Mária Bajzek Lukács, Hungarian author and educator
Mária Bajzek Lukács (Slovene: Marija Bajzek Lukač, January 24, 1960) is a Hungarian Slovene language writer and university professor.She was born in Szentgotthárd and spent her childhood in Felsőszölnök. Between 1974 and 1978, she attended the Serbo-Croatian High School in Budapest. In 1978, she started her studies in Ljubljana, and in 1983 received a Slovene and Serbo-Croatian teaching degree. Until 1988, Bajzek Lukács was the editor of Narodne Novine. In 2004, she earned a doctorate in Budapest.
Mária Bajzek is an adjunct professor at the Department of Slavic Philology today at Eötvös Loránd University and a visiting teacher in Maribor. She speaks Hungarian, Slovene (including the local Prekmurje dialect), Serbian, and Croatian. One area of her research is Prekmurje Slovene. In 2009, she wrote the dictionary of the Felsőszölnök dialect, and in 2010 she translated a book on the history of the Prekmurje dialect and Slovene.
Her husband István Lukács is also a professor at ELTE.
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Combined oral contraceptive pill
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Flag of the United States
Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Act). - 29Oct
Muhammad Ali
In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.