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1996 Timothy Francis Leary, Harvard professor and LSD guru, dues of cancer at 75
1992 "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" closes at Music Box New York City 1991 "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" opens at Music Box New York City 1988 Harvard University patents genetically engineered mouse 1979 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1st woman full prof at Harvard U, dies 1978 In girls' High School basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St. George 1978 James B Conant, headmaster (Harvard University), dies at 84 1969 Isolation of single gene announced by scientists at Harvard 1951 E Purcell and EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab 1949 1st 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School 1947 Ann Beattie, born in Washington, D.C., short story writer, novelist, compared to John Updike, J.D Salinger, professor at Harvard, University of Virginia, Rea Award for the Short Story recipient 1941 Laurence Henry Tribe, Shanghai China, Harvard Law professor 1938 Paul Revere, Harvard Nebraska, pianist, Paul Revere and Raiders 1931 Martin Boykan, composer, professor, studied at Harvard, Yale, awarded Fulbright Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, studied with Edward Steuermann, Aaron Copeland 1930 1st U.S. football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0) 1930 Derek Bok, college president, Harvard 1926 Charles William Elliot, President of Harvard (1869-1909), dies at 92 1923 John Hale, born in Ashford, Kent, linguist, historian, professor, editor, attended Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, served as a Fellow of the British Academy 1920 Timothy Leary, Harvard professor 1920 Earl Kim, born in Dinuba, California, Korean-American composer, professor at Princeton and Harvard, studied with Roger Sessions, Arnold Schoenberg, Ernest Bloch 1912 1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs. Harvard) 1907 Hiram Fong, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, businessman, politician, Harvard law degree, United States Senator from Hawaii, Republican Party 1904 1st stadium built specifically for football (Harvard Stadium) 1898 Brown defeats Harvard 6-0 in 1st intercollegiate hockey game 1893 Willi Apel, German/U.S. musicologist, Harvard dictionary of music 1893 Douglas Stuart Moore, Cutchogue, New York, composer, Good Night Harvard 1882 1st U.S. college cooperative store opens, at Harvard University 1878 CA Parker (Harvard) wins 1st American bike race, Beacon Park Boston 1876 Columbia, Harvard and Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association 1874 1st admission charge at a football game, Harvard beats McGill 3-0 1874 Harvard beats University of McGill (Montreal) in football, 3-0 1872 Charlotte Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard University 1869 1st international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard) 1867 Robert T Freeman is 1st black to graduate from Harvard Dental School 1867 1st U.S. dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established 1861 Frederick Jackson Turner, Wisconsin, historian/educator, Harvard U 1860 1st U.S. intercollegiate billiard match, Harvard vs. Yales 1852 1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths 1850 Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star, Vega 1849 Dudley Allen Sargent, U.S., physician/educator, Harvard U gymnasium 1834 Charles William Elliot, born in Boston, President of Harvard, 1869-1909 1831 Justin Winston, historian/librarian, Harvard 1808 1st college orchestra in U.S. founded, at Harvard 1786 Harvard University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in U.S. 1776 Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College 1775 John Adams graduates Harvard 1764 Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire 1722 Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st U.S. divinity professor (Harvard) 1642 Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1st commencement 1639 Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard 1636 Harvard University (Cambridge Mass) founded 1607 John Harvard, England, clergyman/scholar, founded Harvard University |
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