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Record 06042026 · captured 2026-08-25

Monday, 6 April 2026

The world looked up Dhurandhar: The Revenge. 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. 283,931views

    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

  2. 203,907views

    Artemis II

    Artemis II was a crewed flyby of the Moon. It is currently the only crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. It was the first crewed flight of the NASA-led Artemis program, the first crewed flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), and the

  3. 195,006views

    The Drama (film)

    The Drama is a 2026 American dark romantic comedy film written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli. It stars Zendaya and Robert Pattinson as a happily engaged couple whose relationship is tested by an unexpected revelation the week before their wedding.

  4. 194,398views

    Lauren Betts

    Lauren Marie Betts is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played for Grandview High School in Aurora, Colorado, where she was ranked as the number one recruit in her c

  5. 186,975views

    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

  6. 170,819views

    Easter

    Easter, also called Pasch or Pascha or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the Bible's New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following h

  7. 166,408views

    2026 Iran war

    Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been at war with Iran and its regional allies. Hostilities broke out after US–Israeli airstrikes killed several Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The strikes were launched amid o

  8. 156,925views

    Project Hail Mary (film)

    Project Hail Mary is a 2026 American science fiction film produced and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and written by Drew Goddard, based on the 2021 novel of the same name by Andy Weir. It stars Ryan Gosling, who also produced the film, as Ryland

  9. 141,291views

    The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

    The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is a 2026 American animated adventure comedy film based on Nintendo's Mario video game franchise. Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic and written by Matthew Fogel, it is the sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023). C

  10. 127,204views

    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.

  11. 123,161views

    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

  12. 110,027views

    Dan Hurley

    Daniel S. Hurley is an American men's college basketball coach who is the head coach of the UConn Huskies. In 2023 and 2024, Hurley led UConn to back-to-back NCAA Division I national championships, and led the Huskies to another title game appearance in 2026.

  13. 107,038views

    Lamar Odom

    Lamar Joseph Odom is an American former professional basketball player who played for four teams during his 14-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and won back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010 with the Los Angeles Lakers. He was als

  14. 105,672views

    Cori Close

    Cori Rashel Close is an American basketball coach who is the head coach for the UCLA Bruins women's team. She played college basketball as a guard for the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos from 1989 to 1993, serving as a team captain during her final two seasons and he

  15. 97,103views

    World League for Freedom and Democracy

    The World League for Freedom and Democracy (WLFD) is an international non-governmental organization of anti-communist politicians and groups. It was founded in 1954 as the Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League (APACL) under the initiative of Chiang Kai-shek, le

  16. 93,948views

    Dusty May

    Dusty Allan May is an American professional basketball coach who is the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was previously the head coach for Florida Atlantic University from 2018 to 2024 and the University of Mi

  17. 93,873views

    Murder of Moriah Wilson

    On May 11, 2022, Anna Moriah "Mo" Wilson, a 25‑year‑old professional cyclist, was fatally shot at a friend's residence in Austin, Texas. Investigators identified Kaitlin Marie Armstrong as the suspect after surveillance footage placed her near the scene and ev

  18. 93,804views

    Dawn Staley

    Dawn Michelle Staley is an American basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team. A point guard, she played college basketball for the Virginia Cavaliers and spent eight seasons in the Women'

  19. 92,445views

    The Ten Commandments (1956 film)

    The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic biblical adventure drama film produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in VistaVision, and released by Paramount Pictures. Based on the Bible's Book of Exodus and other sources, it dramatizes the s

  20. 91,596views

    Saints Row 2

    Saints Row 2 is a 2008 action-adventure game developed by Volition and published by THQ. It is the sequel to 2006's Saints Row and the second installment in the Saints Row series. The game was released in October 2008 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Januar

  21. 90,002views

    Jack White

    John Anthony White is an American musician who was the guitarist and lead vocalist of the rock duo the White Stripes. He was a key artist of the 2000s indie and garage rock movements, noted for his distinctive musical techniques, eccentricity, and utilization

  22. 89,896views

    The Chainsmokers

    The Chainsmokers are an American electronic DJ and production duo consisting of Alex Pall and Drew Taggart. They started out by releasing remixes of songs by indie artists. The EDM-pop duo achieved a breakthrough with their 2014 song "#Selfie", which became a

  23. 87,463views

    George Nicholson (rugby union)

    George Nicholson was a New Zealand rugby union footballer who played for New Zealand – the All Blacks – between 1903 and 1907. He played club rugby in Auckland for the City club, before making his provincial debut for Auckland in 1901. After playing for the No

  24. 83,143views

    Project Hail Mary

    Project Hail Mary is a 2021 hard science fiction novel by American writer Andy Weir. It centers on science teacher and former biologist Ryland Grace, who wakes up aboard a spacecraft, afflicted with amnesia.

  25. 81,239views

    Yaxel Lendeborg

    Yaxel Okari Lendeborg is an American-Dominican basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted 11th overall in the 2026 NBA draft by the Warriors. Lendeborg played college basketball for the Arizona

  26. 77,338views

    Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen

    Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen is an American horror television miniseries created by Haley Z. Boston for Netflix. Boston serves as the series showrunner and is also an executive producer along with the Duffer Brothers. Camila Morrone and Adam DiMarco s

  27. 75,528views

    List of dates for Easter

    This is a list of dates for Easter. The Easter dates also affect when Ash Wednesday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, the Feast of the Ascension and Pentecost occur in a given year. Easter may occur on different dates in the Gregorian Calendar (Weste

  28. 74,945views

    Aday Mara

    Aday Mara Gómez is a Spanish basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins and Michigan Wolverines. Mara was an NCAA national champion and the Big Ten Defensive Pl

  29. 73,663views

    NXT Stand & Deliver (2026)

    The 2026 NXT Stand & Deliver, also promoted as NXT Stand & Deliver: St. Louis, was a professional wrestling livestreaming event produced by WWE for its developmental brand NXT. It was the sixth annual Stand & Deliver and took place on Saturday, April 4, 2026,

  30. 70,452views

    Christina Koch

    Christina Hammock Koch is an American engineer and NASA astronaut. On her mission to the International Space Station in 2019–20 she was part of the first all‑female spacewalk and set the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman. On the Artemis II lunar fl

Frontier 25

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

  1. 2,202points

    Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?

    916 comments

  2. 1,364points

    Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates

    753 comments

  3. 929points

    I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok

    564 comments

  4. 915points

    Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work

    134 comments

  5. 622points

    France pulls last gold held in US

    361 comments

  6. 616points

    The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok

    512 comments

  7. 551points

    A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines

    248 comments

  8. 544points

    Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game

    163 comments

  9. 467points

    Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept

    296 comments

  10. 467points

    Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

    200 comments

  11. 461points

    What being ripped off taught me

    225 comments

  12. 407points

    A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC

    70 comments

  13. 367points

    81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone

    478 comments

  14. 344points

    Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed

    171 comments

  15. 325points

    Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

    204 comments

  16. 324points

    German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups

    160 comments

  17. 322points

    Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents

    158 comments

  18. 319points

    Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once

    91 comments

  19. 318points

    The Importance of Being Idle

    209 comments

  20. 309points

    The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes

    192 comments

  21. 296points

    Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure

    110 comments

  22. 286points

    Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute

    126 comments

  23. 282points

    Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division

    227 comments

  24. 266points

    Peptides: where to begin?

    407 comments

  25. 260points

    An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon

    69 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2112.07874

    Linguistic Frameworks Go Toe-to-Toe at Neuro-Symbolic Language Modeling

    We examine the extent to which, in principle, linguistic graph representations can complement and improve neural language modeling. With an ensemble setup consisting of a pretrained Transformer and ground-truth graphs from one of 7 different formalisms, we find that, overall, semantic constituency structures are most useful to language modeling performance -- outpacing syntactic constituency structures as well as syn

    Prange, Jakob, Schneider, Nathan, Kong, Lingpeng

  2. arXiv2302.08150

    Reanalyzing L2 Preposition Learning with Bayesian Mixed Effects and a Pretrained Language Model

    We use both Bayesian and neural models to dissect a data set of Chinese learners' pre- and post-interventional responses to two tests measuring their understanding of English prepositions. The results mostly replicate previous findings from frequentist analyses and newly reveal crucial interactions between student ability, task type, and stimulus sentence. Given the sparsity of the data as well as high diversity

    Prange, Jakob, Wong, Man Ho Ivy

  3. arXiv2305.18915

    Empirical Sufficiency Lower Bounds for Language Modeling with Locally-Bootstrapped Semantic Structures

    In this work we build upon negative results from an attempt at language modeling with predicted semantic structure, in order to establish empirical lower bounds on what could have made the attempt successful. More specifically, we design a concise binary vector representation of semantic structure at the lexical level and evaluate in-depth how good an incremental tagger needs to be in order to achieve better-than-bas

    Prange, Jakob, Chersoni, Emmanuele

  4. arXiv2312.13650

    Distributed Quantum Neural Networks via Partitioned Features Encoding

    Quantum neural networks are expected to be a promising application in near-term quantum computing, but face challenges such as vanishing gradients during optimization and limited expressibility by a limited number of qubits and shallow circuits. To mitigate these challenges, an approach using distributed quantum neural networks has been proposed to make a prediction by approximating outputs of a large circuit using m

    Kawase, Yoshiaki

  5. arXiv2402.01207

    Efficient Causal Graph Discovery Using Large Language Models

    We propose a novel framework that leverages LLMs for full causal graph discovery. While previous LLM-based methods have used a pairwise query approach, this requires a quadratic number of queries which quickly becomes impractical for larger causal graphs. In contrast, the proposed framework uses a breadth-first search (BFS) approach which allows it to use only a linear number of queries. We also show that the propose

    Jiralerspong, Thomas, Chen, Xiaoyin, More, Yash, Shah, Vedant et al.

  6. arXiv2403.00127

    Prompting ChatGPT for Translation: A Comparative Analysis of Translation Brief and Persona Prompts

    Prompt engineering has shown potential for improving translation quality in LLMs. However, the possibility of using translation concepts in prompt design remains largely underexplored. Against this backdrop, the current paper discusses the effectiveness of incorporating the conceptual tool of translation brief and the personas of translator and author into prompt design for translation tasks in ChatGPT. Findings sugg

    He, Sui

  7. arXiv2403.16760

    As Good As A Coin Toss: Human detection of AI-generated images, videos, audio, and audiovisual stimuli

    One of the current principal defenses against weaponized synthetic media continues to be the ability of the targeted individual to visually or auditorily recognize AI-generated content when they encounter it. However, as the realism of synthetic media continues to rapidly improve, it is vital to have an accurate understanding of just how susceptible people currently are to potentially being misled by convincing but f

    Cooke, Di, Edwards, Abigail, Barkoff, Sophia, Kelly, Kathryn

  8. arXiv2405.15314

    Output-Constrained Decision Trees

    Incorporating domain-specific constraints into machine learning models is essential for generating predictions that are both accurate and feasible in real-world applications. This paper introduces new methods for training Output-Constrained Regression Trees (OCRT), addressing the limitations of traditional decision trees in constrained multi-target regression tasks. We propose three approaches: M-OCRT, which uses spl

    Tunç, Hüseyin, Özese, Doğanay, Birbil, Ş. İlker, Maragno, Donato et al.

  9. arXiv2407.01012

    Swish-T : Enhancing Swish Activation with Tanh Bias for Improved Neural Network Performance

    We propose the Swish-T family, an enhancement of the existing non-monotonic activation function Swish. Swish-T is defined by adding a Tanh bias to the original Swish function. This modification creates a family of Swish-T variants, each designed to excel in different tasks, showcasing specific advantages depending on the application context. The Tanh bias allows for broader acceptance of negative values during initia

    Seo, Youngmin, Kim, Jinha, Park, Unsang

  10. arXiv2407.16341

    Motion Capture from Inertial and Vision Sensors

    Human motion capture is the foundation for many computer vision and graphics tasks. While industrial motion capture systems with complex camera arrays or expensive wearable sensors have been widely adopted in movie and game production, consumer-affordable and easy-to-use solutions for personal applications are still far from mature. To utilize a mixture of a monocular camera and very few inertial measurement units (I

    Chen, Xiaodong, Liu, Wu, Bao, Qian, Liu, Xinchen et al.

  11. arXiv2408.12406

    Generalized SAM: Efficient Fine-Tuning of SAM for Variable Input Image Sizes

    There has been a lot of recent research on improving the efficiency of fine-tuning foundation models. In this paper, we propose a novel efficient fine-tuning method that allows the input image size of Segment Anything Model (SAM) to be variable. SAM is a powerful foundational model for image segmentation trained on huge datasets, but it requires fine-tuning to recognize arbitrary classes. The input image size of SAM

    Kato, Sota, Mitsuoka, Hinako, Hotta, Kazuhiro

  12. arXiv2409.18512

    Expressive Prompting: Improving Emotion Intensity and Speaker Consistency in Zero-Shot TTS

    Recent advancements in speech synthesis have enabled large language model (LLM)-based systems to perform zero-shot generation with controllable content, timbre, speaker identity, and emotion through input prompts. As a result, these models heavily rely on prompt design to guide the generation process. However, existing prompt selection methods often fail to ensure that prompts contain sufficiently stable speaker iden

    Wang, Haoyu, Qiang, Chunyu, Wang, Tianrui, Gong, Cheng et al.

  13. arXiv2410.06128

    Amortized Inference of Causal Models via Conditional Fixed-Point Iterations

    Structural Causal Models (SCMs) offer a principled framework to reason about interventions and support out-of-distribution generalization, which are key goals in scientific discovery. However, the task of learning SCMs from observed data poses formidable challenges, and often requires training a separate model for each dataset. In this work, we propose an amortized inference framework that trains a single model to pr

    Mahajan, Divyat, Gladrow, Jannes, Hilmkil, Agrin, Zhang, Cheng et al.

  14. arXiv2410.13891

    S$^4$ST: A Strong, Self-transferable, faSt, and Simple Scale Transformation for Transferable Targeted Attack

    Transferable Targeted Attacks (TTAs) face significant challenges due to severe overfitting to surrogate models. Recent breakthroughs heavily rely on large-scale training data of victim models, while data-free solutions, \textit{i.e.}, image transformation-involved gradient optimization, often depend on black-box feedback for method design and tuning. These dependencies violate black-box transfer settings and compromi

    Liu, Yongxiang, Peng, Bowen, Liu, Li, Li, Xiang

  15. arXiv2411.06851

    Fast and Efficient Transformer-based Method for Bird's Eye View Instance Prediction

    Accurate object detection and prediction are critical to ensure the safety and efficiency of self-driving architectures. Predicting object trajectories and occupancy enables autonomous vehicles to anticipate movements and make decisions with future information, increasing their adaptability and reducing the risk of accidents. Current State-Of-The-Art (SOTA) approaches often isolate the detection, tracking, and predic

    Antunes-García, Miguel, Bergasa, Luis M., Montiel-Marín, Santiago, Barea, Rafael et al.

  16. arXiv2501.13376

    Clinical utility of foundation models in musculoskeletal MRI for biomarker fidelity and predictive outcomes

    Precision medicine in musculoskeletal imaging requires scalable measurement infrastructure. We developed a modular system that converts routine MRI into standardized quantitative biomarkers suitable for clinical decision support. Promptable foundation segmenters (SAM, SAM2, MedSAM) were fine-tuned across heterogeneous musculoskeletal datasets and coupled to automated detection for fully automatic prompting. Fine-tune

    Hoyer, Gabrielle, Tong, Michelle W, Bhattacharjee, Rupsa, Pedoia, Valentina et al.

  17. arXiv2501.18045

    From tools to thieves: Measuring and understanding public perceptions of AI through crowdsourced metaphors

    How has the public responded to the increasing prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI)-based technologies? We investigate public perceptions of AI by collecting over 12,000 responses over 12 months from a nationally representative U.S. sample. Participants provided open-ended metaphors reflecting their mental models of AI, a methodology that overcomes the limitations of traditional self-reported measures by captur

    Cheng, Myra, Lee, Angela Y., Rapuano, Kristina, Niederhoffer, Kate et al.

  18. arXiv2502.02970

    Distributional Statistics Restore Training Data Auditability in One-step Distilled Diffusion Models

    The proliferation of diffusion models trained on web-scale, provenance-uncertain image collections has made it essential, yet technically unresolved, to determine whether a model has learned from specific copyrighted data without authorization. Current methods primarily rely on the memorization effect, whereby models reconstruct their training images better than unseen ones, to detect unauthorized training data on a

    Li, Muxing, Ye, Zesheng, Li, Sharon, Song, Andy et al.

  19. arXiv2502.09018

    Zero-shot Concept Bottleneck Models

    Concept bottleneck models (CBMs) are inherently interpretable and intervenable neural network models, which explain their final label prediction by the intermediate prediction of high-level semantic concepts. However, they require target task training to learn input-to-concept and concept-to-label mappings, incurring target dataset collections and training resources. In this paper, we present zero-shot concept bottle

    Yamaguchi, Shin'ya, Nishida, Kosuke, Chijiwa, Daiki, Ida, Yasutoshi

  20. arXiv2503.10773

    Learn then Decide: A Learning Approach for Designing Data Marketplaces

    As data marketplaces become increasingly central to the digital economy, it is crucial to design efficient pricing mechanisms that optimize revenue while ensuring fair and adaptive pricing. We introduce the Maximum Auction-to-Posted Price (MAPP) mechanism, a novel two-stage approach that first estimates the bidders' value distribution through auctions and then determines the optimal posted price based on the lear

    Gao, Yingqi, Xu, Wenlu, Zhou, Jin J., Zhou, Hua et al.

  21. arXiv2504.01938

    A Unified Approach to Analysis and Design of Denoising Markov Models

    Probabilistic generative models based on measure transport, such as diffusion and flow-based models, are often formulated in the language of Markovian stochastic dynamics, where the choice of the underlying process impacts both algorithmic design choices and theoretical analysis. In this paper, we aim to establish a rigorous mathematical foundation for denoising Markov models, a broad class of generative models that

    Ren, Yinuo, Rotskoff, Grant M., Ying, Lexing

  22. arXiv2504.17180

    We'll Fix it in Post: Improving Text-to-Video Generation with Neuro-Symbolic Feedback

    Current text-to-video (T2V) generation models are increasingly popular due to their ability to produce coherent videos from textual prompts. However, these models often struggle to generate semantically and temporally consistent videos when dealing with longer, more complex prompts involving multiple objects or sequential events. Additionally, the high computational costs associated with training or fine-tuning make

    Choi, Minkyu, Sharan, S P, Goel, Harsh, Shah, Sahil et al.

  23. arXiv2505.13995

    ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMs

    LLMs are known to exhibit sycophancy: agreeing with and flattering users, even at the cost of correctness. Prior work measures sycophancy only as direct agreement with users' explicitly stated beliefs that can be compared to a ground truth. This fails to capture broader forms of sycophancy such as affirming a user's self-image or other implicit beliefs. To address this gap, we introduce social sycophancy, cha

    Cheng, Myra, Yu, Sunny, Lee, Cinoo, Khadpe, Pranav et al.

  24. arXiv2505.15263

    gen2seg: Generative Models Enable Generalizable Instance Segmentation

    By pretraining to synthesize coherent images from perturbed inputs, generative models inherently learn to understand object boundaries and scene compositions. How can we repurpose these generative representations for general-purpose perceptual organization? We finetune Stable Diffusion and MAE (encoder+decoder) for category-agnostic instance segmentation using our instance coloring loss exclusively on a narrow set of

    Khangaonkar, Om, Pirsiavash, Hamed

  25. arXiv2505.15323

    Improving LLM First-Token Predictions in Multiple-Choice Question Answering via Output Prefilling

    Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly evaluated on multiple-choice question answering (MCQA) tasks using *first-token probability* (FTP), which selects the answer option whose initial token has the highest likelihood. While efficient, FTP can be fragile: models may assign high probability to unrelated tokens (*misalignment*) or use a valid token merely as part of a generic preamble rather than as a clear answ

    Cappelletti, Silvia, Poppi, Tobia, Poppi, Samuele, Yong, Zheng-Xin et al.

On this calendar day 18

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

  1. 2026year

    During the Artemis II mission, the Orion made its closest approach to the far side of the Moon and reached its greatest distance from Earth .

  2. 2018year

    A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos collided with a semi-truck, killing 16 and injuring 13.

  3. 2012year

    The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad unilaterally declared the region of Azawad independent from Mali.

  4. 2011year

    Mexican drug war: Authorities discovered 59 bodies in clandestine mass graves linked to earlier bus hijackings in San Fernando, Tamaulipas.

  5. 2010year

    Naxalite–Maoist insurgency: Insurgents from the Communist Party of India (Maoist) ambushed a Central Reserve Police Force convoy in Dantewada district, India, killing 76 officers.

  6. 2009year

    An earthquake measuring 6.3 Mw struck near L'Aquila in the central Italian region of Abruzzo, killing 308 people and leaving more than 66,000 homeless.

  7. 2009year

    Mass protests began across Moldova against the results of the parliamentary election.

  8. 2005year

    Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani was elected by the National Assembly as the first non-Arab president of Iraq.

  9. 2004year

    Lithuanian president Rolandas Paksas became the first European head of state to be removed from office by impeachment.

  10. 1994year

    The aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down in Kigali; the event became the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide.

  11. 1974year

    ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest representing Sweden with the song "Waterloo".

  12. 1970year

    Four California Highway Patrol officers were killed in a shootout following a traffic stop in Newhall, north of Los Angeles.

  13. 1945year

    Second World War: The Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville Island concluded with a decisive victory for the Australian Army's 7th Brigade against the Imperial Japanese Army's 6th Division.

  14. 1941year

    World War II: The Luftwaffe began Operation Retribution, bombing the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade in retaliation for a coup d'état that overthrew the government that had signed the Tripartite Pact.

  15. 1941year

    World War II: German forces invaded Greece and Yugoslavia.

  16. 1926year

    Varney Air Lines made its first commercial flight (flight covers pictured), later forming the basis of United Airlines.

  17. 1830year

    Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer and others formally organized the Church of Christ, starting the Latter Day Saint movement.

  18. 1812year

    Peninsular War: After a three-week siege, the Anglo-Portuguese Army, under the Earl of Wellington, captured Badajoz, Spain, and forced the surrender of the French garrison.