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Nelson Dewey signs act creating University of Wisconsin
Nelson Dewey signs act creating University of Wisconsin -
John H. Lathrop becomes the university's first chancellor in the fall of 1849
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North Hall was constructed, the first building on campus
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Bascom Hall is built
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First women admitted to UW Madison during Civil War
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The University awards the first PhD in chemical engineering ever granted, to Oliver Patterson Watts
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Fire destroys dome ontop of Bascom Hall; never replaced.
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Campus began an artist-in-residence program
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Sterling Hall Bombing
The "New Year's Gang" composed of four people bombed Sterling hall as a protest against the University's research connections with the US military during the Vietnam War. One person was killed and three were injured -
The Onion was created
The popular satirical paper was founded in 1988 by two UW-Madison students, Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson. -
James Thomson (cell biologist) first isolated and cultured human embryonic stem cells
