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Tuesday

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October

C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS)

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson for their studies of global inequality.
The comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) (pictured) is visible in the western sky after sunset.
The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang.

Chesmac running on a Telmac-1800 computer

... that as the 1979 computer chess game Chesmac (pictured) could not display a chessboard on screen, players had to replicate the game on a physical chessboard?
... that Samuel Barber said that he could not adequately play his own Piano Sonata?
... that geographer Michael Chisholm and contemporaries became known as "Caesar's Praetorian Guard", in reference to their teacher Gus Caesar?
... that Anne Morrow Lindbergh tried to warn her husband Charles Lindbergh of the backlash that his antisemitic Des Moines speech would receive?
... that Rose Betts wrote the song "Driving Myself Home" as a joke after a blind date, only for it to go viral on TikTok?
... that an art critic felt that Rooms by the Sea was one of Edward Hopper's "strangest" works?
... that when Swedish soccer player Beata Olsson transferred from Florida to Florida State, she said that she did not really know about the schools' rivalry?
... that John Passmore Edwards erected a library in memory of his mother?
... that researchers want Hymenophyllum axsmithii rhizomes so that they can tell whether the filmy fern was up a tree?