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File:Ridley Scott.jpg|link=Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|1937: Film director and producer [[Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|Ridley Scott]] born. | File:Ridley Scott.jpg|link=Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|1937: Film director and producer [[Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|Ridley Scott]] born. | ||
||1954: In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space. | File:Sylacauga meteorite, Smithsonian Natural History Museum.jpg|link=Sylacauga (meteorite) (nonfiction)|1954: In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the [[Sylacauga (meteorite) (nonfiction)|Hodges meteorite]] crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space. | ||
||1958: Jenő Egerváry commits suicide ... mathematician. Egerváry generalized König's theorem to the case of weighted graphs. This contribution was translated and published in 1955 by Harold W. Kuhn, who also showed how to apply Kőnig's and Egerváry's method to solve the assignment problem; the resulting algorithm has since been known as the "Hungarian method". Pic. | ||1958: Jenő Egerváry commits suicide ... mathematician. Egerváry generalized König's theorem to the case of weighted graphs. This contribution was translated and published in 1955 by Harold W. Kuhn, who also showed how to apply Kőnig's and Egerváry's method to solve the assignment problem; the resulting algorithm has since been known as the "Hungarian method". Pic. | ||
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3340 BC: Earliest recorded solar eclipse.
1740: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr publishes Atlas Coelestis in quo Algorithmus Gnomonis, his landmark study of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
1829: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1835: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer Mark Twain born.
1888: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley born. He will invent the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contribute to the foundations of information theory.
1937: Film director and producer Ridley Scott born.
1954: In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.
2017: Green Ring voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
