Today in History – April 28

Woody Herman

1941

Woody Herman and his swing band played for the University of Arkansas’s Junior-Senior Prom on this day.

2000

The E. Fay and Gus Jones House on North Hillcrest Avenue was added to the National Register of Historic Places on this day. Since then, the university has acquired the house, restored it and now its overseen by the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design. Learn more about it.