On This Date in UTEP History ... April 23
El Paso's Centennial Museum
1937
The El Paso Centennial Museum, celebrating 100 years of Texas independence from Mexico, is dedicated. Over 4,000 El Pasoans gather on campus for the ceremony. -Prospector
1998
The Peace Corps holds its annual convocation at UTEP, thirty-seven years after the first Peace Corps class was established at the school in 1961. -Prospector
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