On January 30, 1951, publisher and conservationist Joseph Palmer Knapp died.
University of North Carolina
On December 11, 1789, the General Assembly passed a bill chartering a state-supported university.
On December 4, 1994, Charlotte Smith, then a member of the UNC Tar Heels women’s basketball team, became the second collegiate women’s player ever to dunk.
On October 26, 1895, UNC fullback Joel Whitaker threw the first forward pass in football to his teammate George Stephens.
On October 14, 1886, Frank Porter Graham was born in Fayetteville.
On March 13, 1953, UNC-Chapel Hill students Carl Kasell and Charles Kuralt stepped up to the microphone for WUNC’s inaugural FM broadcast.
On March 9, 1966, Herbert Aptheker attempted to speak to students near the Confederate monument at UNC-Chapel Hill. The campus police chief escorted him
