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Record 05022026 · captured 2026-08-25

Thursday, 5 February 2026

The world looked up Jeffrey Epstein. 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. 1,043,226views

    Jeffrey Epstein

    Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and child sex offender. He began his career as a math teacher at the Dalton School in New York City, before entering the banking and finance sector. Over several decades, he made much of his fortune providing ta

  2. 821,920views

    Epstein files

    The Epstein files are a partially released collection of millions of documents, images, videos, and emails related to the activities of American financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including his social circle of public figures, politici

  3. 387,584views

    Savannah Guthrie

    Savannah Clark Guthrie is an Australian-American broadcast journalist and attorney. She is a main co-anchor of the NBC News morning show Today, a position she has held since July 2012.

  4. 360,233views

    2026 Winter Olympics

    The 2026 Winter Olympics, officially the XXV Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Milano Cortina 2026, were an international winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 22 February 2026, at multiple sites across Lombardy, Veneto and Trentino-Alto Adige/Südti

  5. 241,484views

    Ghislaine Maxwell

    Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell is a British convicted child sex trafficker and former socialite. In 2021, she was convicted of child sex trafficking, and in 2022 was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

  6. 237,607views

    John Virgo

    John Trevor Virgo was an English professional snooker player and broadcaster. After achieving success as an amateur, Virgo turned professional in 1976 at age 30 and won four professional titles during his career, including the 1979 UK Championship, where he de

  7. 204,328views

    Iron Lung (film)

    Iron Lung is a 2026 American independent science fiction horror film starring writer, editor, and director Mark Fischbach in his feature-length directorial debut. It is based on the 2022 video game by David Szymanski. It also stars Caroline Kaplan, Troy Baker,

  8. 188,233views

    Traci Lords

    Traci Elizabeth Lords is an American actress, singer, and former adult film actress. Following her departure from the adult film industry, she pursued an acting career, appearing in Cry-Baby (1990) and later in films, including Skinner (1993), Virtuosity (1995

  9. 181,191views

    Peter Mandelson

    Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson, is a British former Labour Party politician, lobbyist and diplomat. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004. He served in Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's cabinets as Minister without portfo

  10. 153,710views

    Bad Bunny

    Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, known professionally as Bad Bunny, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer and record producer. Dubbed the "King of Latin Trap", he is widely credited with helping Spanish-language rap reach mainstream global popularity and is consider

  11. 150,668views

    Bruce Lee

    Bruce Lee was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, actor, and filmmaker. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy, which was formed from his experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defense—as well as eclectic, Zen Buddhist, and

  12. 143,127views

    Little Saint James

    Little Saint James, nicknamed Epstein Island, is a small private island in the United States Virgin Islands southeast of Saint Thomas. It was owned by American financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 1998 until his death in 2019.

  13. 135,591views

    Death of Jeffrey Epstein

    On August 10, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein, an American financier and a child sex offender, was found unresponsive in his jail cell at 6:30 a.m, at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, hanging off the side of his cell's bed, where he was awaiting tr

  14. 131,972views

    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

  15. 127,240views

    Dhurandhar

    Dhurandhar is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language spy action thriller film written and directed by Aditya Dhar. It is produced by Aditya Dhar, Lokesh Dhar and Jyoti Deshpande under Jio Studios and B62 Studios. The film features an ensemble cast consisting of Ranveer

  16. 120,965views

    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

  17. 120,496views

    Lucy Letby

    Lucy Letby is a British former NHS neonatal nurse convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester between June 2015 and June 2016. She was investigated after an unusual cluster of deaths

  18. 118,556views

    Pizzagate conspiracy theory

    "Pizzagate" is a conspiracy theory that went viral during the 2016 United States presidential election cycle, falsely claiming that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) had discovered a pedophile ring linked to members of the Democratic Party while searc

  19. 112,435views

    Catherine O'Hara

    Catherine Anne O'Hara was a Canadian and American actress and comedian, whose career spanned over 50 years. O'Hara started in sketch and improvisational comedy in film and television before taking dramatic roles to expand her career. She received various accol

  20. 111,620views

    Virginia Giuffre

    Virginia Lee Roberts Giuffre was an American and Australian advocate for survivors of sex trafficking and one of the most prominent accusers of Jeffrey Epstein. Giuffre provided detailed allegations to media outlets about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. She all

  21. 102,425views

    James Harden

    James Edward Harden Jr. is an American professional basketball player who most recently played for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is widely regarded as one of the greatest shooting guards and scorers in NBA history. In

  22. 96,648views

    Jeff Bezos

    Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American businessman, and the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes, he was the worl

  23. 96,422views

    Mark Epstein (property developer)

    Mark Lawrence Epstein, nicknamed "Puggy", is an American property developer and real estate investor. The brother of convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, he has been active in real estate since the 1990s, founding and leading several companies

  24. 92,637views

    Fallout (American TV series)

    Fallout is an American post-apocalyptic drama television series created by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet for Amazon Prime Video. Based on the role-playing video game franchise created by Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky, the series is set two centurie

  25. 91,394views

    Fallout season 2

    The second season of the American post-apocalyptic drama television series Fallout premiered on December 16, 2025 on Amazon Prime Video, with the remaining episodes released weekly through February 3, 2026. Based on the role-playing video game franchise create

  26. 90,627views

    Border 2

    Border 2 is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language epic war film co-written and directed by Anurag Singh. A sequel to J. P. Dutta's 1997 film Border, it was produced by Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, J. P. Dutta, and Nidhi Dutta under the banners of T-Series Films and J.

  27. 90,009views

    XXX

    XXX may refer to:

  28. 82,223views

    Bill Gates

    William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial pu

  29. 81,563views

    Melinda French Gates

    Melinda Ann French Gates is an American philanthropist. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, she attended Duke University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics and an MBA. She joined Microsoft in 1987 as a multimedia product deve

  30. 80,580views

    Michael Feldman (consultant)

    Michael Feldman is an American public relations and communications consultant and a former Democratic political adviser. Feldman was Vice President Al Gore’s traveling chief of staff during the 2000 presidential election campaign. He is a founding partner and

Frontier 25

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

  1. 2,346points

    Claude Opus 4.6

    1,031 comments

  2. 1,530points

    GPT-5.3-Codex

    605 comments

  3. 1,222points

    Don't rent the cloud, own instead

    497 comments

  4. 984points

    My AI Adoption Journey

    401 comments

  5. 735points

    We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler

    738 comments

  6. 681points

    Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]

    524 comments

  7. 534points

    LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions

    239 comments

  8. 532points

    It's 2026, Just Use Postgres

    333 comments

  9. 518points

    OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been

    417 comments

  10. 453points

    When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown

    252 comments

  11. 433points

    CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook

    188 comments

  12. 396points

    Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions

    224 comments

  13. 389points

    The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein

    586 comments

  14. 385points

    CIA to Sunset the World Factbook

    260 comments

  15. 373points

    The RCE that AMD won't fix

    173 comments

  16. 358points

    European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams

    189 comments

  17. 334points

    Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware

    151 comments

  18. 313points

    Ardour 9.0

    68 comments

  19. 297points

    Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was big tech's "top priority"

    165 comments

  20. 284points

    ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use

    362 comments

  21. 264points

    Company as Code

    129 comments

  22. 257points

    Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw

    128 comments

  23. 217points

    Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code

    141 comments

  24. 215points

    Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)

    178 comments

  25. 212points

    Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo

    75 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2301.12534

    Vicarious Offense and Noise Audit of Offensive Speech Classifiers: Unifying Human and Machine Disagreement on What is Offensive

    Offensive speech detection is a key component of content moderation. However, what is offensive can be highly subjective. This paper investigates how machine and human moderators disagree on what is offensive when it comes to real-world social web political discourse. We show that (1) there is extensive disagreement among the moderators (humans and machines); and (2) human and large-language-model classifiers are una

    Weerasooriya, Tharindu Cyril, Dutta, Sujan, Ranasinghe, Tharindu, Zampieri, Marcos et al.

  2. arXiv2303.14269

    The Exact Sample Complexity Gain from Invariances for Kernel Regression

    In practice, encoding invariances into models improves sample complexity. In this work, we study this phenomenon from a theoretical perspective. In particular, we provide minimax optimal rates for kernel ridge regression on compact manifolds, with a target function that is invariant to a group action on the manifold. Our results hold for any smooth compact Lie group action, even groups of positive dimension. For a fi

    Tahmasebi, Behrooz, Jegelka, Stefanie

  3. arXiv2305.19557

    Dictionary Learning under Symmetries via Group Representations

    The dictionary learning problem can be viewed as a data-driven process to learn a suitable transformation so that data is sparsely represented directly from example data. In this paper, we examine the problem of learning a dictionary that is invariant under a pre-specified group of transformations. Natural settings include Cryo-EM, multi-object tracking, synchronization, pose estimation, etc. We specifically study th

    Ghosh, Subhroshekhar, Low, Aaron Y. R., Soh, Yong Sheng, Feng, Zhuohang et al.

  4. arXiv2306.10767

    P-Tensors: a General Formalism for Constructing Higher Order Message Passing Networks

    Several recent papers have proposed increasing the expressive power of graph neural networks by exploiting subgraphs or other topological structures. In parallel, researchers have investigated higher order permutation equivariant networks. In this paper we tie these two threads together by providing a general framework for higher order permutation equivariant message passing in subgraph neural networks. In this paper

    Hands, Andrew, Sun, Tianyi, Kondor, Risi

  5. arXiv2309.07525

    SingFake: Singing Voice Deepfake Detection

    The rise of singing voice synthesis presents critical challenges to artists and industry stakeholders over unauthorized voice usage. Unlike synthesized speech, synthesized singing voices are typically released in songs containing strong background music that may hide synthesis artifacts. Additionally, singing voices present different acoustic and linguistic characteristics from speech utterances. These unique propert

    Zang, Yongyi, Zhang, You, Heydari, Mojtaba, Duan, Zhiyao

  6. arXiv2311.02868

    Sample Complexity Bounds for Estimating Probability Divergences under Invariances

    Group-invariant probability distributions appear in many data-generative models in machine learning, such as graphs, point clouds, and images. In practice, one often needs to estimate divergences between such distributions. In this work, we study how the inherent invariances, with respect to any smooth action of a Lie group on a manifold, improve sample complexity when estimating the 1-Wasserstein distance, the Sobol

    Tahmasebi, Behrooz, Jegelka, Stefanie

  7. arXiv2311.13600

    ZipLoRA: Any Subject in Any Style by Effectively Merging LoRAs

    Methods for finetuning generative models for concept-driven personalization generally achieve strong results for subject-driven or style-driven generation. Recently, low-rank adaptations (LoRA) have been proposed as a parameter-efficient way of achieving concept-driven personalization. While recent work explores the combination of separate LoRAs to achieve joint generation of learned styles and subjects, existing tec

    Shah, Viraj, Ruiz, Nataniel, Cole, Forrester, Lu, Erika et al.

  8. arXiv2401.14325

    Unlocking Past Information: Temporal Embeddings in Cooperative Bird's Eye View Prediction

    Accurate and comprehensive semantic segmentation of Bird's Eye View (BEV) is essential for ensuring safe and proactive navigation in autonomous driving. Although cooperative perception has exceeded the detection capabilities of single-agent systems, prevalent camera-based algorithms in cooperative perception neglect valuable information derived from historical observations. This limitation becomes critical during

    Rößle, Dominik, Gerner, Jeremias, Bogenberger, Klaus, Cremers, Daniel et al.

  9. arXiv2402.10192

    Multi-Excitation Projective Simulation with a Many-Body Physics Inspired Inductive Bias

    With the impressive progress of deep learning, applications relying on machine learning are increasingly being integrated into daily life. However, most deep learning models have an opaque, oracle-like nature making it difficult to interpret and understand their decisions. This problem led to the development of the field known as eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). One method in this field known as Projective

    LeMaitre, Philip A., Krumm, Marius, Briegel, Hans J.

  10. arXiv2403.00810

    Bootstrapping Cognitive Agents with a Large Language Model

    Large language models contain noisy general knowledge of the world, yet are hard to train or fine-tune. On the other hand cognitive architectures have excellent interpretability and are flexible to update but require a lot of manual work to instantiate. In this work, we combine the best of both worlds: bootstrapping a cognitive-based model with the noisy knowledge encoded in large language models. Through an embodied

    Zhu, Feiyu, Simmons, Reid

  11. arXiv2405.04118

    Policy Learning with a Language Bottleneck

    Modern AI systems such as self-driving cars and game-playing agents achieve superhuman performance, but often lack human-like generalization, interpretability, and inter-operability with human users. Inspired by the rich interactions between language and decision-making in humans, we introduce Policy Learning with a Language Bottleneck (PLLB), a framework enabling AI agents to generate linguistic rules that capture t

    Srivastava, Megha, Colas, Cedric, Sadigh, Dorsa, Andreas, Jacob

  12. arXiv2405.04636

    Data-driven Error Estimation: Excess Risk Bounds without Class Complexity as Input

    Constructing confidence intervals that are simultaneously valid across a class of estimates is central to tasks such as multiple mean estimation, generalization guarantees, and adaptive experimental design. We frame this as an ``error estimation problem," where the goal is to determine a high-probability upper bound on the maximum error for a class of estimates. We propose an entirely data-driven approach that de

    Krishnamurthy, Sanath Kumar, Lyubarskaja, Anna, Brunskill, Emma, Athey, Susan

  13. arXiv2405.05981

    Scalable physical source-to-field inference with hypernetworks

    We present a generative model that amortises computation for the field and potential around e.g.~gravitational or electromagnetic sources. Exact numerical calculation has either computational complexity $\mathcal{O}(M\times{}N)$ in the number of sources $M$ and evaluation points $N$, or requires a fixed evaluation grid to exploit fast Fourier transforms. Using an architecture where a hypernetwork produces an implicit

    James, Berian, Pollok, Stefan, Peis, Ignacio, Baker, Elizabeth Louise et al.

  14. arXiv2405.18605

    Merged ChemProt-DrugProt for Relation Extraction from Biomedical Literature

    The extraction of chemical-gene relations plays a pivotal role in understanding the intricate interactions between chemical compounds and genes, with significant implications for drug discovery, disease understanding, and biomedical research. This paper presents a data set created by merging the ChemProt and DrugProt datasets to augment sample counts and improve model accuracy. We evaluate the merged dataset using tw

    Nguyen, Mai H., Likhite, Shibani, Tang, Jiawei, Mahendran, Darshini et al.

  15. arXiv2406.03682

    A Universal Class of Sharpness-Aware Minimization Algorithms

    Recently, there has been a surge in interest in developing optimization algorithms for overparameterized models as achieving generalization is believed to require algorithms with suitable biases. This interest centers on minimizing sharpness of the original loss function; the Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) algorithm has proven effective. However, most literature only considers a few sharpness measures, such as th

    Tahmasebi, Behrooz, Soleymani, Ashkan, Bahri, Dara, Jegelka, Stefanie et al.

  16. arXiv2406.11589

    CoSQA+: Pioneering the Multi-Choice Code Search Benchmark with Test-Driven Agents

    Semantic code search, retrieving code that matches a given natural language query, is an important task to improve productivity in software engineering. Existing code search datasets face limitations: they rely on human annotators who assess code primarily through semantic understanding rather than functional verification, leading to potential inaccuracies and scalability issues. Additionally, current evaluation metr

    Gong, Jing, Wu, Yanghui, Liang, Linxi, Wang, Yanlin et al.

  17. arXiv2407.02122

    Fake News Detection: It's All in the Data!

    This comprehensive survey serves as an indispensable resource for researchers embarking on the journey of fake news detection. By highlighting the pivotal role of dataset quality and diversity, it underscores the significance of these elements in the effectiveness and robustness of detection models. The survey meticulously outlines the key features of datasets, various labeling systems employed, and prevalent biases

    Kuntur, Soveatin, Wróblewska, Anna, Paprzycki, Marcin, Ganzha, Maria

  18. arXiv2407.10695

    IE-NeRF: Inpainting Enhanced Neural Radiance Fields in the Wild

    We present a novel approach for synthesizing realistic novel views using Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) with uncontrolled photos in the wild. While NeRF has shown impressive results in controlled settings, it struggles with transient objects commonly found in dynamic and time-varying scenes. Our framework called \textit{Inpainting Enhanced NeRF}, or \ours, enhances the conventional NeRF by drawing inspiration from the

    Wang, Shuaixian, Xu, Haoran, Li, Yaokun, Chen, Jiwei et al.

  19. arXiv2407.13731

    Predictive Low Rank Matrix Learning under Partial Observations: Mixed-Projection ADMM

    We study the problem of learning a partially observed matrix under the low rank assumption in the presence of fully observed side information that depends linearly on the true underlying matrix. This problem consists of an important generalization of the Matrix Completion problem, a central problem in Statistics, Operations Research and Machine Learning, that arises in applications such as recommendation systems, sig

    Bertsimas, Dimitris, Johnson, Nicholas A. G.

  20. arXiv2407.14158

    Machine learning emulation of precipitation from km-scale UK regional climate simulations using a diffusion model

    High-resolution climate simulations are valuable for understanding climate change impacts. This has motivated use of regional convection-permitting climate models (CPMs), but these are very computationally expensive. We present a convection-permitting model generative emulator (CPMGEM), to skilfully emulate precipitation simulations by a 2.2km-resolution regional CPM at much lower cost. This utilises a generative mac

    Addison, Henry, Kendon, Elizabeth, Ravuri, Suman, Aitchison, Laurence et al.

  21. arXiv2408.10077

    No Screening is More Efficient with Multiple Objects

    We study efficient mechanism design for allocating multiple heterogeneous objects. The aim is to maximize the residual surplus, the total value generated from an allocation minus the costs of screening. We discover a robust trend indicating that no-screening mechanisms, such as serial dictatorship with exogenous priority order, tend to perform better as the variety of goods increases. We analyze the underlying reason

    Noda, Shunya, Okada, Genta

  22. arXiv2408.16227

    Revisiting 360 Depth Estimation with PanoGabor: A New Fusion Perspective

    Depth estimation from a monocular 360 image is important to the perception of the entire 3D environment. However, the inherent distortion and large field of view (FoV) in 360 images pose great challenges for this task. To this end, existing mainstream solutions typically introduce additional perspective-based 360 representations ({e.g., Cubemap) to achieve effective feature extraction. Nevertheless, regardless of the

    Shen, Zhijie, Lin, Chunyu, Nie, Lang, Liao, Kang et al.

  23. arXiv2409.07653

    STAND: Self-Aware Precondition Induction for Interactive Task Learning

    In interactive task learning (ITL), AI agents learn new capabilities from limited human instruction provided during task execution. STAND is a new method of data-efficient rule precondition induction specifically designed for these human-in-the-loop training scenarios. A key feature of STAND is its self-awareness of its own learning -- it can provide accurate metrics of training progress back to users. STAND beats po

    Weitekamp, Daniel, Smith, Glen, Koedinger, Kenneth, MacLellan, Christopher

  24. arXiv2409.07825

    Deep Multimodal Learning with Missing Modality: A Survey

    During multimodal model training and testing, certain data modalities may be absent due to sensor limitations, cost constraints, privacy concerns, or data loss, negatively affecting performance. Multimodal learning techniques designed to handle missing modalities can mitigate this by ensuring model robustness even when some modalities are unavailable. This survey reviews recent progress in Multimodal Learning with Mi

    Wu, Renjie, Wang, Hu, Chen, Hsiang-Ting, Carneiro, Gustavo

  25. arXiv2410.03198

    PersoBench: Benchmarking Personalized Response Generation in Large Language Models

    While large language models (LLMs) have exhibited impressive conversational capabilities, their proficiency in delivering personalized responses remains unclear. Although recent benchmarks automatically evaluate persona consistency in role-playing contexts using LLM-based judgment, the evaluation of personalization in response generation remains underexplored. To address this gap, we present an automated benchmarking

    Afzoon, Saleh, Jamali, Zahra, Naseem, Usman, Beheshti, Amin

On this calendar day 18

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

  1. 2009year

    The United States Navy guided missile cruiser Port Royal ran aground (pictured) on a coral reef off the island of Oahu.

  2. 2008year

    Eighty-seven tornadoes occurred over the course of the Super Tuesday tornado outbreak across multiple U.S. states, causing 56 deaths and over $1 billion in damage.

  3. 2004year

    The National Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Haiti captured the city of Gonaïves, starting a coup d'état against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's government.

  4. 2004year

    At least 21 cockle-gatherers were drowned by an incoming tide in Morecambe Bay, England, prompting the establishment of the British government's Gangmasters Licensing Authority.

  5. 2000year

    Second Chechen War: As the Battle of Grozny came to a close, Russian forces summarily executed at least 60 civilians in Grozny's Novye Aldi suburb.

  6. 1985year

    The mayors of Carthage and Rome signed a symbolic peace treaty to officially end the Third Punic War, 2,134 years after it began.

  7. 1967year

    Cultural Revolution: The January Storm revolt in Shanghai reached its apogee as Maoist rebels proclaimed the establishment of the Shanghai People's Commune, a move the previously supportive Mao Zedong criticized.

  8. 1958year

    After a mid-air collision with a fighter plane during a practice exercise off Tybee Island, Georgia, a U.S. Air Force bomber jettisoned a Mark 15 nuclear bomb, which was presumed lost.

  9. 1923year

    Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford made 429 runs to break the world record for the highest first-class score.

  10. 1917year

    The U.S. Congress overrode President Woodrow Wilson's veto to pass the Immigration Act of 1917, establishing new restrictions on immigrants, including the wholesale ban of people from much of Asia.

  11. 1913year

    Claudio Monteverdi's last opera, L'incoronazione di Poppea, was performed theatrically for the first time in more than 250 years.

  12. 1909year

    Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announced his invention of Bakelite (production device pictured), the world's first synthetic plastic.

  13. 1869year

    Prospectors in Moliagul, Australia, discovered the largest alluvial gold nugget ever found, known as the Welcome Stranger.

  14. 1861year

    In a speech before the U.S. Congress, Representative John Edward Bouligny refused to join his fellow Louisiana congressmen in heeding the state's secession convention and resigning.

  15. 1818year

    Charles XIV John (pictured) succeeded to the thrones of Sweden and Norway as the first monarch of the House of Bernadotte.

  16. 1783year

    The first of five strong earthquakes hit the region of Calabria on the Italian Peninsula, killing more than 32,000 people over a period of nearly two months.

  17. 1597year

    As part of enforcing Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ban on Christianity in Japan, twenty-six Catholics, a mix of European missionaries and Japanese converts, were executed (depicted) near Nagasaki by crucifixion and impalement.

  18. 62year

    Pompeii was severely damaged by a strong earthquake, which may have been a precursor to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the town 17 years later.