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Tuesday, 5 May 2026

The world looked up 2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. 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. 1,275,727views

    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

  2. 1,152,883views

    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

  3. 803,367views

    C. Joseph Vijay

    Chandrasekaran Joseph Vijay is an Indian politician and former actor who is currently serving as the ninth chief minister of Tamil Nadu since May 2026. He is the founder and president of the political party Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK). Prior to entering pol

  4. 705,766views

    Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam

    Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam is an Indian regional political party active in the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It was founded on 2 February 2024 by actor-turned-politician C. Joseph Vijay, the party's president, and is headquartered in

  5. 355,217views

    Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu

    The chief minister of Tamil Nadu is the head of government of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. In accordance with the Constitution of India, the governor is a state's de jure head, while the de facto authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections

  6. 325,838views

    2026 Kerala Legislative Assembly election

    2026 Kerala Legislative Assembly Elections were conducted in Kerala on 9 April 2026 to elect 140 members of the Kerala Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 4 May 2026, leading to Satheesan ministry.

  7. 309,067views

    Mamata Banerjee

    Mamata Banerjee is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the eighth chief minister of West Bengal from 2011 to 2026. She was the first and only woman to hold that office. Being the founder and president of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), she p

  8. 250,790views

    Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly

    The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It has a strength of 234 members, all of whom are democratically elected using the first-past-the-post system. The presiding officer of the assembly is the Spe

  9. 240,356views

    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

  10. 216,176views

    2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

    Legislative Assembly elections were held in West Bengal, to elect all 294 members of West Bengal Legislative Assembly. This electoral process of 292 seats unfolded between 27 March to 29 April 2021, taking place in eight phases. Voting for the two remaining co

  11. 198,503views

    United Democratic Front (Kerala)

    The United Democratic Front (UDF) is the Indian National Congress–led alliance of political parties in the Indian state of Kerala. It is one of the two major political alliances in Kerala, the other being Communist Party of India (Marxist)–led Left Democratic

  12. 194,983views

    2026 Assam Legislative Assembly election

    The 2026 Assam Legislative Assembly elections were held in Assam on 9 April 2026 to elect 126 members to the Assam Legislative Assembly. Votes were counted and the results were declared on 4 May 2026 by the Election Commission of India. The election results we

  13. 191,373views

    Suvendu Adhikari

    Suvendu Adhikari is an Indian politician who is serving as the 9th Chief Minister of West Bengal since 9 May 2026. He is the first chief minister of West Bengal belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

  14. 185,466views

    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

  15. 179,463views

    M. K. Stalin

    Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin is an Indian politician and statesman who served as the eighth chief minister of Tamil Nadu from 2021 to 2026. He became president of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on 28 August 2018, after serving as the party's working presid

  16. 175,434views

    2026 elections in India

    The 2026 elections in India were held from April to May to include the elections of the Rajya Sabha, 4 states and 1 union territory legislative assemblies, several by-elections and several local body elections.

  17. 172,326views

    Bhabanipur, West Bengal Assembly constituency

    Bhabanipur Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. it's the seat of current chief minister.

  18. 171,220views

    Trisha Krishnan

    Trisha Krishnan is an Indian actress known for her work primarily in Tamil and Telugu cinema. One of the highest-paid actresses in India, she has sustained a successful career as a leading actress for over two decades in Tamil cinema. Trisha gained prominence

  19. 167,970views

    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

  20. 164,440views

    2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election

    Tamil Nadu legislative assembly election was held on 6 April 2020 to elect the representatives of the 16th Tamil Nadu assembly. Elections were held for all the 234 constituencies in the assembly. The Election Commission of India announced the schedule for the

  21. 161,444views

    Hantavirus

    Orthohantavirus is a genus of viruses which includes all hantaviruses that cause disease in humans. Hantaviruses are naturally found primarily in rodents. In general, each hantavirus is carried by one rodent species and each rodent that carries a hantavirus ca

  22. 158,445views

    Rudy Giuliani

    Rudolph William Louis Giuliani is an American politician and disbarred lawyer who served as the 108th mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He previously served as the U.S. Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1983 and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern

  23. 156,242views

    2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election

    The 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election was held in Kerala on 6 April 2021 to elect 140 members to the 15th Kerala Assembly. The results were declared on 2 May.

  24. 150,447views

    West Bengal Legislative Assembly

    The West Bengal Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located in the B. B. D. Bagh area of Kolkata, the capital of the state. Members of the Legislative assembly are directly elected by the people. The leg

  25. 132,934views

    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

  26. 116,993views

    Chief Minister of West Bengal

    The Chief Minister of West Bengal is the de facto head of the executive branch of the Government of West Bengal, the subnational authority of the Indian state of West Bengal. The chief minister is the head of the Council of Ministers and advises the governor o

  27. 116,727views

    John Sterling (sportscaster)

    John Sterling was an American sportscaster, best known as the radio play-by-play announcer of the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1989 to 2024. Sterling called 5,060 consecutive Yankees games from 1989 to 2019.

  28. 200,387views

    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. 115,592views

    S. A. Chandrasekhar

    Senapathy Albert Chandrasekaran,, popularly known as S. A. Chandrasekhar, is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor who primarily works in Tamil cinema along with some Telugu, Kannada and Hindi films. He made his directorial debut with Aval

  30. 115,468views

    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

Frontier 25

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

  1. 1,755points

    Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

    1,143 comments

  2. 747points

    DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved

    411 comments

  3. 723points

    Zig → Rust porting guide

    555 comments

  4. 687points

    Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters

    330 comments

  5. 548points

    Three Inverse Laws of AI

    351 comments

  6. 545points

    AI didn't delete your database, you did

    304 comments

  7. 496points

    Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement

    453 comments

  8. 495points

    Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs

    271 comments

  9. 484points

    Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

    807 comments

  10. 478points

    Train Your Own LLM from Scratch

    50 comments

  11. 446points

    Async Rust never left the MVP state

    266 comments

  12. 435points

    iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

    318 comments

  13. 397points

    IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields

    240 comments

  14. 390points

    When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing

    273 comments

  15. 384points

    California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy

    450 comments

  16. 378points

    Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?)

    68 comments

  17. 373points

    Write some software, give it away for free

    271 comments

  18. 333points

    Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold

    267 comments

  19. 333points

    EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]

    95 comments

  20. 315points

    The fun has been optimized out of the Internet

    279 comments

  21. 283points

    I'm scared about biological computing

    248 comments

  22. 270points

    Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?

    237 comments

  23. 262points

    NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address

    138 comments

  24. 257points

    Agents for financial services and insurance

    192 comments

  25. 255points

    AI Product Graveyard

    88 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv1910.09876

    Neural Network Training with Approximate Logarithmic Computations

    The high computational complexity associated with training deep neural networks limits online and real-time training on edge devices. This paper proposed an end-to-end training and inference scheme that eliminates multiplications by approximate operations in the log-domain which has the potential to significantly reduce implementation complexity. We implement the entire training procedure in the log-domain, with fixe

    Sanyal, Arnab, Beerel, Peter A., Chugg, Keith M.

  2. arXiv2007.02392

    Efficient Parameter Estimation of Truncated Boolean Product Distributions

    We study the problem of estimating the parameters of a Boolean product distribution in $d$ dimensions, when the samples are truncated by a set $S \subset \{0, 1\}^d$ accessible through a membership oracle. This is the first time that the computational and statistical complexity of learning from truncated samples is considered in a discrete setting. We introduce a natural notion of fatness of the truncation set $S$, u

    Fotakis, Dimitris, Kalavasis, Alkis, Tzamos, Christos

  3. arXiv2107.08020

    Online Graph Topology Learning from Matrix-valued Time Series

    The focus is on the statistical analysis of matrix-valued time series, where data is collected over a network of sensors, typically at spatial locations, over time. Each sensor records a vector of features at each time point, creating a vectorial time series for each sensor. The goal is to identify the dependency structure among these sensors and represent it with a graph. When only one feature per sensor is observed

    Jiang, Yiye, Bigot, Jérémie, Maabout, Sofian

  4. arXiv2202.10873

    Ligandformer: A Graph Neural Network for Predicting Compound Property with Robust Interpretation

    Robust and efficient interpretation of QSAR methods is quite useful to validate AI prediction rationales with subjective opinion (chemist or biologist expertise), understand sophisticated chemical or biological process mechanisms, and provide heuristic ideas for structure optimization in pharmaceutical industry. For this purpose, we construct a multi-layer self-attention based Graph Neural Network framework, namely L

    Guo, Jinjiang, Liu, Qi, Guo, Han, Lu, Xi

  5. arXiv2207.05442

    Wasserstein multivariate auto-regressive models for modeling distributional time series

    This paper is focused on the statistical analysis of data consisting of a collection of multiple series of probability measures that are indexed by distinct time instants and supported over a bounded interval of the real line. By modeling these time-dependent probability measures as random objects in the Wasserstein space, we propose a new auto-regressive model for the statistical analysis of multivariate distributio

    Jiang, Yiye, Bigot, Jérémie

  6. arXiv2208.01899

    Understanding Adversarial Imitation Learning in Small Sample Regime: A Stage-coupled Analysis

    Imitation learning learns a policy from expert trajectories. While the expert data is believed to be crucial for imitation quality, it was found that a kind of imitation learning approach, adversarial imitation learning (AIL), can have exceptional performance. With as little as only one expert trajectory, AIL can match the expert performance even in a long horizon, on tasks such as locomotion control. There are two m

    Xu, Tian, Li, Ziniu, Yu, Yang, Luo, Zhi-Quan

  7. arXiv2301.08719

    The stochastic digital human is now enrolling for in silico imaging trials -- Methods and tools for generating digital cohorts

    Randomized clinical trials, while often viewed as the highest evidentiary bar by which to judge the quality of a medical intervention, are far from perfect. In silico imaging trials are computational studies that seek to ascertain the performance of a medical device by collecting this information entirely via computer simulations. The benefits of in silico trials for evaluating new technology include significant reso

    Badano, A, Lago, M, Sizikova, E, Delfino, JG et al.

  8. arXiv2303.10971

    Self-Supervised Learning for Multimodal Non-Rigid 3D Shape Matching

    The matching of 3D shapes has been extensively studied for shapes represented as surface meshes, as well as for shapes represented as point clouds. While point clouds are a common representation of raw real-world 3D data (e.g. from laser scanners), meshes encode rich and expressive topological information, but their creation typically requires some form of (often manual) curation. In turn, methods that purely rely on

    Cao, Dongliang, Bernard, Florian

  9. arXiv2304.14419

    Unsupervised Learning of Robust Spectral Shape Matching

    We propose a novel learning-based approach for robust 3D shape matching. Our method builds upon deep functional maps and can be trained in a fully unsupervised manner. Previous deep functional map methods mainly focus on predicting optimised functional maps alone, and then rely on off-the-shelf post-processing to obtain accurate point-wise maps during inference. However, this two-stage procedure for obtaining point-w

    Cao, Dongliang, Roetzer, Paul, Bernard, Florian

  10. arXiv2306.04498

    Near-Optimal Privacy-Preserving Learning for Max-Min Fair Multi-Agent Bandits

    We study fair multi-agent multi-armed bandit learning under collision-only coordination. Agents cannot communicate explicitly during learning and observe only their own rewards and whether collisions occur when several agents access the same arm. The goal is to learn a max-min fair allocation while keeping each agent's reward samples and empirical reward estimates local. We propose a fully distributed algorithm f

    Leshem, Amir

  11. arXiv2309.03087

    Unreflected Acceptance -- Investigating the Negative Consequences of ChatGPT-Assisted Problem Solving in Physics Education

    Large language models (LLMs) have recently gained popularity. However, the impact of their general availability through ChatGPT on sensitive areas of everyday life, such as education, remains unclear. Nevertheless, the societal impact on established educational methods is already being experienced by both students and educators. Our work focuses on higher physics education and examines problem solving strategies. In

    Krupp, Lars, Steinert, Steffen, Kiefer-Emmanouilidis, Maximilian, Avila, Karina E. et al.

  12. arXiv2311.10320

    Boosting Multimodal Remote Sensing Image Classification with Transformer-based Heterogeneously Salient Graph Representation

    Data collected by different modalities can provide a wealth of complementary information, such as hyperspectral image (HSI) to offer rich spectral-spatial properties, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to provide structural information about the Earth's surface, and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) to cover altitude information about ground elevation. Therefore, a natural idea is to combine multimodal images for r

    Yang, Jiaqi, Du, Bo, Liu, Rong, Mao, Zhu et al.

  13. arXiv2312.06871

    Using Analytics on Student Created Data to Content Validate Pedagogical Tools

    Conceptual and simulation models can function as useful pedagogical tools, however it is important to categorize different outcomes when evaluating them in order to more meaningfully interpret results. VERA is a ecology-based conceptual modeling software that enables users to simulate interactions between biotics and abiotics in an ecosystem, allowing users to form and then verify hypothesis through observing a time

    Kos, John, Eaton, Kenneth, Zhang, Sareen, Dass, Rahul et al.

  14. arXiv2401.04139

    CCNETS: A Modular Causal Learning Framework for Pattern Recognition in Imbalanced Datasets

    Handling class imbalance remains a central challenge in machine learning, particularly in pattern recognition tasks where identifying rare but critical anomalies is of paramount importance. Traditional generative models often decouple data synthesis from classification,leading to a distribution mismatch that limits their practical benefit. To address these shortcomings, we introduce Causal Cooperative Networks (CCNET

    Park, Hanbeot, Cho, Yunjeong, Kim, Hunhee

  15. arXiv2401.11877

    Assessing the Efficacy of Deep Learning Approaches for Facial Expression Recognition in Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities

    Facial expression recognition has gained significance as a means of imparting social robots with the capacity to discern the emotional states of users. The use of social robotics includes a variety of settings, including homes, nursing homes or daycare centers, serving to a wide range of users. Remarkable performance has been achieved by deep learning approaches, however, its direct use for recognizing facial express

    Gaya-Morey, F. Xavier, Ramis, Silvia, Buades-Rubio, Jose M., Manresa-Yee, Cristina

  16. arXiv2401.16764

    BoostDream: Efficient Refining for High-Quality Text-to-3D Generation from Multi-View Diffusion

    Witnessing the evolution of text-to-image diffusion models, significant strides have been made in text-to-3D generation. Currently, two primary paradigms dominate the field of text-to-3D: the feed-forward generation solutions, capable of swiftly producing 3D assets but often yielding coarse results, and the Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) based solutions, known for generating high-fidelity 3D assets albeit at a slo

    Yu, Yonghao, Zhu, Shunan, Qin, Huai, Li, Haorui

  17. arXiv2402.05284

    Analyzing Adversarial Inputs in Deep Reinforcement Learning

    In recent years, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has become a popular paradigm in machine learning due to its successful applications to real-world and complex systems. However, even the state-of-the-art DRL models have been shown to suffer from reliability concerns -- for example, their susceptibility to adversarial inputs, i.e., small and abundant input perturbations that can fool the models into making unpredict

    Corsi, Davide, Amir, Guy, Katz, Guy, Farinelli, Alessandro

  18. arXiv2404.09005

    Proof-of-Learning with Incentive Security

    Most concurrent blockchain systems rely heavily on the Proof-of-Work (PoW) or Proof-of-Stake (PoS) mechanisms for decentralized consensus and security assurance. However, the substantial energy expenditure stemming from computationally intensive yet meaningless tasks has raised considerable concerns surrounding traditional PoW approaches, The PoS mechanism, while free of energy consumption, is subject to security and

    Zhao, Zishuo, Fang, Zhixuan, Wang, Xuechao, Chen, Xi et al.

  19. arXiv2405.14430

    PipeFusion: Patch-level Pipeline Parallelism for Diffusion Transformers Inference

    This paper presents PipeFusion, an innovative parallel methodology to tackle the high latency issues associated with generating high-resolution images using diffusion transformers (DiTs) models. PipeFusion partitions images into patches and the model layers across multiple GPUs. It employs a patch-level pipeline parallel strategy to orchestrate communication and computation efficiently. By capitalizing on the high si

    Fang, Jiarui, Pan, Jinzhe, Li, Aoyu, Sun, Xibo et al.

  20. arXiv2407.13278

    Deep Time Series Models: A Comprehensive Survey and Benchmark

    Time series, characterized by a sequence of data points organized in a discrete-time order, are ubiquitous in real-world scenarios. Unlike other data modalities, time series present unique challenges in learning and modeling due to their intricate and dynamic nature, including the entanglement of nonlinear patterns and time-variant trends. Recent years have witnessed remarkable breakthroughs in time series analysis,

    Wang, Yuxuan, Wu, Haixu, Dong, Jiaxiang, Liu, Yong et al.

  21. arXiv2407.20067

    xAI-Drop: Don't Use What You Cannot Explain

    Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as the predominant paradigm for learning from graph-structured data, offering a wide range of applications from social network analysis to bioinformatics. Despite their versatility, GNNs face challenges such as lack of generalization and poor interpretability, which hinder their wider adoption and reliability in critical applications. Dropping has emerged as an effective para

    De Luca, Vincenzo Marco, Longa, Antonio, Liò, Pietro, Passerini, Andrea

  22. arXiv2408.01055

    Towards Agentic Runtime Healing

    Self-healing systems have long been a focus of research, aiming to enable software to recover from unexpected runtime errors without human intervention. Traditional approaches rely on predefined heuristic rules, such as reusing error handlers or rolling back to checkpoints, but these methods struggle to adapt to the diverse range of runtime errors. The emergence of Large Language Models offers a new opportunity to ad

    Sun, Zhensu, Zhu, Haotian, Xu, Bowen, Du, Xiaoning et al.

  23. arXiv2408.01914

    Partial-differential-algebraic equations of nonlinear dynamics by Physics-Informed Neural-Network: (I) Operator splitting and framework assessment

    Several forms for constructing novel physics-informed neural-networks (PINN) for the solution of partial-differential-algebraic equations based on derivative operator splitting are proposed, using the nonlinear Kirchhoff rod as a prototype for demonstration. The open-source DeepXDE is likely the most well documented framework with many examples. Yet, we encountered some pathological problems and proposed novel method

    Vu-Quoc, Loc, Humer, Alexander

  24. arXiv2408.04596

    Code-switching in text and speech challenges information-theoretic speaker design

    In this work, we use language modeling to investigate the factors that influence insertional code-switching. Code-switching occurs when a speaker alternates between one language variety (the primary language) and another (the secondary language), and is widely observed in multilingual contexts. Recent work has shown that code-switching is often correlated with areas of low predictability in the primary language, but

    Bhattacharya, Debasmita, van Schijndel, Marten

  25. arXiv2409.14500

    GraphLand: Evaluating Graph Machine Learning Models on Diverse Industrial Data

    Although data that can be naturally represented as graphs is widespread in real-world applications across diverse industries, popular graph ML benchmarks for node property prediction only cover a surprisingly narrow set of data domains, and graph neural networks (GNNs) are often evaluated on just a few academic citation networks. This issue is particularly pressing in light of the recent growing interest in designing

    Bazhenov, Gleb, Platonov, Oleg, Prokhorenkova, Liudmila

On this calendar day 18

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

  1. 2023year

    The World Health Organization declared the end of COVID-19 as a global health emergency.

  2. 2020year

    Philippine broadcast network ABS-CBN was forced to go off-air by the National Telecommunications Commission after Congress failed to renew its franchise granted in 1995.

  3. 2007year

    Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashed immediately after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Cameroon, resulting in the deaths of all 114 people aboard.

  4. 1994year

    American teenager Michael P. Fay was caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism, a punishment that the United States deemed to be excessive for a teenager committing a non-violent crime.

  5. 1992year

    The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, 202 years after it was first proposed.

  6. 1991year

    Riots broke out in Washington, D.C., after a rookie police officer shot a Salvadoran man in the chest.

  7. 1981year

    After a 66-day hunger strike, Irish republican Bobby Sands died of starvation in HM Prison Maze.

  8. 1980year

    The British Special Air Service recaptured the Iranian embassy in London following a six-day siege after Iranian Arab separatists had seized it.

  9. 1961year

    Project Mercury: American astronaut Alan Shepard made a sub-orbital spaceflight on board Freedom 7, becoming the second person to travel into outer space.

  10. 1960year

    The Netherlands Carillon was inaugurated in Arlington, Virginia, on the 15th anniversary of Dutch Liberation Day.

  11. 1945year

    World War II: American and German troops fought side-by-side at the Battle for Castle Itter, defending a prison against Waffen-SS forces.

  12. 1945year

    World War II: The citizens of Prague spontaneously rose up against the city's German occupiers.

  13. 1945year

    The Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps were liberated by the United States Army.

  14. 1940year

    World War II: A squad of 250 Norwegian volunteers defending Hegra Fortress surrendered to a superior Nazi force after a 25-day siege.

  15. 1936year

    Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italian troops (pictured) captured the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa unopposed.

  16. 1904year

    Pitching for the Boston Americans, Cy Young threw the first perfect game in modern professional baseball.

  17. 1891year

    Carnegie Hall (interior pictured) in New York City, built by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, officially opened with a concert conducted by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

  18. 1864year

    American Civil War: Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign in Virginia began with the inconclusive Battle of the Wilderness in Spotsylvania County.