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Week In KU History
 October
7, 1989: KU dedicates the $13.9 million Marian and
Fred Anschutz Science Library.
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the full story.
October 8, 1918: The Kansas State Board of Health
closes KU for more than a month as a sanitary measure
due to the outbreak of an influenza epidemic.
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the full story.
October 10, 1996: Dedication of the Dane and
Polly Bales Organ Recital Hall.
October 12, 1983: Over 2,000 students and local
residents pack KU's Woodruff Auditorium for a special
screening of The Day After, ABC's controversial TV-movie
filmed in Lawrence that depicts the effects of a nuclear
holocaust on a typical American town.
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October 15, 1968: Former Jayhawk Al Oerter uncorks
a toss of 212 feet, 6½ inches in the discus finals
at the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City, becoming the
first person to win a gold medal for the same event
at four consecutive Olympics.
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October 15, 1975: Student-run radio station
KJHK-FM goes on the air, bringing jazz, progressive
and "alternative" rock to Mount Oread, along
with a fair share of controversy.
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the full story.
October 16, 1940: 1,083 KU men register in the
Kansas Room of the Kansas Union building for the first
peacetime draft in American history.
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the full story.
 October
17, 1984: More than 200 leading scientists from
around the world descend on the Lawrence Holiday Inn
Holidome for a symposium on "Directed Drug Delivery"
held in honor of KU professor Takeru Higuchi, the "father
of physical pharmacy."
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the full story.
October 19, 1891: At a time when student newspapers
on campus are referring to KU as the "Harvard of
the West," the KU athletic board chooses crimson
as the football team's official color, a decision that
stands until blue is added four years later.
October 22, 2001: Bailey Hall, third oldest
building on the KU campus, gains a listing on the National
Register of Historic Places.
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October 27, 1962: KU football player Gale Sayers
rushes 283 yards, his greatest distance as an undergraduate.
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the full story.
October 28, 1912: First version of the KU Jayhawk
drawn by undergraduate Henry Maloy appears in the University
Daily Kansan.
October 29, 1994: Spooner Hall marks its one-hundredth
anniversary on campus.
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October 31, 1891: KU and MU play their first-ever
football game, with KU winning 22 to 8 at Exposition
Park in Kansas City, Missouri.
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the full story.
Compiled by H.J. Fortunato
Department of History
University of Kansas
This Week In KU History is a project of
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University of Kansas Memorial Corporation
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