1996 Ken Dibbs, actor (Suddenly, Party Girl, High Society), dies at 78
1994 Patricia Louise Dalton, chair (Sherlock Holmes Society), dies at 75
1989 "Dead Poets Society" starring Robin Williams, premieres
1985 Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., U.S. founder/leader John Birch Society, dies at 85
1982 Sol C Siegel, U.S. film producer (High Society), dies at 79
1982 Charles Walters, U.S. actor/choreographer/dir (High Society), dies at 70
1982 Melville Bell Grosvenor, President (Natl Geographic Society), dies at 80
1981 Allyn Joslyn, actor (They Won't Forget, Cafe Society), dies at 79
1979 Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide
1978 Debbie Austin wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic
1977 Netherlands State Delta Kappa Gamma Society forms
1977 Pam Higgins wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic
1971 Jada Pinkett, actress, Jason's Lyric, Menace II Society
1971 Jada Pinkett, actress, Set it Off, Nutty Professor, Menace II Society
1971 16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research
1970 Ethan Hawke, born in Austin, Texas, actor, Dad, Dead Poets Society, Explorers
1969 Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College
1969 Robert Sean Leonard, New Jersey, actor, Dead Poets Society, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
1966 Gilbert H Grosvenor, president National Geographic Society, dies at 90
1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson's "Great Society" State of the Union Address
1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson presents "Great Society"
1963 Horatio Alger Society founded
1962 "John Birch Society," by Chad Mitchell Trio hits #99
1959 Blonde Dolly, [Sybille A J Niemans], society prostitute, dies at 33
1958 Robert H W Welch, Jr. and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society
1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"
1955 Kate Ashbrook, general secretary, Open Spaces Society
1954 Humane Society forms
1954 Stephen Platt, editor, New Statesman and Society
1950 Janis Ian, [Fink], New York City, rock vocalist, At 17, Society's Child
1947 NHL Pension Society founded
1947 Daphne Todd, president, Royal Society of Portrait Painters
1945 John Hayes, Secretary-General, British Law Society
1944 Peter Weir, Sydney Aust, director and writer, Witness, Dead Poets Society
1939 Cornelis JK van Aalst, president Dutch Business Society, dies at 73
1938 1st animal breeding society forms in New Jersey
1938 National Society for Legalization of Euthanasia forms (NY)
1937 David Ward, president, Law Society
1936 Richard Gaskell, solicitor/president, Law Society
1936 Philip Ely, president, British Law Society
1935 Wilderness Society forms
1929 Dr. Annie Webb Blanton forms Delta Kappa Gamma Society in Austin Tx
1929 Humanist Society established, Hollywood California
1929 Amitai W. Etzioni, U.S. sociologist, Active Society
1927 Dennis Landau, CEO, Cooperative Wholesale Society
1925 Nat Hentoff, columnist/novelist, Village Voice, The Cold Society
1924 Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms
1924 NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms
1924 History of Science Society organized at Boston
1922 Gerardus J P Bolland, Dutch philosopher (Bolland Society), dies at 67
1919 American Meteorological Society found
1919 Patricia Louise Dalton, chair, Sherlock Holmes Society of London
1917 Thomas K Scherman, New York City, conductor, Little Orch Society 1947-75
1916 Norman Griggs, VP, Building Society Association
1914 ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) founded
1914 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers-ASCAP forms in New York City
1913 Shirley Ross, born in Omaha, Nebraska, actress, Cafe Society, Prison Farm
1911 Melvin M Payne, president, National Geographic Society
1911 Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam
1910 Herbert Ashworth, CEO, Nationwide Building Society
1909 Bird banding society found
1909 Eddie Duchin, born in Massachusetts, society pianist and bandleader, Eddie Duchin Orch
1908 1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of New York, opens
1907 Henry Steel Olcott, U.S. co-founder (Theosophist Society), dies at 74
1906 1st annual meeting of American Sociological Society, Providence, RI
1906 Eric William Fenby, composer/president, Delius Society
1905 National Association of Audubon Society incorporates
1904 J. M. Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish National Theater Society
1903 Sol C Siegel, U.S., producer, High Society, Gentlemen prefer blondes
1903 George G Stokes, British physicist/president Royal Society, dies at 83
1903 Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, crystallographer, 1st woman in Royal Society
1901 Allyn Joslyn, born in Milford, Pennsylvania, actor, They Won't Forget, Cafe Society
1901 Robert Marshall, founder, Wilderness Society
1900 Erich Fromm, born in Frankfurt, Germany, psychologist, Sane Society
1899 Robert Welch, found John Birch Society
1899 Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels
1897 Margalo Gillmore, London, actress, Skirts Ahoy, High Society
1896 Thomas W. McKnew, president, National Geographic Society
1894 Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter
1892 John G. Whittier, U.S. poet/secretary Anti-Slavery Society, dies
1892 Netherlands Society for Currency and Coin collecting forms
1892 National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded
1892 Hawaiian Historical Society founded
1891 Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated
1889 Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in San Francisco
1888 National Geographic Society organizes in Washington D.C.
1888 National Geographic Society founded in Washington, D.C.
1887 Aldo Leopold, founder, Wilderness Society
1886 1st national accountants' society in U.S. formed (New York City)
1885 Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German anarchists/feminist, Wife and society
1885 Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society
1883 American Anti-Vivisection Society organized (Phila)
1882 Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans
1882 Thurston Hall, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Roaming Lady, In Society
1880 American Society of Mechanical Engineers forms (New York City)
1877 American Chemical Society chartered in New York
1877 Florence Dahl Walrath, humanitarian, founded Cradle society
1877 Society of American Artists forms
1875 Amer Theosophical Society founded by Mme Blavatsky and Col Olcott
1875 Society of Regte Afrikaanders establishes in Paarl
1875 Anti-slavery society forms (NY)
1873 American Metrological Society forms (New York City) weights, measures and money
1870 British Red Cross Society forms
1870 American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves
1868 San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed
1867 Rosa Lewis, society caterer/owner, Cavandish Hotel-England
1866 American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms
1865 Thomas Robertsons "Society," premieres in London
1859 Hibernia Savings and Loan Society of San Francisco incorporates
1859 1st Zoological Society incorporates in Philadelphia
1859 Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in U.S., incorporated
1857 Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized
1854 Gerardus J P J Bolland, Dutch philosopher, Bolland Society
1852 California Historical Society forms
1851 John James Audubon, conservationist (Audubon Society), dies at 65
1848 Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston
1847 Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society
1844 RC Society Apostole of Prayer forms
1840 Organization of American Society of Dental Surgeons founded in New York
1839 Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society
1837 American Physiological Society organizes in Boston
1835 Charles Darwins voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society
1834 1st U.S. dental society organized (NY)
1833 American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Phila
1833 New York Anti-Slavery Society organized
1833 Phoenix Society forms (New York)
1832 Henry Steel Olcott, co-founder, Theosophical Society
1832 New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston)
1826 American Temperance Society, forms in Boston
1822 Frances Crabbe, England, feminist founded Anti-Vivisection Society
1822 Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France)
1822 New York Horticultural Society founded
1822 American Indian Society organizes
1820 Royal Astronomical Society founded in England
1817 Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians
1816 American Colonization Society organizes
1816 1st savings bank in U.S. opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)
1816 American Bible Society forms in New York
1816 American Bible Society organized in New York
1809 Cornelia Connelly, Philadelphia, founder, Society of the Holy Child Jesus
1808 African Benevolent Society (education) forms
1806 Chapin Aaron Harris, U.S., found America Society of Dental Surgeons
1806 John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81
1805 Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America
1804 John Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies
1796 Boston African Society establishes with 44 members
1794 John Dalton 1st lecture to Manchester Literary/Philosophical Society
1793 Humane Society of Philadelphia (1st aid society) organized
1792 Baptist Missionary Society forms in London
1792 Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed mariners)
1790 Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery
1789 Society of St. Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of New York City political bosses
1788 Sarah Hale, founder, Seaman's Aid Society of Boston
1787 Philadelphia's Free African Society forms
1787 Philadelphia's Free Africa Society organizes
1785 Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized
1780 2nd oldest learned society in U.S. (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) forms (Boston)
1777 Capt Cook leaves Society Islands
1776 Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati
1775 1st abolitionist society in U.S. organizes in Philadelphia
1766 Society of the Dutch Literary forms
1764 John Goodricke, English astronomer/member Royal Society
1764 John Barrow, England, founded Royal Geographical Society
1740 Elias Boudinot, lawyer/patriot, found Amer Biblical Society
1733 Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston
1724 John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist/co-founder, Society of It General
1687 Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England
1684 William Brouncker, 2nd viscount/1st President of Royal Society, dies
1672 Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
1668 Mass society storms palace of "heretics" Spanish Governor Jose de Paternina
1665 Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing
1662 England's King Charles II charters Royal Society in London
1662 Royal Society incorporates
1660 London Royal Society forms
1644 1st protestant ministry society in New England
1642 Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society
1619 Remonstrant Society forms in Antwerp
1556 St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Society of Jesus, dies in Rome
1540 Pope Paul III recognizes Society of Jesus/Order of the Jesuits
1540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola
1534 Ignatius of Loyola forms society of Jesus/Jesuits
1315 Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society)
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