1999 Bill Ballantine, clown, Ringling Brothers Clown College, dies at 87
1998 18th United Negro College Fund raises (rebroadcasted Jan 17th)
1997 NC's Dean Smith winningest college basetball coach retires
1997 President Clinton's daughter Chelsea chooses to attend Stanford College
1996 Troy Davis of Iowa State ran for 378 yards, 3rd highest in college football games (others: Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas and Alabama)
1996 St. Francis Fighting Saints scores college baseball run record 71-1
1996 16th United Negro College Fund raises $12,600,000
1995 K B Wilson, methodist principal (Westminster College), dies at 50
1995 Columbia U beats Hartferd College to be 1st U.S. to win Henley Regatta
1995 15th United Negro College Fund raises $12,200,000
1994 14th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000
1994 Carquest Bowl 4: Boston College beats Virginia, 32-13
1993 Dr. William Masters (78) weds college sweetheart Geraldine Oliver (76)
1992 13th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000
1992 Bernard CJ Lievegoed, Dutch anthroposopher (Free College), dies at 87
1991 12th United Negro College Fund
1991 8 are crushed to death at a RAP basketball game at City College, New York City
1991 College World Series: Louisiana State defeats Wichita State 6-3
1990 11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000
1990 2 slain college students found in Gainesville, Florida
1990 CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma Japan
1990 NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
1989 10th United Negro College Fund raises $12,000,000
1989 Houston becomes 1st major college team to gain 1000 yards in a game
1989 Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship
1988 Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation
1988 Miami beats Oklahoma for college football championship
1987 Robin Ventura set a college baseball record with hits in 57 games
1987 National Federation of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet)
1987 Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ
1986 NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams
1986 Oklahoma wins Orange Bowl for college football championship
1985 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 Brooklyn College soccer team wins Nepal's invitational
1985 Sarah Blanding, 1st U.S. fem college head (Vassar 1946-64), dies at 86
1985 Nevada-Las Vegas beats Utah 142-140, highest college basketball score
1985 Undefeated BYU becomes college football champions
1984 5th United Negro College Fund
1984 50th Heisman Trophy Award: Doug Flutie, Boston College (QB)
1984 Boston College QB Doug Flutie passes (472 yards), including game ending 48 yard TD (Hail Mary Pass) to end game and beat Miami 47-45
1984 Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
1984 Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship
1983 Paul "Bear" Bryant, college football coach (Alabama), dies at 69
1983 Penn State beats Georgia in Sugar Bowl for college football title
1982 Clemson wins the Orange Bowl for college football championship
1981 Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to out distance Alonzo Stagg and become college football's winningest coach
1981 Brailsford Reese Brazeal, dean (Morehouse College), dies at 76
1981 Georgia beats Notre Dame in Sugar Bowl for college football title
1980 1st United Negro College Fund
1980 College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for
1980 John W. Davis, President (WV State college), dies at 92
1980 ESPN begins televising college world series games
1980 Alabama beats Arkansas in Sugar Bowl for college football championship
1977 39 killed in an earthen dam burst at Toccoa Falls Bible College, Ga
1976 Ernie Nevers, college fullback (Stanford), dies at 72
1974 A college basketball game ends 210-67
1974 Essex Comm College beats Englewood Cliffs 210-67 in basketball
1973 Immaculata beats Queens College, 59-52 to win AIAW Basketball title
1972 President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports
1971 KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, AK (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 President Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses
1970 Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College
1970 Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game
1970 KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points
1969 Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College
1968 Students seize building at Bowie State College
1968 "GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV
1967 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College
1966 Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Mich begins teaching
1966 Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance
1965 Corey Parker, born in New York City, actor, How I Got into College, Roger-Eddie Dodd
1965 Montcalm Community College in Sidney Mich, founded
1965 Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Mich forms
1959 100th anniversary of 1st college baseball game, between Amherst and Williams Teams reenact the original contest
1955 David Jasper, British principal, St. Chad's College Durham England
1954 Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, laid in Bronx
1954 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 113 pts in basketball game
1953 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 pts in basketball game
1951 David Jasper, British principal, St. Chad's College Durham England
1951 3 City College of New York basketball players admit to accepting bribes
1950 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 City College of New York defeats Bradley to win the NIT
1949 Mary Maples Dunn, college president, Smith College
1948 Graham Zellick, principal, Queen Mary and Westfield College London
1946 Lord Walton of Detchant, physician, Warden of Green College Oxford
1946 U.N. set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx)
1945 Yeshiva College (Univesity), chartered in NY, 1st U.S. Jewish College
1945 College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0
1945 K B Wilson, methodist Preacher/Principal, Westminster College Oxford
1944 United Negro College Fund incorporates
1944 United Negro College Fund incorporates
1943 J D Moore, headmaster, St. Dunstan's College
1942 John Lewis, Head Master, Eton College
1941 Frank Gerstenberg, Edinburgh, principal, George Watson's College
1940 Bobby Knight, college basketball coach, Indiana, Olympics gold 1984
1940 V Payne, British headmistress, Malvern Girls' College
1939 1st televised college football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at New York City)
1939 Ruth Ashton, general secretary, Royal College of Midwives
1939 A C F Verity, master, Dulwich College
1938 Alec Broers, master, Churchill College Cambridge
1938 Niara Sudarkasa, [Gloria M Clark], educator/president, Lincoln College
1938 Anthony Walker, commandant, Royal College of Defense Studies
1938 Gloria Dean Randle Scott, educator/president, Beaumont College
1938 A. J. Bellingham, president, Royal College of Pathologists
1938 Kenneth J. Gregory, warden, Goldsmiths' College
1937 1st quadruplets to finish college (Baylor University)
1937 Snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75
1937 New York City college students stage 4th annual peace strike
1937 Tom Osborne, college football coach
1936 Johnetta Betsch Cole, educator/president, Spellman College, /, Sen-D-KY
1936 D V Day, Principal, St. John's College, Durham U
1936 Benjamin E. Mays named president of Morehouse College
1936 Trevor Clay, Gen-Sec, Royal College of Nursing
1936 Brian Fuller, commandant, Fire Service College, England
1936 Maurice Shock, rector, Lincoln College in Oxford
1936 John Albert, professor, Master of University College Oxford
1936 Michael Livesay, British admiral and president, RN College Greenwich
1936 G H Blake, Principal, Collingwood College, Durham U
1936 Enid Castle, principal, Cheltenham Ladies' College
1935 1,200 at St. Joseph's College (Phila) enroll in anticommunism class
1935 NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936
1934 Bob Hepple, master, Clare College Cambridge
1934 Anthony Walker, commandant, Royal College of Defense Studies
1934 Leslie Turnberg, president, Royal College of Physicians
1934 1st high school auto driving course offered (State College, Penn)
1933 Catherine Pestell, principal, Somerville College Oxford
1933 Dr. Robert Stevens, Master, Pembroke College, Oxford
1932 Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a college football game
1932 John Armitage, principal, College of St. Hilda and St. Bede Durham
1932 Arthur Jones, principal, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester
1932 Dominic Milroy, OSB/headmaster, Ampleforth College England
1932 Janet Bately, Prof of English Language, King's College London
1930 New York City College offers 1st course in radio advertising
1930 Robert Bunyard, Commandant, British Police Staff College
1930 Uwe Kitzinger, President, Templeton College, Oxford
1930 Lord Morton, of Shauna, senator, College of Justice, Scotland
1930 Mary Moore, principal, St. Hilda's College, Oxford
1930 Derek Bok, college president, Harvard
1929 Andrew Rutherford, warden, Goldsmith's College
1929 Geoffrey Marshall, Provost, Queen's College, Oxford
1929 Michael Atiyah, educator, Trinity College - Cambridge England
1929 Eileen Stamers-Smith, headmistress, Malvern Girls' College
1929 Morehouse College, Spellman College and Atlanta University affiliate
1928 Reginald Askew, dean, King's College London
1928 John Horlock, British vice-chancellor, Open College
1928 Yeshiva College (now University) chartered (New York City)
1928 Phil Jones, principal, Trinity College of Music
1928 Eric Ash, rector, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
1927 M Lawrence Antouin, college president, Emeritis
1927 Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens
1927 Robert Matthews, master, Clare College Cambridge England
1927 Alan Betts, emeritus professor, Royal Veterinary College
1927 Michael Butler, Pro-Provost/chairman, Royal College of Art
1926 Richard Laws, St. Edmunds College Cambridge
1926 NFL rules college students ineligible until college classes graduates
1926 Robert Earle, Baldwin, New York, TV host, GE College Bowl
1925 Red Grange signs with Chicago Bears directly out of college
1925 Christopher Ball, born in Oxford, warden, Keble College
1924 David Cox, warden, Nuffield College, Oxford
1924 Michael Gow, commandant, Royal College of Defense Studies
1924 Michael McCrum, master, Corpus Christi College Cambridge
1924 1st men's college swimming championships begin
1923 Army wins 1st college three-weapon fencing championships
1923 Raymond "Bill" Hoffenberg, college president, Wolfson at Oxford
1922 Arnold Burgen, college president, Academia Europaea
1921 James Menter, principal, Queen Mary College
1921 Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins
1921 Ian Todd, President, Royal College of Surgeons
1920 WTAW of College Station, Tx, broadcast 1st football play-by-play
1919 Kingman Brewster, college president, Yale
1919 Lord Maxwell, senator/prof, college of Justice Scotland
1919 Raymond Carr, Warden, St. Antony's College Oxford
1919 Eddie Robinson, winningest college football coach, Grambling
1918 Richard Hoggart, author/warden, Goldsmith's College London
1918 Joan Bernard, Principal, Trevelyan College, Durham
1918 Wageningen Agricultural College Netherlands opens
1918 Oral Roberts, Televangelist; needs $8,000,000, Oral Roberts College
1917 Colin Cowe, senior bursar, Magdalen College Oxford
1917 William Barr, rector, Exeter College, Oxford
1917 Stanley Prager, New York City, comedian, College Bowl
1916 Frank McGuire, basketball coach, won 550 games in 30 college seasons
1916 Bud Wilkinson, college football coach, Oklahoma
1915 Xavier University, 1st Black Catholic College in U.S., opens in NO LA
1915 Edward Miller, Master, Fitzwilliam College Cambridge
1915 John Habakkuk, principal, Jesus College in Oxford
1913 William Deakin, warden, St. Anthony's College Oxford
1913 Woody Hayes, [Wayne], college football coach, Ohio, 1968 coach of yr
1912 American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springield, Ill
1912 Tennessee University opened as Tennessee A and L State College
1910 Donald Lindsay, headmaster, Malvern College
1909 Elizabeth Wilkinson, professor German University College London
1906 John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College
1906 Kathleen Major, principal, St. Hilda's College, England
1906 Kathleen Tillotson, Emeritus Professor of English, Bedford College
1905 Bernard C J Lievegoed, Dutch anthroposophist?, founder Free College
1904 George Ade's "College Widow," premieres in New York City
1904 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 Cornerstone laid for U.S. Army war college, Washington, D.C.
1901 Army War College forms in Washington D.C.
1901 Charlotte Manye is 1st native African to graduate from a U.S. college
1899 James B. Connant, chemist/college president, Yale
1897 Yale defeated Penn, 30-10 in 1st major college basketball game
1897 Earl H Blaik, Det, college football hall of fame coach, elected 1965
1894 1st college basketball game, University of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11
1893 Lou Little, college football hall of fame coach, elected 1960
1893 1st U.S. college extension courses for credit, Univ of Chicago
1892 N C Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in 1st black college football game
1892 1st college student government forms at Bryn Mawr Penn
1891 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College)
1891 Robert Gordon Sproul, educator/college President, Univ of California
1887 Ottawa College (ORFU) defeats Montreal Football Club (QRFU) 10-5 to win the Dominion championship
1884 Naval War College forms in Newport RI
1884 Mississippi establishes 1st U.S. state college for women
1883 Thomas Shelvin, college footballer great, Yale
1882 1st U.S. college cooperative store opens, at Harvard University
1881 Spelman College founded
1878 Hastings College of Law founded
1878 Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper
1877 U.S. Electoral College declares R. Hayes winner presidential election
1876 US Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as President (although Tilden won)
1876 Edward Bouchet, is 1st black to recieve a PhD in U.S. college (Yale)
1876 Meharry Medical College forms at Central Tennesse College
1876 President Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R)
1875 Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
1875 Mary McLeod Bethune, South Carolina, slave/educator, Bethune-Cookman College
1874 Ontario Agricultural College founded
1872 Alcorn A and M College opens
1870 Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate
1869 Maria Radulphus, inspector on Curacao, Radulphus College
1868 1st American bicycle college opens (NY)
1867 Maimonides College in Penns is 1st Jewish college in the US
1867 Morehouse College organizes (Augusta Georgia)
1862 Snitz Edwards, Hungary, actor, College, Phantom of the Opera
1860 American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX
1857 Gallaudet College (Natl Deaf Mute college) forms (Washington D.C.)
1857 Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president, Bryn Mawr College
1855 1st veterinary college in U.S. incorporated in Boston
1854 Lincoln University, Penn, 1st Black college in U.S. forms by Prebyts
1854 Lincoln University, a black college, chartered (Oxford, Penn)
1852 Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College
1850 1st women's medical school (Women's Medical College of Penns), opens
1850 Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)
1850 Mary Mills Patrick, U.S., 1st President of Istanbul Woman's College
1849 Avery College establishes in Allegheny, Pennsylvania
1848 1st U.S. homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania
1842 Dutch King Willem II charters Technical College Delft
1841 Fordham University, then St. John's College, opens in the Bronx
1840 Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in U.S., incorporated
1837 Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st U.S. college founded for women
1836 Fannie M Jackson, pioneer and educator, 1st U.S. Black woman college grad
1833 Oberlin College in Oh, 1st truly coeducational college opens
1833 1st U.S. college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded
1833 Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st U.S. woman grad of a pharmacy college
1828 Edward Hitchcock, America's 1st prof of physical ed, Amherst College
1825 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, New York))
1825 1st U.S. engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, New York
1821 1st U.S. pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Phila
1821 College of Apothecaries organized in Phil; 1st U.S. pharmacy college
1817 Alexander Lucius Twilight, probably 1st black to graduate from U.S. college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College
1811 Cyrus Hamlin, educator/missionary, est Robert College, Turkey
1810 John McCloskey, U.S., President of St. John's College, Fordham U
1808 1st college orchestra in U.S. founded, at Harvard
1806 1st U.S. college magazine, Yale Literary Government, publishes 1st issue
1804 1st U.S. land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered
1802 Mark Hopkins, U.S., educator/philosopher, Williams College
1801 House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson President over Burr
1791 1st Catholic college in U.S., Georgetown, opens
1789 Franklin College founded
1789 1st electoral college chooses Washington and Adams as President and VP
1789 Georgetown, 1st U.S. Catholic college, founded
1776 1st U.S. fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa (William and Mary College), forms
1776 Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
1769 Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter
1769 Horace H Hayden, cofounded 1st dental college
1765 1st U.S. medical college opens in Philadelphia
1758 Francis Williams, 1st U.S. black college graduate, publishes poems
1754 Kings College in New York City opens (renamed Columbia College)
1754 Columbia University founded, as Kings College (New York City)
1705 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College
1693 College of William and Mary opens
1693 William and Mary college is 2nd college chartered in US
1693 Royal charter granted College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va
1678 Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford
1673 Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate
1668 Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
1661 Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge
1642 Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1st commencement
1639 Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard
1619 Gerardus Vossius resigns as Dutch regent States college leader
1441 Eton College founded by Henry VI
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