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Week In KU History
 July
8, 1932: KU football and wrestling star Pete Mehringer
qualifies for the Olympics.
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July 12, 1990: Groundbreaking takes place for
the Ernst F. Lied Center for the performing arts.
July 15, 1874: KU Board of Regents elects Professor
S.H. Carpenter of the University of Wisconsin as chancellor,
but after Carpenter endures Lawrence's 100-degree heat
and swarms of invading grasshoppers, he departs for
Madison and declines the job.
July 15, 1974: Spooner Hall gains a listing
on the National Register of Historic Places.
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July 16, 1970: Former KU student Rick "Tiger"
Dowdell, 19, is shot and killed by police in downtown
Lawrence, sparking a series of protests, vandalism,
and confrontations that culminates in the death of 18-year-old
KU freshman Harry Nicholas "Nick" Rice on
Oread Boulevard five days later.
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July 17, 1966: At a track and field meet in
Berkeley, Cal., KU freshman Jim Ryun runs the mile in
3:51.3, knocking more than two seconds off the previous
record and setting a new world mark.
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 July
19, 1866: KU Board of Regents elects first three
members of the school's faculty, Elial J. Rice to the
"chair of Belles Lettres and Mental and Moral Philosophy,"
David H. Robinson to the "chair of Languages,"
and Francis H. Snow to the "chair of Mathematics
and General Sciences."
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Compiled by H.J. Fortunato
University of Kansas
This Week In KU History is a project of the KU Memorial
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