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#TodayInHistory

184
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18
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-9% vs last week

#TodayInHistory is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 18 people shared 184 posts with it — around 6 a day. Activity is down 9% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 10 with 10 posts.

#TodayInHistory posts per day (last 30 days)

Posts with #TodayInHistory

New York Transit Museum
@nytransitmuseum.bsky.social
3 days ago
#TodayinHistory: #OnThisDay in 1981, the first General Motors RTS Advanced Design buses went into service. The buses first served passengers on the B17 route in Brooklyn.
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Michael Friendly
@datavisfriendly.bsky.social
3 days ago
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Aug 04, 1834 John Venn born in Hull, England 🇬🇧 1880: The Venn diagram, a visual representation of logical propositions and relations, often used for showing overlaps among sets.
An amusing example of Venn diagrams. Three circles, labeled "People who like Venn diagrans", "People who draw circles around notes", and "People who put coffee cups down on their work", the latter a coffee-stained circle.  In the intersection is the word "Me"
Plaque commemorating John Venn in Hull, England
Black/white photo of John Venn with a beard, looking quite intense
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Kristoffer Pasion
@indiohistorian.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
#TodayinHistory in 1986, the EDSA People Power Revolution triumphed. Dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. lost control of the Philippine military. Corazon C. Aquino was sworn in as 11th President of the Philippines. By 9:25 PM, the Marcos family had fled to Hawaii. www.facebook.com/share/p/…. #Edusky
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New York Transit Museum
@nytransitmuseum.bsky.social
16 days ago
#TodayInHistory: #OnThisDay in 1966, the New York Central Railroad broke the American rail speed record with its experimental M-497 railcar. Nicknamed the “Black Beetle,” the M-497 was a marvel of engineering. It was able to reach a speed of 183.68 mph, becoming America’s first high-speed train.
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The Conversation U.S.
@us.theconversation.com
over 1 year ago
#TodayInHistory 80 years ago, the Japanese American Aochi family (seen in this photo) was released by military order from the U.S. government detention camp in Rohwer, Arkansas, where they had been imprisoned for three years because of their Japanese heritage.
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The Conversation U.S.
@us.theconversation.com
6 months ago
84 years ago #todayinhistory, an executive order mandated sending Japanese Americans to "relocation centers." Descendants of the prisoners have restored a baseball field on the Manzanar site as a way to both celebrate the resiliency of so many of their ancestors. theconversation.com/baseb….
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Michael Friendly
@datavisfriendly.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Dec 10, 1882 Otto Neurath born in Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹 1924: Museum of Social Statistical Graphics and the ISOTYPE system, a method of showing social, technological, biological, and historical connections in pictorial form
Photo of Otto Neurath
A Neurath ISOTYPE chart titled Men Getting Married in Germany in a Year. It has the form of a horizontal bar chart, but the bars are made of images of couples in wedding dress. Separate bars for the years 1911-14, 1915-18, 1919-22, 1923-26, with 1 sign for 100,000 marriages per year
ALT: A Neurath ISOTYPE chart titled The Young Population Aged 13-20 with the question: How many of each age group stay in school?
The form is back to back bars, made of blue figures to left (at school), red figures to the right (gainfully employed), with some grey in the middle (others)
Figure titled: Great War 1914-18, showing numbers of Allied vs Central Power troops by ISOTYPE symbols: killed (black graves), wounded (red, on crutches) or returning home (men walking)
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