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The University of Texas at Austin officially opened its doors to students on the 15th of September 1883. The institution was established following a legislative process that began with the idea mentioned in the constitution of Coahuila y Tejas as early as 1827.
Paul Philippe Cret designed the Beaux-Arts Main Building including its 307-foot tower for the University of Texas at Austin. The tower displays different colors of lighting on special occasions and houses a carillon of 56 bells at the top.
Texas student Charles Whitman barricaded the observation deck in the tower of the Main Building armed with multiple firearms on the 1st of August 1966. He killed 14 people on campus and wounded two others before police shot and killed him after breaching the tower.
The Longhorns have won four NCAA Division I National Football Championships, six NCAA Division I National Baseball Championships, and sixteen NCAA Division I National Men's Swimming and Diving Championships. The football team experienced its greatest success under coach Darrell Royal winning three national championships in 1963, 1969, and 1970.
Thirteen Nobel Prize winners, twenty-five Pulitzer Prize winners, three Turing Award winners, two Fields Medal recipients, two Wolf Prize winners, and three Abel Prize winners have been affiliated with the school as alumni, faculty members, or researchers. Notable individuals include Alan Bean who became the fourth man to walk on the Moon and James P. Allison who won the Nobel Prize for immunology research.