Nov. 1, 1922

Gateway candy sale raises $18.70 toward reduction of the student newspaper debt

Nov. 1, 1935

Colorado State Teachers College Professor Dr. A.J. Zimmerman addresses assembly on “Liberalism in Spain,”

Nov. 1, 1965

OU hosts the three-day, 13th annual Convention of the Central States Regional Association of Physical Plant Administrators conference.

Nov. 2, 1951

Arnie Kriegler wins first “Ugliest Man” contest, which raised $707.20 for the Campus Chest

Nov. 3, 1939

International table tennis champion Tibor Hazi and his wife, Magda Gal Hazi, both of Hungary and winners of more than 1,000 different titles from all over the world, hold table tennis exhibition

Nov. 3, 1949

Vermont Senator Ralph Edward Flanders speaks on “War, Welfare, Freedom” during two-day William F. Baxter Lecture Series

Nov. 3, 1950

MGM movie star George Murphy speaks to university students

Nov. 3, 1975

"Gonzo journalist" Hunter S. Thompson and Frank Mankiewicz, an author and former Robert Kennedy press secretary, speak on "Plots and Politics" in the Student Center Ballroom.

Nov. 3, 1993

Seven-time Pulitzer Prize nominee Dale Van Atta, best known for uncovering the Iran-Contra scandal in 1980s, speaks on various topics, including terrorism and cults.

Nov. 4, 1938

Administration Building (now Arts & Sciences Hall) dedicated

Nov. 4, 1979

UNO graduates Leland J. Holland and Paul Needham taken hostage in Iran

Nov. 5, 1967

Pianist Adele Marcus of the Julliard School of Music  performs in the Conference Center Auditorium. She also conducts a two-day seminar Nov. 6-7.

Nov. 5, 1996

UNO graduate Chuck Hagel voted to U.S. Senate, defeating Don Stenberg with 62% of the vote in Nebraska general election. He is the first Nebraska Republican to win a Senate seat in 24 years.

Nov. 6, 1929

OU students take part in Nebraska Diamond Jubilee celebrating 75th anniversary of the entrance of Nebraska territory into the United States. OU students at Ak-Sar-Ben Field stage Scene 2 of pageant, “The Making of Nebraska.” The scene features the Indian life and customs in the Middle West.

Nov. 6, 1938

New York Times runs four-column print of Administration Building following its dedicated two days prior

Nov. 6, 1941

OU student and draftee Charles Worley, Omaha’s first conscientious objector, leaves for Civilian Public Service Camp Number Seven, a camp for conscientious objectors under the direction of the Church of the Brethren in Magnolia, Arkansas, after dropping out of school

Nov. 6, 1947

Dr. Chester Irving Barnad, one of the group of five who prepared the Lilenthal report on atomic energy, president of the USO from 1942 to 1945 and president of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. speaks on “The Social Consequences of Atomic Fission,” as William F. Baxter Lecture series

Nov. 6, 1963

Nebraska Gov. Frank Morrison speaks to to a political science class.

Nov. 7, 1933

Omaha University A Capella Choir broadcasts on KOIL, sings “O Praise Ye” by Tschaikowski; “Music in the Mine” by Dett, “Evening on the Sava,” a Hungarian folk song, and “Hear My Prayer,” by Gretchaniner

Nov. 7, 1940

Alumni Gateway debuts

Nov. 7, 1948

OU begins new radio program on KOWH

Nov. 7, 1957

 American political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate Norman Cousins speaks at Institute on World Affairs.

Nov. 8, 1937

Ferdinand Wagner, director of Mexico's state school of dramatics, Pasacio de Bellas Artes, speaks at the Hotel Fontenelle under sponsorship o Polyglot, an OU language fraternity.

Nov. 8, 1958

Members of the Royal Air Force demonstrate the points, rules and scoring of cricket during College Sports Day in the Fieldhouse, hosted by the OU Physical Education Majors and Minors Club.

Nov. 8, 1979

Ted Howard, co-author of "Who Should Play God?" speaks in student center ballroom discussing human genetic engineering via DNA research and cloning.

Nov. 9, 1911

Yellow Sheet first printed

Nov. 9, 1936

Omaha City Council votes 5 to 2 to annex new site for university on West Dodge road

Nov. 9, 1938

Armand and Leila Denis, appointed by Belgian King to explore Belgian Congo, address convocation, discussing his four-year stay in the wild African Jungle

Nov. 9, 1970

UNO students begin "Concern for Prisoners of War Week," which includes a petition drive protesting inhumane treatment of prisoners of war.

Nov. 9, 1993

Black Twist, designed by sculptor Sidney Buchanan, dedicated in ceremony.

Nov. 10, 1965

Robin Moore, author of "The Green Berets," speaks at the year's final Institute of World Affairs, addressing "Viet Nam: What Kind of Victory?" Moore was the only civilian to earn his jump wings after training with U.S. Special Forces guerilla warfare training school and lived and fought alongside Special Forces in Vietnam.

Nov. 10, 1969

UNO students hold a sit-in in the chancellor's office to protest racism on campus. Download the Nov. 12, 1969, Gateway student newspaper documenting that day.

Nov. 10, 1965

First Y.M. Stag Party held in Jacob’s Hall

Nov. 11, 1937

Conductor Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Symphony play “Mystic Pool,” a composition written by OU sophomore John Hefti

Nov. 11, 1937

Newly formed Girl Scout Troop 30 holds first formal meeting on campus

Nov. 11, 1946

Noted folk singer John Jacob Niles holds first of two-date engagement singing at university

Nov. 11, 1954

OU football team declines offer to play in the Mineral Bowl at Excelsior Springs, Mo.,

Nov. 11, 1955

OU student Pat Vogel, Miss Omaha Aviation, opens the $1.5 million Abbott Drive to Municipal airport in a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Nov. 12, 1980

Comedian Martin Mull performs to 1,000 students in Milo Bail Student Center ballroom, sponsored by SPO

Nov. 13, 1928

“The Color Line,” a religious play depicting race prejudice in America, presented by OU students

Nov. 13, 1934

OU students take tubercular tests, per Nebraska Tuberculosis Association

Nov. 14, 1940

Wallace McClure, assistant chief of the treaty division, U.S. Department of State, speaks at OU’s Institute of Government on “Trends on American Foreign Policy.”

Nov. 14, 1949

Author Corliss Archer speaks to OU dramatics students

Nov. 14, 1970

Allwine Hall dedicated

Nov. 14, 1974

Former Michigan Gov. George Romney (father of Mitt Romeny) speaks at Omaha Hilton Hotel as part of UNO College of Business Administration’s Distinguised Lecture Series.

Nov. 14, 1975

Former sports greats Bill Engelhardt, Marlin Briscoe, Leo Pearey and Roger Sayers becoe first inductees of UNO Athletics Hall of Fame

Nov. 14, 1980

Baseball great and Baltimore Oriole Jim palmer speaks at Hall of Fame Banquet,

Nov. 15, 1913

OU’s worst football defeat ever, 128-0 to Creighton

Nov. 15, 1950

Induk Pahk, Korean feminist leader, speaks at the Institute on World Affairs addressing the topic, “Whither Korea?”

Nov. 15, 1952

OU’s first televised athletic contest; OU defeats Doane 27-0 on WOWT

Nov. 15, 1964

Nebraska Gov. Frank Morrison is among dignitaries and 133 business leaders attending a banquet in honor of President Milo Bail at the Blackstone Hotel. The group presented a $10,000 check to Bail and his wife, intended for a trip around the world.

Nov. 15, 1965

The Mitchell Trio, a folk group, performs in student center.

Nov. 15, 1965

Nebraska Gov. Frank Morrison speaks on the press and politics as guest of the journalism department and its Reporting of Public Affairs class.

Nov. 16, 1949

Dr. Jan Papanek, former Czechoslovakian delegate to the United Nations, speaks on “Tito and the Russian Bear” at the World Affairs Institute

Nov. 16, 1967

OU Regents grant Professor Ralph Wardle, chairman of the English department, the first paid sabbatical in university history. He was granted leave to finish a biography of William Hazlitt, an early 19th century essayist and critic.

Nov. 16, 1973

Black Panther Party leader Bobby Seale addresses more than 800 students

Nov. 17, 1948

Athletic Director Virg Yelkin announces that former Olympic champion Allie Morrison will head first wrestling team in OU history

Nov. 17, 1959

OU Regents announce that Antoinette K. and Arthur A. Allwine have deeded to the university their 160-acre farm (now Allwine Prairie), located two miles northwest of Irvington, Neb.,

Nov. 17, 1973

First football game played on Caniglia Field's Astroturf surface, 28-13 win against the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Nov. 17, 1975

Herbie Hancock performs at Civic Auditorium Music Hall under sponsorship of Student Programming Organization.

Nov. 17, 1977

UNO beats Mexican National basketball team 74-63.

Nov. 18, 1910

First student newspaper, “The Boomerang,” is printed

Nov. 18, 1948

Northwestern Bell Telephone and Western Electric Companies complete overhaul of university’s telephone system, eliminating need for university’s PBX operator to handle calls between two OU departments. A Northwestern representative showed a special movie on telephone usage and etiquette

Nov. 19, 1958

Albert Parry, director of Russian studies at Colgate University, speaks on “Soviet Strategy and Nuclear Power,” during OU’s Institute of World Affairs.

Nov. 19, 1960

UNO graduate and U.S. Air Force Capt. Gene W. Jones pilots Pelican Two, a C-119, during a mid-air snatch over the Pacific Ocean of the capsule ejected from the Discoverer XVII satellite. The capsule launched Nov. 12 that year and traveled approximately 1 million miles during 31 orbits of Earth.
The capusle carried stamped letters that became the first “outer space mail” ever delivered, including a letter from Jones to Bill Ronson of New York City.
Jones and his crew repeat the difficult procedure Dec. 7, capturing the capsule of Discoverer XVIII, 1960.

Nov. 20, 1933

Shanghai University President Dr. Herman Chen-en Liu addresses OU student assembly on conditions in China

Nov. 20, 1954

OU chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha social fraternity installed as the 147th national chapter

Nov. 20, 1986

Soap opera star Ruth Warrick, Phoebe Tyler on “All My Children,” speaks at UNO

Nov. 21, 1955 

Larry Means and his team of ROTC runners receive a turkey for their individual and team wins, respectively, in an intramural cross country meet.

Nov. 21, 1966

Gateway editor Bob Erxleben joins editor of Creighton student newspaper on new KBON Radio program, “Cool School,” an open-line show to discuss campus life and help students with homework problems.

Nov. 21, 1985

Mayor Mike Boyle addresses UNO Student Senate.

Nov. 21, 1991

Once-exiled South African journalist Dumisani Kumalo, who married Nelson Mandela’s sister-in-law, speaks to a UNO audience on multiculturalism.

Nov. 22, 1948

Mountaineer, adventurer, scientific explorer and lecturer Maynard Malcolm Miller, speaks at convocation

Nov. 22, 1968

Pulitzer Prize recipient Mark Van Doren, poet, critic, playwright, short story writer and Columbia professor from 1920 to 1959, speaks on OU's Conference Center Auditorium.

Nov. 22, 1971

Comedian/activist Dick Gregory speaks at University Auditorium

Nov. 23, 1949

OU starts own 15-minute program on WOW-TV, debut “Potter’s Wheel,” features Professor M. Robert Koch fashioning vase from a lump of raw Nebraska clay,”

Nov. 23, 1954

Iranian Mehdi Hamidi talks to 35 members of Independent Student Association on differences between Thanksgiving in America and Iran. “After a question and answer period, there was dancing,” reported the Gateway.

Nov. 23, 1963

OU holds memorial for President John F. Kennedy a day after his assassination.

Nov. 24, 1927 

Founding President Daniel E. Jenkins dies at a sanitarium in Trenton, N.J.

Nov. 24, 1928

First Homecoming held with a five-block-long parade, pep rallies and a dinner.

Nov. 24, 1928

OU football player Gilbert Edwards dies in an auto accident injuring three other OU players when their car is struck by a truck from the Bee-Hive grocery store

Nov. 24, 1941

New course begins to train production engineers for the Glen L. Martin bomber plant

Nov. 24, 1951

Omaha University's U.S. Air Force ROTC establishes Angels unit for outstanding women leaders on campus.

Nov. 25, 1914

YWCA “rest room” opens for OU coeds

Nov. 25, 1978

UNO’s first-ever NCAA football playoff appearance, 21-14 loss to Youngstown State

Nov. 26, 1957

Denver attorney Byron “Whizzer” White, football star and later Supreme Court Justice, speaks at OU football banquet .

Nov. 27, 1940

Flooding begins for new outdoor ice skating rink dug by students

Nov. 28, 1938

FBI Inspector W.H. Drane Lester, administration assistant, addresses a student convocation, speaking on crime and prevention and the workings of the FBI. His talk was sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce "through the courtesy of J. Edgar Hoover," reported the Gateway.

Nov. 28, 1950

Edward Winter, a leading artist in the field of vitreous enamel design, lectures on his branch of ceramic art. His work had been on display on campus.

Jan. 22, 1952

Christian Science Monitor foreign correspondent Joseph C. Harsch is final lecturer in World Affairs Institute, focusing on "The Containment of Communism."

Nov. 29, 1950

Dr. Josef Korbel addresses Institute on World Affairs on “Titoism and U.S. Foreign Policy.” Korbel was active in the governments of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia and helped organize the Czech government in exile.

Nov. 29, 1955

Renowned composer and pianist Henry Cowell, guest pianist with the Omaha Symphony, presents information program in Music Room for OU students and faculty

Nov. 29, 1980

UNO Student James Powell shot to death by state patrolman after high speed chase

Nov. 30, 1935

Installment of “The President’s Mystery Story,” a fictional series conceived by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, written by six authors and appearing in Liberty magazine, includes a mention of Omaha University. In the installment, a character comes to Omaha for facial surgery. Skeptical of the doctor, he is referred to OU, where the doctor teaches.

Nov. 30, 1973

John Belushi and other members of National Lampoon's "Lemmings" perform at Omaha Civic Auditorium in an appearance sponsored by Student Program Organization. See Lemmings photo from the 1974 yearbook.