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February 8 – The Boy Scouts of America youth organization is incorporated by William D. Boyce. February 16–18 – The state of Ohio is crippled by a snowstorm. March 3 – Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
1910 – Mann–Elkins Act; 1910 – Mann Act; 1911 – Supreme Court breaks up Standard Oil; 1911 – Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire; 1911 – First Indianapolis 500 is staged; Ray Harroun is the first winner; 1912 – RMS Titanic sank; 1912 – New Mexico and Arizona become states; 1912 – Girl Scouts of the USA was started by Juliette ...
In the early 19th century, collection intensified, and the meaning of "statistics" broadened to include the discipline concerned with the collection, summary, and analysis of data. Today, data is collected and statistics are computed and widely distributed in government, business, most of the sciences and sports, and even for many pastimes.
The 1910s (pronounced "nineteen-tens" often shortened to the "'10s" or the "Tens") was the decade that began on January 1, 1910, and ended on December 31, 1919. The 1910s represented the culmination of European militarism which had its beginnings during the second half of the 19th century.
1910s in the United States by state or territory (63 C) 1910s disestablishments in the United States (61 C, 3 P) 1910s establishments in the United States (65 C)
Even as America's westward expansion allowed over 400 million acres (1,600,000 km 2) of new land to be put under cultivation, between 1870 and 1910 the number of Americans involved in farming or farm labor dropped by a third. [87] New farming techniques and agricultural mechanization facilitated both processes.
How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms is a 2023 non-fiction book written by Columbia University professors Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones. The book explores the history of data and statistics from the end of the 18th century to the present day. [1]
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1910s, as determined by The Bookman, a New York–based literary journal (1910–1912) and Publishers Weekly (1913 and beyond). [1] The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1910 through 1919 .