Aug. 1, 1951

Assistant football coach Al Caniglia becomes head football coach and athletic director at Hillsboro College in Illinois

Aug. 1, 2009

UNO graduate student Pallav Deka wins the gold medal in badminton at the State Games of America in Colorado Springs. He also teams with Anh Nguyen of Lincoln to win the men's doubles championship.

Aug. 1, 1977

Comedian Gabriel Kaplan (later with “Welcome back, Kotter”) performs in Milo Bail Student Center ballroom

Aug. 2, 1937

OU student Marjorie Disbrow attends the Silver Jubilee Encampment, the first international gathering of Girl Scouts in the United States, held at Camp Andree Clark, the national Girl Scouts camp 30 miles from New York City. The conference was in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Girl Scouts. Disbrow was official hostess and welcomed all foreign guests in an opening speech of the program. She met First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and spent two days touring New York City. There she also met former New York Gov. Al Smith.

Aug. 2, 1973

The Serendipity Singers perform in the Strauss Performing Arts Center. The group, sponsored by Student Program Organization and College Business Management Short Course, performed at 1973 Presidential inaugural events in Washington, D.C., and at the 1972 World Series.

Aug. 3, 1953

Col. Allen Wood and Major Jack Burnett conduct one of 30 AF-ROTC workshops held through the United States. OU's workshop, hosted for a seven-state area, is to acquaint ROTC instructors with new curricula.

Aug. 3, 1981

Installation of 2,500 new locks on exterior and interior doors on campus begins.

Aug. 3, 1990

Rose Shires named to replace Karen Uhler as UNO's head volleyball coach. She has gone on to become the winningest coach in UNO history.

Aug. 4, 1950

OU President Milo Bail suffers heart attack on the evening of summer commencement. He spent one month in the hospital but returned to work in October that year.

Aug. 5, 1966

Beatles release Revolver with the song "She Said She Said," written in part based on comment made to Beatles by OU student Peter Fonda. See more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Said_She_Said

Aug. 5 1967

The United States, with OU Baseball Coach Virg Yelkin one of its coaches, defeats Cuba in the final game of a three-game playoff to win the Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It remains the only Pan Am Games won by the United States.

Aug. 5, 1971

UNO Student Senate approves plan to name a new UNO mascot.

Aug. 5, 1982

Power failure blacks out six campus buildings.

Aug. 5, 1988

UNO Athletic Director Bobby Thompson announces his resignation to take a similar position at the University of Texas-San Antonio.

Aug. 5, 2005

Durham Foundation makes significant donation, helping form the School of Architectural Engineering and Construction, administered in OMaha though part of the College of Engeering at UNL.

Aug. 6, 2009

UNO Junior Melissa Lilly named regional "Miss Hooters" and advances to compete in the 14th annual International Hooters pageant.

Aug. 7, 1987

UNO senior Connie Garro begins 16-days as a voluntary security assistant the Pan American Games in Indianapolis.

Aug. 7, 1971

NU Regents dismiss Kirk Naylor as Chancellor, appoint John Blackwell as replacement

Aug. 8, 1970

Regents appoint Melvin Wade coordinator of UNO's new black studies department. He came from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Aug. 9, 2006

Twenty international students from Europe visiting Omaha and taking classes at UNO spend a day helping build a Habitat for Humanity home.

Aug. 10, 1977

First annual Drums Across the Midlands National Champion Drum & Bugle Corps competition held at Al Caniglia Field

Aug. 11, 1974

The Plains Track Club, featuring UNO track athletes, hosts a Sextathlon at UNO.

Aug. 12, 1966

Alum and U.S. Air Force Major James H. Kasler (1963) promoted by TIME magazine as America's top jet ace in Vietnam – four days after he was shot down and captured by the Viet Cong. While in captivity he received the Air Force Cross, becoming the only man to receive that honor three times. He was released from captivity on March 4, 1973.

Aug. 12, 2001

Fundraiser at UNO Religious Center raises $10,300 to send body of deceased UNO student Chris Abade back to Kenya after he was killed in an auto accident

Aug. 12, 2005

Marisa Ozuna recogznied as 1,000th graduate of Goodrich Program

Aug. 13, 1994

Newly formed UNO cycling club hosts its first road race, the only one of its kind in Omaha

Aug. 14, 1970

Nebraska University Foundation announces purchase of the Storz Estate west of the UNO campus and intention to transfer lease of the land to UNO. Dubbed Annex 15, it houses two radio stations, KVNO and KRNO, and offices of the Alumni Association. It was demolished in March 1988.

Aug. 14, 1982

Pen and Sword Society hosts “Ham Jam” pig roast at Muscle Mission near Mormon Bridge

Aug. 14, 1983

Firozeh Dehghanpour, UNO student from Iran, founded stabbed to death in Council Bluffs

Aug. 14, 1997

Anonymous letter left with Black Studies Department Chair James Conyers threatening the safety of African-American students attending Aug. 16 commencement. Commencement held without incident

Aug. 15, 1988

KVNO begins simulcasting news segments from WOW-FM

Aug. 15, 2003

Students being moving into new Scott Village student housing

Aug. 16, 1975

U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Theodore Elliot Jr. delivers commencement address, "American Foreign Policy – A Perspective From Afghanistan." Elliot, Afghanistan Ambassador to the United States Abdullah Malikyar and Kabul University President Dr. Ghulam Sedeeq Mohibbi also receive honorary doctorate degrees, 1975

Aug. 17, 1985

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige, an Omaha native, is commencement speaker, receives honorary Doctor of Letters degree

Aug. 18, 1978

Former UNO baseball player Bruce Benedict makes his major league debut with the Atlanta Braves on his 23rd birthday. A catcher, he went 1-for-1 in a 1-0 Braves win over St. Louis.

Aug. 18, 2004

UNO Athletic Director Bob Danenhauer announces his impending resignation following seven years in the office

Aug. 19, 1987

The Movie Channel airs a movie festival hosted by 19-year-old UNO student Rachel Rizzuto, who auditioned for the spot through the station’s Screen Test contest

Aug. 20, 2003

KVNO returns to full power broadcasting after temporary broadcasting from UNO’s campanile at reduced power following the July 4 collapse of KETV Channel 7 tower, from which it had broadcast since its debut in 1972

Aug. 21, 1999

IST&E Building dedicated

Aug. 21, 2000

Scott Residence Hall and Conference Center opened

Aug. 23, 1990

Library converts from card catalogs to online catalog

Aug. 24, 1999

Women’s soccer debuts with 14-0 loss to defending Big 12 Conference champion Nebraska

Aug. 25, 1982

The Tannahill Weavers, performers of Irish and Scottish folk music, perform in the Arts Recital Hall.

Aug. 25, 1983

UNO engineering student Kent Bryant goes down the Peony Park water slide 1,710 times in 87 hours, 19 minutes to win a contest hosted by radio station KQKQ Sweet 98. Bryant defeated 260 other contestants (including runner-up, 14-year-old Colleen Bruce), winning $1,300 in cash prizes, a 1950 vintage Coke machine, a moped, waterbed, stereo, 100 gallons of gas and other prizes.

Aug. 25, 1986

UNO Child Care Center opens

Aug. 26, 1996

"Kickoff Day" for Student Center grand opening following an $8.62 million, two-year renovation and addition.

Aug. 27, 1972

KVNO (FM 90.7) begins broadcasting at 5:30 p.m., playing Mikhail Glinka’s “Russian and Ludmilla Overture,”

Aug. 27, 1973

UNO holds induction ceremony for freshmen, featuring a speech by Chancellor Ron Roskens.

Aug. 27, 1976

Campus Security reports that money bag containing $53,342 in checks and cash was “lost or stolen” after last seen in a Fieldhouse file drawer, where he Cashiering department had been set up during registration week

Aug. 28, 1989

Shuttle bus service starts for second time with remote parking at Ak-Sar-Ben

Aug. 28, 2002

UNO adjunct professor Mark Hoeger premieres his film, Full Ride, on national TV network WB. The film, centering on high school football players, was partly filmed at UNO’s Al Caniglia Field

Aug. 28, 2004

All-time Canglia Field football attendance record of 13,000 set against Nebraska-Kearney.

Aug. 29, 2009

UNO Student Amy Wieczorek hosts a fashion show fundraiser to raise awareness about drinking and driving.

Aug. 30, 1996

UNO Art Gallery opens an Alumni Exhibition featuring the work of two UNO graduates, Dan Devening and Colin Smith

Aug. 31, 1963

OU's "TV Classroom" broadcast from Radio-TV department facilities for first time after originating from KMTV studios previous 11 years.

Aug. 31, 1966

Victoria R. Bastron becomes first woman to graduate from OU with law enforcement and security degree