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Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

Timeline of Events

1865

4.27.1865

The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.

1868

10.7.1868

Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.

1906

12.4.1906

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity in the United States established for men of African descent, is founded at Cornell University.

1989

7.26.1989

A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.