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Record 01052026 · captured 2026-08-25

Friday, 1 May 2026

The world looked up Nahui Ollin. 30 tracked subjects, 25 discussions, 25 papers. This record is frozen and will not change.

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Attention 30

What the most people looked up, ranked by Wikipedia pageviews for that day.

  1. 816,860views

    Nahui Ollin

    Nahui Ollin is a 16th-century concept in Aztec/Mexica cosmology with a variety of meanings. Nahui translates to "four," and Ollin translates to "movement" or "motion." Ollin was primarily portrayed in Aztec codices as two interlaced lines, each portrayed with

  2. 427,150views

    David Allan Coe

    David Allan Coe, also known by his initials DAC, was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Coe took up music after spending much of his early life in reform schools and prisons. He first came to prominence for busking in Nashville and initially played mo

  3. 233,662views

    Michael Jackson

    Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures of the 20th century. His musical achievements broke American racial barrier

  4. 225,623views

    2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

    Legislative Assembly elections were held in West Bengal to elect all 294 members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly in two phases on 23 and 29 April 2026, with the votes counted and results for 293 seats released on 4 May 2026. The election saw the defeat

  5. 187,174views

    Michael (2026 film)

    Michael is a 2026 biographical film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by John Logan. It follows the early life of the American singer Michael Jackson, from his time with the Jackson 5 in the 1960s to the Bad World Tour in the late 1980s. Jackson is portray

  6. 141,265views

    MrBeast

    James Stephen "Jimmy" Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, is an American YouTuber, media personality, businessman, philanthropist, and actor. He is the founder of Beast Industries, a conglomerate that holds various media channels, MrBeast Burger, Feastables, L

  7. 130,145views

    Deaths in 2026

    The following notable deaths occurred in 2026. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence:Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality, what subject was

  8. 128,077views

    Jaafar Jackson

    Jaafar Jeremiah Jackson is an American actor and singer. A member of the Jackson family, he released his debut single "Got Me Singing" in 2019 but gained popularity for portraying his uncle Michael Jackson in the record-breaking biographical film Michael (2026

  9. 124,007views

    The Devil Wears Prada 2

    The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a 2026 American comedy drama film directed by David Frankel and written by Aline Brosh McKenna. A sequel to the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada, it sees Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci reprising their role

  10. 111,503views

    Limonene

    Limonene is a slightly yellow-green liquid aliphatic hydrocarbon classified as a cyclic monoterpene, and is the major component in the fragrance and essential oil of citrus fruit peels, taking its name from Italian limone ("lemon").

  11. 106,152views

    2026 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election

    Elections to appoint the 234 members of the 17th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, the highest body of the Government of Tamil Nadu, were held on 23 April 2026. The results were declared on 4 May 2026 by the Election Commission of India. It recorded the highest

  12. 102,310views

    Neatsville, Kentucky

    Neatsville is an unincorporated community in Adair County, in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is located at the junction of Kentucky Route 206 and Kentucky Route 76. Its elevation is 705 feet (215 m). For unknown reasons, the town's name was spelled as Neetsvil

  13. 98,836views

    1956 Aintree 100

    The 1956 Aintree 100 was a non-championship Formula One race held on 24 June 1956. The race was won by Horace Gould, in a privately entered Maserati 250F.

  14. 98,150views

    Apex (2026 film)

    Apex is a 2026 survival thriller film directed by Baltasar Kormákur, written by Jeremy Robbins, and starring Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton. It tells the story of a rock climber and kayaker who finds herself being hunted in the wilds of Australia.

  15. 96,224views

    Koh-i-Noor

    The Koh-i-Noor is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world, weighing 105.6 carats (21.12 g). It is currently set in the Crown of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

  16. 90,520views

    D4vd

    David Anthony Burke, known professionally as D4vd, is an American singer-songwriter. Born in Queens, New York City, and raised in Houston, Texas, Burke began composing music in 2021 for his Fortnite gameplay montages. He first achieved commercial success with

  17. 89,229views

    Resident Evil (2026 film)

    Resident Evil is an upcoming horror film directed by Zach Cregger and written by Cregger and Shay Hatten. It is the second reboot of the Resident Evil film series, based on Capcom's Resident Evil video game franchise. The film—set during events paralleling the

  18. 88,773views

    The Boys season 5

    The fifth and final season of the American satirical superhero television series The Boys, the first series in the franchise based on the comic book series of the same name created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, was developed for television by Eric Kripk

  19. 88,398views

    Nicole Saphier

    Nicole Saphier is an American radiologist, medical journalist, and author.

  20. 87,358views

    Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fans

    Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fans is the 50th season of the American competitive reality television series Survivor. It premiered on February 25, 2026, on CBS in the United States, and it is the eighteenth consecutive season to be filmed in the Mamanuca Is

  21. 83,226views

    Dhurandhar: The Revenge

    Dhurandhar: The Revenge is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language spy action-thriller film written and directed by Aditya Dhar. It is produced by Dhar, Lokesh Dhar, and Jyoti Deshpande under Jio Studios and B62 Studios. It is a sequel to the 2025 film Dhurandhar and the

  22. 80,034views

    Jermaine Jackson

    Jermaine LaJuane Jacksun is an American musician. A member of the Jackson family, he was second vocalist after his brother Michael of the Jackson 5 from 1964 to 1975, and played bass guitar. In 1983, he rejoined the group, which had been renamed the Jacksons;

  23. 79,608views

    List of highest-grossing Indian films

    This ranking lists the highest-grossing Indian films produced by Indian cinema, based on conservative global box office estimates as reported by organisations classified as green by Wikipedia. The figures are not adjusted for inflation. However, there is no of

  24. 75,157views

    The Devil Wears Prada (film)

    The Devil Wears Prada is a 2006 American comedy-drama film directed by David Frankel and produced by Wendy Finerman. The screenplay, written by Aline Brosh McKenna, is based on the 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger. The film stars Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, St

  25. 74,834views

    Desert Warrior (2025 film)

    Desert Warrior is a 2025 historical action film directed by Rupert Wyatt, who co-wrote the screenplay with Erica Beeney and David Self. The film's cast includes Anthony Mackie, Aiysha Hart, Sharlto Copley, and Ben Kingsley. The story sees an Arabian princess t

  26. 70,973views

    Tim Horton

    Miles Gilbert "Tim" Horton was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 24 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He spent the majority of his career playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs, later playing with the New York Rangers, Pittsburgh

  27. 62,710views

    The Boys (TV series)

    The Boys is an American satirical superhero streaming television series developed by Eric Kripke for Amazon Prime Video. Based on the comic book series of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, it follows the eponymous team of vigilantes as they co

  28. 60,022views

    Euphoria (American TV series)

    Euphoria is an American psychological drama television series created and written by Sam Levinson for HBO. Based on the Israeli miniseries of the same name created by Ron Leshem, the series stars Zendaya as drug-addicted teenager Rue Bennett, who also serves a

  29. 59,388views

    International Workers' Day

    International Workers' Day, also called Labour Day in some countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers, the labour movement and the working class that is marked every year on 1 May, or the first Monday in May.

  30. 57,823views

    Charles III

    Charles III is King of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms.

Frontier 25

What the people building things argued about, from Hacker News.

  1. 684points

    The gay jailbreak technique (2025)

    257 comments

  2. 677points

    DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier

    398 comments

  3. 603points

    Ti-84 Evo

    482 comments

  4. 566points

    Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

    168 comments

  5. 478points

    City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo

    122 comments

  6. 463points

    New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming

    271 comments

  7. 409points

    AI uses less water than the public thinks

    395 comments

  8. 405points

    Grok 4.3

    529 comments

  9. 402points

    Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months

    475 comments

  10. 384points

    Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

    321 comments

  11. 379points

    Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers

    131 comments

  12. 311points

    Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)

    550 comments

  13. 287points

    Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI

    308 comments

  14. 271points

    Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests

    109 comments

  15. 268points

    Your website is not for you

    189 comments

  16. 262points

    An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open

    14 comments

  17. 261points

    Apocalypse Early Warning System

    129 comments

  18. 241points

    Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks

    192 comments

  19. 223points

    US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City

    73 comments

  20. 220points

    Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS

    71 comments

  21. 213points

    The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced

    224 comments

  22. 212points

    I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

    250 comments

  23. 209points

    OpenWarp

    148 comments

  24. 192points

    Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant

    145 comments

  25. 192points

    Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming

    97 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv1907.11158

    Cross-Lingual Transfer for Distantly Supervised and Low-resources Indonesian NER

    Manually annotated corpora for low-resource languages are usually small in quantity (gold), or large but distantly supervised (silver). Inspired by recent progress of injecting pre-trained language model (LM) on many Natural Language Processing (NLP) task, we proposed to fine-tune pre-trained language model from high-resources languages to low-resources languages to improve the performance of both scenarios. Our empi

    Ikhwantri, Fariz

  2. arXiv2102.05231

    Culture-inspired Multi-modal Color Palette Generation and Colorization: A Chinese Youth Subculture Case

    Color is an essential component of graphic design, acting not only as a visual factor but also carrying cultural implications. However, existing research on algorithmic color palette generation and colorization largely ignores the cultural aspect. In this paper, we contribute to this line of research by first constructing a unique color dataset inspired by a specific culture, i.e., Chinese Youth Subculture (CYS), whi

    Li, Yufan, Zhuo, Jinggang, Fan, Ling, Wang, Harry Jiannan

  3. arXiv2202.07980

    Querying Inconsistent Prioritized Data with ORBITS: Algorithms, Implementation, and Experiments

    We investigate practical algorithms for inconsistency-tolerant query answering over prioritized knowledge bases, which consist of a logical theory, a set of facts, and a priority relation between conflicting facts. We consider three well-known semantics (AR, IAR and brave) based upon two notions of optimal repairs (Pareto and completion). Deciding whether a query answer holds under these semantics is (co)NP-complete

    Bienvenu, Meghyn, Bourgaux, Camille

  4. arXiv2212.14124

    Joint Action is a Framework for Understanding Partnerships Between Humans and Upper Limb Prostheses

    Recent advances in upper limb prostheses have led to significant improvements in the number of movements provided by the robotic limb. However, the method for controlling multiple degrees of freedom via user-generated signals remains challenging. To address this issue, various machine learning controllers have been developed to better predict movement intent. As these controllers become more intelligent and take on m

    Dawson, Michael R., Parker, Adam S. R., Williams, Heather E., Shehata, Ahmed W. et al.

  5. arXiv2302.03286

    Algorithmically Designed Artificial Neural Networks (ADANNs): Higher order deep operator learning for parametric partial differential equations

    In this article we propose a new deep learning approach to approximate operators related to parametric partial differential equations (PDEs). In particular, we introduce a new strategy to design specific artificial neural network (ANN) architectures in conjunction with specific ANN initialization schemes which are tailor-made for the particular approximation problem under consideration. In the proposed approach we co

    Jentzen, Arnulf, Riekert, Adrian, von Wurstemberger, Philippe

  6. arXiv2304.14352

    Epistemic reflections on AI answering our questions: overwatch, erudite, logician, interlocutor

    Currently, there is a trend for the wider public to rely on LLMs for financial or legal consultation, medical and mental support (Chatterji et al., 2025), often accepting the advice provided without necessarily seeking logical verification or empirical validation. While one might be fortunate enough to encounter a model with a particularly solid 'ground truth' or with auxiliary logic-symbolic reasoning capabi

    Hoorn, Johan F., Oosterglorenwoud, Ella-Jenna

  7. arXiv2305.02251

    Automated Scientific Discovery: From Equation Discovery to Autonomous Discovery Systems

    The paper surveys automated scientific discovery, from equation discovery and symbolic regression to autonomous discovery systems and agents. It discusses the individual approaches from a "big picture" perspective and in context, but also discusses open issues and recent topics like the various roles of deep neural networks in this area, aiding in the discovery of human-interpretable knowledge. Further, we wi

    Kramer, Stefan, Cerrato, Mattia, Brugger, Jannis, Džeroski, Sašo et al.

  8. arXiv2306.10407

    FP-IRL: Fokker--Planck Inverse Reinforcement Learning -- A Physics-Constrained Approach to Markov Decision Processes

    Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) is a powerful paradigm for uncovering the incentive structure that drives agent behavior, by inferring an unknown reward function from observed trajectories within a Markov decision process (MDP). However, most existing IRL methods require access to the transition function, either prescribed or estimated \textit{a priori}, which poses significant challenges when the underlying dyn

    Huang, Chengyang, Srivastava, Siddhartha, Ho, Kenneth K. Y., Luker, Kathy E. et al.

  9. arXiv2306.16050

    Evaluating Similitude and Robustness of Deep Image Denoising Models via Adversarial Attack

    Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown superior performance comparing to traditional image denoising algorithms. However, DNNs are inevitably vulnerable while facing adversarial attacks. In this paper, we propose an adversarial attack method named denoising-PGD which can successfully attack all the current deep denoising models while keep the noise distribution almost unchanged. We surprisingly find that the current

    Ning, Jie, Sun, Jiebao, Li, Yao, Guo, Zhichang et al.

  10. arXiv2309.02449

    League of Legends: Real-Time Result Prediction

    This paper presents a study on the prediction of outcomes in matches of the electronic game League of Legends (LoL) using machine learning techniques. With the aim of exploring the ability to predict real-time results, considering different variables and stages of the match, we highlight the use of unpublished data as a fundamental part of this process. With the increasing popularity of LoL and the emergence of tourn

    Junior, Jailson B. S., Campelo, Claudio E. C.

  11. arXiv2309.12071

    Benchmarking quantized LLaMa-based models on the Brazilian Secondary School Exam

    Although Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a revolution in the way we interact with computers, allowing the construction of complex questions and the ability to reason over a sequence of statements, their use is restricted due to the need for dedicated hardware for execution. In this study, we evaluate the performance of LLMs based on the 7 and 13 billion LLaMA models, subjected to a quantization process and run

    Santos, Matheus L. O., Campelo, Cláudio E. C.

  12. arXiv2309.12802

    Deepfake audio as a data augmentation technique for training automatic speech to text transcription models

    To train transcriptor models that produce robust results, a large and diverse labeled dataset is required. Finding such data with the necessary characteristics is a challenging task, especially for languages less popular than English. Moreover, producing such data requires significant effort and often money. Therefore, a strategy to mitigate this problem is the use of data augmentation techniques. In this work, we pr

    Ferreira, Alexandre R., Campelo, Cláudio E. C.

  13. arXiv2310.02277

    Junk DNA Hypothesis: Pruning Small Pre-Trained Weights Irreversibly and Monotonically Impairs "Difficult" Downstream Tasks in LLMs

    We present Junk DNA Hypothesis by adopting a novel task-centric angle for the pre-trained weights of large language models (LLMs). It has been believed that weights in LLMs contain significant redundancy, leading to the conception that a considerable chunk of the parameters can be removed by pruning without compromising performance. Contrary to this belief, this paper presents a counter-argument: small-magnitude weig

    Yin, Lu, Jaiswal, Ajay, Liu, Shiwei, Kundu, Souvik et al.

  14. arXiv2312.03853

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Two Faces of LLMs

    Large Language Models (LLMs) are being integrated into applications such as chatbots or email assistants. To prevent improper responses, safety mechanisms, such as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), are implemented in them. In this work, we bypass these safety measures for ChatGPT, Gemini, and Deepseek by making them impersonate complex personas with personality characteristics that are not aligned wi

    Collu, Matteo Gioele, Janssen-Groesbeek, Tom, Koffas, Stefanos, Conti, Mauro et al.

  15. arXiv2402.14532

    A Framework for Variational Inference of Lightweight Bayesian Neural Networks with Heteroscedastic Uncertainties

    Obtaining heteroscedastic predictive uncertainties from a Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) is vital to many applications. Often, heteroscedastic aleatoric uncertainties are learned as outputs of the BNN in addition to the predictive means, however doing so may necessitate adding more learnable parameters to the network. In this work, we demonstrate that both the heteroscedastic aleatoric and epistemic variance can be em

    Schodt, David J., Brown, Ryan, Merritt, Michael, Park, Samuel et al.

  16. arXiv2406.04808

    VERA: Generating Visual Explanations of Two-Dimensional Embeddings via Region Annotation

    Two-dimensional embeddings obtained from dimensionality reduction techniques such as MDS, t-SNE, or UMAP, are widely used to visualize high-dimensional data and support researchers in visually identifying clusters, outliers, and other interesting patterns in the data. However, the main challenge is not only to detect such patterns, but to explain what they represent in terms of the original, human-interpretable featu

    Poličar, Pavlin G., Zupan, Blaž

  17. arXiv2407.08668

    Modeling Spatial Extremal Dependence of Precipitation Using Distributional Neural Networks

    In this work, we propose a simulation-based estimation approach using generative neural networks to determine dependencies of precipitation maxima and their underlying uncertainty in time and space. Within the common framework of max-stable processes for extremes under temporal and spatial dependence, our methodology allows estimating the process parameters and their respective uncertainty, but also delivers an expli

    Bülte, Christopher, Leimenstoll, Lisa, Schienle, Melanie

  18. arXiv2407.19001

    Effective Prompt Pool Learning for Continual Category Discovery

    This paper studies effective prompt pool learning for Continual Category Discovery (CCD), a challenging open-world setting where a model must discover novel categories from a continuous stream of unlabelled data containing both known and novel classes, while mitigating catastrophic forgetting of previously learned concepts. We introduce a series of novel prompt-pool-based frameworks for CCD, each exploring a differen

    Cendra, Fernando Julio, Li, Xinghui, Han, Kai

  19. arXiv2408.02679

    Visual Analysis of Multi-outcome Causal Graphs

    We introduce a visual analysis method for multiple causal graphs with different outcome variables, namely, multi-outcome causal graphs. Multi-outcome causal graphs are important in healthcare for understanding multimorbidity and comorbidity. To support the visual analysis, we collaborated with medical experts to devise two comparative visualization techniques at different stages of the analysis process. First, a prog

    Fan, Mengjie, Yu, Jinlu, Weiskopf, Daniel, Cao, Nan et al.

  20. arXiv2408.13122

    Semantic Variational Bayes Based on Semantic Information G Theory for Solving Latent Variables

    The Variational Bayesian method (VB) is used to solve the probability distributions of latent variables with the minimum free energy criterion. This criterion is not easy to understand, and the computation is complex. For these reasons, this paper proposes the Semantic Variational Bayes' method (SVB). The Semantic Information Theory the author previously proposed extends the rate-distortion function R(D) to the r

    Lu, Chenguang

  21. arXiv2410.05284

    Hypnopaedia-Aware Machine Unlearning via Psychometrics of Artificial Mental Imagery

    Neural backdoors represent insidious cybersecurity loopholes that render learning machinery vulnerable to unauthorised manipulations, potentially enabling the weaponisation of artificial intelligence with catastrophic consequences. A backdoor attack involves the clandestine infiltration of a trigger during the learning process, metaphorically analogous to hypnopaedia, where ideas are implanted into a subject's su

    Chang, Ching-Chun, Gao, Kai, Xu, Shuying, Kordoni, Anastasia et al.

  22. arXiv2410.07442

    Self-Supervised Learning for Real-World Object Detection: a Survey

    Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising approach in computer vision, enabling networks to learn meaningful representations from large unlabeled datasets. SSL methods fall into two main categories: instance discrimination and Masked Image Modeling (MIM). While instance discrimination is fundamental to SSL, it was originally designed for classification and may be less effective for object detection, p

    Ciocarlan, Alina, Lefebvre, Sidonie, Hégarat-Mascle, Sylvie Le, Woiselle, Arnaud

  23. arXiv2410.15272

    Performance-Driven QUBO for Recommender Systems on Quantum Annealers

    Quantum annealers offer a promising hardware platform for solving combinatorial optimization problems, especially those formulated as Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO). In this work, we propose PDQUBO (Performance-Driven Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization), a QUBO-based feature selection method that is directly executable on quantum annealers. Unlike prior QUBO-based feature selection approa

    Niu, Jiayang, Li, Jie, Deng, Ke, Sanderson, Mark et al.

  24. arXiv2411.15253

    Unsupervised Machine Learning for Osteoporosis Diagnosis Using Singh Index Clustering on Hip Radiographs

    Osteoporosis, a prevalent condition among the aging population worldwide, is characterized by diminished bone mass and altered bone structure, increasing susceptibility to fractures. It poses a significant and growing global public health challenge over the next decade. Diagnosis typically involves Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry to measure bone mineral density, yet its mass screening utility is limited. The Singh I

    Kalavakonda, Vijaya, Madhivanan, Vimaladevi, Lal, Abhay, Rithika, Senthil et al.

  25. arXiv2411.18796

    Graph-Based Biomarker Discovery and Interpretation for Alzheimer's Disease

    Early diagnosis and discovery of therapeutic drug targets are crucial objectives for effective management of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Current approaches for AD diagnosis and treatment planning are based on radiological imaging and largely inaccessible for population-level screening due to prohibitive costs and limited availability. Recently, blood tests have shown promise in diagnosing AD and highlighting possib

    Khalid, Maryam, Khan, Fadeel Sher, Broussard, John, Barman, Arko

On this calendar day 18

Notable events recorded on this day and month across all years.

  1. 2016year

    The evacuation of nearly 88,000 people began when a wildfire swept through Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, and burned for another 14 months, becoming the costliest disaster in Canadian history.

  2. 2010year

    Faisal Shahzad attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square, New York City, but it failed to explode.

  3. 2002year

    The Horncastle boar's head (pictured), which probably once formed part of the crest of an Anglo-Saxon helmet, was found.

  4. 1991year

    In Major League Baseball, Rickey Henderson broke the record for stolen bases on the same night that Nolan Ryan broke his own record for no-hitters.

  5. 1974year

    Argentine president Juan Perón expelled Montoneros from a demonstration in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, forcing the group to become a clandestine organization.

  6. 1950year

    Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

  7. 1947year

    Sicilian separatist Salvatore Giuliano and his gang fired into a crowd of May Day marchers near Piana degli Albanesi, Sicily, killing 11 and wounding 33.

  8. 1945year

    Second World War: British and Indian forces conducted a successful airborne assault on a Japanese artillery battery during the advance to liberate Rangoon, Burma.

  9. 1941year

    Citizen Kane, a widely acclaimed film by actor and director Orson Welles, premiered.

  10. 1931year

    New York City's Empire State Building (pictured), at the time the tallest building in the world, opened.

  11. 1900year

    A dust explosion at a coal mine near Scofield, Utah, U.S., killed at least 200 miners.

  12. 1897year

    The Ramakrishna Mission was founded by Swami Vivekananda to serve as the humanitarian counterpart to the Hindu monastic order Ramakrishna Math.

  13. 1885year

    The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opened for business.

  14. 1884year

    Moses Fleetwood Walker (pictured), the last African American in Major League Baseball until Jackie Robinson, played his first game for the Toledo Blue Stockings.

  15. 1794year

    War of the Pyrenees: France regained nearly all the land it lost to Spain the previous year with its victory in the Second Battle of Boulou.

  16. 1786year

    The Marriage of Figaro (audio featured), an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna.

  17. 1707year

    Under the terms of the Acts of Union, the Kingdoms of England and Scotland merged to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, with a single parliament and government based in Westminster.

  18. 1699year

    Francis Nicholson and James Blair organize five May Day orations given by students of the College of William & Mary, leading to the establishment of Williamsburg as Virginia's new capital.