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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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