2004 Laurance Rockefeller, venture capitalist/philanthropist, founded the American Conservation Association, dies at 94
2003 Jenifer Estess, activist/producer, founded Project A.L.S, dies at 40
2002 Dave Thomas, commercial icon/businessman, founded Wendy's, dies at 69
1999 Jose Quintero, director, founded the Circle in the Square company, dies at 75
1999 Robert Shaw, chorale director, founded the Robert Shaw Chorale, dies at 82
1999 Jay Pritzker, billionaire, founded the Hyatt hotel chain, dies at 76
1994 Netscape Communications founded as Mosaic Communications
1994 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center
1980 French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar)
1978 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue
1976 Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs founded Apple Computer
1975 Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
1974 World Football League founded
1973 British Darts Organisation founded in North London
1972 Chozen-ji/Intl Zen Dojo founded by Omori Sogen Roshi, in Hawaii
1966 National Organization of Women founded
1965 Montcalm Community College in Sidney Mich, founded
1964 American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded
1964 Karmi'el founded in Galilee
1964 Town of Karmiel founded in Galilee
1963 Horatio Alger Society founded
1961 Amnesty International founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
1957 Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded
1955 Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel
1954 Major League Baseball Players Association founded
1953 Alexander Cartwright founded baseball and not Abner Doubleday
1951 Jet magazine founded by John H. Johnson
1951 Mississippi Valley State University founded
1948 Alcoholic Anonymous founded in Britain
1947 NHL Pension Society founded
1947 Malcolm McLaren, founded rock group, Sex Pistols-God Save the Queen
1945 International Monetary Fund established - World Bank founded
1943 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded
1941 United Service Organization, USO, founded
1938 Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded
1936 Rodeo Cowboy's Association founded
1936 Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia
1935 Werner Erhard, Philadelphia, founded EST
1928 Noam Chomsky, linguist, founded transformational grammar
1927 Town of Netanya Israel founded by Nathan Strauss
1925 Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp, Iacocca is 8 months old
1924 1st U.S. NHL franchise, Boston Bruins founded
1924 Bene Berak Palestine founded
1924 Bene Brak Palestine founded
1924 IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
1923 Disney company founded
1918 Save the Redwoods League founded
1917 Boys Town founded by Father Edward Flanagan west of Omaha Neb
1916 San Diego Zoo founded
1915 Assn of Negro Life and History founded
1915 Girl Scouts founded
1915 Kiwanis International founded in Detroit
1914 Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates
1914 ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) founded
1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
1913 National Institute of Arts and Letters founded
1911 UNIA founded by Garvey
1910 Tel Aviv founded
1909 1st Israeli kibbutz founded, Deganya Alef
1908 Carriage-maker, William Durant, founded General Motors Corp
1907 E. W. Scripps founded United Press
1905 Intercollegiate Athletic Association of U.S. founded (becomes NCAA in 1910)
1905 Niagara Movement founded by W. E. B. Dubois
1905 Las Vegas, Nevada founded
1904 Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy/founded, CP Palestina
1903 American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans
1903 Homel, 1st Jewish self defense organization founded in Russia
1903 Bernard Lovell, England, radio astronomer, founded Jodrell Bank
1902 American Automobile Association, AAA, founded in Chicago
1902 Carnegie Institute founded in Washington D.C.
1900 Freeland Colony founded in US
1894 Daily Racing Form founded
1894 Civic organization, Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben founded in Omaha, Nebraska
1894 Hermann Oberth, born in Germany, founded modern astronautics, V2/Redstone
1892 National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded
1892 Hawaiian Historical Society founded
1891 Max Ernst, born in Germany, painter and sculptor, founded surrealism
1890 Negro Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Jackson, TN
1890 General Federation of Womans' Clubs founded
1889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii
1889 DeWitt Wallace, St. Paul, Minnesota, publisher, founded Readers Digest, 1921
1888 National Geographic Society founded in Washington, D.C.
1886 Philip Murray, founded Congress of Industrial Organizations, CIO
1886 Aurora Ski Club, 1st in U.S., founded in Minnesota
1881 American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)
1881 William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft co, Boeing
1881 American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
1881 Spelman College founded
1880 University of California founded in Los Angeles
1880 American Canoe Association founded at Lake George, New York
1880 Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England and Wales, is founded in Oxford, England
1879 Frederick G. Melcher, U.S., publisher/editor/founded children book week
1879 Library of Hawaii founded
1878 Hastings College of Law founded
1877 Florence Dahl Walrath, humanitarian, founded Cradle society
1876 Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Karachi, founded Pakistan, 1947, /gov, 1947-58
1876 Frank L Gillespie, Arkansas, founded Supreme Life Insurance Company
1875 Amer Theosophical Society founded by Mme Blavatsky and Col Olcott
1875 Walter Chrysler, founded car company, Chrysler
1874 Ontario Agricultural College founded
1873 Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded
1872 Morgan State University founded
1871 Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine founded, New York City
1871 Paris Commune founded
1870 Amedos Peter Giannine, born in San Jose, California, founded Bank of America
1869 Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia
1868 University of California founded (Oakland California)
1866 Howard University founded (Wash, DC)
1866 Martha McChesney Berry, U.S., founded Berry School for Children
1865 London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded
1865 Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865
1864 Helena, Montana's capital, founded
1863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
1861 William Crapo Durant, founded General Machine
1861 University of Washington founded in Seattle
1859 Luis Munoz Rivera, Puerto Rico, journalist, founded Federalist Party
1859 Edmund Husserl, born in Germany, philosopher, founded Phenomenology
1857 World's 1st soccer club, Sheffield F C, founded in England
1857 National Association of Baseball Players founded, New York
1855 Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston Kansas
1854 Lincoln University founded as Ashmun Institute
1852 Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College
1851 SF Orphan's Asylum, 1st in California, founded
1850 Albert Spaulding, baseball player/founded Spaulding sports company
1850 William Henry Welch, U.S., pathologist, founded John Hopkins
1849 Philadelphia Turngemeinde founded
1848 Cincinnati Turngemeinde founded
1844 Henry John Heinz, founded prepared-foods company, 57 varieties
1843 B'nai B'rith founded (NY)
1840 Organization of American Society of Dental Surgeons founded in New York
1840 Flora Adams Darling, founded Daughters of American Revolution
1839 Gustavus Franklin Swift, founded Swift and Co
1837 Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st U.S. college founded for women
1837 Charles Tiffany founded his jewelry and china stores
1836 Adelaide, South Australia founded
1833 1st U.S. college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded
1830 Republic of Ecuador is founded, with Juan Jose Flores as president
1828 Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon; founded modern ophthalmology
1826 London University founded
1825 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, New York))
1825 American Unitarian Association founded
1824 Leland Stanford, Gov/Sen, founded Stanford University
1824 Athenaeum founded
1822 Frances Crabbe, England, feminist founded Anti-Vivisection Society
1822 New York Horticultural Society founded
1821 Mary Baker Eddy, founded Christian Science, Science and Health
1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (New York)
1820 Joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack
1820 Royal Astronomical Society founded in England
1819 Allan Pinkerton, founded Chicago detective agency
1817 Baha'u'llah, Mirza Husayn Ali, founded Baha'i faith
1816 Paul Julius Baron von Reuter, founded Reuters news service
1816 Gas Light Co of Baltimore founded
1813 Soren Kierkegaard, Denmark, philosopher, founded Existentialism
1813 1st U.S. raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Massachusetts
1808 1st U.S. land-grant university founded at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
1808 1st college orchestra in U.S. founded, at Harvard
1805 John Stephens, U.S. archaeologist; founded study of Central America
1804 Hobart Tasmania founded
1802 U.S. Academy at West Point founded
1798 Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California
1797 John Hughes, archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx
1797 John Winebrenner, U.S., clergyman, founded Church of God
1796 Cleveland, Ohio, founded by Gen Moses Cleveland
1795 Johns Hopkins, philanthropist, founded Johns Hopkins University
1794 Richard Allen founded AME Church
1793 Friedrich Struve, Germany, founded dynasty of astronomers
1790 U.S. Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service
1789 Franklin College founded
1789 Georgetown, 1st U.S. Catholic college, founded
1788 Losantville, OH (now Cincinnati) founded
1788 Jean-Victor Poncelet, mathematician, founded projective geometry
1786 Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry
1782 Friedrich W. A. Frobel, German educator, founded kindergarten
1781 Los Angeles founded by 44 in Bahia de las Fumas, (Valley of Smokes)
1780 American Academy of Arts and Science founded
1777 San Jose, California, founded
1777 Mission Santa Clara de Asis founded in California
1776 Mission San Juan Capistrano founded in California
1776 Mission Dolores founded by San Francisco Bay
1776 Mission Dolores founded by San Francisco Bay
1775 U.S. Army founded
1775 Francis C. Lowell, founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill
1771 Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California
1770 Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in California
1768 Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel
1764 John Barrow, England, founded Royal Geographical Society
1764 St. Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue
1763 John Molson, founded Montreal brewery, Molsons
1754 Columbia University founded, as Kings College (New York City)
1751 1st U.S. hospital founded (Pennsylvania Hospital)
1733 Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah
1729 City of Baltimore founded
1717 1st Free Masons' grand lodge founded in London
1703 St. Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great
1692 Kingston, Jamaica founded
1691 Yorktown Virginia founded
1683 Germantown Pennsylvania founded by 13 immigrant families
1651 Litchfield, CT founded
1649 Elihu Yale, England, philanthropist founded Yale
1642 Montreal Canada founded
1636 Harvard University (Cambridge Mass) founded
1635 Oldest U.S. public institution, Boston Latin School founded
1634 Lord Baltimore founded Catholic colony of Maryland
1629 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in U.S. founded (Salem, MA)
1628 Massachusetts colony founded by Englishmen
1621 WIC, West Indian Co, under Heeren XIX, founded
1608 Samuel de Champlain founded city of Quebec
1607 John Harvard, England, clergyman/scholar, founded Harvard Univ
1571 Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in the Phillipines
1566 St. Augustine, Florida founded
1549 Anna of H Bartolomaeus, Flemish prioress/founded a nunnery
1548 La Paz, Bolivia is founded
1541 Santiago, Chile founded by Pedro de Valvidia (or 2/12)
1541 Santiago, Chile founded (or Feb 24)
1540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola
1535 Asuncion, Paraguay founded
1535 City of Lima Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro
1534 Quito, Ecuador founded by Spanish
1527 University of Marburg (Germany) founded
1519 Panama City founded
1492 1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus
1483 Martin Luther, Eisleben Germany, founded Protestantism
1459 Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur
1441 Eton College founded by Henry VI
1365 University of Vienna founded
1348 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of Garter)
1340 Rotterdam Netherlands founded
1227 Ghengis Khan, [Temudjin], founded Mongolia, dies
1201 Robert de Sorbon, founded Sorbonne University, Paris
951 Paris is founded
570 Religion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca
421 Friday at 12 PM - city of Venice founded
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