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Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American Revolution...
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1766
11.10.1766
The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
1873
10.19.1873
Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
1943
10.19.1943
Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.