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Record 06022026 · captured 2026-08-25

Friday, 6 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. 1,072,415views

    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. 961,141views

    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. 734,834views

    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. 348,339views

    Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie

    On February 1, 2026, Nancy Guthrie (née Long), the American 84‑year‑old mother of NBC News journalist and Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, was kidnapped from her home in Catalina Foothills, a suburb of Tucson, Arizona. Evidence recovered at the residence indi

  5. 256,162views

    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

  6. 238,768views

    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.

  7. 180,907views

    Jmail

    Jmail is a browser-based archive of the Epstein files, which were released by the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform under the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA). The website was initially stylized in a Gmail-based interface, a

  8. 173,674views

    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

  9. 173,393views

    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

  10. 149,954views

    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

  11. 149,811views

    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,

  12. 145,357views

    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

  13. 144,545views

    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

  14. 144,006views

    Women's Premier League (cricket)

    The Women's Premier League (WPL) is a professional women's Twenty20 (T20) cricket league in India, organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Founded in 2022, it features five city-based franchise teams. The WPL is one of the fastest-growin

  15. 137,803views

    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.

  16. 135,891views

    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

  17. 130,203views

    List of people named in the Epstein files

    The Epstein files comprise over six million pages of documents detailing the activities of American financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. So far about three and a half million files have been made public with redactions, among them 180,00

  18. 127,479views

    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

  19. 113,953views

    The Housemaid (2025 film)

    The Housemaid is a 2025 American erotic psychological thriller film directed by Paul Feig and written by Rebecca Sonnenshine. It is based on the 2022 novel by Freida McFadden, and stars Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried. In the film, Millie Calloway, a young

  20. 108,210views

    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

  21. 105,690views

    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

  22. 105,110views

    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

  23. 104,682views

    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

  24. 93,625views

    Website

    A website, or web site, is any web page whose content is identified by a common domain name and is published on at least one web server. Websites are typically dedicated to a particular topic or purpose, such as news, education, commerce, entertainment, or soc

  25. 88,485views

    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

  26. 88,241views

    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

  27. 82,175views

    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

  28. 80,215views

    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.

  29. 79,206views

    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

  30. 70,881views

    Donald Trump

    Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.

Frontier 25

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

  1. 1,178points

    I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

    555 comments

  2. 1,160points

    The Waymo World Model

    663 comments

  3. 996points

    OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

    309 comments

  4. 688points

    TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe

    540 comments

  5. 612points

    Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

    287 comments

  6. 583points

    A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content

    245 comments

  7. 525points

    An Update on Heroku

    352 comments

  8. 465points

    Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

    115 comments

  9. 404points

    GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams

    208 comments

  10. 402points

    Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

    233 comments

  11. 390points

    Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

    215 comments

  12. 386points

    Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

    183 comments

  13. 358points

    How to effectively write quality code with AI

    304 comments

  14. 358points

    It's all a blur

    68 comments

  15. 327points

    Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

    40 comments

  16. 323points

    Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

    164 comments

  17. 311points

    Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place

    333 comments

  18. 279points

    Systems Thinking

    117 comments

  19. 257points

    Things Unix can do atomically (2010)

    94 comments

  20. 199points

    NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing

    481 comments

  21. 194points

    I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

    108 comments

  22. 192points

    Early Christian Writings

    146 comments

  23. 169points

    Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes

    202 comments

  24. 166points

    Show HN: Artifact Keeper – Open-Source Artifactory/Nexus Alternative in Rust

    67 comments

  25. 154points

    Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy

    96 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2110.04598

    Self-explaining Neural Network with Concept-based Explanations for ICU Mortality Prediction

    Complex deep learning models show high prediction tasks in various clinical prediction tasks but their inherent complexity makes it more challenging to explain model predictions for clinicians and healthcare providers. Existing research on explainability of deep learning models in healthcare have two major limitations: using post-hoc explanations and using raw clinical variables as units of explanation, both of which

    Kumar, Sayantan, Yu, Sean C., Kannampallil, Thomas, Abrams, Zachary et al.

  2. arXiv2110.04903

    Normative Modeling using Multimodal Variational Autoencoders to Identify Abnormal Brain Structural Patterns in Alzheimer Disease

    Normative modelling is an emerging method for understanding the underlying heterogeneity within brain disorders like Alzheimer Disease (AD) by quantifying how each patient deviates from the expected normative pattern that has been learned from a healthy control distribution. Since AD is a multifactorial disease with more than one biological pathways, multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) neuroimaging data can p

    Kumar, Sayantan, Payne, Philip, Sotiras, Aristeidis

  3. arXiv2201.03013

    ThreshNet: An Efficient DenseNet Using Threshold Mechanism to Reduce Connections

    With the continuous development of neural networks for computer vision tasks, more and more network architectures have achieved outstanding success. As one of the most advanced neural network architectures, DenseNet shortcuts all feature maps to solve the model depth problem. Although this network architecture has excellent accuracy with low parameters, it requires an excessive inference time. To solve this problem,

    Ju, Rui-Yang, Lin, Ting-Yu, Jian, Jia-Hao, Chiang, Jen-Shiun et al.

  4. arXiv2202.00009

    Identifying Dementia Subtypes with Electronic Health Records

    Dementia is characterized by a decline in memory and thinking that is significant enough to impair function in activities of daily living. Patients seen in dementia specialty clinics are highly heterogeneous with a variety of different symptoms that progress at different rates. In this work, we used an unsupervised data-driven K-Means clustering approach on the component scores of the Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) s

    Kumar, Sayantan, Abrams, Zachary, Schindler, Suzanne, Ghoshal, Nupur et al.

  5. arXiv2204.00943

    Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks on Raspberry Pi for Image Classification

    With the good performance of deep learning algorithms in the field of computer vision (CV), the convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture has become a main backbone of the computer vision task. With the widespread use of mobile devices, neural network models based on platforms with low computing power are gradually being paid attention. However, due to the limitation of computing power, deep learning algorithms

    Ju, Rui-Yang, Lin, Ting-Yu, Jian, Jia-Hao, Chiang, Jen-Shiun

  6. arXiv2205.11245

    PASH at TREC 2021 Deep Learning Track: Generative Enhanced Model for Multi-stage Ranking

    This paper describes the PASH participation in TREC 2021 Deep Learning Track. In the recall stage, we adopt a scheme combining sparse and dense retrieval method. In the multi-stage ranking phase, point-wise and pair-wise ranking strategies are used one after another based on model continual pre-trained on general knowledge and document-level data. Compared to TREC 2020 Deep Learning Track, we have additionally introd

    Qiao, Yixuan, Zhao, Shanshan, Wang, Jun, Chen, Hao et al.

  7. arXiv2211.16098

    Three-stage binarization of color document images based on discrete wavelet transform and generative adversarial networks

    The efficient extraction of text information from the background in degraded color document images is an important challenge in the preservation of ancient manuscripts. The imperfect preservation of ancient manuscripts has led to different types of degradation over time, such as page yellowing, staining, and ink bleeding, seriously affecting the results of document image binarization. This work proposes an effective

    Ju, Rui-Yang, Lin, Yu-Shian, Jin, Yanlin, Chen, Chih-Chia et al.

  8. arXiv2303.09190

    Resolution Enhancement Processing on Low Quality Images Using Swin Transformer Based on Interval Dense Connection Strategy

    The Transformer-based method has demonstrated remarkable performance for image super-resolution in comparison to the method based on the convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, using the self-attention mechanism like SwinIR (Image Restoration Using Swin Transformer) to extract feature information from images needs a significant amount of computational resources, which limits its application on low computing po

    Ju, Rui-Yang, Chen, Chih-Chia, Chiang, Jen-Shiun, Lin, Yu-Shian et al.

  9. arXiv2304.05071

    Fracture Detection in Pediatric Wrist Trauma X-ray Images Using YOLOv8 Algorithm

    Hospital emergency departments frequently receive lots of bone fracture cases, with pediatric wrist trauma fracture accounting for the majority of them. Before pediatric surgeons perform surgery, they need to ask patients how the fracture occurred and analyze the fracture situation by interpreting X-ray images. The interpretation of X-ray images often requires a combination of techniques from radiologists and surgeon

    Ju, Rui-Yang, Cai, Weiming

  10. arXiv2304.14211

    LLT: An R package for Linear Law-based Feature Space Transformation

    The goal of the linear law-based feature space transformation (LLT) algorithm is to assist with the classification of univariate and multivariate time series. The presented R package, called LLT, implements this algorithm in a flexible yet user-friendly way. This package first splits the instances into training and test sets. It then utilizes time-delay embedding and spectral decomposition techniques to identify the

    Kurbucz, Marcell T., Pósfay, Péter, Jakovác, Antal

  11. arXiv2305.15793

    Feature space reduction method for ultrahigh-dimensional, multiclass data: Random forest-based multiround screening (RFMS)

    In recent years, numerous screening methods have been published for ultrahigh-dimensional data that contain hundreds of thousands of features; however, most of these features cannot handle data with thousands of classes. Prediction models built to authenticate users based on multichannel biometric data result in this type of problem. In this study, we present a novel method known as random forest-based multiround scr

    Hanczár, Gergely, Stippinger, Marcell, Hanák, Dávid, Kurbucz, Marcell T. et al.

  12. arXiv2307.01930

    Learning ECG Signal Features Without Backpropagation Using Linear Laws

    This paper introduces LLT-ECG, a novel method for electrocardiogram (ECG) signal classification that leverages concepts from theoretical physics to automatically generate features from time series data. Unlike traditional deep learning approaches, LLT-ECG operates in a forward manner, eliminating the need for backpropagation and hyperparameter tuning. By identifying linear laws that capture shared patterns within spe

    Pósfay, Péter, Kurbucz, Marcell T., Kovács, Péter, Jakovác, Antal

  13. arXiv2308.02594

    SMARLA: A Safety Monitoring Approach for Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents

    Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has made significant advancements in various fields, such as autonomous driving, healthcare, and robotics, by enabling agents to learn optimal policies through interactions with their environments. However, the application of DRL in safety-critical domains presents challenges, particularly concerning the safety of the learned policies. DRL agents, which are focused on maximizing rewa

    Zolfagharian, Amirhossein, Abdellatif, Manel, Briand, Lionel C., S, Ramesh

  14. arXiv2309.16858

    Improved Generalization Bounds for Transductive Learning by Transductive Local Complexity and Its Applications

    We introduce Transductive Local Complexity (TLC) to extend the classical Local Rademacher Complexity (LRC) to the transductive setting, incorporating substantial and novel components. Although LRC has been used to obtain sharp generalization bounds and minimax rates for inductive tasks such as classification and nonparametric regression, it has remained an open problem whether a localized Rademacher complexity framew

    Yang, Yingzhen

  15. arXiv2310.09488

    ARM: Refining Multivariate Forecasting with Adaptive Temporal-Contextual Learning

    Long-term time series forecasting (LTSF) is important for various domains but is confronted by challenges in handling the complex temporal-contextual relationships. As multivariate input models underperforming some recent univariate counterparts, we posit that the issue lies in the inefficiency of existing multivariate LTSF Transformers to model series-wise relationships: the characteristic differences between series

    Lu, Jiecheng, Han, Xu, Yang, Shihao

  16. arXiv2312.00992

    Improving Normative Modeling for Multi-modal Neuroimaging Data using mixture-of-product-of-experts variational autoencoders

    Normative models in neuroimaging learn the brain patterns of healthy population distribution and estimate how disease subjects like Alzheimer's Disease (AD) deviate from the norm. Existing variational autoencoder (VAE)-based normative models using multimodal neuroimaging data aggregate information from multiple modalities by estimating product or averaging of unimodal latent posteriors. This can often lead to uni

    Kumar, Sayantan, Payne, Philip, Sotiras, Aristeidis

  17. arXiv2402.09329

    YOLOv8-AM: YOLOv8 Based on Effective Attention Mechanisms for Pediatric Wrist Fracture Detection

    Wrist trauma and even fractures occur frequently in daily life, particularly among children who account for a significant proportion of fracture cases. Before performing surgery, surgeons often request patients to undergo X-ray imaging first and prepare for it based on the analysis of the radiologist. With the development of neural networks, You Only Look Once (YOLO) series models have been widely used in fracture de

    Chien, Chun-Tse, Ju, Rui-Yang, Chou, Kuang-Yi, Xieerke, Enkaer et al.

  18. arXiv2403.01600

    Can Poverty Be Reduced by Acting on Discrimination? An Agent-based Model for Policy Making

    In the last decades, there has been a deceleration in the rates of poverty reduction, suggesting that traditional redistributive approaches to poverty mitigation could be losing effectiveness, and alternative insights to advance the number one UN Sustainable Development Goal are required. The criminalization of poor people has been denounced by several NGOs, and an increasing number of voices suggest that discriminat

    Aguilera, Alba, Montes, Nieves, Curto, Georgina, Sierra, Carles et al.

  19. arXiv2403.01673

    CATS: Enhancing Multivariate Time Series Forecasting by Constructing Auxiliary Time Series as Exogenous Variables

    For Multivariate Time Series Forecasting (MTSF), recent deep learning applications show that univariate models frequently outperform multivariate ones. To address the difficiency in multivariate models, we introduce a method to Construct Auxiliary Time Series (CATS) that functions like a 2D temporal-contextual attention mechanism, which generates Auxiliary Time Series (ATS) from Original Time Series (OTS) to effectiv

    Lu, Jiecheng, Han, Xu, Sun, Yan, Yang, Shihao

  20. arXiv2403.11249

    YOLOv9 for Fracture Detection in Pediatric Wrist Trauma X-ray Images

    The introduction of YOLOv9, the latest version of the You Only Look Once (YOLO) series, has led to its widespread adoption across various scenarios. This paper is the first to apply the YOLOv9 algorithm model to the fracture detection task as computer-assisted diagnosis (CAD) to help radiologists and surgeons to interpret X-ray images. Specifically, this paper trained the model on the GRAZPEDWRI-DX dataset and extend

    Chien, Chun-Tse, Ju, Rui-Yang, Chou, Kuang-Yi, Chiang, Jen-Shiun

  21. arXiv2403.19254

    Imperceptible Protection against Style Imitation from Diffusion Models

    Recent progress in diffusion models has profoundly enhanced the fidelity of image generation, but it has raised concerns about copyright infringements. While prior methods have introduced adversarial perturbations to prevent style imitation, most are accompanied by the degradation of artworks' visual quality. Recognizing the importance of maintaining this, we introduce a visually improved protection method while

    Ahn, Namhyuk, Ahn, Wonhyuk, Yoo, KiYoon, Kim, Daesik et al.

  22. arXiv2404.03208

    HiMAL: A Multimodal Hierarchical Multi-task Auxiliary Learning framework for predicting and explaining Alzheimer disease progression

    Objective: We aimed to develop and validate a novel multimodal framework HiMAL (Hierarchical, Multi-task Auxiliary Learning) framework, for predicting cognitive composite functions as auxiliary tasks that estimate the longitudinal risk of transition from Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer Disease (AD). Methods: HiMAL utilized multimodal longitudinal visit data including imaging features, cognitive assessmen

    Kumar, Sayantan, Yu, Sean, Michelson, Andrew, Kannampallil, Thomas et al.

  23. arXiv2404.05748

    Analyzing heterogeneity in Alzheimer Disease using multimodal normative modeling on imaging-based ATN biomarkers

    INTRODUCTION: Previous studies have applied normative modeling on a single neuroimaging modality to investigate Alzheimer Disease (AD) heterogeneity. We employed a deep learning-based multimodal normative framework to analyze individual-level variation across ATN (amyloid-tau-neurodegeneration) imaging biomarkers. METHODS: We selected cross-sectional discovery (n = 665) and replication cohorts (n = 430) with availabl

    Kumar, Sayantan, Earnest, Tom, Yang, Braden, Kothapalli, Deydeep et al.

  24. arXiv2404.15617

    A Differential and Pointwise Control Approach to Reinforcement Learning

    Reinforcement learning (RL) in continuous state-action spaces remains challenging in scientific computing due to poor sample efficiency and lack of pathwise physical consistency. We introduce Differential Reinforcement Learning (Differential RL), a novel framework that reformulates RL from a continuous-time control perspective via a differential dual formulation. This induces a Hamiltonian structure that embeds physi

    Nguyen, Minh, Bajaj, Chandrajit

  25. arXiv2405.14982

    In-context Time Series Predictor

    Recent Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) demonstrate in-context learning ability to perform various functions based solely on the provided context, without updating model parameters. To fully utilize the in-context capabilities in time series forecasting (TSF) problems, unlike previous Transformer-based or LLM-based time series forecasting methods, we reformulate "time series forecasting tasks" a

    Lu, Jiecheng, Sun, Yan, Yang, Shihao

On this calendar day 16

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

  1. 1987year

    Mary Gaudron became the first woman to be appointed a justice of the High Court of Australia.

  2. 1976year

    Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admitted that the company had paid out approximately US$3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka.

  3. 1958year

    The aircraft carrying the Manchester United football team crashed while attempting to take off from Munich-Riem Airport in West Germany, killing 8 players and 23 people in total (news reel featured).

  4. 1951year

    A train derailed while crossing a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge, New Jersey, causing 85 deaths.

  5. 1922year

    Representatives from France, Italy, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom signed the Washington Naval Treaty (pictured), agreeing to limits on naval construction in the hopes of preventing an arms race.

  6. 1919year

    World War I: More than 65,000 workers in Seattle began a five-day general strike to gain higher wages after two years of wage controls in the United States.

  7. 1918year

    Conscientious objector Henry Firth died in a work camp on Dartmoor, England, triggering a strike over living conditions.

  8. 1865year

    Finland established its modern system of secular municipalities, separate from church parishes.

  9. 1862year

    Union forces earned one of their first important victories in the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee.

  10. 1820year

    The first ship of the American Colonization Society departed from New York for West Africa with 86 African-American emigrants aboard to found the colony of Liberia.

  11. 1819year

    British official Stamford Raffles signed a treaty with Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor, establishing Singapore as a trading post for the East India Company.

  12. 1806year

    Napoleonic Wars: A British naval squadron captured or destroyed five French ships of the line at the Battle of San Domingo (pictured) in the Caribbean Sea.

  13. 1788year

    Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the constitution of the United States.

  14. 1778year

    France and the United States signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance, respectively establishing commercial and military ties between the two nations.

  15. 1579year

    Domingo de Salazar, a Spanish Dominican friar, was appointed the first bishop of Manila.

  16. 590year

    Vistahm and Vinduyih deposed their brother-in-law Hormizd IV, King of Kings of the Sasanian Empire.