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This Week in UNC History
November 08 - November 14

November 8, 1954
Howard W. Odum died in Chapel Hill. A Kenan Professor of Sociology, Odum founded the Institute for Research in Social... More

November 8, 1924
Rameses the Ram led the football team onto the field for the first time, helping the Tar Heels defeat the... More

November 10, 2005
The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) was dedicated. Located in Sutherland, a small town in the Northern Cape province of... More

November 10, 1883
The first monthly meeting of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society was held.

November 11, 1964
The first Francis P. Venable Lecture was delivered by Professor Clyde A. Hutchinson, Jr., of the University of Chicago. The... More

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This Day in the History of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

This Day in the History of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill