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Sports Illustrated names Dake College Athlete of the Year

By Lindsey Mechalik

Cornell wrestler Kyle Dake has been named the inaugural Sports Illustrated male College Athlete of the Year. He will be featured in the May 27 issue of the magazine.

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04/27/1865 - It’s official: Cornell is founded

09/05/1865 - Trustees elect Ezra Cornell, Francis M. Finch and George W. Schuyler as permanent officers

03/14/1866 - Trustees endorse construction of Cornell's first three buildings

04/07/1866 - Cayuga Heights founder Charles Blood is born

10/06/1868 - Cornell's inaugural class takes its entrance exams

10/07/1868 - Cornell University opens

04/02/1869 - Baseball Hall of Famer Hughie Jennings is born

06/05/1869 - Students work to construct Llenroc

04/27/1870 - Professor Charles F. Hartt gives humorous lecture juxtaposing slugs and society

05/20/1870 - The Cornell name is not for sale

05/22/1870 - Ladies present; socks on please

09/09/1870 - First female student attends Cornell

02/24/1871 - Cornell called upon to choose a college color

05/15/1873 - Ezra Cornell writes a letter detailing why the university might fail

12/09/1874 - University founder Ezra Cornell dies at 67

09/16/1880 - The Cornell Sun, a weekly at the time, publishes its first issue

01/29/1881 - University's first sorority is founded

11/19/1885 - Adams inaugurated as second Cornell president

10/15/1887 - Cornell hosts its first lacross game

05/11/1891 - New Deal designer is born

05/05/1892 - Adams is fired

05/28/1892 - Cornell plays its first intercollegiate lacrosse game

11/11/1892 - Jacob Gould Schurman becomes Cornell's third president

02/14/1893 - College of Lawe is dedicated in Boardman Hall

08/20/1893 - Charles Goodwin Sands, namesake of the Sands Memorial Medal, dies

10/26/1894 - Pulitzer Prize winner and newspaper mogul John Knight is born

04/14/1898 - Cornell Medical College is founded

05/14/1898 - Cornell University Medical College founded in New York City

04/23/1899 - Nabokov is born

11/10/1899 - Cornell participates in the U.S. educational exhibit at the world's fair in Paris

05/02/1900 - President Schurman says Cornell should be a place where 'everybody feels at home and no one is a stranger'

10/31/1900 - Cornell hires boat builder John Hoyle to outfit the 'Cornell Navy' rowing team

05/05/1902 - Railway mechanical engineering professor plans spring railway tour

01/16/1903 - Cornell's first dean, Estevan Fuertes, dies

01/23/1903 - First student diagnosed in a typhoid epidemic that killed 26 Cornell students

02/05/1903 - Architect and Skidmore Owing and Merrill co-founder Nathaniel Owens is born

05/08/1903 - Stimson Hall, designed by architect William Henry Miller, opens

12/10/1910 - Lt. Theodore Twesten begins his 17-year career as Cornell's first proctor

05/27/1911 - A big day for Big Red

04/15/1912 - Cornellians' Titanic connection

07/21/1914 - University Secretary's office goes high tech to automate alumni communications

03/18/1915 - Letter from the French trenches of World War I

09/28/1915 - Cornell plays its first football game on Schoellkopf Field

02/17/1916 - Cornell Alumni News reports 190 girls and 60 chaperones on campus for junior week

03/06/1917 - Alumnus Harry Coover, inventor of super glue, is born

04/29/1917 - Head Start founder Urie Bronfenbrenner '38 is born in Moscow

02/15/1918 - Female secret honor society at Cornell founded

05/22/1918 - 50th Commencement comes early

09/29/1918 - Alan L. Eggers '19 earns the Medal of Honor for heroism in battle during World War I

02/02/1919 - World War I flying ace Leslie J. Rummell, Class of 1916, dies of pneumonia in France

03/30/1919 - War hero dies

04/08/1920 - Cornell creates 'war alumnus' status for World War I veterans

10/21/1921 - Fraudulent Cornellian Ransom Denny jailed for petit larceny

04/21/1923 - Future Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig becomes the second person to hit a home run on Hoy Field

09/30/1923 - David H. Shepard ’45, inventor of the first optical character recognition device, is born

11/18/1925 - Willard Straight Hall, one of the country's first student unions, opens

05/07/1926 - Students host first Hotel Ezra Cornell

05/14/1926 - Cornell receives 29-ton World War I tank as gift from alumnus

02/06/1928 - The New York Sun determines Cornell is 'the best college for the girl'

11/07/1930 - Zoology department appeals to hunters to send some guts to study fur farming

05/23/1931 - The War Memorial listing names of 264 Cornellians who died in World War I is dedicated

05/23/1932 - Warren Hall is dedicated for agricultural economist George F. Warren

12/13/1932 - Boldt Hall dedicated in honor of trustee George C. Boldt, owner of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan

01/01/1933 - The term 'ivy' is first used in reference to a group of colleges

03/10/1934 - Cornell Daily Sun petitions for athletic reform

05/12/1934 - First Cornell Day

03/02/1936 - Cornell Daily Sun teams with the Cornell Radio Guild to broadcast local news stories on WESG

10/03/1936 - Several student newspapers run a joint editorial proposing the formation of an 'Ivy League'

06/03/1937 - Cornellians dance to Benny Goodman and his orchestra during a Spring Day celebration

10/09/1937 - Edmund Ezra Day inaugurated Cornell's fifth president

08/25/1939 - 'The Wizard of Oz' is released in theaters, with several Cornell connections

04/27/1940 - Carl Becker delivers his 'Freedom and Responsibility' address

11/16/1940 - Big Red football team scores a touchdown on an unfair fifth down, concedes victory

04/15/1941 - Robert Trent Jones Golf Course opens

05/01/1950 - A student's letter of complaint about a lack of hot water is published in the Cornell Alumni News

05/05/1950 - Statler Hall goes live

05/15/1950 - Freshman letter to admissions clarifies 'I am a male and not a female'

09/19/1951 - Deane Waldo Malott is inaugurated as Cornell's sixth president

01/01/1952 - Actor Christopher Reeve '74 is born

04/15/1954 - Potato-digging problem solved

08/31/1956 - Alumna Tsai Ing-wen, the first woman in Taiwan to run for president, is born

04/06/1957 - Lynah Rink is dedicated for James Lynah, director of athletics 1935-43

06/01/1957 - Jeff Hawkins, Class of 1979, inventor of the Palm Pilot and Treo, is born

05/26/1958 - 'Pantry Professor' and Cornell Lunatic founder Joey Green '80 is born

04/30/1961 - Harlem Renaissance writer dies

10/30/1964 - Cornellians vote for 'Ugliest Man' in class to raise funds for Campus Chest, a United Way predecessor

09/10/1966 - Three-time Stanley Cup winner Joe Nieuwendyk '88 is born

04/18/1969 - Wari House attacked

04/19/1969 - Students occupy the Straight

04/22/1969 - Students occupy Barton Hall

04/28/1969 - The New York State College of Home Economics becomes the New York State College of Human Ecology

10/02/1969 - The Africana Studies and Research Center opens

11/17/1969 - Ezra Cornell IV becomes first student to serve on board of trustees

05/06/1970 - Faculty take a stand against war, Nixon

05/20/1970 - Missing: One blue door

03/17/1971 - College of Architecture celebrates its centennial with one of the first organized Dragon Days

04/26/1971 - Karin Andreevna White, the last survivor of A.D. White's six children, dies

01/22/1972 - Cornell's first women's hockey team plays their first game

03/02/1972 - Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to travel beyond the solar system, carries a message from astronomers Frank Drake and Carl Sagan on a 3,000-light-year voyage

05/16/1972 - Women's Studies Program is formed by a group of female faculty members

09/14/1972 - Ujamaa Residential College opens

01/19/1973 - The first Women's Trade Union Conference is held in New York City

04/10/1973 - Poet A.R. Ammons wins National Book Award

05/07/1973 - History professor Michael Kammen wins the Pulitzer Prize for his book 'People of Paradox'

05/23/1973 - Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art opens

04/18/1974 - Cornell scientists announce they have discovered pieces of the Earth's core

09/07/1974 - Student housing goes co-ed

11/10/1977 - Frank H.T. Rhodes is inaugurated as Cornell's ninth president

04/03/1982 - Activist and one of the '100 Most Notable Cornellians' Andrew Biemiller dies

11/01/1989 - Remote access to library catalogs becomes available online for the first time

01/20/1990 - Astronaut G. David Low '80 returns to Earth after his first spaceflight aboard the space shuttle Columbia

01/23/1990 - Robert T. Morris Jr. is convicted on a felony charge for releasing a 1988 computer worm

03/07/1990 - Ithaca's Common Council votes to designate the Arts Quad a local historic district

04/22/1991 - The President's Council of Cornell Women meets for the first time

08/24/1992 - The Carl A. Kroch Library, named for the pioneering bookseller, opens its doors

10/19/1995 - Hunter R. Rawlings III is inaugurated Cornell's 10th president

06/07/1996 - The Veterinary Medical Center is dedicated

07/21/1996 - Veterinarian Michael Ball aids horses in the triathalon equestrian event in the summer Olympics in Atlanta

12/05/1996 - Cornell Dairy Bar spreads holiday cheer with 'The Lighting of the Cows'

12/13/1996 - A biodegradable goop called 'Pink Ugly Mix' is sprayed on evergreens in the Cornell Plantations to discourage the theft

05/15/1997 - There's no place like space

10/08/1997 - A hollowed-out pumpkin appears atop McGraw Tower's spire

04/25/1998 - Medical college named for Weills

04/30/1998 - Astronomers Philip Nicholson and Joseph Burns discover two moons of the planet Uranus

04/30/1998 - Medical college named for Weills

05/26/1999 - Cornell acquires a rare set of William Wordsworth's "Poetical Works"

02/06/2000 - WVBR's 'Bound for Glory' airs its 1,000th live radio show

05/25/2001 - Trustees decide to shut down the small nuclear reactor in the Ward Center due to concerns about radioactivity

08/30/2001 - Kosher food becomes widely available across campus

02/22/2002 - Biologists develop method to estimate how many roots a plant has just by looking at its stems and leaves

01/31/2005 - Samuel W. Bodman III '61 is confirmed by the U.S. Senate as U.S. secretary of energy

03/11/2005 - Ground is broken for Weill Hall, the centerpiece of Cornell's Life Sciences Initiative

06/01/2005 - Weill Cornell Medical College unveils a new Hippocratic Oath

09/20/2005 - Computer scientist Jon Kleinberg wins the MacArthur 'Genius Award'

09/07/2006 - David J. Skorton is inaugurated Cornell's 12th president

11/26/2008 - Eminent astrophysicist Edwin Salpeter dies at 83

10/28/2010 - $80M gift establishes David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

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