Eldest of the seven, Benjamin Franklin, a New Englander transplanted to Philadelphia, wrote the most dazzling success story in our history.

The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.

Franklin, always proud of his working class roots, became a successful newspaper editor and printer in Philadelphia, the leading city in the colonies.

** Franklin Field, a football field once home to the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League and the home field of the University of Pennsylvania Quakers since 1895

** The Benjamin Franklin Bridge across the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey

** The Franklin Institute, a science museum in Philadelphia, which presents the Benjamin Franklin Medal

* Benjamin Franklin Shibe, baseball executive and namesake of the longtime Philadelphia baseball stadium

* Newman, Simon P. " Benjamin Franklin and the Leather-Apron Men: The Politics of Class in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia ," Journal of American Studies, August 2009, Vol.

Drawing inspiration from the Blue Eagle insignia of the National Recovery Act — the centerpiece of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal — Bell and Wray named the new franchise the Philadelphia Eagles.

This statue of Benjamin Franklin donated by Justus C. Strawbridge to the City of Philadelphia in 1899 now sits in front of College Hall ( University of Pennsylvania ) | College Hall.

In the fall of 1749, eager to create a school to educate future generations, Benjamin Franklin circulated a pamphlet titled " Proposals for the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania ," his vision for what he called a " Public Academy of Philadelphia.

Franklin assembled a board of trustees from among the leading citizens of Philadelphia, the first such non-sectarian board in America.

Addressing the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and the National Electric Light Association, he described and demonstrated in detail the principles of wireless telegraphy and radio.

* May 11 – The Pennsylvania legislature grants a charter to Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Thomas Bond for the establishment in Philadelphia of the first hospital in the Colonies.

* August 13 – The Academy and College of Philadelphia, predecessor to the private University of Pennsylvania, opens its doors, with Benjamin Franklin as president.

* Benjamin Franklin creates the Philadelphia Police Force – the first city-paid force.

* December 7 – Ben Franklin builds the first volunteer fire company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* Benjamin Franklin starts the Library Company of Philadelphia.

In America, a typhus epidemic killed the son of Franklin Pierce in Concord, New Hampshire in 1843 and struck in Philadelphia in 1837.

A number of important philosophical societies were formed, which were centers of the city's intellectual life: the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture ( 1785 ), the Pennsylvania Society for the Encouragement of Manufactures and the Useful Arts ( 1787 ), the Academy of Natural Sciences ( 1812 ), and the Franklin Institute ( 1824 ).

* Franklin Court ; Philadelphia ( 1976 )

Alexander Bache was born in Philadelphia, the son of Richard Bache, Jr., and Sophia Burrell Dallas, nephew of George M. Dallas, and great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin.

* Franklin Institute, a museum in Philadelphia

* University Commons – Freshmen – Completed in 1986, and housing approximately 500 students in seven halls ( Amherst, Brunswick, Carroll, Dickenson, Essex, Franklin, and Grayson ).

* Tony Franklin ( placekicker ) played for the Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots, and Miami Dolphins ; this barefoot kicker set 18 NCAA records playing at Texas A & M, led the NFL in scoring ( 140 points ) and field goals made ( 32 ) in 1986, and was selected to represent the AFC in the Pro Bowl.

The Franklin P. Perdue School of Business was established in 1986 and named for late alumnus Frank Perdue.

Corey has received more than 40 major awards including the Linus Pauling Award ( 1973 ), Franklin Medal ( 1978 ), Wolf Prize in Chemistry ( 1986 ), National Medal of Science ( 1988 ), Japan Prize ( 1989 ), Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( 1990 ), Roger Adams Award ( 1993 ), and the Priestley Medal ( 2004 ).

Michael Franklin Harcourt ( born January 6, 1943 ) served as the 30th Premier of the province of British Columbia in Canada from 1991 to 1996, and before that as the 34th mayor of BC's major city, Vancouver from 1980 to 1986.

They have four children: William Franklin Graham IV ( Will ), born in 1975, Roy Austin Graham ( 1977 ), Edward Bell Graham ( 1979 ) and Jane Austin Graham Lynch ( Cissie ) ( 1986 ).

He was re-elected in the 1986 election along with Gerry Bates in the Franklin electorate.

* Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History ( 1987 ) from the New York Council of the Navy League, in cooperation with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Theodore Roosevelt Association, for his book The United States Navy: 200 Years ( Henry Holt, 1986 ).

' They also backed Aretha Franklin ( on " Freeway of Love "), and Bob Seger ( 1986 ).

Hugh Hale Franklin ( August 24, 1916 – September 26, 1986 ) was an American theatre and soap opera actor.

Franklin died of cancer on September 26, 1986.

* Hugh Franklin, 70, an Actor On Stage, Film and Television, The New York Times, September 30, 1986.

The prize was awarded to Dumas Malone ( 1984 ), C. Vann Woodward ( 1986 ), Richard B. Morris ( 1988 ), Henry Steele Commager ( 1990 ), Edmund S. Morgan ( 1992 ), John Hope Franklin ( 1994 ), Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. ( 1996 ), Richard N. Current ( 1998 ), Bernard Bailyn ( 2000 ), Gerda Lerner ( 2002 ), David Brion Davis ( 2004 ), and David Herbert Donald ( 2006 ).

Nambu has won numerous honors and awards including the Dannie Heineman Prize ( 1970 ), the J. Robert Oppenheimer Prize ( 1977 ), Japan's Order of Culture ( 1978 ), the U. S .' s National Medal of Science ( 1982 ), the Max Planck Medal ( 1985 ), the Dirac Prize ( 1986 ), the Sakurai Prize ( 1994 ), the Wolf Prize in Physics ( 1994 / 1995 ), and the Franklin Institute's Benjamin Franklin Medal ( 2005 ).

In 1986, Kruskal and Zabusky shared the Howard N. Potts Gold Medal from the Franklin Institute " for contributions to mathematical physics and early creative combinations of analysis and computation, but most especially for seminal work in the properties of solitons.

* Howard N. Potts Gold Medal, Franklin Institute ( 1986 );

Franklin also released a pair of IBM PC compatible computers, the Franklin PC6000 and PC8000, during 1986 – 1988.

With the loss of its desktop computer business, Franklin concentrated on its handheld line, which it had introduced in 1986.

After Franklin in the Dark was illustrated by Brenda Clark and published in 1986.

Paul radio airchecks dating back to 1924 including a 1995 tribute to Franklin Hobbs and a 1986 video of KLBB

* Young Harris College: 1886-1986, Louisa Franklin & Jeffery S. Moody, 1986