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5-4-1780

American Academy of Arts and Sciences founded in Boston. It was the first national arts and sciences society in the U.S., and was founded "to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, dignity, honor and happiness of a free, independent and virtuous people." James Bowdoin was the first president.

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Thursday, May 4, 1780