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

The University dedicated the George Moses Horton Residence Hall, renaming Hinton James North after the enslaved African American poet.

The John Motley Morehead Foundation announced the receipt of a $100 million gift from the Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation of Texas. The funds will be used to support and expand the Morehead Scholars program. In recognition of the donation, the organization changed its name to the Morehead-Cain Foundation.

With a $50 million gift to the School of Public Health from Dennis and Joan Gillings, the University's "Carolina First" fund-raising campaign reached and surged past the $2 billion mark.