Sports
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Clemson's basketball team, in the Finals of the ACC Tournament, beats a sixth-ranked Duke team in the semifinals of that tournament, 77-72, then the highest-ranked win in Clemson history.
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While on a road trip for the Maryland game in College Park, Tiger Band meets President John F. Kennedy at the White House Rose Garden. When he asks them to perform, they have no instruments with them so they sing the Alma Mater for the president. Final year for Tiger Band in cadet grey uniforms.
In the News
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Newly-constructed Greenville-Spartanburg Airport opens for business, replacing the Greenville Downtown Airport and Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport as the primary airline facility for the region. It becomes the first non-military airport to have runway center line lighting system.
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From October 16 to October 28, 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred, bringing the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war. The crisis began when the U.S. discovered Soviet nuclear missiles stationed in Cuba. The standoff was resolved through intense negotiations, with the Soviets agreeing to remove the missiles in exchange for a U.S. promise not to invade Cuba and the secret removal of U.S. missiles from Turkey.
On Campus
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Harvey Bernard Gantt, an architecture student from Charleston, attending Iowa State University in Ames, applies for admission to Clemson a second time. When he is turned down due to his race, his attorneys file suit in federal court, and upon appeal he is finally admitted.
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