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2007 : Drew Gilpin Faust is named as the 28th, and first female president of Harvard University. |
2008 : Barack Hussein Obama elected as the 44th, and first black president of the United States of America. |
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Lawrence H. SummersTerm of office: 2001-2006 (b. Nov. 30, 1954). Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S. 1975), Harvard University (Ph.D. 1982). Professional background: Economics professor, served in a series of public-policy positions. Immediate past position: Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. |
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2005 : Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,800 people.
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2004 : Harvard announces a new initiative aimed at overcoming economic barriers to college.
2004 : Harvard launches the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. |
2004 : Red Sox win World Series for first time in 86 years. |
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2003 : SARS outbreak is contained.
2003 : Iraq War begins. |
2001 : Harvard pledges $1 million in scholarship funds to aid the family members of victims in the September 11th terrorist attacks. |
2001 : Thousands are killed when terrorists attack U.S. |
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Neil L. Rudenstine
Term of office: 1991-2001 (b. Jan. 21, 1935). Education: Princeton University (B.A. 1956), Oxford University (B.A. 1959; M.A. 1963), Harvard University (Ph.D. 1964). Professional background: English and American literary scholar. Immediate past position: Executive Vice President, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York. Immediate past position: Minister in Scituate, Mass.
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1999 : Creation of the interdisciplinary Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study as an integral part of Harvard. |
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1995 : The bombing of a federal office building in Oklahoma City claims nearly 170 lives.
1991 : Apartheid ends in South Africa. 1995: U.S. troops to Bosnia.
1991 : The U.S. and its allies launch Operation Desert Storm (the Persian Gulf War). |
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Derek Bok
Term of office: 1971-1991, 2006-2007 (b. March 22, 1930). Education: Stanford University (A.B. 1951), Harvard Law School (J.D. 1954), George Washington University (A.M. 1958). Professional background: Lawyer, Harvard law professor. Immediate past position: Dean of Harvard Law School. |
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1990 : Nelson Mandela freed by South African government.
1989 : The Berlin Wall comes down. |
1982 : Mother Teresa of Calcutta delivers Class Day address to graduating seniors. |
1989 : Beijing's Tiananmen Square protest is halted in a deadly crackdown by the Chinese government. |
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1975 : The U.S. pulls out of South Vietnam. Communist forces take over.
1974 : Watergate scandal. U.S. President Richard Nixon resigns. |
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Nathan Marsh Pusey
Term of office: 1953-1971 (1907-2001). Education: Harvard College (A.B. 1928), Harvard University (A.M. 1932; Ph.D. 1937). Professional background: College president. Immediate past position: President of Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis. |
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1969 : In the most controversial action of his administration, President Nathan Marsh Pusey calls in outside police to end a student takeover of University Hall. |
1969 : Astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the Moon.
1963 : President Kennedy is assassinated.
1962 : The Cuban Missile Crisis.
1955 : Spurred by Rosa Parks's refusal to relinquish her seat to a white man on a segregated bus, the U.S. civil-rights struggle begins.
1954-1975 : The Vietnam War.
1954 : Jonas Salk develops the first effective vaccine against polio. |
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James
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Term of office: 1933-1953 (1893-1978). Education: Harvard College (A.B. 1913, as a member of the Class of 1914), Harvard University (Ph.D. 1916). Professional background: Chemist. Immediate past position: Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry (Harvard).
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1950-1953 : The Korean War.
1945 : The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
1945 : The U.S. drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. |
1944 : State Department holds postwar security conference at Harvard's Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (Washington, D.C.). The resulting proposals later underpin the United Nations Charter.
1935 : The Graduate School of Public Administration (forerunner of the Kennedy School of Government) is established. |
1939-1945 : World War II. |
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Term of office: 1909-1933 (1856-1943). Education: Harvard College (A.B. 1877), Harvard Law School (LL.B. 1880). Professional background: Harvard government professor. Immediate past position: Eaton Professor of the Science of Government
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1933 : Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
1929 : The stock market crashes, plunging the U.S. into the Great Depression. |
1915 : The Harvard- Boston Expedition begins excavation of the temples of Amon-Ra and the two groups of pyramids in the adjacent desert. |
1917 : The Russian Revolution.
1914-1918 : World War I. |
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