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

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 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.

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.