#TodayInHistory: #OnThisDay in In 1965, the New York City Landmarks Law was signed by Mayor Robert Wagner. Thus began an era of preserving important buildings and historic sites, including many distinguished structures that make transportation to, from, and within New York possible.
#TodayinHistory: #OnThisDay in 1972, the first R44 cars entered service in the #NYCsubway system.
Originally designed for high speeds to allow for swift travel along the Second Avenue Subway, an R44 broke the world speed record for a train car on January 31, 1972 with a speed of 87.75 mph.
Today in History - 1995: A truck bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. (Bomber Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and executed.) #TodayInHistory
Today in Bookish and Literary History, April 19
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Charactacture portrait of John Graunt
Cover of John Graunt's _Natural and Political Observations ... upon the Bills of Mortality, 3rd Edition, 1665
One page from the Bills of Mortality listing the number of deaths by cause, for one week in London. In two columns, going from "Abortive", "Age" down to "Winde" and"Wormes". Plague was the greatest cause of death.
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💀Apr 18, 1674 John Graunt died in London, England 🇬🇧
Feb 05, 1662 John Graunt --- "Natural and Political Observations.." was published in London; It is considered the founding text of both statistics and demography & origin of survival analysis, annuities, ...
1593: Shakespeare's poem "Venus & Adonis" registered for publication, becoming his most famous work during his lifetime.
1783: George Washington announces end of American Revolutionary War.
1906: San Francisco earthquake destroys 75% of the city.
1955: Albert Einstein dies at 76. #todayinhistory
Today in History - 1906: A devastating earthquake (8.25 on the Richter scale) struck San Francisco, followed by raging fires, killing an estimated 3,000 to 6,000 people. #TodayInHistory
The Isabella, carrying British troops, is met by American militiamen at Cape Fear, North-Carolina.n
18 Apr 1776
The Isabella, carrying British troops, is met by American militiamen at Cape Fear, North-Carolina.
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Today in History - 1964: The Ford Mustang was introduced at the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York, and was simultaneously launched in Ford showrooms across America, where nearly 22,000 Mustangs were quickly sold. #TodayInHistory
British Capt. James Colbert launches attack on Spanish Fort Carlos in Arkansas, unaware war was over.n
17 Apr 1783
British Capt. James Colbert launches attack on Spanish Fort Carlos in Arkansas, unaware war was over.
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1620: Nun & Canada's 1st female saint Marguerite Bourgeoys born in France.
1790: US Founding Father Benjamin Franklin dies at 84.
1982: Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau & Queen Elizabeth II sign and establish the new "Charter of Rights and Freedoms". #todayinhistory
Anyways, today is April 17th. It has been 51 years since the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia. Just hours after the capture, the process of deporting urbanites to the countryside began.
Most Khmers were clueless to the level of horrors going to happen in the next 3 years.
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Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci as an old man. Drawn in redish-brown ink, with only wavy lines around the outside of the face suggesting hair and beard
da Vinci's Arno Valley drawing, using accurate 3D perspective into the distance for the first time
A set of three drawings by da Vinci showing horizontal and vertical coordinate axes around an inclined plane down which balls are rolled
da Vinci's 1502 aerial image of Imola, Italy, drawn so accurately it might have come from a satellite image
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🎂Apr 15, 1452 Leonardo da Vinci born in Vinci, Italy 🇮🇹
1470: His Arno Valley drawing is considered the first to use true 3D perspective in art
1500: He used rectangular coordinates to analyze velocity of falling objects
1502: Aerial view of Imola 🇮🇹
1705: Queen Anne of England knights scientist Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge.
1746: Battle of Culloden: Royalist troops defeat the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart.
1889: British actor and comedian Charlie Chaplin born in London. #todayinhistory
Today in History - 1929: The Cleveland Indians became the first MLB team to have numbers on jerseys, making it easier to identify players. The Indians won their opening game against the Detroit Tigers, 5-4, in 11 innings. #TodayInHistory
John Hancock writes the Maryland Council of Safety advising them to seize Royal Governor Robert Eden.n
16 Apr 1776
John Hancock writes the Maryland Council of Safety advising them to seize Royal Governor Robert Eden.
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🎂Apr 15, 1730 Moses Harris born in England 🇬🇧
1776: "The Natural System of Colours"--
Diagrams developed to represent color systems in terms of complementary colors. His color wheel uses Red, Yellow, and Blue as the primary colors (for paint)
See: bit.ly/4cvgjyy
1452: Italian artist and visionary Leonardo da Vinci born in Florence.
1755: Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language" is published in London.
1912: RMS Titanic sinks at 2:20 AM off Newfoundland as the band plays on, with the loss of between 1,490 and 1,635 lives. #todayinhistory
East German (DDR) 20 pf stamp commemorating Leonhard Euler. It contains a figure of a 3D solid with Euler's formula relating he number of vertices, edges and faces of a 3D solid have to satisfy the relationship e - k + f = 2
3D diagrams showing X, Y, Z coordinates and rotations around different axes
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🎂Apr 15, 1707 Leonhard Euler born in Basel, Switzerland 🇨🇭
One of the greatest mathematicians of the 18th C.
He introduced the notation (x,y,z), giving a name and address to every possible point in 3D space, and rotations
Robinson would go on to win Rookie of the Year, National League M.V.P. in 1949, the World Series in 1955 and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. Robinson’s No. 42 jersey number was retired league-wide in 1997 on the 50th anniversary of his debut.
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#TodayinHistory: #OnThisDay in 2003, the final set of R33ML cars retired from revenue service, making its last trip on the Lexington Avenue Line.
Congress ratifies peace treaty with Britain, formally ending hostilities.n
15 Apr 1783
Congress ratifies peace treaty with Britain, formally ending hostilities.
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Today in History - 1964: The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, connecting Virginia's Eastern Shore with Virginia Beach, was opened to traffic. #TodayInHistory
Huygens' chart of mortality, plotting proportion alive on the Y axis vs. age. Vertical lines at age 20 and 36 show how to read off the proportion at that age.
Portrait of Christiaan Huygens
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🎂Apr 14, 1629 Christiaan Huygens born in The Hague, Netherlands 🇳🇱
In 1669, he created the first graph of a continuous distribution function, a graph of Gaunt's life table, and a demonstration of how to find the median remaining lifetime for a person of given age
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🎂Apr 14, 1898 Howard Gray Funkhouser born in Winchester, Virginia, USA
In 1937, he wrote the first modern review of the early history of statistical graphics
www.jstor.org/stable/301591
(This was my entry point to studying this history)
14 Apr 1780
Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton smashes an American cavalry unit in pre-dawn attack at Monck's Corner, SC.
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