Education

On December 26, 1805, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts was founded – the first and oldest art museum and art school in the country.  The Academy was the brainchild of artist Charles Willson Peale, sculptor Benjamin Rush, and other artists and businessmen.

Founding Father Abraham Baldwin was born on November 22, 1754, in Guilford, Connecticut Colony.

Félix Varela y Morales was born on November 20, 1788, in Havana, Cuba. 

Businessman and philanthropist Milton Snavely Hershey was born on September 13, 1857, in Derry Township, Pennsylvania.

Social worker Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Illinois.

On July 8, 1993, the first Summer World University Games to be hosted in the US opened in Buffalo, NY. 

Reverend Theodore Martin Hesburgh was born on May 25, 1917, in Syracuse, New York. 

Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan was born on March 22, 1868, in Morrison, Illinois.

Rabbi and scholar Bernard Revel was born on September 17, 1885, in Prienai, Russia (present-day Lithuania).