This Week In KU History

Former Kauffman exec returns to KU as executive vice chancellor for
external affairs

KU to add name of WWII soldier to Campanile tribute

Coach Henrickson, new TV contract to put spotlight on KU women’s hoops

Natural History Museum Gallery to
get facelift

Wescoe cafeteria goes underground

’Hawktoberfest revelry stokes Homecoming spirit for ’Hawks
vs. Cats

Enrollment sets records plus new highs for retention, number of Kansans

NIH grant helps KU test high-tech pacifier that may help preemies

Godzilla puts a scare into KU Halloween

Library in Liberal honors KU poets

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October 7, 1989: KU dedicates the $13.9 million Marian and Fred Anschutz Science Library. Read 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. Read 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. Read the full story.

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. Read 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. Read 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.” Read the full story.

October 22, 2001: Bailey Hall, third oldest building on the KU campus, gains a listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Read the full story.

October 27, 1962: KU football player Gale Sayers rushes 283 yards, his greatest distance as an undergraduate. Read the full story.

October 29, 1994: Spooner Hall marks its one-hundredth anniversary on campus. Read the full story.

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. Read the full story.

Compiled by H.J. Fortunato
University of Kansas

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