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.
The first definitive evidence of yellow fever in the Americas was in Mayan manuscripts describing. an outbreak of the disease in the Yucatan and Guadeloupe. 1668-1699 Outbreaks were reported on the eastern coast of the United States , including in New York (1668), Boston (1691), and Charleston (1699). 1700s.