KU CONNECTION

This Week In KU History

August 1, 1994:
Team owners of Major League Baseball announce that they have chosen KU Chancellor Gene A. Budig to become the seventh president of the American League.
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August 5, 1997:
KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway adds the final touches to the University’s current campus plan.
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August 14, 1950:
The University of Kansas purchases the residence located at 1043 Indiana St., which will become known as "Varsity House" and serve as a dormitory principally for KU football players during the 1950s.
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August 21, 1863:
Confederate guerrilla leader William Clarke Quantrill perpetrates his infamous Civil War raid on Lawrence, virtually destroying the town and leaving its surviving residents without financial resources to help support the establishment of KU.
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August 22, 1997:
The fossils of two spectacularly preserved 150-million-year-old Camarasaur dinosaurs, excavated during a summer-long dig in the Black Hills of Wyoming, arrive on a flatbed truck at the Jayhawk Boulevard entrance to the Natural History Museum in Dyche Hall.

September 1, 1898:
KU names Dr. James Naismith director of physical culture.

September 6, 1905:
The new four-year KU School of Medicine begins its first day of classes with a faculty complement that includes several physician-educators with outstanding reputations.
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September 7, 1917:
Lt. William T. Fitzsimons, a KU alum and US Army doctor serving in France, becomes the first American casualty of World War I.
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Compiled by Mike Reid
University of Kansas

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