On, Jan 24, 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke at DU. He spoke before a crowd of 600 in the old Student Union Building (now the south end of the Driscoll Student Center) in an appearance sponsored by the local Shorter Community AME Church.
50 Years ago… DU wins its third NCAA hockey championship 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of DU’s third NCAA national championship in hockey. The Pioneers also had won the NCAA championship the season before. The team also won the 1961 WCHA regular-season and tournament titles. In the 1961 NCAA […]
Nov. 24, 1960 DU plays last football game The last DU football game was played at Hilltop Stadium November 24, 1960 (Thanksgi9ving Day) vs. Colorado State University. DU won 21 -12 in front of 6,927 .
October 2010 Alumni win award for Tuskegee Airmen documentary It took communication majors Shane Carrick (BA ’08) and Bobby Deline (BA ’07) a few tries to find the right subject for their documentary film, but when they met Lt. Col. James Harvey they knew they had their man. Harvey, who […]
July 1989 Chancellor Dan Ritchie inaugurated When Daniel Ritchie accepted the job as the University of Denver’s 16th chancellor, he intended to hold the position just long enough to guide the institution—$2 million in debt at the time—from the brink of ruin before returning to the open acres of […]
June 18, 1884 DU awards diploma to its first graduate On June 18, 1884, trustees, faculty and students crowded into the First Baptist Church for the first annual Commencement of the University of Denver. John Hipp, the son of German and Swiss immigrants and the sole graduate that year, […]
Colorado Women’s College graduates final class May 1982 For the Colorado Women’s College Class of 1982, the graduation ceremony on May 15 marked the conclusion not only of their undergraduate study but also the end of 94 years of independent operations for their alma mater. Three months earlier, on […]
Student sit-in April 1968 On April 30, 1968, DU students gathered in the Office of the Registrar to demand the inclusion of several controversial amendments, known as the “Student Bill of Rights,” to the AUSA constitution. Days earlier, Chancellor Maurice Mitchell had warned students against such measures, saying “this […]
Colorado Seminary founded March 1864 On March 4, Colorado Territorial Gov. John Evans (pictured) signed into law Bill No. 22, which created a board of trustees “for the purpose of founding, directing, and maintaining an institution of learning, to be styled the Colorado Seminary.” On March 14 that year, […]
Pioneers basketball vs. People’s Republic of China February 1980 On Feb. 2, 1980, the DU Fieldhouse played host to an international athletic competition when the Pioneers men’s basketball team took on the People’s Republic of China’s Junior National Team in an exhibition scrimmage. Although the young team was “quick […]
Before Barack Obama came to Denver in August 2008 to be formally received at the Democratic National Convention as the party’s nominee for president, he visited the Mile High City on Jan. 30, 2008, to deliver his message of hope and change to a crowd of more than 14,000 gathered […]