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Today in History - 1886: Coca-Cola goes on sale for the first time at a drugstore in Atlanta. Its inventor, Dr. John Pemberton, claimed it could cure anything from hysteria to the common cold. #TodayInHistory
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Washington appoints Major General Putnam commander of the troops in New-York.n
29 Mar 1776
Washington appoints Major General Putnam commander of the troops in New-York.
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March 29, 1933: The Nazi government issues the so‑called “Lex van der Lubbe.” Passed in the aftermath of the Reichstag fire, this retroactive “Law on the Imposition and Execution of the Death Penalty” was designed to make a death sentence legally possible for Marinus van der Lubbe, the Dutch worker accused of Reichstag arson on 27 February 1933. The Nazi leadership immediately weaponized the fire for propaganda, claiming it was the opening act of a communist uprising. The event was used to justify mass arrests of political opponents and to push through emergency decrees that dismantled core constitutional rights: freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, privacy of communications, and protection from arbitrary arrest. The “Lex van der Lubbe” openly violated the Weimar Constitution’s prohibition on retroactive criminal laws. The open dismantling of the rule of law was another deliberate step in transforming the legal system into an instrument of the regime. It paved the way for van der Lubbe’s conviction and execution in January 1934 after a highly politicized trial. The decree was then used to back sweeping raids against communists, social democrats, and other opponents. Decades later, the verdict was overturned as an act of Nazi injustice.
March 29, 1933 The Nazi government issues the so‑called “Lex van der Lubbe” — a retroactive law designed to allow the death penalty for Marinus van der Lubbe who had been accused for the Reichstag arson.
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29.3.1933: NS-Regierung erlässt "Lex van der Lubbe" Das Gesetz über "Verhängung und Vollzug der Todesstrafe vom 29. März 1933" wird von der NS-Regierung anlässlich des Reichstagsbrandes erlas- sen, um rückwirkend die Rechts- grundlage für die Verhängung der Todesstrafe gg. Marinus van der Lubbe zu bieten, dem die Tat zur Last gelegt wird. Das Gestz bricht das in der Weimarer Reichsverfassung garantierte Rückwirkungsverbot von Strafgesetzen. Bild: reichsgesetzblatt, quelle: Wiki lizenz public common
29.3.1933: NS-Regierung erlässt sog. "Lex van der Lubbe" - ein rückwirkendes Gesetz, das die Todesstrafe gegen Marinus van der Lubbe wg. Brandstiftung im Reichstag ermöglichen soll.
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Title page of Gauss' Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientium (Theory of the motion of the heavenly bodies moving about the sun in conic sections.)
Some diagrams from Gauss (1809)
Portrait of Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
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📅Mar 28, 1809 Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss finished Theoria Motus, among the most perfect books on observational astronomy
1809: Methods of determining an orbit from 3+ observations, developing the least squares method
🔗: bit.ly/3FK6Hns
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Portrait of Karl Pearson, seated at a desk, writing
Image from Pearson (1901) showing data points, 'line of best fit', regressions of y on x and x on y, ...
Some Pearson type V distributions, exhibiting varying degrees of skewnewss
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🎂Mar 27, 1857 Karl Pearson born in London, England 🇬🇧
KP is credited with largely creating the discipline of mathematical statistics, chi-square test, correlation coef, Pearson distributions, ...
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Today in History - 1885: The Salvation Army was officially organized in the United States. #TodayInHistory
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Parliament passes Coercive Acts in punishment for the Boston Tea Party.n
28 Mar 1774
Parliament passes Coercive Acts in punishment for the Boston Tea Party.
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1613: 1st English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
1625: Charles I, King of England, Scotland, & Ireland ascends the English throne.
1625: King James VI of Scotland (1567-1625) and James I of England and Ireland (1603-25), dies of dysentery at 58. #todayinhistory
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Thomas Jefferson elected to represent Virginia to the Continental Congress.n
27 Mar 1775
Thomas Jefferson elected to represent Virginia to the Continental Congress.
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Today in History - 1977: In aviation's worst disaster, 583 people were killed when a KLM Boeing 747 taking off in heavy fog crashed into a Pan Am 747 on an airport runway on the Canary Island of Tenerife. #TodayInHistory
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, March 27
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Today in History - 1979: The Egypt-Israel peace treaty was signed by Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat at the White House. #TodayInHistory
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1827: German composer Ludwig van Beethoven dies at 56.
1885: Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, SK.
1953: Dr. Jonas Salk successfully tests his polio vaccine.
2012: Richard III of England is reburied in Leicester after being discovered under a carpark. #todayinhistory
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The South-Carolina Provincial Congress adopts a new constitution & government.n
26 Mar 1776
The South-Carolina Provincial Congress adopts a new constitution & government.
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, March 26
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📅Mar 25, 1655: Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. His discovery expanded the known boundaries of the solar system
and laid the foundation for planetary and satellite studies in modern astronomy.
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A page from D'Ocagne's book, Coordonnées parallèles et axiales. Méthode de transformation géométrique et procédé nouveau de calcul graphique déduits de la considération des coordonnées parallèlles. From his 1899 Traité de Nomographie: The purpose of Nomography is to reduce to simple readings on graphical charts, constructed once for all, the computations which necessarily intervene in the practice of various technical arts.
Portrait of Maurice d'Ocagne in his student days at the Ecole Polytechnique, wearing a military stye uniform
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🎂Mar 25, 1862 Maurice d'Ocagne born in Paris, France 🇫🇷
In 1884, created the first alignment diagrams, using parallel axes, the essential ideas used in parallel coordinates plots.
Nomograms, as these were called, allowed direct visual calculation
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31: Christians celebrate the first Easter.
1199: King Richard I (the Lion Heart) of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France.
1306: Robert the Bruce crowned Robert I, King of Scots.
1807: British Parliament abolishes the slave trade throughout the Empire. #todayinhistory
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Parliament orders closure of port of Boston in retribution for the Boston Tea Party.n
25 Mar 1774
Parliament orders closure of port of Boston in retribution for the Boston Tea Party.
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Today in History - 1911: A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, a sweatshop in New York City, claims the lives of 146 workers. #TodayInHistory
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, March 25
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Christiaan Huygens
Titan
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25 March 1655 — Discovery of Titan
• Discovered by: Christiaan Huygens (Dutch astronomer, age 26)
• Location: Netherlands (using a self-built telescope)
• Method: While observing Saturn, he noticed a bright point orbiting the planet
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#TodayinHistory: It’s Tunnel Day! #OnThisDay in 1900, Mayor Robert Van Wyck, silver spade in hand, broke ground on the #NYCsubway system at an excavation site in front of City Hall. This #NYTMCollection photograph captured the historic moment for #NYC.
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👑 On this day in 1603: Elizabeth I of England dies.
Elizabeth I reigned as queen of England from 1558 to 1603.
📝 Article by Mark Cartwright.
🖼️ Portraits by William Segar, Isaac Oliver or Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger and Nicholas Hilliard.
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Parliament passes Quartering Act; when US Constitution framed, 3rd Amendment resulted from this Act.n
24 Mar 1765
Parliament passes Quartering Act; when US Constitution framed, 3rd Amendment resulted from this Act.
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Union of the Crowns Royal Badge
1603: King James VI, son of Mary, Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England, uniting the 2 crowns.
1603: Queen (1558-1603) & daughter of Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I dies.
1837: Canada grants black citizens the right to vote.
1874: Harry Houdini born in Budapest. #todayinhistory
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