the Friends will check the source. Suggest an event →
Compiled and maintained by the Friends of the Orange County Public Library from county records, the sources named on each card, and the index’s event pages. Last updated October 4, 2026.
