UWF Events

• Ground broken on Good Friday for first UWF buildings
• University adopts Nautilus shell as official emblem
• UWF Foundation chartered
• First classes offered in the name of the university

World Events

• Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery
• Panama Canal Treaty proposed
• Troops increased in Vietnam and anti-war protests increase
• HUD established
• Clean Air, Medicare, Immigration Acts pass
• T.S. Eliot and Edward R. Murrow die
• Arthur Schlesinger Jr. publishes A Thousand Days
• National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities formed
• St. Louis Gateway Arch completed
• Bell bottom trousers become latest fashion statement and boys let their hair down
• NBC leads color TV boom