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2012 Event - The European Physical Society's annual Edison Volta Prize is awarded to CERN Director General, Rolf-Dieter Heuer

2010 Event - An important peer-reviewed study of the spatial memory of bumblebees published the Biology Letters journal of the Royal Society is written by two eight year-olds

1996 Death - Ken Dibbs, actor (Suddenly, Party Girl, High Society), dies at 78

1994 Death - Patricia Louise Dalton, chair (Sherlock Holmes Society), dies at 75

1990 Death - Irmtraud Morgner, writer, freelance author, used magical realism to address the role of gender in East German society, dies of cancer in Berlin, East Germany

1989 Event - "Dead Poets Society" starring Robin Williams, premieres

1985 Death - Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., U.S. founder/leader John Birch Society, dies at 85

1982 Death - Sol C Siegel, U.S. film producer (High Society), dies at 79

1982 Death - Charles Walters, U.S. actor/choreographer/dir (High Society), dies at 70

1982 Death - Melville Bell Grosvenor, President National Geographic Society, dies at 80

1981 Death - Allyn Joslyn, actor (They Won't Forget, Cafe Society), dies at 79

1979 Event - Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide

1978 Event - Debbie Austin wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic

1977 Event - Netherlands State Delta Kappa Gamma Society forms

1977 Event - Pam Higgins wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic

1971 Birthday - Jada Pinkett, actress, Jason's Lyric, Menace II Society

1971 Birthday - Jada Pinkett, actress, Set it Off, Nutty Professor, Menace II Society

1971 Event - 16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research

1970 Birthday - Ethan Hawke, born in Austin, Texas, actor, Dad, Dead Poets Society, Explorers

1970 Death - Blaz Arnic, Slovenian composer, best known for his nine symphonies, The Society of Slovene Composers consider him the great Slovenian symphonic master of the 20th century, dies at 69

1969 Event - Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College

1969 Birthday - Robert Sean Leonard, New Jersey, actor, Dead Poets Society, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge

1966 Death - Gilbert H Grosvenor, president National Geographic Society, dies at 90

1965 Event - Lyndon Baines Johnson's "Great Society" State of the Union Address

1964 Event - Lyndon Baines Johnson presents "Great Society"

1963 Event - Horatio Alger Society founded

1962 Event - "John Birch Society," by Chad Mitchell Trio hits #99

1959 Death - Blonde Dolly, Sybille A J Niemans, society prostitute, dies at 33

1958 Event - Robert H W Welch, Jr. and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society

1957 Event - Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"

1955 Birthday - Kate Ashbrook, general secretary, Open Spaces Society

1954 Event - Humane Society forms

1954 Birthday - Stephen Platt, editor, New Statesman and Society

1954 Birthday - Michael Shermer, born in Glendale, California, science writer, historian, television producer of Fox series 'Exploring the Unknown', founder, The Skeptics Society

1950 Birthday - Janis Ian, Fink, New York City, rock vocalist, At 17, Society's Child

1947 Event - NHL Pension Society founded

1947 Birthday - Daphne Todd, president, Royal Society of Portrait Painters

1945 Birthday - John Hayes, Secretary-General, British Law Society

1944 Birthday - Peter Weir, born in Sydney, Australia, director and writer, Witness, Dead Poets Society

1941 Birthday - Malcolm Longair, born in Dundee Scotland, astronomer, physicist, chairman of the Gemini Board, President, Royal Astronomical Society

1939 Death - Cornelis JK van Aalst, president Dutch Business Society, dies at 73

1938 Birthday - Jacques Hetu, born in Trois-Rivieres Quebec, composer, Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 1989, Officer of the Order of Canada, 2001

1938 Event - 1st animal breeding society forms in New Jersey

1938 Event - National Society for Legalization of Euthanasia forms (NY)

1937 Birthday - David Ward, president, Law Society

1936 Birthday - Richard Gaskell, solicitor/president, Law Society

1936 Birthday - Philip Ely, president, British Law Society

1935 Event - Wilderness Society forms

1933 Birthday - Irmtraud Morgner, born in Chemnitz, Germany, writer, freelance author, used magical realism to address the role of gender in East German society

1929 Event - Dr. Annie Webb Blanton forms Delta Kappa Gamma Society in Austin Tx

1929 Event - Humanist Society established, Hollywood California

1929 Birthday - Amitai W. Etzioni, U.S. sociologist, Active Society

1927 Birthday - Dennis Landau, CEO, Cooperative Wholesale Society

1925 Birthday - Nat Hentoff, columnist/novelist, Village Voice, The Cold Society

1924 Event - Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms

1924 Event - NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms

1924 Event - History of Science Society organized at Boston

1922 Death - Gerardus J P Bolland, Dutch philosopher (Bolland Society), dies at 67

1919 Event - American Meteorological Society found

1919 Birthday - Patricia Louise Dalton, chair, Sherlock Holmes Society of London

1917 Death - Oswald Chambers, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning, dies from a ruptured appendix

1917 Birthday - Thomas K Scherman, New York City, conductor, Little Orchestra Society 1947 - 1975

1916 Birthday - Norman Griggs, Vice President, Building Society Association

1914 Event - ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) founded

1914 Event - American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers-ASCAP forms in New York City

1913 Birthday - Shirley Ross, born in Omaha, Nebraska, actress, Cafe Society, Prison Farm

1911 Birthday - Melvin M Payne, president, National Geographic Society

1911 Event - Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam

1910 Birthday - Herbert Ashworth, CEO, Nationwide Building Society

1909 Event - Bird banding society found

1909 Birthday - Eddie Duchin, born in Massachusetts, society pianist and bandleader, Eddie Duchin Orchestra

1908 Event - 1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of New York, opens

1907 Death - Henry Steel Olcott, U.S. co-founder (Theosophist Society), dies at 74

1906 Event - 1st annual meeting of American Sociological Society, Providence, RI

1906 Birthday - Eric William Fenby, composer/president, Delius Society

1905 Event - National Association of Audubon Society incorporates

1904 Event - J. M. Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish National Theater Society

1903 Birthday - Sol C Siegel, U.S., producer, High Society, Gentlemen prefer blondes

1903 Death - George G Stokes, British physicist/president Royal Society, dies at 83

1903 Birthday - Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, crystallographer, 1st woman in Royal Society

1901 Birthday - Allyn Joslyn, born in Milford, Pennsylvania, actor, They Won't Forget, Cafe Society

1901 Birthday - Blaz Arnic, born in Luce, Lower Styria, Austria-Hungary, Slovenian composer, best known for his nine symphonies, The Society of Slovene Composers consider him the great Slovenian symphonic master of the 20th century

1901 Birthday - Robert Marshall, founder, Wilderness Society

1900 Birthday - Erich Fromm, born in Frankfurt, Germany, psychologist, Sane Society

1899 Birthday - Robert Welch, found John Birch Society

1899 Event - Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels

1897 Birthday - Margalo Gillmore, London, actress, Skirts Ahoy, High Society

1896 Birthday - Thomas W. McKnew, president, National Geographic Society

1896 Death - Wyatt Eaton, artist, painter, portraitist, one of the founders of the Society of American Artists, dies from tuberculosis in Newport, Rhode Island

1894 Event - Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter

1892 Death - John G. Whittier, U.S. poet/secretary Anti-Slavery Society, dies

1892 Event - Netherlands Society for Currency and Coin collecting forms

1892 Event - National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded

1892 Event - Hawaiian Historical Society founded

1891 Event - Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated

1891 Death - Helena Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, with William Quan Judge, Henry Steel Olcott, believed all inner religious teachings are true, dies, date of death celebrated by Theosophists, who call it, Whilte Lotus Day

1889 Event - Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in San Francisco

1888 Event - National Geographic Society organizes in Washington D.C.

1888 Event - National Geographic Society founded in Washington, D.C.

1887 Death - Multatuli, writer, named most important Dutch writer of all time, 2002, Society for Dutch literature, dies in Ingelheim am Rhine, Germany

1887 Birthday - Aldo Leopold, founder, Wilderness Society

1886 Event - 1st national accountants' society in U.S. formed (New York City)

1885 Birthday - Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German anarchists/feminist, Wife and society

1885 Event - Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society

1883 Event - American Anti-Vivisection Society organized in Philadelphia

1882 Event - Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans

1882 Birthday - Thurston Hall, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Roaming Lady, In Society

1880 Event - American Society of Mechanical Engineers forms (New York City)

1877 Event - American Chemical Society chartered in New York

1877 Birthday - Florence Dahl Walrath, humanitarian, founded Cradle society

1877 Event - Society of American Artists forms

1875 Event - Amer Theosophical Society founded by Mme Blavatsky and Col Olcott

1875 Event - Society of Regte Afrikaanders establishes in Paarl

1875 Event - Anti-slavery society forms (NY)

1874 Birthday - Oswald Chambers born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning

1873 Event - American Metrological Society forms (New York City) weights, measures and money

1870 Event - British Red Cross Society forms

1870 Event - American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves

1868 Event - San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed

1867 Birthday - Rosa Lewis, society caterer/owner, Cavandish Hotel-England

1866 Event - American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms

1865 Event - Thomas Robertsons "Society," premieres in London

1859 Event - Hibernia Savings and Loan Society of San Francisco incorporates

1859 Event - 1st Zoological Society incorporates in Philadelphia

1859 Event - Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in U.S., incorporated

1857 Event - Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized

1854 Birthday - Gerardus J P J Bolland, Dutch philosopher, Bolland Society

1852 Event - California Historical Society forms

1851 Death - John James Audubon, conservationist (Audubon Society), dies at 65

1849 Birthday - Wyatt Eaton, born in Philipsburg, Canada, artist, painter, portraitist, one of the founders of the Society of American Artists

1848 Event - Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston

1847 Event - Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society

1844 Event - RC Society Apostole of Prayer forms

1840 Event - Organization of American Society of Dental Surgeons founded in New York

1839 Event - Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society

1837 Event - American Physiological Society organizes in Boston

1835 Event - Charles Darwin's voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society

1834 Event - 1st U.S. dental society organized (NY)

1833 Event - American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Philadelphia

1833 Event - New York Anti-Slavery Society organized

1833 Event - Phoenix Society forms (New York)

1832 Birthday - Henry Steel Olcott, co-founder, Theosophical Society

1832 Event - New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston)

1831 Birthday - Helena Blavatsky, born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, founder of the Theosophical Society, with William Quan Judge, Henry Steel Olcott, believed all inner religious teachings are true

1826 Event - American Temperance Society, forms in Boston

1822 Birthday - Frances Crabbe, England, feminist founded Anti-Vivisection Society

1822 Event - Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France)

1822 Event - New York Horticultural Society founded

1822 Event - American Indian Society organizes

1820 Birthday - Multatuli, born in Amsterdam, Eduard Douwes Dekker, writer, named most important Dutch writer of all time, 2002, Society for Dutch literature

1820 Event - Royal Astronomical Society founded in England

1817 Event - Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians

1816 Event - American Colonization Society organizes

1816 Event - 1st savings bank in U.S. opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)

1816 Event - American Bible Society forms in New York

1816 Event - American Bible Society organized in New York

1809 Birthday - Cornelia Connelly, Philadelphia, founder, Society of the Holy Child Jesus

1808 Event - African Benevolent Society (education) forms

1806 Birthday - Chapin Aaron Harris, U.S., found America Society of Dental Surgeons

1806 Death - John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81

1805 Event - Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America

1804 Death - John Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies

1796 Event - Boston African Society establishes with 44 members

1794 Event - John Dalton 1st lecture to Manchester Literary/Philosophical Society

1793 Event - Humane Society of Philadelphia (1st aid society) organized

1792 Event - Baptist Missionary Society forms in London

1792 Event - Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed mariners)

1790 Event - Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery

1789 Event - Society of St. Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of New York City political bosses

1788 Birthday - Sarah Hale, founder, Seaman's Aid Society of Boston

1787 Event - Philadelphia's Free African Society forms

1787 Event - Philadelphia's Free Africa Society organizes

1785 Event - Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized

1780 Event - 2nd oldest learned society in U.S. (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) forms (Boston)

1777 Event - Captain Cook leaves Society Islands

1776 Event - Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati

1775 Event - 1st abolitionist society in U.S. organizes in Philadelphia

1766 Event - Society of the Dutch Literary forms

1764 Birthday - John Goodricke, English astronomer/member Royal Society

1764 Birthday - John Barrow, England, founded Royal Geographical Society

1740 Birthday - Elias Boudinot, lawyer/patriot, found American Biblical Society

1733 Event - Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston

1724 Birthday - John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist/co-founder, Society of It General

1687 Event - Isaac Newton's 'Principia' published by Royal Society in England

1684 Death - William Brouncker, 2nd viscount/1st President of Royal Society, dies

1672 Event - Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London

1668 Event - Mass society storms palace of "heretics" Spanish Governor Jose de Paternina

1665 Event - Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing

1662 Event - England's King Charles II charters Royal Society in London

1662 Event - Royal Society incorporates

1660 Event - London Royal Society forms

1644 Event - 1st protestant ministry society in New England

1619 Event - Remonstrant Society forms in Antwerp

1556 Death - St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Society of Jesus, dies in Rome

1540 Event - Pope Paul III recognizes Society of Jesus/Order of the Jesuits

1540 Event - Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola

1534 Event - Ignatius of Loyola forms society of Jesus/Jesuits

1315 Event - Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society)

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