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- The first American chess tournament was held in New York in 1843.
- The 641 mile transportation network known as the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway is the longest toll road in the United States.
- A brewer named Matthew Vassar founded Vassar College in Poughkeepsie in 1861.
- In 1979 Vassar students were the first from a private college to be granted permission to study in the People's Republic of China.
- The Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan is the only school in the world offering a Bachelor of Science Degree with a Major in Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing.