He was founder of the Chemical Society of London in 1841, being its first Treasurer and second President.

At this time, Lord Sandwich, together with the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, was advocating establishment of a British colony in New South Wales.

It showed members of the Revive China Society, with Yeung Kui-wan ( 楊衢雲 or 杨衢云, pinyin Yáng Qúyún ), as President, in the place of honour, and Sun, as secretary, on the back row, along with members of the Japanese Chapter of the Revive China Society.

Among its actions, the convention elected Alexander Campbell its President and created the American Christian Missionary Society ( ACMS ).

The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

In 1963 President Johnson inaugurated the Great Society and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act suffused public school programs with funds for sweeping education reforms.

In his 1996 inaugural speech as President of the Royal Statistical Society, Adrian Smith held out evidence-based medicine as an exemplar for all public policy.

He was one of the founders of the American Bible Society, and after 1816 served as its President.

Fermi recalled the beginning of the project in a speech given in 1954 when he retired as President of the American Physical Society:

He was appointed Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen in 1827 and was President of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

* 1965 – United States President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his " Great Society " during his State of the Union address.

In 1973, along with his two sons and Frederick Hyman, he created the Cousteau Society for the Protection of Ocean Life, Frederick Hyman being its first President ; it now has more than 300, 000 members.

He contributed the lead article to the inaugural issue of the Society's journal Language, and was President of the Society in 1935.

In June 2009 Palin was elected for a three-year term as President of the Royal Geographical Society.

* 1964 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an " end to poverty and racial injustice " in America.

* London Mathematical Society, President 1949-1951

" Considering Murray's reputation to be " deservedly low " in academia, she argued that Murray's status as President of the Folklore Society had harmed the society's reputation and was a causal factor in the mistrustful attitude that many historians held toward folkloristics as an academic discipline.

Since the establishment of the Faraday Society in 1903, Lowry had been its active member and served as its President between 1928 and 1930.

* The President is ex officio President of the Irish Red Cross Society.

* Ari Laptev, Professor of Mathematics at KTH and Chair in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London, President of the European Mathematical Society

Early in June 1899, while home on leave, he had a chance encounter in a London street with Clements Markham ( now knighted and RGS President ), and learned for the first time of an impending Antarctic expedition under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society.

Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

On foreign and military policy, Lincoln spoke out against the Mexican – American War, which he attributed to President Polk's desire for " military glory — that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood ".

In 1857 – 58, Douglas broke with President James Buchanan, leading to a fight for control of the Democratic Party.

President Lincoln ( center right ) with, from left, Generals Sherman, Grant and Admiral Porter – 1868 painting of events aboard the River Queen ( steamboat ) | River Queen in March, 1865

* 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany ( see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress ).

* 1963 – Rafael Correa, Ecuadorian politician, President of Ecuador

* 1970 – Roy Mayorga, American drummer ( Stone Sour, Soulfly, Amebix, Black President, and Nausea )

* 1945 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office ; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.

* 1999 – US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving " intentionally false statements " in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.

* 1894 – Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese politician and soldier, 13th President of Portugal ( d. 1964 )

* 1912 – Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician 2nd Vice President of Indonesia ( d. 1988 )

* 1942 – Jacob Zuma, African politician, President of South Africa

* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

* 1939 – NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N. Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.

* 1956 – Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.

* 1973 – Watergate Scandal: U. S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aides H. R.

* 1995 – U. S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.

* 1943 – Frederick Chiluba, Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia ( d. 2011 )

* 1827 – José de la Mar becomes President of Peru.

* 1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.

* 1809 – Hannibal Hamlin, American politician, 15th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1891 )

* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )

* 1884 – Vincent Auriol, French politician, 16th President of the French Republic ( d. 1966 )