April 1, 1927

Omaha Postmaster Dean Ringer speaks at school assembly: "There is something in the soul of a believer in God which fits him to be a real leader or successful business man," he tells students.

April 1, 1929

First spring football practice

April 1, 1943

OU students required to show ID cards to eat in cafeteria. War-related rationing of food for home consumption and restrictions on public restaurants were bringing “outsiders” to the cafeteria

April 1, 1974

C.T. Hewgley replaces Al Caniglia as UNO football coach

April 1, 1954

Nebraska Gov. Robert Crosby speaks to OU students on "Nebraska's Tax Muddle" in appearance sponsored jointly by Young Republicans and Young Democrats clubs.

April 2, 1930

Dean W. Gilbert James addresses the Minne Lusa Parent Association on “An Evening with the Poets

April 2, 1960

Nobel Prize-winning chemist Dr. Linus Pauling lectures on the “Biochemistry of Proteins” via telephone circuit from his laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.

April 2, 1963

OU students Johnny Ray Gomez, Mel Daley and Bill Wakefield sign three-year contract to record under "Applause" label as the "U-Neeks." Listen online to one of their recordings, "Lonely for Love"

April 3, 1945

Pulitzer Prize recipient Allan Nevins speaks for two days through William F. Baxter Lecture series

April 4, 1945

T.L. Combs family presents check to pay for purchase of three airplanes — a P-47 and two PT-13s — for use in OU Aircraft and Engine School

April 4, 1951

Studs Terkel narrates “I Come to Sing,” stressing the organic continuity of folk music at OU convocation, joining blues great Big Bill Broonzy, and balladeers Lawrence Lane and Win Stracke

April 5, 1955

Omaha retailer Frederick W. Kayser, a founder of Kilpatrick's Store, dies. In his will he left three trust funds totaling $450,000) that eventually went to UNO after the deaths of his sisters and nieces. The gifts first helped fund the Kayser Chair of Economics and Kayser Chair of Finance. Kayser Hall was named in his honor when it was dedicated Sept. 12, 1971.

April 6, 1945

Harvard University Economist Dr. Sumner H. Slichter concludes two days of talks at the William F. Baxter Memorial Lectures.

April 6, 1948

OU students help run radio station KBON for a day, working as annuncers, disc jockeys, newscasters and actors.

April 6, 1959

Omaha University band and Indiannes cheerleaders perform at Omaha Municipal Airport, greeting three plans of VIPs making their way from the East Coast to California as part of Mutual of Omaha’s 50th anniversary celebration.

April 7, 1949

OU students travel to hear Nobel prize winner Harold C. Urey, atomic scientist, speak in Lincoln

April 7, 1975

Three-day Newport Jazz Festival starts  at UNO

April 8, 1950

OU freshman Frank Burhorn wins "Stepping Stones to Stardom" talent show on radio station KOIL after playing Bach's "Chromatic Fantasia" on the clarinet.

April 9, 1943

Women's Athletic Association hosts carnival "with everything, including freaks," fortune teller and bowling games, in school auditorium. Proceeds purchased $40 in war bands and stamps.

April 9, 1965

OU student Patricia Joy McFarland competes in Miss Wool of America pageant in San Angelo, Texas. The contest was sponsored by the National Wool Producers and American Wool Council. McFarland represented Nebraska and Kansas.

April 10, 1931

Dr. Yadamandan Prassad, native of India and graduate of The University of India and Cambridge University, addresses school assembly to talk on India education, politics and social life

April 10, 1955

First football scrimmage between varsity and alumni. Alumni win, 23-19

April 10, 1963

Sinclair Gas and Oil Company President William H. Morris speaks on campus through the American Heritage lecture series sponsored under College of Adult Education.

April 10, 1970

 Renowned pediatrician Benjamin Spock, author of "Baby and Child Care" and vocal Vietnam War critic, speaks to UNO students.

April 10, 1975

Start of Indian Heritage Days hosted by the campus chapter of American Indians United (AIU).

April 11, 1929

70 OU students visit Iowa State Institute for the Feebleminded in Glenwood, Iowa

April 11, 1986

Casavant Pipe Organ in Strauss Performing Arts Center dedicated

April 12, 1962

The first Brazilian-made film to be released in the United States, "Cangaceiro," a western, is shown at OU.

April 13, 1959

Homecoming Princess Virginia Frank, Prom Queen Mary Jane Chapman and Tomahawk Beauty Queen Judy Flint honored at Shrine Circus starting this day in Omaha Civic Auditorium, 1959

April 13, 1962

Indira Gandhi, daughter of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and leader of India’s ruling political party, visits campus, speaking on “Security Through Peace” for the University Nights series

April 14, 1948

Card playing on campus prohibited by president’s office upon recommendation of student council and faculty committee on student activities

April 14, 1952

Classes canceled as 1,000 OU students contribute 60,000 man hours of labor fighting flooding along Missouri River

April 14, 1973

Grammy winner Bill Withers ("Ain't No Sunshine"; "Just the Two of Us") performs in MBSC Ballroom. He replaced previously scheduled Stevie Wonder, who canceled a performance due to “mental fatigue."

April 14, 1988

Yuri V. Gankovsky, head of the Afghan section of the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow, speaks at a press conference at UNO. He predicted that the Soviet Union would pull all its troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year.

April 14, 2011

“The Road to Omaha” College World Series statue modeled in part on 13 UNO students, moved to TD Ameritrade.

April 15, 1954

OU Vice President of Business Management Charles Hoff reports to the Board of Regents a nearly $200,000 shortfall in tax receipts.

April 16, 1930

Dean W.G. James presents OU's period on WOW radio, speaking on "The Poet and His Song."

April 16, 1990

OU student Ted Hillmer, 38, races in Boston Marathon, finishing in 3 hours, 14 minutes.

April 17, 1929

Former OU student Dr. Walter Judd, a missionary and physician, talks of his experiences in China.

April 17, 1944

OU begins 10-day Latin American festival featuring “lectures by world-famous travelers, new sound movies and exhibits of South American culture,” 1944

April 17, 1948

OU hosts 75 members for annual convention of the west central chapter of the American Association of French Teachers.

April 17, 1962

Nebraska Gov. Frank Morrison speaks to German Club, giving his impressions of Germany, where he had recently traveled.

April 17, 1964

Nebraska Gov. Frank Morrison and Omaha Mayor James Dworak are guest speakers at Young Democratic Club of Nebraska's Biennial Convention.

April 17, 1968

Gene Stoltzfus, former deputy Director of International Voluntary-Services in Vietnam, speaks about Vietnam in Student Center on behalf of Campus Christian fellowship

April 18, 1964

Illinois Democrat Congressman Roman Pucinski is guest speaker at Young Democratic Club of Nebraska's Biennial Convention.

April 18, 1979

Debut of NBC television show "Real People" with former OU student Charles F. ("Skip") Stephenson.

April 18, 1995

Author Hilda Neihardt, daughter of Nebraska poet laureate John Neihardt, speaks on her book, “Flaming Rainbow and Black Elk,” as part of the UNO Library Friends Series

April 19, 1944

University begins 10-day Latin American festival featuring "lectures by world-famous travelers, new sound movies and exhibits of South American culture," 1944

April 19, 1950

OU Regents approve creation of the College of Education

April 19, 1989

Maiki Mandela, daughter of then-imprisoned African activist Nelson Mandela, speaks in the Milo Bail Student Center, addressing apartheid in South Africa.

April 20, 1934

Nearly 100 students attend Chemistry Club's industrial tour.

April 20, 1951

Senator Hugh Butler wires President Milo Bail with news that OU had been established as one of three Midwest colleges, 62 throughout the nation, to receive a new Air Force ROTC unit

April 20, 1974

Ike and Tina Turner perform at Omaha Music Hall in concert sponsored by UNO’s Student Programming Organization.

April 21, 1950

Russian-born pianist, author and opera commentator Boris Goldovsky performs for 800 students in OU auditorium

April 21, 2015

Omaha City Council declares April 21 UNO Maverick Hockey Day in Omaha, commemorating the team’s appearance in the Frozen Four. Players, coaches, UNO Chancellor John Christensen and Athletic Director Trev Alberts are on hand to accept the honor.

April 22, 1947

James C. Olson of the Nebraska State Historical Society and official biographer of Arbor Day founder J. Sterling Morton, speaks on "The Contribution of Early Pioneers to the Prairie Land."

April 22, 1966

Newly formed, nine-student Opera Theater hosts Opera Theater Workshop featuring "Scenes from Great Operas"

April 22, 1966

The Highwaymen, a folk singing quartet, performs in the fieldhouse.

April 23, 1946

OU President Rowland Haynes presents a special citation to Laura Wells, representative of director David O. Selnick, producer of the Oscar-winning picture, "Rebecca," during a luncheon at the Fontenelle Hotel. The university was cooperating with a campaign to reshow the film throughout the nation.

April 23, 1959

OU Chemistry department hosts first “telelecture” featuring Nobel Prize winner Dr. Glenn Seaborg, who lectures from his lab in Berkeley, Calif. On “Trans-uranium Elements,”

April 24, 1924v

OU girls swimming class hold outing at Carter Lake

April 24, 1953

OU Military Ball at Peony Park attracts General Curtis Le May, Nebraska Gov. Robert Crosby and others.

April 24, 1970

UNO freshman Mary Jochim named Miss Papillion.

April 25, 1964

OU junior Johnny Ray Gomez debuts as host of KETV's "Channel 7 Dance Stand." Gomez headlines his combo "U-Neeks, which includes OU student Bill Wakefield. Listen to their 1964 recording of "Lonely for Love."

April 25, 1975

Jackson Browne appears for SPO at Music Hall

April 25, 1984

Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., speaks before 300 people in the Milo Bail Student Center.

April 25, 1988

The Minnesota Vikings select UNO Tight end Brad Beckman in the seventh round of the NFL draft.

April 26, 1950

Nebraska Gov. Val Peterson speaks at the Police Officers School graduation on "The Citizen and His Police Force." OU's Adult Education program administered a 12-week course completed by 267 police officers.

April 26, 1968

Joan Kennedy visits campus to stump for brother-in-law Robert Kennedy Jr.

April 26, 1986

About 100 women participate in the first UNO/Diet Pepsi Women's Walk.

April 26, 1978

Major League Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn speaks at UNO Academic, Business and Community breakfast.

April 27, 1939

Classes cancelled so that students can attend and perform in parades and exhibits associated with Golden Spike Days commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Driving of the Golden Spike and completion of the first transcontinental railroad.

April 27, 1950

Einer Juel, acting mayor of Council Bluffs, speaks to OU's Gamma Eta Chapter of Delta Sigma Ji, a business fraternity, addressing the city manager form of city government.

April 27, 1984

Pornographic flyers inserted into copies of  Gateway placed outside student center.

April 28, 1952

OU is among first six universities in nation to launch educational-credit TV programming with “TV Classroom.” First class, “Six Views of Life,” airs 15 minutes five mornings a week, aimed primarily at housewives

April 28, 1961

Pi Kappa Alpha members send Homer, a 30-pound, 50-year-old snapping turtle donated by the Gretna Fish Hatchery, to compete in the second annual Turtle Trudge at Detroit University. Homer, the largest entry in the race, competed against turtles from 100 other colleges and universities, including some from Scotland.

April 29, 1967

Student Center Concert and Lectures Committee hosts the first "Midnight Slapstick," which features a concert on the Orpheum Theatre's giant Wurlitzer organ while a silent slapstick movie played. Professional organist Bill McCoy played the musical interpretation to the silent film. The second annual Midnight Slapstick in 1968 featured former silent film star Leatrice Joy, whose "Eav's Leaves" was shown. The series last played in 1970.

April 29, 1992

Presidential candidate and former California Gov. Jerry brown speaks outside Student Center

April 30, 1941

Czechoslovakian diplomat address the International Relations club, discussing the possibilities of European reorganization after the war

April 30, 1980

SPO hosts the Lettermen at Orpheum Theater