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2012 Event - Love letters written between poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning are published online by Wellesley College and Baylor University

2011 Event - In Quebec, 200,000 Canadian college and university students vote to boycott classes to protest tuition fee increases

2011 Event - In Punakha, Bhutan, King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck marries Jetsun Pema, a 21 year old college student

2002 Death - Arne Mellnas, composer, studied, taught orchestration at Royal College of Music in Stockholm, musical language filled with diverse moods

1999 Death - Bill Ballantine, clown, Ringling Brothers Clown College, dies at 87

1998 Event - 18th United Negro College Fund raises (rebroadcasted Jan 17th)

1997 Event - NC's Dean Smith winningest college basetball coach retires

1997 Event - President Clinton's daughter Chelsea chooses to attend Stanford College

1996 Event - Troy Davis of Iowa State ran for 378 yards, 3rd highest in college football games (others: Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas and Alabama)

1996 Event - St. Francis Fighting Saints scores college baseball run record 71-1

1996 Death - Alan Ridout, composer, teacher, professor Royal College of Music, dies at 61

1996 Event - 16th United Negro College Fund raises $12,600,000

1995 Death - K B Wilson, methodist principal (Westminster College), dies at 50

1995 Event - Columbia U beats Hartferd College to be 1st U.S. to win Henley Regatta

1995 Event - 15th United Negro College Fund raises $12,200,000

1994 Death - Joan Dickson, cellist, professor at Royal College of Music in London, dies at 72

1994 Death - Arthur Berry, playwright, artist, teacher, poet, studied, then taught at Burslem School of Art, absorbed by Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, which in 1971 became North Staffordshire Polytechnic, where he taught painting until 1985, dies at 69

1994 Death - Gundaris Pone, composer, professor, State University College at New Paltz, New York, dies of cancer in Kingston, New York, at age 61

1994 Event - 14th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000

1994 Event - Carquest Bowl 4: Boston College beats Virginia, 32-13

1993 Event - Dr. William Masters (78) weds college sweetheart Geraldine Oliver (76)

1992 Event - 13th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000

1992 Death - Bernard CJ Lievegoed, Dutch anthroposopher (Free College), dies at 87

1991 Event - 12th United Negro College Fund

1991 Event - 8 are crushed to death at a RAP basketball game at City College, New York City

1991 Event - College World Series: Louisiana State defeats Wichita State 6-3

1990 Event - 11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000

1990 Event - 2 slain college students found in Gainesville, Florida

1990 Event - CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma Japan

1990 Event - NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players

1989 Event - 10th United Negro College Fund raises $12,000,000

1989 Event - Houston becomes 1st major college team to gain 1000 yards in a game

1989 Event - Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship

1988 Event - Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation

1988 Death - Arwel Hughes, composer, choral and orchestral music conductor, composer, organist, studied with Ralph Vaughan Williams at Royal College of Music, known for large-scale oratorios Saint David and Pantycelyn, dies at 79

1988 Event - Miami beats Oklahoma for college football championship

1987 Event - Robin Ventura set a college baseball record with hits in 57 games

1987 Event - National Federation of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet)

1987 Event - Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ

1986 Event - NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams

1986 Event - Oklahoma wins Orange Bowl for college football championship

1985 Event - Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games

1985 Event - Brooklyn College soccer team wins Nepal's invitational

1985 Death - Sarah Blanding, 1st U.S. fem college head (Vassar 1946-64), dies at 86

1985 Event - Nevada-Las Vegas beats Utah 142-140, highest college basketball score

1985 Event - Undefeated BYU becomes college football champions

1984 Event - 5th United Negro College Fund

1984 Event - 50th Heisman Trophy Award: Doug Flutie, Boston College (quarterback)

1984 Event - Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie passes (472 yards), including game ending 48 yard touchdown (Hail Mary Pass) to end game and beat Miami 47-45

1984 Event - Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts

1984 Event - Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship

1983 Death - Paul "Bear" Bryant, college football coach (Alabama), dies at 69

1983 Event - Penn State beats Georgia in Sugar Bowl for college football title

1982 Event - Clemson wins the Orange Bowl for college football championship

1981 Event - Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to out distance Alonzo Stagg and become college football's winningest coach

1981 Death - Brailsford Reese Brazeal, dean (Morehouse College), dies at 76

1981 Event - Georgia beats Notre Dame in Sugar Bowl for college football title

1980 Event - 1st United Negro College Fund

1980 Event - College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for

1980 Death - John W. Davis, President (WV State college), dies at 92

1980 Event - ESPN begins televising college world series games

1980 Event - Alabama beats Arkansas in Sugar Bowl for college football championship

1977 Event - 39 killed in an earthen dam burst at Toccoa Falls Bible College, Ga

1977 Birthday - Shaun Alexander, born in Florence, Kentucky, football, running back, played college football at University of Alabama, drafted by Seattle Seahawks, placed 19th overall in 2000 National Football League Draft

1976 Death - Ernie Nevers, college fullback (Stanford), dies at 72

1974 Event - A college basketball game ends 210-67

1974 Event - Essex Comm College beats Englewood Cliffs 210-67 in basketball

1973 Event - Immaculata beats Queens College, 59-52 to win AIAW Basketball title

1972 Event - President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports

1971 Event - KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, AK (PBS) begins broadcasting

1970 Event - President Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses

1970 Event - Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College

1970 Event - Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game

1970 Event - KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting

1970 Event - Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points

1969 Birthday - Laura Brown, born in America, golfer, member, LPGA Tour 1994 - 1997, coach Daytona Beach College women's golf team

1969 Event - Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College

1968 Event - Students seize building at Bowie State College

1968 Event - "GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV

1967 Event - 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College

1966 Event - Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan begins teaching

1966 Event - Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance

1965 Birthday - Corey Parker, born in New York City, actor, How I Got into College, Roger-Eddie Dodd

1965 Event - Montcalm Community College in Sidney, Michigan, founded

1965 Event - Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan forms

1960 Birthday - Denise Strebig, born in San Bernardino, California, Denise Strebig-Haigh, professional golfer, toured with LPGA 1982-1990, married tour official Kerry Haigh, 1988, played college golf at University of Southern California

1959 Event - 100th anniversary of 1st college baseball game, between Amherst and Williams Teams reenact the original contest

1958 Birthday - Hal Sutton, born in Shreveport, Louisiana, professional golfer, 1980 College Player of the Year by 'Golf Magazine', ranked in top-10 Official World Golf Rankings 1986 - 1987

1955 Birthday - Gary Streeter, born in Hampshire, England, educated at King's College London, Member of Parliament for South West Devon

1955 Birthday - David Jasper, British principal, St. Chad's College Durham England

1954 Event - Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, laid in Bronx

1954 Event - Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 113 pts in basketball game

1953 Birthday - Rod Morgenstein, born in New York, drummer, member of '80's heavy metal band Wing, Dixie Dregs, educator, served as professor of percussion, Berklee College of Music

1953 Event - Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 pts in basketball game

1951 Birthday - David Jasper, British principal, St. Chad's College Durham England

1951 Event - 3 City College of New York basketball players admit to accepting bribes

1950 Event - 12th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: CCNY beats Bradley 71-68 New York City college becomes 1st to win NCAA and National Inv Basketball in same year

1950 Event - City College of New York defeats Bradley to win the NIT

1950 Birthday - Jack Youngblood, born in Jacksonville, Florida, professional football player, Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee, voted into College Football Hall of Fame

1949 Birthday - Mary Maples Dunn, college president, Smith College

1948 Birthday - Graham Zellick, principal, Queen Mary and Westfield College London

1946 Birthday - Lord Walton of Detchant, physician, Warden of Green College Oxford

1946 Event - U.N. set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx)

1946 Birthday - Keith Mans, born in England, politician, born Keith Douglas Rowland Mans, Member of Parliament for Wyre, educated at the RAF College Cranwell and the Open University

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

1945 Event - College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0

1945 Death - Paul Valery, philosopher, writer, poet, elected to Academie francaise, 1925, founder, the College International de Cannes, 1931, dies at 73

1945 Birthday - K B Wilson, methodist Preacher/Principal, Westminster College Oxford

1945 Birthday - Richard Ottaway, born in Bristol, England, Richard Geoffrey James Ottaway, politician, Conservative Party, attended Brittania Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, Member of Parliament for Croydon South

1944 Birthday - Alan Horwarth, born in Britain, politician, Baron Howarth of Newport, Member of Parliament for Statford-on-Avon and Newport East, educated at King's College, Cambridge, Conservative Party

1944 Event - United Negro College Fund incorporates

1944 Event - United Negro College Fund incorporates

1943 Birthday - J D Moore, headmaster, St. Dunstan's College

1942 Birthday - John Lewis, Head Master, Eton College

1941 Birthday - Frank Gerstenberg, Edinburgh, principal, George Watson's College

1940 Birthday - Bobby Knight, college basketball coach, Indiana, Gold Medal 1984 Olympics

1940 Birthday - Lewis Spratlan, born in Miami, Florida, composer, contemporary classical music genre, Professor of Music Emeritus, Amherst College

1940 Birthday - V Payne, British headmistress, Malvern Girls' College

1939 Event - 1st televised college football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at New York City)

1939 Birthday - Annea Lockwood, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, composer, records natural found sounds, Fluxus works with burning pianos, teacher, Vassar College

1939 Birthday - Ruth Ashton, general secretary, Royal College of Midwives

1939 Birthday - A C F Verity, master, Dulwich College

1938 Birthday - Alvin Curran, born in Providence, Rhode Island, composer, professor at Mills College, co-founder of Musica Elettronica Viva, using electronic and environmental found sounds

1938 Birthday - Alec Broers, master, Churchill College Cambridge

1938 Birthday - Niara Sudarkasa, Gloria M Clark, educator/president, Lincoln College

1938 Birthday - Anthony Walker, commandant, Royal College of Defense Studies

1938 Birthday - Gloria Dean Randle Scott, educator/president, Beaumont College

1938 Birthday - A. J. Bellingham, president, Royal College of Pathologists

1938 Birthday - Kenneth J. Gregory, warden, Goldsmiths' College

1937 Event - 1st quadruplets to finish college (Baylor University)

1937 Death - Snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75

1937 Event - New York City college students stage 4th annual peace strike

1937 Birthday - Tom Osborne, college football coach

1936 Birthday - Johnnetta B. Cole, educator and president Spellman College

1936 Birthday - D V Day, Principal, St. John's College, Durham U

1936 Event - Benjamin E. Mays named president of Morehouse College

1936 Birthday - Trevor Clay, General-Secretary, Royal College of Nursing

1936 Birthday - Brian Fuller, commandant, Fire Service College, England

1936 Birthday - Maurice Shock, rector, Lincoln College in Oxford

1936 Birthday - John Albert, professor, Master of University College Oxford

1936 Birthday - Michael Livesay, British admiral and president, RN College Greenwich

1936 Birthday - G H Blake, Principal, Collingwood College, Durham U

1936 Birthday - Enid Castle, principal, Cheltenham Ladies' College

1935 Event - 1,200 at St. Joseph's College (Philadelphia) enroll in anticommunism class

1935 Event - NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936

1934 Birthday - Alan Ridout, born in West Wickham, England, composer, teacher, professor Royal College of Music, worked with Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra, prolific instrumental and choral music composer

1934 Birthday - Bob Hepple, master, Clare College Cambridge

1934 Birthday - Anthony Walker, commandant, Royal College of Defense Studies

1934 Birthday - Leslie Turnberg, president, Royal College of Physicians

1934 Event - 1st high school auto driving course offered (State College, Penn)

1933 Birthday - Catherine Pestell, principal, Somerville College Oxford

1933 Birthday - Arne Mellnas, born in Stockholm, Sweden, composer, studied, taught orchestration at Royal College of Music in Stockholm, musical language filled with diverse moods

1933 Birthday - Dr. Robert Stevens, Master, Pembroke College, Oxford

1932 Event - Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a college football game

1932 Birthday - Gundaris Pone, born in Riga, Latvia, composer, professor, State University College at New Paltz, New York

1932 Birthday - Angela Rumbold, born in England, politician, Member of Parliament, British Conservative Party, attended King's College, served as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party

1932 Birthday - John Armitage, principal, College of St. Hilda and St. Bede Durham

1932 Birthday - Arthur Jones, principal, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester

1932 Birthday - Dominic Milroy, OSB/headmaster, Ampleforth College England

1932 Birthday - Janet Bately, Professor of English Language, King's College London

1932 Birthday - Dennis Skinner, born in Derbyshire, England, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Bolsover, attended Ruskin College, left-wing supporter, homosexual and pro-choice advocate

1932 Birthday - James Clyde, born in England, Baron Clyde, son of James Latham Clyde, Lord Clyde, British judge, Chancellor to the Bishop of Argyll, Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland

1931 Birthday - Raoul Pleskow, born in Vienna, Austria, composer, studied with Otto Luenig, served on music faculty at C.W. Post College, Long Island University

1930 Event - New York City College offers 1st course in radio advertising

1930 Birthday - Simon Barrington-Ward, born in England, educated at Eton College, Cambridge, 7th Bishop of Coventry in the Church of England, 1985 - 1997, Bishop with pastoral care, University of Cambridge

1930 Birthday - Robert Bunyard, Commandant, British Police Staff College

1930 Birthday - Uwe Kitzinger, President, Templeton College, Oxford

1930 Birthday - Lord Morton, of Shauna, senator, College of Justice, Scotland

1930 Birthday - Mary Moore, principal, St. Hilda's College, Oxford

1930 Birthday - Nicolas Christopher Henry Browne-Wilkinson, born in England, life peer as Baron Browne-Wilkinson, studied at Lancing College and Magdalen College, Oxford, former head of the Privy Council and Vice-Chancellor of the High Court

1930 Birthday - Derek Bok, college president, Harvard

1929 Birthday - Andrew Rutherford, warden, Goldsmith's College

1929 Birthday - Geoffrey Marshall, Provost, Queen's College, Oxford

1929 Birthday - Michael Atiyah, educator, Trinity College - Cambridge England

1929 Birthday - Eileen Stamers-Smith, headmistress, Malvern Girls' College

1929 Event - Morehouse College, Spellman College and Atlanta University affiliate

1928 Birthday - Reginald Askew, dean, King's College London

1928 Birthday - John Horlock, British vice-chancellor, Open College

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

1928 Birthday - Phil Jones, principal, Trinity College of Music

1928 Birthday - Eric Ash, rector, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

1927 Birthday - M Lawrence Antouin, college president, Emeritis

1927 Event - Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens

1927 Birthday - Robert Matthews, master, Clare College Cambridge England

1927 Birthday - Alan Betts, emeritus professor, Royal Veterinary College

1927 Birthday - Michael Butler, Pro-Provost/chairman, Royal College of Art

1926 Birthday - Richard Laws, St. Edmunds College Cambridge

1926 Event - NFL rules college students ineligible until college classes graduates

1926 Birthday - Robert Earle, Baldwin, New York, TV host, GE College Bowl

1925 Event - Red Grange signs with Chicago Bears directly out of college

1925 Birthday - Christopher Ball, born in Oxford, warden, Keble College

1925 Birthday - John Wells, born in England, politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Maidstone, educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford

1925 Birthday - Arthur Berry, born in Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent, England, playwright, artist, teacher, poet, studied, then taught at Burslem School of Art, absorbed by Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, which in 1971 became North Staffordshire Polytechnic, where he taught painting until 1985

1924 Birthday - David Cox, warden, Nuffield College, Oxford

1924 Birthday - Darrell Royal, born in Hollis, Oklahoma, football coach, in 20 years as head coach, University of Texas Longhorn never lost a season, elected to College Football Hall of Fame, 1983

1924 Birthday - Michael Gow, commandant, Royal College of Defense Studies

1924 Birthday - Michael McCrum, master, Corpus Christi College Cambridge

1924 Event - 1st men's college swimming championships begin

1923 Event - Army wins 1st college three-weapon fencing championships

1923 Birthday - Raymond "Bill" Hoffenberg, college president, Wolfson at Oxford

1922 Birthday - Arnold Burgen, college president, Academia Europaea

1921 Birthday - Joan Dickson, born in England, cellist, professor at Royal College of Music in London, studied with Enrico Mainardi in Paris, performed with Joyce Rathbone

1921 Birthday - James Menter, principal, Queen Mary College

1921 Event - Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins

1921 Birthday - Ian Todd, President, Royal College of Surgeons

1920 Event - WTAW of College Station, Tx, broadcast 1st football play-by-play

1920 Birthday - Amy Clampitt, born in New Providence, Iowa, poet, author, professor at Amherst College, College of William and Mary, Smith College, received Guggenheim, MacArthur Fellowship

1919 Birthday - Kingman Brewster, college president, Yale

1919 Birthday - Lord Maxwell, senator and professor, college of Justice Scotland

1919 Birthday - Raymond Carr, Warden, St. Antony's College Oxford

1919 Birthday - Eddie Robinson, winningest college football coach, Grambling

1918 Birthday - Richard Hoggart, author/warden, Goldsmith's College London

1918 Birthday - Joan Bernard, Principal, Trevelyan College, Durham

1918 Event - Wageningen Agricultural College Netherlands opens

1918 Birthday - Oral Roberts, Televangelist; needs $8,000,000, Oral Roberts College

1917 Birthday - Colin Cowe, senior bursar, Magdalen College Oxford

1917 Birthday - William Barr, rector, Exeter College, Oxford

1917 Birthday - Stanley Prager, New York City, comedian, College Bowl

1916 Birthday - Frank McGuire, basketball coach, won 550 games in 30 college seasons

1916 Birthday - Bud Wilkinson, college football coach, Oklahoma

1915 Event - Xavier University, 1st Black Catholic College in U.S., opens in NO LA

1915 Birthday - Edward Miller, Master, Fitzwilliam College Cambridge

1915 Birthday - John Habakkuk, principal, Jesus College in Oxford

1913 Birthday - William Deakin, warden, St. Anthony's College Oxford

1913 Birthday - Woody Hayes, Wayne, college football coach, Ohio, 1968 coach of yr

1912 Event - American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springield, Ill

1912 Event - Tennessee University opened as Tennessee A and L State College

1910 Birthday - Donald Lindsay, headmaster, Malvern College

1909 Birthday - Jean Berger, born in Hamm, Germany, composer, pianist, professor, studied at Heidelberg, Vienna universities, studied with Paris' Louis Aubert, taught at Middlebury College, University of Colorado at Boulder, among others

1909 Birthday - Elizabeth Wilkinson, professor German University College London

1909 Birthday - Arwel Hughes, born in Wales, composer, choral and orchestral music conductor, composer, organist, studied with Ralph Vaughan Williams at Royal College of Music, known for large-scale oratorios Saint David and Pantycelyn

1906 Death - Robert Rainy, minister, professor of Church history at New College, theological seminary, principal of New College, argued against Dean Stanley's Broad Church views, dies

1906 Event - John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College

1906 Birthday - Kathleen Major, principal, St. Hilda's College, England

1906 Birthday - Kathleen Tillotson, Emeritus Professor of English, Bedford College

1905 Birthday - Bernard C J Lievegoed, Dutch anthroposophist?, founder Free College

1904 Event - George Ade's "College Widow," premieres in New York City

1904 Event - 1st college sports letters given to Seniors who played on University of Chicago's football team are awarded blankets with letter "C" on them

1903 Event - Cornerstone laid for U.S. Army war college, Washington, D.C.

1901 Event - Army War College forms in Washington D.C.

1901 Event - Charlotte Manye is 1st native African to graduate from a U.S. college

1900 Birthday - David Wynne, born in Penderyn, Wales, composer, studied at University of Wales, Cardiff, University of Bristol, Head of Music, Lewis School Pengam, professor of composition, Cardiff College of Music and Drama

1899 Birthday - James B. Connant, chemist/college president, Yale

1897 Event - Yale defeated Penn, 30-10 in 1st major college basketball game

1897 Birthday - Earl H Blaik, Det, college football hall of fame coach, elected 1965

1894 Event - 1st college basketball game, University of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11

1893 Birthday - Lou Little, college football hall of fame coach, elected 1960

1893 Event - 1st U.S. college extension courses for credit, University of Chicago

1892 Event - N C Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in 1st black college football game

1892 Event - 1st college student government forms at Bryn Mawr Penn

1891 Event - 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College)

1891 Birthday - Robert Gordon Sproul, educator/college President, University of California

1887 Event - Ottawa College (ORFU) defeats Montreal Football Club (QRFU) 10-5 to win the Dominion championship

1884 Event - Naval War College forms in Newport RI

1884 Event - Mississippi establishes 1st U.S. state college for women

1883 Birthday - Thomas Shelvin, college footballer great, Yale

1882 Event - 1st U.S. college cooperative store opens, at Harvard University

1881 Event - Spelman College founded

1878 Event - Hastings College of Law founded

1878 Event - Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper

1877 Event - U.S. Electoral College declares R. Hayes winner presidential election

1876 Event - U.S. Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as President (although Tilden won)

1876 Event - Edward Bouchet, is 1st African-American to receive a PhD in U.S. college, Yale

1876 Event - Meharry Medical College forms at Central Tennesse College

1876 Event - President Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R)

1875 Event - Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms

1875 Birthday - Mary McLeod Bethune, South Carolina, slave/educator, Bethune-Cookman College

1874 Event - Ontario Agricultural College founded

1872 Event - Alcorn A and M College opens

1871 Birthday - Paul Valery, born in France, philosopher, writer, poet, elected to Academie francaise, 1925, founder, the College International de Cannes, 1931

1870 Event - Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate

1869 Birthday - Maria Radulphus, inspector on Curacao, Radulphus College

1868 Event - 1st American bicycle college opens (NY)

1867 Event - Maimonides College in Penns is 1st Jewish college in the US

1867 Event - Morehouse College organizes (Augusta Georgia)

1862 Birthday - Snitz Edwards, Hungary, actor, College, Phantom of the Opera

1860 Event - American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX

1857 Event - Gallaudet College (National Deaf Mute college) forms (Washington D.C.)

1857 Birthday - Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president, Bryn Mawr College

1855 Event - 1st veterinary college in U.S. incorporated in Boston

1854 Event - Lincoln University, Penn, 1st Black college in U.S. forms by Prebyts

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

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

1850 Event - 1st women's medical school (Women's Medical College of Penns), opens

1850 Event - Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)

1850 Birthday - Mary Mills Patrick, U.S., 1st President of Istanbul Woman's College

1849 Event - Avery College establishes in Allegheny, Pennsylvania

1848 Event - 1st U.S. homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania

1842 Event - Dutch King Willem II charters Technical College Delft

1841 Event - Fordham University, then St. John's College, opens in the Bronx

1840 Event - Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in U.S., incorporated

1837 Event - Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st U.S. college founded for women

1836 Birthday - Fannie M Jackson, pioneer and educator, 1st U.S. Black woman college grad

1833 Event - Oberlin College in Oh, 1st truly coeducational college opens

1833 Event - 1st U.S. college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded

1833 Event - Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st U.S. woman grad of a pharmacy college

1828 Birthday - Edward Hitchcock, America's 1st professor of physical education, Amherst College

1826 Birthday - Robert Rainy, born in Glasgow, Scotland, minister, professor of Church history at New College, theological seminary, principal of New College, argued against Dean Stanley's Broad Church views

1825 Event - 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, New York))

1825 Event - 1st U.S. engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, New York

1821 Event - 1st U.S. pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia

1821 Event - College of Apothecaries organized in Phil; 1st U.S. pharmacy college

1817 Event - Alexander Lucius Twilight, probably 1st black to graduate from U.S. college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College

1811 Birthday - Cyrus Hamlin, educator/missionary, est Robert College, Turkey

1810 Birthday - John McCloskey, U.S., President of St. John's College, Fordham U

1808 Event - 1st college orchestra in U.S. founded, at Harvard

1806 Event - 1st U.S. college magazine, Yale Literary Government, publishes 1st issue

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

1802 Birthday - Mark Hopkins, U.S., educator/philosopher, Williams College

1801 Event - House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson President over Burr

1791 Event - 1st Catholic college in U.S., Georgetown, opens

1789 Event - Franklin College founded

1789 Event - 1st electoral college chooses Washington and Adams as President and Vice President

1789 Event - Georgetown, 1st U.S. Catholic college, founded

1776 Event - 1st U.S. fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa (William and Mary College), forms

1776 Event - Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College

1769 Event - Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter

1769 Birthday - Horace H Hayden, cofounded 1st dental college

1765 Event - 1st U.S. medical college opens in Philadelphia

1758 Event - Francis Williams, 1st U.S. black college graduate, publishes poems

1754 Event - Kings College in New York City opens (renamed Columbia College)

1754 Event - Columbia University founded, as Kings College (New York City)

1705 Event - Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College

1693 Event - College of William and Mary opens

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

1693 Event - Royal charter granted College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va

1678 Event - Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford

1673 Event - Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate

1668 Event - Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge

1661 Event - Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge

1642 Event - Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1st commencement

1639 Event - Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard

1619 Event - Gerardus Vossius resigns as Dutch regent States college leader

1441 Event - Eton College founded by Henry VI

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