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Week In KU History
April 2, 1946: Danforth Chapel is officially
dedicated.
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the full story.
 April
4, 1988: Danny Manning leads the Jayhawk basketball
team to its first NCAA championship in 36 years.
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the full story.
April 8, 1970: Hippie activist Abbie Hoffman
speaks at KU's Allen Field House.
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the full story.
 April
11, 1890: The Board of Regents elects natural science
professor Francis Huntington Snow the University's fifth
chancellor.
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April 12, 1935: In a demonstration of 1930s-era
pacifism, 700 KU students gather in front of Fowler
for a Student Strike Against War Committee protest gathering,
a nationwide event taking place on campuses across the
country.
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April 15, 1948: The KU chapter of the Committee
on Racial Equality (CORE) stages a sit-in at Brick's
Café in an attempt to force the owner to serve
African-Americans.
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April 19, 1910: Electric trolleys from the Lawrence
city system initiate 23 years of streetcar service to
the KU campus.
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April 20, 1940: Glenn Cunningham, arguably KU's
greatest track star, competes in his final race at the
Kansas Relays.
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April 20, 1970: An unidentified arsonist sets
fire to the Kansas Union by exploding what was apparently
an incendiary device in a sixth floor women's rest room,
causing an estimated $1 million in damages.
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April 21, 1923: First running of the Kansas
Relays takes place at Memorial Stadium.
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April 21, 1984: The University of Kansas inducts
Olympic gold medallist Billy Mills into its Athletics
Hall of Fame.
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April 23, 1966: KU freshman track star Jim Ryun
knocks nearly eight seconds off the Kansas Relays record
for the mile run in a race that launches perhaps the
greatest three-month stretch of his remarkable career.
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April 27, 1973: In the first of two stunts that
would enter into campus legend, KU art student Dan Wessell,
who preferred to be known as Lorenzo Wesselini: The
Human Cannonball, attempts to fly his homemade glider
over Memorial Stadium by rolling down a 32-foot ramp
north of the Campanile.
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Compiled by H.J. Fortunato
University of Kansas
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