#OnThisDay, September 11, in 1789, Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury (depicted in Hamilton, 2020)

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Today in History - 1916: The “Star Spangled Banner” was sung at the beginning of a baseball game for the first time in Cooperstown, New York. #TodayInHistory

Today in History - 1963: President John F. Kennedy federalized the Alabama’s National Guard to prevent Governor George C. Wallace from using guardsmen to stop public-school desegregation. #TodayInHistory

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📅Sep 10, 1885 Francis Galton introduced the idea of regression (toward the mean)
(In his presidential lecture to the Anthropology Section of the British Association, perhaps the most influential such in statistical history)

Today in History - 1926: The Radio Corporation of America created the National Broadcasting Co. (NBC). #TodayInHistory

Today in History - 1644: The Dutch colony of New Amsterdam surrendered to the British fleet that sailed into its harbor. Five years later, the British changed the name to New York. #TodayInHistory

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💀Sep 8, 1894 Herman Helmholtz died in Charlottenburg, Germany 🇩🇪

1850-1852: Discovery of time course of muscle action and nerve impulses by graphical methods. He used a Kymograph to record muscle action
after stimulation. "These graphs proved that 'the energy of the muscle does not fully develop at the moment of instantaneous stimulus, but only gradually increases, most often only after the stimulus has ceased, reaches a maximum, and again disappears"

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Sep 6, 1925 Georg von Mayr died in Tutzing, Germany 🇩🇪

1874: Introduced bivariate color maps (joint dist/n of horses & cattle)
1877: First use of proportional, divided square in the modern (mosaic) form for data representation
1877: First use of star/spider plots for data representation

Today in History - 1881: The Edison electric lighting system began operation with a generator serving 85 paying customers. #TodayInHistory

#OnThisDay, September 3, in 1939, English King George VI delivered his first speech, announcing that Britain was going to war (depicted in The King's Speech, 2010)

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Today in History - 1895: The first professional American football game was played in Latrobe, Pennsylvania between the Latrobe Young Men’s Christian Association and the Jeannette Athletic Club. Latrobe won 12-0. #TodayInHistory

#OnThisDay, September 2, in 1864, the city of Atlanta fell to Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, setting the stage for Sherman’s March to the Sea and hastening the end of the war (depicted in Gone With The Wind, 1939)

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Today in History - 1789: The Treasury Department, headed by Alexander Hamilton, was created in New York City. #TodayInHistory

Today in History - 1972: America’s Bobby Fischer beat Russia’s Boris Spassky in Reykjavik, Iceland, becoming the world chess champion. #TodayinHistory

#OnThisDay, August 31, in 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, is killed in a car crash in Paris (depicted in The Queen, 2006)

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Aug 31, 1854 John Snow ---

Anniversary of the cholera outbreak in London -> leads to John Snow's famous dot-map graphic of those who died

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Aug 31, 1821 Herman Helmholtz born in Potsdam, Germany 🇩🇪

1850-1852: Discovery of time course of muscle action and nerve impulses by graphical methods.

Today in History - 1967: The U.S. Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court justice. #TodayinHistory

Today in History - 2005: Rain from Hurricane Katrina caused a levee breech along the Industrial Canal in New Orleans, causing severe flooding. #TodayinHistory

One of the largest demonstrations in the history of the US, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, took place and reached its climax at the base of the Lincoln Memorial when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.delivers his “I have a dream” speech. #TodayInHistory