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Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
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1701
10.9.1701
The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
1844
6.22.1844
North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.
1852
8.3.1852
First Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event. Harvard won.
1873
10.19.1873
Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
1949
2.19.1949
Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
1993
6.24.1993
Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses his sight in one eye, his hearing in one ear and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.