1984 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library
1983 Columbia beats Yale 21-18 in football, will lose next 44 games
1968 Yale University announces it is going co-educational
1965 "Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the 1st known map of America, drawn about 1440 by Norse explorer Lief Eriksson
1962 President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted an honorary degree from Yale
1938 A Bartlett Giamatti, born in Boston, President of Yale and baseball commissioner, 1989
1937 3rd Heisman Trophy Award: Clint Frank, Yale (HB)
1937 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)
1936 2nd Heisman Trophy Award: Larry Kelley, Yale (E)
1930 1st U.S. football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)
1927 Robert Brustein, born in New York City, dean, Yale School of Drama
1922 1st intercollegiate indoor polo championship (Princeton vs Yale)
1919 Kingman Brewster, college president, Yale
1911 Herman W. "Fritz" Liebert, U.S. OSSer/librarian, Yale curator
1908 Albie Booth, collegiate Hall of Fame football star, Yale
1899 James B. Connant, chemist/college president, Yale
1897 1st known intercollegiate basketball game, Yale beats Penn 32-10
1897 Yale defeated Penn, 30-10 in 1st major college basketball game
1896 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3)
1891 Irene Coit is 1st woman admitted to Yale University
1889 Alan M Bateman, Canadian geologist, Yale professor
1888 Crouching start 1st used by Charles Sherrill of Yale
1883 Thomas Shelvin, college footballer great, Yale
1878 Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper
1876 Edward Bouchet, is 1st black to recieve a PhD in U.S. college (Yale)
1873 1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1
1873 Columbia Princeton Rutgers and Yale set rules for collegiate football
1868 Linus Yale, developer of cylinder lock, dies
1859 Walter Camp, Connecticut, father of American football, Yale
1852 1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths
1851 Linus Yale patents Yale-lock
1848 Caroline Ardelia Yale, U.S., educated deaf
1821 Linus Yale, U.S., portrait painter and inventor, Yale cylinder lock
1806 1st U.S. college magazine, Yale Literary Government, publishes 1st issue
1701 Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven
1649 Elihu Yale, England, philanthropist founded Yale
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