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1975 Chartered 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die

1970 Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons

1964 Clinton Gregory, born in Martinsville, Virginia, singer, songwriter, recording artist, fiddler, country and bluegrass genres, recorded seven studio albums, chartered 11 Billboard Hot country Singles and Tracks, including Play, Ruby, Play, which reached no. 25 on the charts

1960 Chartered C46 carrying California State's football team crashes, kills 16

1947 Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline

1947 MJ Ainsworth, CEO, Institute of Chartered Secretaries

1945 Yeshiva College (Univesity), chartered in NY, 1st U.S. Jewish College

1928 Yeshiva College (now University) chartered (New York City)

1924 Peter Godfrey, chartered accountant

1923 E. C. Meade, British chartered accountant

1917 1st federal land bank chartered

1915 National Baptist Convention chartered

1913 Stanley Kitchen, British chartered accountant

1913 Lord Hirshfield, chartered accountant

1913 Oliver Chesterton, chartered surveyor

1910 Boy Scouts of America incorporated and chartered (William D. Boyce - Chicago)

1891 Rice Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered

1882 Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men

1877 American Chemical Society chartered in New York

1867 Howard University chartered

1867 Howard University, Washington D.C., chartered

1865 Cornell University in Ithaca,New York is chartered

1863 1st bank chartered in U.S., National Bank of Davenport, Iowa

1863 Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered, 1st accident insurer

1861 1st U.S. nursing school chartered

1854 Lincoln University, a black college, chartered (Oxford, Penn)

1852 Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College

1851 Northwestern University in Chicago chartered

1843 1st chartered mutual life insurance company opens

1841 Queens University in Kingston is chartered

1827 University of Toronto is chartered

1827 1st commercial railroad in U.S., Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) chartered

1826 Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in U.S.) begins operations

1826 Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)

1826 1st U.S. Railroad chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachsetts

1816 2nd Bank of U.S. chartered

1804 1st U.S. land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered

1791 1st Bank of U.S. chartered

1785 1st U.S. state university chartered, Athens Georgia

1768 1st American chartered fire insurance company opens (Penn)

1701 Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven

1693 William and Mary college is 2nd college chartered in US

1686 City of Albany, New York chartered

1675 1st American commercial corporation chartered (New York Fishing Co)

1662 Connecticut chartered as an English colony

1600 British East India Company chartered


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