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

WUNC made its first AM broadcast as a student-operated station.

The details of Standard Oil Trust executive and Florida developer Henry M. Flagler's will were made public. Using portions of Flagler's estate, his widow, Mary Kenan Flagler (later Bingham), would eventually leave a substantial endowment to the University, the Kenan Professorship Fund.

At a meeting called by longtime university librarian Louis Round Wilson, the Friends of the Library of the University of North Carolina was founded.

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

Gordon Gray was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Graduating from the University in 1930, Gray would eventually serve as president of the Consolidated University of North Carolina from 1950 to 1955. Before becoming president, he was President Harry S. Truman's secretary of the army, the first to also have served as a private in the army.

The University's General Alumni Association (GAA) was formed.

William de Berniere MacNider died in Chapel Hill. He graduated from the University's School of Medicine in 1903 and later served as professor of pharmacology and dean at the school. In addition, MacNider was one of the first five faculty members to be named as a Kenan Professor.

The cornerstone of the Carnegie Library building was laid. Used as a library until 1925, the structure is now called Hill Hall and is the home of the Department of Music.

The cornerstone of Alumni Hall reads "Alumni Building Erected June 1, 1898," though the building was not completed until 1901.

President James Buchanan delivered the commencement address at the University.