Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on this day in history, Jan. 17, 1706. He achieved fame in Philadelphia and won the acclaim of London society but surrendered it for love of homeland.
, which became the leading newspaper in the colony. His Poor Richard’s Almanack became the most useful almanac in all of the colonies," the Philadelphia Visitors and Convention Bureau writes of the city's most famous adopted son.
Franklin's scientific research elevated him to celebrity in British society — a stamp of international approval unknown by any other 18th-century American. Smithsonian Magazine called Franklin"a loyal British royalist" and"one-fifth revolutionary, fourth-fifths London intellectual."
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