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Events on Tuesday 8 October 2024 2
1940 – 2024Luis Tiant (1940-2024)Died 8 October 2024, aged 83Cuban-born pitcher who won more major league games than any other Cuban player.
2024Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for machine learningJohn Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton honoured for neural networksThe 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded on 8 October to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for foundational discoveries enabling machine learning with artificial neural networks.