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 This
Week In KU History
February 2, 1904: KU Chancellor Frank Strong
asks noted Kansas City landscape architect George Kessler
to prepare the University's first formal campus plan.
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the full story.
 February
2, 1916: Braving below-freezing temperatures, over
4,000 KU students and local residents gather to see
President Woodrow Wilson while his train pauses in Lawrence
for "exactly three minutes and forty-five seconds."
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the full story.
February 7, 1972: A group of approximately 30
KU women calling themselves the February Sisters peacefully
occupy the East Asian Studies building at 1332 Louisiana
to demand changes in campus policies concerning women.
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the full story.
February 8, 1912: Sports-minded females at the
University of Kansas organize the Women's Athletic Association.
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the full story.
 February
17, 1962: The Kansas Board of Regents votes funds
to replace the original Fraser Hall, KU Chancellor W.
Clarke Wescoe announces plans to raze the original Fraser
Hall, then the University's oldest building, claiming
it had "outlived its usefulness."
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the full story.
 February
18, 1930: Clyde Tombaugh, a 24-year-old high school
graduate from Burdett, Kansas who will later earn a
degree in astronomy from KU, discovers the planet Pluto
from the Lowell Observatory in Arizona.
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the full story.
 February
20, 1939: More than six years after breaking Jim
Thorpe's decathlon record, James "Jarring Jim"
Bausch - KU football, basketball, and track star extraordinaire
- makes an unexpected visit to his alma mater.
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the full story.
 February
23, 1895: KU physics and engineering professor Lucien
I. Blake successfully transmits the first long-distance
ship-to-shore message using underwater wireless technology.
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the full story.
Compiled by H.J. Fortunato
University of Kansas
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