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On March 6, 1856, the forerunner of today's University of Maryland was chartered as the Maryland Agricultural College.Two years later, Charles Benedict Calvert, a slaveowner, descendant of the Barons Baltimore, fervent believer in agricultural education, and a future U.S. Congressman, purchased 420 acres (1.7 km 2) of the Riversdale Plantation in College Park for $21,000.
The University of Maryland, Baltimore was founded in 1807 as the Maryland College of Medicine. In 1812, it was rechartered as the University of Maryland and given the authority to establish additional faculties in law, divinity, and arts and sciences. The faculty of law was founded in 1816, though it operated intermittently until 1868.
Maryland Day is an annual campus-wide family-oriented community outreach event and open house at the University of Maryland, College Park.It features demonstrations, performances, sports events, tours, hands-on activities, food, games, give-aways, and information about research, academics, student life, and other activities at the university and in the surrounding community.
November 25 – The Alpha Tau Omega fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia. [ 1 ] November 27 – Indian Wars – Battle of Washita River : In the early morning, United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on a band of Cheyenne living on reservation land with Chief Black Kettle , killing 103 Cheyenne.
Home stadium for Maryland Terrapins football, it has an official capacity of 51,802. Formerly known as Byrd Stadium, after Harry C. Byrd, president of the university from 1935 to 1954, the name was changed to Maryland Stadium in 2015, and to its current name in 2022. [47] Shoemaker Building 1931 Location of the UMD Counseling Center. [48]
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January 30 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco, California. February 5 – A rescue effort, called the First Relief, leaves Johnson's Ranch to save the ill-fated Donner Party. These California bound emigrants became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–1847, and some have resorted to cannibalism to survive.
The U.S. National Security Agency is founded. November 20 – The first official passenger flight over the North Pole is made from Los Angeles to Copenhagen . November 29 – Korean War : U.S. President -elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a political campaign promise, by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.