This Week In KU History

August 5, 1997: KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway adds the final touches to the University's current campus plan.

August 19, 1992: The Daily Kansan notes "Nearly every class that has attended the University of Kansas since the 1920s will have a different memory of the Kansas Union. Since its placement at its present site in 1924, the building has been under constant change and remodeling."

August 20, 1903: KU establishes its first chair in journalism.

August 21, 1863: Confederate guerrilla leader William Clarke Quantrill leads his infamous raid on Lawrence, sacking the town and leaving its surviving residents without financial resources to help support the establishment of KU.

August 22, 1997: The fossils of two spectacularly preserved 150-million-year-old Camarasaur dinosaurs, excavated during a summer-long dig in the Black Hills of Wyoming, arrive on a flatbed truck at the Jayhawk Boulevard entrance to the Natural History Museum in Dyche Hall.

August 24, 1981: Inauguration of Gene A. Budig as KU's 14th chancellor.

Compiled by H.J. Fortunato
Department of History
University of Kansas

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