1693: The College of William & Mary opens in Virginia.

1786: Abraham Baldwin is selected president of University of Georgia; Georgia had been the first state to charter a state-supported university on 27 January 1785.

1795: The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill becomes the first state univeristy to open doors to students.

1799: Massachusetts passes the first US law to regulate insurance.

1955: Israel acquires four of the seven Dead Sea scrolls.

1990: The US, England, and France okay German re-unification.

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