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

Avowed communist Herbert Aptheker spoke at the University's Gerrard Hall concerning "The Roots of Negro Oppression." This was almost sixteen years before campus officials prevented him from speaking on campus due to the Speaker Ban Law.

Robert Digges Wimberly Connor died in Durham. An 1899 graduate of the University, Connor was a member of the Board of Trustees, secretary of the North Carolina Historical Commission, first Archivist of the United States (appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934), and Kenan Professor of History.

Gordon Gray began his tenure as president of the Consolidated University of North Carolina.

Consolidated University president Gordon Gray delivered his inaugural address at North Carolina State College’s Reynolds Coliseum.