Open Database Connectivity. In computing, Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a standard application programming interface (API) for accessing database management systems (DBMS). The designers of ODBC aimed to make it independent of database systems and operating systems.
The death toll from a yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia hits 100 on this day in 1793. By the time it ended, 5,000 people were dead. Yellow fever, or American plague as it was known at the time, is a viral disease that begins with fever and muscle pain.
After the whole thing was over people said that about 5,000 people died from yellow fever. Yellow fever in Philadelphia. It is now known that it was spread by mosquitoes. Hundreds of people were dying every month. It all started out slow and day by day more and more people began to die.