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- #TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 📅Feb 5, 1772 Pierre Simon Laplace presented his first probability memoir to the Acadmie des Sciences 1810: Proof of the central limit theorem-- why sums of variables tend to be close to the normal
- #OnThisDay in 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt shocked America by introducing a plan to get favorable votes by expanding #SCOTUS. Learn more about FDR’s short-lived war on the Supreme Court on #ConstitutionDaily: ow.ly/UgMc50Y7P3y
- Buster Keaton’s and Clyde Bruckman’s THE GENERAL had its New York City premiere #OnThisDay in 1927. This followed premieres in El Paso, Bridgeport, London, Chicago.
- The classic 🇺🇸 American silent film “THE GENERAL” starring Buster Keaton and Marion Mack and co-directed by Keaton and Clyde Bruckman premiered #OnThisDay in 1927 at the Capitol Theatre in New York City 🎬 United Artists
- 32 years ago tonight ECW presented The Night The Line Was Crossed in Philadelphia! Here is the post match interaction between Funk and Douglas during an interview; tinyurl.com/stc7b6su #prowrestling #ECW #TerryFunk #wrestling #WWE #wweuniverse #philadelphia #profesionalwrestling #OnThisDay
- 24 years ago today, a huge upset as Maven defeated The Undertaker at a Smackdown taping to win the Hardcore Title in Los Angeles! Maven got the assist from The Rock and Al Snow for the win tinyurl.com/k5en27ud #WWE #Undertaker #prowrestling #wrestling #wweuniverse #SmackDown #WWEHistory #OnThisDay
- "Crazy" Luke Graham was born on this day in 1940. The wild and unpredictable wrestler known for his brawling style and bleached blonde hair died in 2006 at the age 66. #prowrestling #WWE #wweuniverse #wrestling #wrestler #restinpeace #RIP #OnThisDay #WWEHistory #wwesuperstars
- Five years ago today "Hacksaw" Butch Reed died at the age of 66. Reed died as the result of two heart attacks he had suffered in January. He was a phenomenal athlete who had a big impact on the world of pro wrestling. #WWE #wweuniverse #prowrestling #wrestling #wrestler #RIP #restinpeace #OnThisDay
- 25 years ago tonight on Monday Nitro, Rick Steiner defeated Shane Douglas to win the US Title! Fast forward 25 years and Steiner's son Bron Breakker is tearing it up on Monday Night Raw #prowrestling #WCW #prowrestling #wrestling #wrestler #BronBreakker #WWE #MondayNitro #WWE #WWEHistory #OnThisDay
- 42 years ago today, Mexican wrestling legend El Santo passed at the age of 66. Over 10,000 people attended his funeral. There is a statue of El Santo located outside a musuem dedicated to him in Mexico. #prowrestling #ElSanto #wrestling #luchalibre #wrestler #WWE #RIP #restinpeace #mexico #onthisday
- #OnThisDay in London sporting history: there’s a riot in Kingston-on-Thames, as magistrates try to repress the traditional Shrove Tuesday mass football match, 1799 wp.me/p74yfw-ro
- #onthisday 5th February of the past
- 52 years ago, on Mon. 04-Feb-1974: Patty Hearst, 19, is kidnapped in Berkeley by the Symbionese Liberation Army. The story ricocheted from ransom demands to surveillance photos of Hearst in an armed bank robbery — ending with her arrest Thu. 18-Sep-1975. #OnThisDay #USHistory
- #OnThisDay - 4 February - in AD 211 Septimius Severus died at York. His advice to his sons Geta and Caracalla: “Be harmonious, enrich the soldiers, scorn all other men” (Dio 77.15.3). #History 🏺 Image: RIC IV Sept.Sev. 255; Münzkabinett Berlin (18278266). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
- Charles Darwin began writing The Descent of Man #OnThisDay in 1868. "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." 🏺🧪
- Franklin J. Schaffner’s 🇺🇸American epic biographical war film “PATTON” starring George C. Scott and Karl Malden premiered #OnThisDay in 1970 at the Criterion Theatre in New York receiving ten Oscar nominations & winning seven, including Best Actor for Scott 🎬 20th Century-Fox
- The original Neanderthal fossils were first presented to the scientific world #OnThisDay in 1857, at a meeting in Bonn. The partial skull was then thought to be Homo sapiens; it would be another six years before it was designated Homo neanderthalensis. 🏺🧪
- Born #OnThisDay 1804 John Peel, 1st cousin of Conservative prime minister Sir Robert Peel. Elected MP for Tamworth in 1863 as a Liberal Conservative or ‘moderate Liberal’. An early supporter of women’s suffrage, he (& 74 other MPs) voted for it in 1867: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2017/05/19/t...
- 100 years ago today: "Dancers, Dorotha Clyne" and "...four in snow" - Feb 4, 1926 📸: City of Toronto Archives, Globe and Mail fonds, Fonds 1266 #OnThisDay #OTD #1920s #winter #dancing #TorontoHistory #Toronto #Canada #jeremyhopkin
- 💫Released on this day 1978💥 #musicsky #recordingsky #recordingstudiosky #musicchallenge #musicmoments #musicthread #musicproduction #onthisday #nowspinning #vinylsky #vinylrecords #postpunk #indiepop #britpop #newwave #punk #synthpop
- Today marks 42 years since the legendary interview segment Piper’s Pit premiered on WWF television! “Rowdy” Roddy Piper hosted his first official guest, “Mr. Wonderful” Paul Orndorff. tinyurl.com/5527enk8 #WWE #wweuniverse #prowrestling #wrestling #wrestler #OnThisDay #wwesuperstars #roddypiper
- 35 years ago today, Jeff Jarrett & Jerry "The King" Lawler teamed to defeat The Fabulous Ones to win the USWA Tag Team Title! The Fabulous Ones had reunited and were managed by Jim Cornette! #prowrestling #jimcornette #wrestling #WWE #Memphis #OnThisDay #WWEUniverse #MemphisWrestling #
- 21 years ago today William Regal & Tajiri defeated La Resistance to win the WWE Tag Team belts in Saitama, Japan! They would hold the belts until May. #prowrestling #WWE #wrestling #WWERaw #wrestler #saitama #WWEUniverse #OnThisDay #raw #wwesuperstars #WilliamRegal
- Remembering today the late 🇬🇧British theater, radio, film and television actor and comedian #PeterButterworth (4 February 1915 – 17 January 1979) born #OnThisDay in Bramhall, England
- #OnThisDay in London's radical history, 1839: the Chartist Convention opens wp.me/p74yfw-1hR
- "You don’t need a reservation to seek asylum if your name happens to be Mr. Alice Cooper." #OnThisDay #HappyBirthday to Vincent Damon Furnier professionally known as #AliceCooper
- #OnThisDay in AD 960, Zhao Kuangyin declared himself Emperor Taizu of Song, beginning China's Song Dynasty, so here are some Song coins. They were found at a garrison on the 'Medieval Wall System', which stretched across Mongolia, China and Russia. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
- #onthisday 4th February of the past
- #TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀Feb 3, 1468 Johann Gutenberg died in Mainz, Germany 🇩🇪 1453: Invention of moveable type printing press, and printing of the Mazarin bible [🎂Birth of the Book-Book]
- #OnThisDay in 1913, the 16th Amendment is ratified to ensure higher-income people paid taxes. Learn more on #ConstitutionDaily: ow.ly/pvvc50Y6zY7
