On this date in 2005 in Red Creek, Kentucky, about eight miles south of Pikeville, three Black Pikeville College students discovered an apparently deliberately set fire at their home. Quintin Collins, 22, of Wando, South Carolina, Kurtis Ellison, 21, of Chicago, Illinois, and Michael Shepperd, 22, of Ellensboro, North Carolina, football players for Pikeville College, put out the fire, and later Bobby Gibson Jr., 33, of Shelbiana, Kentucky, was charged and eventually criminally cleared of any wrongdoing in the incident. However, the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights filed civil charges against Gibson, who is white, and a judge found Gibson guilty of setting fire to a mason jar in attempts of burning the students' home, and in 2007 Gibson was ordered to pay $80,000 to the students.

In Boulder, Colorado on this date in 2007, Colorado University gave a summary of suspension notice to Adam Perez, 21, who was a senior who had been majoring in biology, and to Eric Schorling, 21, who was a junior who had been an anthropology major, for their possible involvement in a hate crime assault occurring the previous night at 10th and Pearl Streets in Boulder. The two were charged in the attack on two men, one of whom is gay and who at the time of the attack had his arm around his male friend. Mr. Bronson Hilliard, a spokesman for Colorado University, indicated that due to what Perez and Schorling have been accused of the university has the right to suspend the students. Hilliard pointed out that although Perez and Schorling were not convicted of any crime at the time of their suspension, the university's burden of proof is not as high as a court's burden of proof, and that the university has the right to respond to alleged hate crimes. Schorling and Perez both pleaded No Contest to one count each of a bias-motivated crime in Boulder County District Court in May and June, 2007, respectively. Neither criminal received jail time for their crimes, and if both adhere to the conditions outlined by the Court for a one-year timeframe, the hate crimes will be expunged from their criminal records. If not, he could face a prison sentence of two to six years. A No Contest finding prevents Perez and Schorling from implicating themselves if civilly sued.