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The University of Notre Dame was founded on the 26th of November 1842, when Edward Sorin of the Congregation of Holy Cross arrived with eight brothers from France and Ireland and began the school using a log chapel on land purchased by Stephen Badin in 1830. The Indiana General Assembly granted its official college charter in 1844.
Knute Rockne has the highest winning percentage in NCAA Division I football history at .881. During his tenure as head coach, beginning in 1918, the Fighting Irish won three national championships, had five undefeated seasons, and won the Rose Bowl Game in 1925.
Notre Dame became fully coeducational in the early 1970s under president Theodore Hesburgh. Mary Ann Proctor became the first female undergraduate in 1971, and Mary Davey Bliley became the first woman to graduate with a bachelor's degree the following year, earning it in marketing.
For fiscal year 2023, the University of Notre Dame reported total endowment assets of $16.62 billion. When Theodore Hesburgh became president in 1952 the endowment was $9 million; by the time he left office in 1987 it had grown to $350 million.
The Notre Dame Victory March is the university's official fight song, identified by Northern Illinois professor William Studwell as the most played and most famous college fight song. The National Music Council honored it as a Landmark of American Music during the United States Bicentennial, and it appears in the films Knute Rockne All American, Airplane!, and Rudy.
Julius Nieuwland performed early work on basic chemical reactions used to create neoprene, and Albert Zahm built an early wind tunnel to study aeronautical lift and drag. Among alumni, Eric F. Wieschaus won the 1995 Nobel Prize in medicine, and Philip Majerus discovered the cardioprotective effects of aspirin.