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Events on Thursday 27 April 1865 2
1865Cornell University charteredEzra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White found universityEzra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White received a charter to found Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, established on the principle of an institution where any person could find instruction in any study. It became one of the founding Ivy League research universities.
1865Sinking of the steamboat SultanaDeadliest maritime disaster in US historyA boiler explosion destroyed the overcrowded steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River near Memphis, killing around 1,800 people, many of them Union soldiers recently released from Confederate prison camps. It remains the deadliest maritime disaster in United States history.