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Born in Buies Creek in 1894, poet, playwright, and essayist Paul Eliot Green was a twenty-three-year-old student at the University of North Carolina when the United States formally entered the conflict.
Cherished native son Thomas Wolfe was a sixteen-year-old freshman at the University of North Carolina when the United States entered the war. The campus was quickly swept by military fever, and students jumped at every opportunity for military training available to them.
On December 4, 1994, Charlotte Smith, then a member of the UNC Tar Heels women’s basketball team, became the second collegiate women’s player ever to dunk. The first dunk had come nearly 10 years earlier when West Virginia University player Georgeann Wells accomplished the feat in a game against the University of Charleston.
On October 26, 1895, UNC fullback Joel Whitaker threw the first forward pass in football to his teammate George Stephens.The history-making throw happened in Atlanta where the Tar Heels were playing the University of Georgia Bulldogs. Whitaker was punting from the Carolina end zone and, to avoid the Georgia players charging him, tossed the ball forward. As luck would have it, Stephens was the one to catch the toss. It probably looked to many in the audience like the ball was knocked out of Whitaker’s hands and that the whole situation was an accident.
On March 13, 1953, UNC-Chapel Hill students Carl Kasell and Charles Kuralt stepped up to the microphone for WUNC’s inaugural FM broadcast.After getting its start as a student-run AM station in the 1940s, the station made its transition to the FM band with future broadcasting greats Kasell and Kuralt. The station went on a six-year hiatus in 1970, after being taken off the air by technical difficulties and returned in 1976 as a professionally-run National Public Radio affiliate.