On August 31, 1870, Italian physician and educator Maria Tecla Artemesia Montessori was born. She is probably best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. Her educational method is in use today in public and private schools throughout the world.
On September 8th, 1636, by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States was founded.