15 Mar 1783
Washington persuades Continental Army officers at Newburgh, NY to abandon uprising over unpaid wages.
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Today in History - 1985: The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com, was registered by the Symbolics Computer Company of Massachusetts. #TodayInHistory
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🗡️ Beware the Ides of March! On this day in 44 BCE, Julius Caesar is murdered by a group of senators, including Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus.
🖼️ Painting by Vincenzo Cammuccini.
#JuliusCaesar #IdesOfMarch #Rome #OnThisDay #TodayInHistory #History
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, March 15
#todayinhistory #OTD #march15 #bookrelease #bookpublication #booksky
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“ Today in History:
March 14, Albert Einstein is born .”
https://apnews.com/today-in-history/march-14 #todayinhistory
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Today in History - 1621: The first Indian was seen by colonists in Plymouth, Massachusetts. #TodayInHistory
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Alexander Hamilton receives commission as Capt. in NY artillery company, leading with great distinction.n
14 Mar 1776
Alexander Hamilton receives commission as Capt. in NY artillery company, leading with great distinction.
#RevWar #TodayInHistory
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, March 14
#todayinhistory #OTD #bookrelease #bookpublication #march14 #booksky
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A line graph, titiled Plate XIV. Showing relation of height (Y axis) to weight (X axis) in English boys. Two curves are drawn, one labeled 'Laboring classes' the other 'Non laboring classes'
Cover of Bowditch's book, The Growth of Children
Photo of Henry Pickering Bowditch
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
💀Mar 13, 1911 Henry Pickering Bowditch died in Boston, USA 🇺🇸
1877: Extensive statistical study of 24,500 children to improve school practice; early ideas of correlation and regression
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Priestley's 1765 Chart of Biography covers a vast timespan, from 1200 BC to 1800 AD, and includes two thousand names. Priestley organized his list into six categories: Statesman and Warriors; Divines and Metaphysicians; Mathematicians and Physicians ... It's goal was to allow students of history to "see" relationships across time and domain.
Priestley's 1769 A New Chart of History, dedicated to Benjamin Franklin. It lists events in 106 separate locations in horizontal bands labeled by country from Great BGritain at the bottom the America at the top. Empires, like the Roman Empire are shaded, spanning the time and geography they dominated. it illustrates Priestley's belief that the entire world's history was significant,
Color portrait of Joseph Priestley
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
🎂Mar 13, 1733 Joseph Priestley born in Leeds, England 🇬🇧
Most famous for discovering oxygen, but also ---
1765: Historical timeline (life spans of 2,000 famous people, 1200 B.C. to 1750 A.D.)
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Through its agents in Europe, Congress calls for foreign military experts to aid in leading rebellion.n
13 Mar 1777
Through its agents in Europe, Congress calls for foreign military experts to aid in leading rebellion.
#RevWar #TodayInHistory
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1921: Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China.
1925: Tennessee makes it illegal to teach evolution.
1943: Nazis liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków; Oskar Schindler with advance information, saves his workers by keeping them in his factory overnight. #todayinhistory
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Today in History - 1519: Hernando Cortez landed in what would become Mexico. #TodayInHistory
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, March 13
#todayinhistory #OTD #bookpublicationday #bookrelease #march13 #booksky
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Thomas de Colmar's arithmometer (French: arithmomètre),the first digital mechanical calculator strong and reliable enough to be used daily in an office environment. This calculator could add and subtract two numbers directly and perform long multiplications and divisions effectively by using a movable accumulator for the result.
Later version of the Arithmomer, under the management of Louis Payen. Many improvements were introduced, such as an incline mechanism, a removable top, cursors and result windows that were easier to read, and a faster re-zeroing mechanism.
Color portrait of Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊
💀Mar 12, 1870 Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar died in Paris, France 🇫🇷
1820: He invented the Arithmomètre, the first digital mechanical calculator robust enough for daily in an office environment.
It was the first mass-produced mechanical calculator in the world
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On this day in civil resistance history.
12 March 1930:
#history #OTD #TodayInHistory #RMOL
https://apnews.com/today-in-history/march-12
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Appreciation of the support of women for war effort is published in several Baltimore-area newspapers.n
12 Mar 1776
Appreciation of the support of women for war effort is published in several Baltimore-area newspapers.
#RevWar #TodayInHistory
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Today in History - 1951: "Dennis the Menace," created by cartoonist Hank Ketcham, made its syndicated debut in 16 newspapers. #TodayInHistory
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, March 12
#todayinhistory #OTD #publicationday #march12 #booksky
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A statistical control chart for measures (of an industrial process) over time. Horizontal lines show the desired value (control line), dashed lines for +- 1 & 2 std. dev. and solid line for lower & upper control limits
B/W photo of Walter Shewart
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
💀Mar 11, 1967 Walter A. Shewhart died in Troy Hills, New Jersey, USA 🇺🇸
1925: Development of the control chart for statistical control of industrial processes
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Conceptual diagram of a MEMEX, explaining how all of human knowledge can be accessed from a "serving maching", and users can leave their notes and comments.
Vennevar Bush standing in front of his Differential Analyzer that looks like a collection of rods with pulleys
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
🎂Mar 11, 1890 Vannevar Bush born in Everett, USA 🇺🇸
In 1939, he described a memex, an associative information retrieval system;
this was the conceptual creation of 'hyperlink', allowing navigation within/between documents --> World Wide Web 🕸️
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Army Corps of Engineers created to build & maintain fortifications.n
11 Mar 1779
Army Corps of Engineers created to build & maintain fortifications.
#RevWar #TodayInHistory
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Today in History - 1824: The U.S. War Department created the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Seneca Indian Ely Parker became the first Indian to lead the Bureau. #TodayInHistory
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1955: Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin, Alexander Fleming dies of a heart attack.
1985: Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader.
2020: COVID-19 declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization. #todayinhistory
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, March 11
#todayinhistory #literature #books #OTD #march11 #publicationday #booksky
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Check out Episode 3- “The Man Who Exposed Lynching: The Courage of Walter Francis White” from Forever Black History on Amazon Music.
music.amazon.com/podcasts/491...
#DidYouKnow
#HistoryTok
#BlackCreators
#Storytelling
#PodcastClips
#FactOfTheDay
#HistoryLesson
#TodayInHistory
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Title page of Laplace's Theorie Analytique des Probabilities (1812)
Color portrait of Pierre Simon Laplace
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊
📅Mar 10, 1773 Pierre Simon Laplace introduced inverse probability, arguably the most influential paper in mathematical statistics before 1800
-> roots of modern Bayesian theory, asymptotic approx of posterior, ...
(Published 1810-1812)
🔗 www.jstor.org/stable/2245475
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Scrope's 1833 map of world population density, possibly the first dasymetric map
Drawn portrait of George Julius Poulett Scrope
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊🗺️
🎂 Mar 10, 1797 George Julius Poulett Scrope born in Waverley Abbey, Surrey, England 🇬🇧
1833: First classed depiction of population density on a world #map (using 3 broad classes in a dasymetric map)
[can represent data distributions more accurately]
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R211 train departs a train station for its inaugural ride on March 10, 2023.
#TodayInHistory: Three years ago, #OnThisDay in 2023, the first R211A subway cars entered customer service on the A line.
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In a 15-14 vote in the state senate on March 10, 1920, West Virginia became the 34th state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guaranteed the right of women to vote. #todayinhistory
#womenmakinghistory #suffrage
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