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February 1, 1951:
The men of the just established Rochdale Co-op begin their first semester of classes from their new Ohio Street home.
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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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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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February 4, 1941:
The Rock Chalk Co-op, housing approximately 25 men in a rented Rhode Island Street home, begins its formal existence in time for the start of spring 1941 semester classes.
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February 4, 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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February 8, 1912:
Sports-minded females at the University of Kansas organize the Women's Athletic Association.
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February 17, 1962:
The Kansas Board of Regents votes funds to replace the original Fraser Hall, then the University's oldest building, claiming it had "outlived its usefulness."
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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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February 18, 1949:
The "Rural Health Program for Kansas," a measure conceived by KU School of Medicine Dean Franklin Murphy to provide underserved Sunflower State communities with additional physicians and other medical professionals, is signed into law by Kansas Governor Frank Carlson.
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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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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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February 23, 1948:
At the age of 32, Dr. Franklin D. Murphy—a son both of KU and of a Medical School "founding father"— agrees to become dean of the University of Kansas School of Medicine, the youngest man in the nation to hold such an office.
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February 25, 1910:
KU dedicates Marvin Hall to house the School of Engineering and Haworth Hall for the Departments of Mineralogy and Geology.
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