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2012 Event - A Harvard Medical School study claims that red meat increases the risk of death and has additional negative health implications

1996 Death - Timothy Francis Leary, Harvard professor and LSD guru, dues of cancer at 75

1992 Event - "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" closes at Music Box New York City

1991 Event - "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" opens at Music Box New York City

1988 Event - Harvard University patents genetically engineered mouse

1979 Death - Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1st woman full prof at Harvard U, dies

1978 Event - In girls' High School basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St. George

1978 Death - James B Conant, headmaster (Harvard University), dies at 84

1969 Event - Isolation of single gene announced by scientists at Harvard

1951 Event - E Purcell and EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab

1949 Event - 1st 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School

1947 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Laurence Henry Tribe, Shanghai China, Harvard Law professor

1938 Birthday - Paul Revere, Harvard Nebraska, pianist, Paul Revere and Raiders

1931 Birthday - Martin Boykan, composer, professor, studied at Harvard, Yale, awarded Fulbright Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, studied with Edward Steuermann, Aaron Copeland

1930 Event - 1st U.S. football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)

1930 Birthday - Derek Bok, college president, Harvard

1926 Death - Charles William Elliot, President of Harvard (1869-1909), dies at 92

1923 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Timothy Leary, Harvard professor

1920 Birthday - Earl Kim, born in Dinuba, California, Korean-American composer, professor at Princeton and Harvard, studied with Roger Sessions, Arnold Schoenberg, Ernest Bloch

1912 Event - 1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs. Harvard)

1907 Birthday - Hiram Fong, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, businessman, politician, Harvard law degree, United States Senator from Hawaii, Republican Party

1904 Event - 1st stadium built specifically for football (Harvard Stadium)

1898 Event - Brown defeats Harvard 6-0 in 1st intercollegiate hockey game

1893 Birthday - Willi Apel, German/U.S. musicologist, Harvard dictionary of music

1893 Birthday - Douglas Stuart Moore, Cutchogue, New York, composer, Good Night Harvard

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

1878 Event - CA Parker (Harvard) wins 1st American bike race, Beacon Park Boston

1876 Event - Columbia, Harvard and Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association

1874 Event - Harvard beats McGill University in football, 3 - 0, 1st admission charge at a football game

1872 Event - Charlotte Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard University

1869 Event - 1st international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard)

1867 Event - Robert T Freeman is 1st black to graduate from Harvard Dental School

1867 Event - 1st U.S. dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established

1861 Birthday - Frederick Jackson Turner, Wisconsin, historian/educator, Harvard U

1860 Event - 1st U.S. intercollegiate billiard match, Harvard vs. Yales

1852 Event - 1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths

1850 Event - Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star, Vega

1849 Birthday - Dudley Allen Sargent, U.S., physician/educator, Harvard U gymnasium

1834 Birthday - Charles William Elliot, born in Boston, President of Harvard, 1869-1909

1831 Birthday - Justin Winston, historian/librarian, Harvard

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

1786 Event - Harvard University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in U.S.

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

1775 Event - John Adams graduates Harvard

1764 Event - Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire

1722 Event - Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st U.S. divinity professor (Harvard)

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

1639 Event - Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard

1636 Event - Harvard University (Cambridge Mass) founded

1607 Birthday - John Harvard, England, clergyman/scholar, founded Harvard University

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