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

Students from the all-black Lincoln High School staged a sit-in at the Colonial Drugstore on Franklin Street, the first sit-in in Chapel Hill's history.

The UNIVAC computer dedication ceremony took place at Memorial Hall.

Nobel Prize Laureate Linus Pauling delivered a speech on campus.

The University held a dedication ceremony for the new School of Pharmacy building (now known as Beard Hall).

Classical guitarist Andres Segovia gave a concert on campus.

Singer Ray Charles appeared on campus for a concert.

Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed an overflow crowd in Hill Hall concerning "The Struggle for Racial Justice." During the speech, he told the primarily white audience that "[i]t is either non-violence or non-existence."

Morehead Planetarium welcomed its one-millionth visitor.

The Joseph Palmer Knapp Building, home of the School of Government, was dedicated.