Herman Hollerith is born
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29th February 1860 Herman Hollerith (29th February 1860 - November 17, 1929) is born. Hollerith was a German-American statistician who invented a punched card system for tabulating census statistics. This use of punched cards to store data was a standard mechanism for data storage and processing until the late 1970s. The company Hollerith founded to build his electrical tabulating machines would later form the basis of the IBM corporation. Related information: Image:
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