May
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- 1912 - President Walter Merritt Riggs brings to light more than fifteen years of embezzlement from the college mess hall by steward August "Shorty" Schilletter, hiring a private detective out of his own pocket so that there will be no school financial records involved.
- 1944: Due to wartime conditions, Clemson graduates its smallest class of all time - 14 students.
- 1946: Most of the structures and military property of the Issaqueena Bombing Range are removed by this time.
- 1969: Craig Mobley becomes the first African-American student athlete to sign an athletic grant-in-aid with Clemson University. The six-foot guard had been named the most valuable player on Chester High School's basketball team, as well as MVP in the Eastern AAA Conference in 1968-1969. (Riley, Helene M., "Clemson University", Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina, 2002, Library of Congress card number 2002108889, ISBN 0-7385-1470-5, page 119.)
- 1982 - Former men's basketball Coach Tates Locke, (1970-1975), publishes book, Caught in the Net, giving his version of his involvement in the recruiting scandal that put the Clemson basketball program on probation in 1975.
- 2007: YNK, a private club located in Rogers Plaza on US 123, Tiger Boulevard, is opened by Richard Martin.
