1538 The first university in the New World , the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, is established. 1636 A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what will later become the United States, The President and Fellows of Harvard College , which will later be renamed Harvard University. 1868 Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, for an electrical vote recorder. 1914 The f

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This Day in Geek History: October 28