July 1, 1948

Milo Bail starts as OU President

July 1, 1951

Air Force ROTC program begins

July 1, 1968

Omaha University merges with University of Nebraska system

July 1, 1997

Graduate and former football player Bob Danenhauer begins term as UNO Athletic Director

July 2, 1954

World War I ace Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker speaks at OU's three-day Air Age Institute for teachers. Chairman of the board of Eastern Air Lines, Rickenbacker was responsible for 26 of the 69 planes shot down in the war.

July 2, 1998

Japanese pathologist Suguru Yonezawa of Kagoshima University Faculty of Medicien makes his American operatic debut in the Strauss Performing Arts Center.

July 2, 1998

E-BRUNO debuts as university's computerized web-based registration system, replacing telephone-based BRUNO.

July 3, 1973

UNO switchboard, which had handled all incoming and outgoing university calls, replaced by Centrex system. The old system, nicknamed "Old Damit" in switchboard offices, had handled up to 4,700 calls a day.

July 3, 1982

UNO first baseman-outfielder Dave Poulicek plays for the U.S. team in a Japan-United States College World Series in Omaha. Other UNO baseball players compete with area amateur players in exhibition games against both the Japanese and U.S. All-Stars

July 4, 1971

English Professor Richard Lane presents a patriotic reading, highlighting the Orchestra on the Green concert in front of UNO Administration Building (now Arts & Sciences Hall).

July 4, 1987

UNO Music Professor and cellist performs with the Beijing Film Philharmonic Orchestra in China in the Beijing Music Hall.

July 5, 1968

Dr. Charles H. Carter, medical and research director at Sunland Hospital in Orlando, Fla., speaks on "The Genetics and Biochemistry of Retardation" as one of five guest lecturers speaking on retardation being sponsored by psychology and special education departments.

July 5, 1970

First of three, free summer Orchestra on the Green concerts held in front of administration building (now Arts & Sciences Hall). Directed by associate professor of music Kermit Peters, the 60-member orchestra plays "Fireworks Music" by Handel and selections from "Hello, Dolly" and "Mary Poppins."

July 5, 1979

UNO Campus Recreation hosts Frisbee Free-For-All

July 5, 1982

Five UNO wrestlers, led by Coach Mike Denny, begin a month-long tryout camp for the U.S. World Team at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.

July 6, 1962

Debut of sidewalk art exhibit linking Administration Building to Student Center. Art later for sale.

July 6, 1962

Ministers from Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and Chile speak via tele-lecture on campus.

July 7, 1935

OU President William Sealock commits suicide after being ousted by the university’s regents

July 7, 1958

The Koefud Trio — pianist Rachel Koefud, cellist Joan Brockway and violinist Barbara Long, perform on campus as one of seven summer convocations.

July 7, 1985

Olympia Soccer Club, featuring several members of UNO's soccer club, defeats Vienna Fortuna, a top team from Austria, in a soccer game at Al Caniglia Field.

July 8, 1972

Clyde Biggers approved by NU Regents as Athletic Director

July 9, 1970

Barbara Coffey approved by NU Regents as first black administrator and one of the highest-ranking black administrators in the University of Nebraska system when hired as assistant dean of personnel, also known as the Dean of Women

July 10, 1963

UNO senior Jim Pelowski leaves New York with 159 other college students participating in "Experiment in International Living" sponsored by the School for International Living near Brattleboro, Vt. He is the first OU student to take part in the program and lives in Ciaro. HIs trip was sponsored by the OU Alumni Association.

July 11, 1985

Nineteen international students at UNO taken for overnight camping trip, including horseback riding, in Platte River State Park.

July 11, 1994

UNO and Creighton University combine to offer the first Midlands Insitute for Nonprofit Management, held at the Peter Kiewit Conference Center.

July 11, 1997

Groundbreaking ceremony for Information Science and Technology building on former Ak-Sar-Ben race track land near 66th and Pacific Streets.

July 12, 1968

Dr. Herbert Goldstein, chairman of department of special education at Yeshiva University, speaks on "Special Methods in Teaching the Retarded" as one of five guest lecturers speaking on retardation being sponsored by psychology and special education departments.

Lt. Col. Allen H. Wood takes command of OU's new U.S. Air Force ROTC unit.

July 13, 2011

UNO announces that its hockey team would join the newly formed National Collegiate Hockey Conference.

July 14, 1997

Nancy Belck, chancellor of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, named UNO chancellor by NU President Dennis Smith. She begins her tenure Sept. 1.

July 15, 1973

Geography and geology Department Chair Dr. Gordon Schilz leaves for Afghanistan on a one-year Fulbright-Hays Lectureship to teach at Kabul University.

July 15, 2009

UNO coaches begin the Omaha Road Show, visiting different cities and Omaha locales to promote the idea of the Mavericks as "Omaha's team."

July 16, 1954

Offutt Air Force base Bands performs on campus.

July 17, 1983

26 students from Shizuoka University begin a month-long stay in Nebraska under the sponsorship of UNO International Studies. The university is from Omaha's sister city in Japan, Shizuoka.

July 17, 1986

Student Senate votes 14-3 to remove four student senators from office for lack of attendance.

July 18, 1939

Summer theater begins with "Lena Rivers," a "gay nineties" production with a style of acting akin "to that of the melodramatic 1890s." Peanuts and pop-corn sold between acts "and the hero will be cheered and the villain, booed."

July 18, 1958

Folk singer Dylan Todd performs on campus as one of seven summer convocations.

July 18, 1971

Associate Professor of Music Kermit Peters leads the second of three Orchestra on the Green concerts in front of UNO Administration Building (now Arts & Sciences Hall). Concert features highlights from the musicals "Bye, Bye Birdie" and "Gypsy" and from the "Sabre Dance."

Vice President Walter Mondale speaks to a crowd of 900 people at the UNO-sponsored Academic, Business and Community Breakfast. He spoke mostly in favor of the Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty (SALT II) that the U.S. Senate was considering.

July 18, 1986

UNO connected to "System 85," a $3 million new phone system. The change required the removal of nearly 1,500 leased phones, taken away by American Telegraph and Telephone. The university was purchasing its new phones.

July 19, 2002

Rear Admiral Craig R. Quigley, the Pentagon's deputy assistant secretary of defense, visits UNO. He briefs faculty and staff of UNO's Center for Afghanistan Studies and other university officials on the military situation in Afghanistan.

July 20, 1951

OU Athletic Director and Head Baseball Coach Virgil Yelkin, a major with the U.S. Army, reports for 21 months of active duty with the Tenth Infantry Reserve at Fort Riley, Kansas

July 20, 1962

Embassy ministers from Pakistan, Japan, the Philippines and Afghanistan speak via tele-lecture.

July 21, 1979

Campus Recreation hosts "Track It and Craft It" Day

July 22, 2001

UNO freshman Brian Cullin begins competition in the 2001 Deaf World Games in Rome, competing in Greco-Roman wrestling. He finished eighth.

July 23, 1964

OU Regents hire Leland Traywick to replace Milo Bail as president

July 23, 1991

UNO communications instructor Karen Dwyer appears on "Attitudes," airing on the Lifetime Cable Network, discussing her recipes for microwave ice cream sundae toppings.

July 24, 1967

Start of Pan American Games baseball tournament at the University of Minnesota with OU Baseball Coach Virgil Yelkin as one of three coaches of the U.S. team.

July 25, 1954

Robert Davis presents films on Iceland, where he had recently traveled, during one of eight summer convocations.

July 25, 1958

Air Force Band performs as one of seven summer convocations

July 25, 1994

HPER pool reopens after nearly two months of construction to add a crawl space around the perimeter of the pool and underneath the deck.

July 26, 1970

Season finale for Orchestra on the Green featuring a 60-piece orchestra directed by Music Professor Kermit Peters and featuring songs from "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Mame."

July 26, 1981

Fontenelle Forest offers a for-credit summer day camp for adults with study of prairie ecology, wildlife art, outdoor cooking and more.

July 26, 2009

UNO announces that its hockey team would join the Western Collegiate Hockey Association beginning with the 2010-11 season.

July 27, 1939

Baritone singer William Bowers, Porgy of “Porgy and Bess,” performs in OU auditorium

July 27, 1972

Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band, formed in 1939, performs in concert sponsored by the Student Programming Organization in collaboration with the College of Business Management.

July 28, 2008

UNO hosts the swimming events of the National Veterans Wheelchair Games, held at various Omaha venues. More than 500 athletes from the United States and the United Kingdom competed in the games.

July 29, 1971

Humor Columnist Art Buchwald speaks to university theatre students

July 30, 1974

Don Leahy selected to be UNO athletic director

July 30, 1983

First KVNO Lawn Sale hosted. Donated items sold to benefit the UNO radio station.

July 30, 1984

UNO University Bands sponsors a four-day Flag Corps Summer Camp for high school students, offering instruction in flag and marching fundamentals, precision routines, group formations and more.

July 31, 1969

Participants in UNO Opera Theatre's UNO Summer Opera Workshop stage first of two opera productions.

July 31, 1974

Ground broken for new library construction