• Sidney Katherine Powell was born in Durham, North Carolina.

• Outgoing Attorney General William Barr named U.S. attorney John Durham as a special counsel in the investigation into the origins of the FBI’s probe of the 2016 election.

• George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River in a Durham boat during the American Revolution.

• Q Drop 4952: Just the word "Durham."

• Durham among shortlist of cities to pilot guaranteed based income

What a year for Durham.