1975 Event Chartered 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die 1970 Event Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons 1964 Birthday Clinton Gregory, born in Martinsville, Virginia, singer, songwriter, recording artist, fiddler, country and bluegrass genres, recorded seven studio albums, chartered 11 Billboard Hot country Singles and Tracks, including Play, Ruby, Play, which reached no. 25 on the charts 1960 Event Chartered C46 carrying California State's football team crashes, kills 16 1947 Event Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline 1947 Birthday MJ Ainsworth, CEO, Institute of Chartered Secretaries 1945 Event Yeshiva College (Univesity), chartered in NY, 1st U.S. Jewish College 1928 Event Yeshiva College (now University) chartered (New York City) 1924 Birthday Peter Godfrey, chartered accountant 1923 Birthday E. C. Meade, British chartered accountant 1917 Event 1st federal land bank chartered 1915 Event National Baptist Convention chartered 1913 Birthday Stanley Kitchen, British chartered accountant 1913 Birthday Lord Hirshfield, chartered accountant 1913 Birthday Oliver Chesterton, chartered surveyor 1910 Event Boy Scouts of America incorporated and chartered (William D. Boyce - Chicago) 1891 Event Rice Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered 1882 Event Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men 1877 Event American Chemical Society chartered in New York 1867 Event Howard University chartered 1867 Event Howard University, Washington D.C., chartered 1865 Event Cornell University in Ithaca,New York is chartered 1863 Event 1st bank chartered in U.S., National Bank of Davenport, Iowa 1863 Event Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered, 1st accident insurer 1861 Event 1st U.S. nursing school chartered 1854 Event Lincoln University, a black college, chartered (Oxford, Penn) 1852 Event Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College 1851 Event Northwestern University in Chicago chartered 1843 Event 1st chartered mutual life insurance company opens 1841 Event Queens University in Kingston is chartered 1827 Event University of Toronto is chartered 1827 Event 1st commercial railroad in U.S., Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) chartered 1826 Event Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in U.S.) begins operations 1826 Event Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario) 1826 Event 1st U.S. Railroad chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachsetts 1816 Event 2nd Bank of U.S. chartered 1804 Event 1st U.S. land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered 1791 Event 1st Bank of U.S. chartered 1785 Event 1st U.S. state university chartered, Athens Georgia 1768 Event 1st American chartered fire insurance company opens (Penn) 1701 Event Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven 1693 Event William and Mary college is 2nd college chartered in US 1686 Event City of Albany, New York chartered 1675 Event 1st American commercial corporation chartered (New York Fishing Co) 1662 Event Connecticut chartered as an English colony 1600 Event British East India Company chartered
