This Day in the History of the
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This Week in UNC History
May 09 - May 15

May 9, 1960
Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed an overflow crowd in Hill Hall concerning "The Struggle for Racial Justice." During the speech,... More

May 9, 2004
Julius Chambers addressed the University’s Class of 2004 in Kenan Memorial Stadium. Chambers graduated first in his class from the... More

May 10, 1889
Charles Phillips died in Columbia, South Carolina, on the way to live with his sons in Birmingham, Alabama. An 1841... More

May 10, 1913
Standard Oil Trust executive and Florida developer Henry M. Flagler died. His widow, Mary Kenan Flagler (later Bingham), would later... More

May 10, 1949
The world's first university-based planetarium, the Morehead Planetarium, opened at the University. The building was named for John Motley Morehead,... 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