January 28

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January 28 in Clemson History

[edit] Events on January 28 in Clemson's History

  • Wednesday, January 28, 1903: Second term (third quarter) begins.
  • January 27,1982-January 28, 1982: A blast of Arctic weather covers the southeast and Atlantic seaboard. Heavy snow falls in the Carolinas and Georgia and Alabama and stays on the ground for several days.
  • 1963: Harvey Gantt becomes the first African-American student at Clemson as the college integrates without the friction seen on other Southern campuses. Gantt will later serve two terms as mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina. He also marries the first black Clemson coed - Lucinda Brawley.
  • 1996: Legendary football Coach Frank Howard dies in Clemson. He is buried on Cemetary Hill next to Death Valley.
  • 2007: The Men's basketball team hosts Virginia in Littlejohn Coliseum at 1 p.m. - coverage by SC, R/LF networks. The Tigers go cold for last five minutes of play, lose fifteen point lead, and lose to the Cavaliers, 63-64. Women's basketball team plays at Miami at 2 p.m., winning 79-69. Men's tennis at Texas Christian University, and versus Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at Fort Worth, Texas.
  • January 28-February 1, 2007: The 16th annual Shakespeare Festival examines the theme "Shakespeare and Tourism" with a variety of performances, lectures, workshops, and films. Aquila Theatre Company will serve as resident company and present their production of Romeo and Juliet.
  • 2007: Shakespeare Behind Bars, a 2005 documentary about Kentucky prison inmates who stage a production of The Tempest, is shown in the McKissick Theatre in the Hendrix Student Center at 3 p.m.


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