April 20, 1940:
Glenn Cunningham, the nation’s most popular Depression-era track star, competes in his final race at the Kansas Relays.
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April 22, 1967:
The 1960s-era counterculture makes a splash on Mount Oread when KU students hold a “Human Be-In” at Potter Lake.

April 23, 1941:
Approximately 3,400 KU students and faculty members, plus Chancellor Deane Malott and his wife, Eleanor, participate in the University’s first Dandelion Day, a voluntary campus weeding operation that collects 93,000 pounds of dandelion debris in a mere three hours.

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 24, 1989:
KU bestows its highest award, the Distinguished Service Citation, upon Philip F. Anschutz for his record of philanthropy, community service and support of humanitarian causes.
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April 25, 1908:
KU journalism students expose a widespread illicit liquor trade in officially "dry" Lawrence when they take over the reins of the Lawrence Daily Journal as part of a one-day experiment in investigative reporting.
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April 27, 1973:
In the first of two stunts that would enter into campus legend, KU art student Dan Wessel, who preferred to be known as “The Great Wesselini” and similar monikers, attempts to fly his homemade glider over Memorial Stadium by rolling down a 32-foot ramp north of the Campanile.
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