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||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. | ||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. | ||
||1958: Jenő Egerváry commits suicide ... mathematician. Egerváry generalized König's theorem to the case of weighted graphs.[5] This contribution was translated and published in 1955 by Harold W. Kuhn,[6] 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. | |||
||1962: Joseph Lade Pawsey dies ... scientist, radiophysicist and radio astronomer. Pic. | ||1962: Joseph Lade Pawsey dies ... scientist, radiophysicist and radio astronomer. Pic. | ||
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3340 BC: Earliest recorded solar eclipse.
1826: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
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.
1985: Ridley Scott revisits his documentary film Alien, tells reporters he is "thinking about" an upgrade version.
