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Record 06052026 · captured 2026-08-25

Wednesday, 6 May 2026

The world looked up C. Joseph Vijay. 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. 519,672views

    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

  2. 428,438views

    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. 358,349views

    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

  4. 313,093views

    Cinco de Mayo

    Cinco de Mayo is an annual celebration held on May 5 to celebrate Mexico's victory over the Second French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862, led by General Ignacio Zaragoza. Zaragoza died months after the battle from an illness, however, and a larger Fren

  5. 213,416views

    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. 199,583views

    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

  7. 181,792views

    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

  8. 179,356views

    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

  9. 166,520views

    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

  10. 148,923views

    The Odyssey (2026 film)

    The Odyssey is a 2026 epic action fantasy film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who produced it with his wife Emma Thomas. An adaptation of Homer's ancient Greek epic poem the Odyssey, it stars an ensemble cast including Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne

  11. 143,052views

    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.

  12. 136,565views

    Met Gala

    The Met Gala, formally known as the Costume Institute Benefit, is the annual haute couture fundraising festival held at and for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute on the Museum Mile of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The Met Gala is p

  13. 132,670views

    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

  14. 131,125views

    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

  15. 129,558views

    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

  16. 128,486views

    Randy Jackson

    Randall Darius Jackson is an American record executive, television presenter and musician, best known as a judge on American Idol from 2002 to 2013.

  17. 127,597views

    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

  18. 116,907views

    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

  19. 116,779views

    R. B. Choudary

    Ratanlal Bhagatram Choudary was an Indian film producer who worked in several film industries, predominantly in Tamil and Telugu along with a few films in Malayalam and Hindi. He was the founder of the production company Super Good Films.

  20. 111,394views

    Transmission voie-machine

    Transmission voie-machine is a form of in-cab signalling originally deployed in France and is mainly used on high-speed railway lines. TVM-300 was the first version, followed by TVM-430.

  21. 109,466views

    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

  22. 109,034views

    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).

  23. 108,698views

    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

  24. 103,091views

    Eminem

    Marshall Bruce Mathers III, known professionally as Eminem, is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and record executive. Known for his rap flow and conscious rap, which includes political criticism and social commentary, he is widely regarded as o

  25. 96,248views

    Anna Wintour

    Dame Anna Wintour is a British and American media executive who served as editor-in-chief of Vogue from 1988 to 2025. Currently, Wintour serves as global chief content officer and artist director at Condé Nast. Known for her trademark pageboy bob haircut and d

  26. 95,895views

    International Boxing Union (since 1996)

    The International Boxing Union (IBU) is a professional boxing sanctioning body founded in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, in 1996. It is unrelated to the International Boxing Union, based in Europe, which operated until the Second World War.

  27. 94,762views

    Connor Storrie

    Connor Storrie is an American actor. He is best known for his breakout role as Ilya Rozanov in the sports romance series Heated Rivalry (2025–present). He hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live in 2026, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination

  28. 94,446views

    Limonene

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

  29. 87,990views

    Louise Arbour

    Louise Arbour is a Canadian jurist who has served as the 31st governor general of Canada since 2026.

  30. 87,949views

    Jaafar Jackson

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

Frontier 25

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

  1. 1,747points

    Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

    593 comments

  2. 1,676points

    Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

    258 comments

  3. 1,634points

    Appearing productive in the workplace

    652 comments

  4. 787points

    Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

    885 comments

  5. 767points

    Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

    170 comments

  6. 726points

    Programming Still Sucks

    337 comments

  7. 687points

    StarFighter 16-Inch

    389 comments

  8. 663points

    SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format

    192 comments

  9. 658points

    Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

    368 comments

  10. 512points

    Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

    486 comments

  11. 489points

    Knitting bullshit

    207 comments

  12. 415points

    Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

    443 comments

  13. 414points

    Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)

    103 comments

  14. 403points

    Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school

    665 comments

  15. 370points

    Multi-stroke text effect in CSS

    44 comments

  16. 355points

    Inkscape 1.4.4

    107 comments

  17. 354points

    Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me

    119 comments

  18. 340points

    YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

    116 comments

  19. 317points

    Show HN: Hallucinopedia

    267 comments

  20. 308points

    Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered

    130 comments

  21. 304points

    From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth

    240 comments

  22. 296points

    Ted Turner has died

    238 comments

  23. 279points

    The vi family

    194 comments

  24. 266points

    BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets

    447 comments

  25. 264points

    245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping

    199 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv1906.08713

    Reversible Privacy Preservation using Multi-level Encryption and Compressive Sensing

    Security monitoring via ubiquitous cameras and their more extended in intelligent buildings stand to gain from advances in signal processing and machine learning. While these innovative and ground-breaking applications can be considered as a boon, at the same time they raise significant privacy concerns. In fact, recent GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) legislation has highlighted and become an incentive for

    Yamac, Mehmet, Ahishali, Mete, Passalis, Nikolaos, Raitoharju, Jenni et al.

  2. arXiv2003.00768

    Convolutional Sparse Support Estimator Network (CSEN) From energy efficient support estimation to learning-aided Compressive Sensing

    Support estimation (SE) of a sparse signal refers to finding the location indices of the non-zero elements in a sparse representation. Most of the traditional approaches dealing with SE problem are iterative algorithms based on greedy methods or optimization techniques. Indeed, a vast majority of them use sparse signal recovery techniques to obtain support sets instead of directly mapping the non-zero locations from

    Yamac, Mehmet, Ahishali, Mete, Kiranyaz, Serkan, Gabbouj, Moncef

  3. arXiv2005.04014

    Convolutional Sparse Support Estimator Based Covid-19 Recognition from X-ray Images

    Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has been the main agenda of the whole world since it came in sight in December 2019. It has already caused thousands of causalities and infected several millions worldwide. Any technological tool that can be provided to healthcare practitioners to save time, effort, and possibly lives has crucial importance. The main tools practitioners currently use to diagnose Covid-19 are Reverse Tra

    Yamac, Mehmet, Ahishali, Mete, Degerli, Aysen, Kiranyaz, Serkan et al.

  4. arXiv2006.05332

    Advance Warning Methodologies for COVID-19 using Chest X-Ray Images

    Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly become a global health concern after its first known detection in December 2019. As a result, accurate and reliable advance warning system for the early diagnosis of COVID-19 has now become a priority. The detection of COVID-19 in early stages is not a straightforward task from chest X-ray images according to expert medical doctors because the traces of the infection ar

    Ahishali, Mete, Degerli, Aysen, Yamac, Mehmet, Kiranyaz, Serkan et al.

  5. arXiv2202.03045

    Metric-valued regression

    We propose an efficient algorithm for learning mappings between two metric spaces, $\X$ and $\Y$. Our procedure is strongly Bayes-consistent whenever $\X$ and $\Y$ are topologically separable and $\Y$ is "bounded in expectation" (our term; the separability assumption can be somewhat weakened). At this level of generality, ours is the first such learnability result for unbounded loss in the agnostic setting. O

    Cohen, Dan Tsir, Kontorovich, Aryeh

  6. arXiv2206.06369

    Toward Dynamic Stability Assessment of Power Grid Topologies using Graph Neural Networks

    To mitigate climate change, the share of renewable energies in power production needs to be increased. Renewables introduce new challenges to power grids regarding the dynamic stability due to decentralization, reduced inertia, and volatility in production. Since dynamic stability simulations are intractable and exceedingly expensive for large grids, graph neural networks (GNNs) are a promising method to reduce the c

    Nauck, Christian, Lindner, Michael, Schürholt, Konstantin, Hellmann, Frank

  7. arXiv2303.09271

    Finding Minimum-Cost Explanations for Predictions made by Tree Ensembles

    The ability to explain why a machine learning model arrives at a particular prediction is crucial when used as decision support by human operators of critical systems. The provided explanations must be provably correct, and preferably without redundant information, called minimal explanations. In this paper, we aim at finding explanations for predictions made by tree ensembles that are not only minimal, but also mini

    Törnblom, John, Karlsson, Emil, Nadjm-Tehrani, Simin

  8. arXiv2304.09721

    Improved Active Fire Detection using Operational U-Nets

    As a consequence of global warming and climate change, the risk and extent of wildfires have been increasing in many areas worldwide. Warmer temperatures and drier conditions can cause quickly spreading fires and make them harder to control; therefore, early detection and accurate locating of active fires are crucial in environmental monitoring. Using satellite imagery to monitor and detect active fires has been crit

    Devecioglu, Ozer Can, Ahishali, Mete, Sohrab, Fahad, Ince, Turker et al.

  9. arXiv2304.09730

    Hyperspectral Image Analysis with Subspace Learning-based One-Class Classification

    Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification is an important task in many applications, such as environmental monitoring, medical imaging, and land use/land cover (LULC) classification. Due to the significant amount of spectral information from recent HSI sensors, analyzing the acquired images is challenging using traditional Machine Learning (ML) methods. As the number of frequency bands increases, the required number o

    Kilickaya, Sertac, Ahishali, Mete, Sohrab, Fahad, Ince, Turker et al.

  10. arXiv2305.07598

    Hausdorff Distance Matching with Adaptive Query Denoising for Rotated Detection Transformer

    Detection Transformers (DETR) have recently set new benchmarks in object detection. However, their performance in detecting rotated objects lags behind established oriented object detectors. Our analysis identifies a key observation: the boundary discontinuity and square-like problem in bipartite matching poses an issue with assigning appropriate ground truths to predictions, leading to duplicate low-confidence predi

    Lee, Hakjin, Song, MinKi, Koo, Jamyoung, Seo, Junghoon

  11. arXiv2307.07066

    Can Blockchains Reliably Train Machine Learning Models?

    Large proof of work (PoW) networks allow anyone to earn rewards by running computation-intensive hash puzzles for profit, yet they typically consume electricity comparable to that of medium-sized countries. Repurposing computing resources from hash puzzles to machine learning training can benefit the energy sector as a whole, since this computing power is no longer wasted on solving hash puzzles but is instead used t

    Li, Peihao, Dahmani, Nadia

  12. arXiv2309.09550

    Adaptive Reorganization of Neural Pathways for Continual Learning with Spiking Neural Networks

    The human brain can self-organize rich and diverse sparse neural pathways to incrementally master hundreds of cognitive tasks. However, most existing continual learning algorithms for deep artificial and spiking neural networks are unable to adequately auto-regulate the limited resources in the network, which leads to performance drop along with energy consumption rise as the increase of tasks. In this paper, we prop

    Han, Bing, Zhao, Feifei, Pan, Wenxuan, Zhao, Zhuoya et al.

  13. arXiv2310.00795

    Recent Advances in Generative AI for Healthcare Applications

    The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has catalyzed revolutionary changes across various sectors, notably in healthcare. In particular, generative AI-led by diffusion models and transformer architectures-has enabled significant breakthroughs in medical imaging (including image reconstruction, image-to-image translation, generation, and classification), protein structure prediction, clinical documentat

    Shokrollahi, Yasin, Colmenarez, Jose, Liu, Wenxi, Yarmohammadtoosky, Sahar et al.

  14. arXiv2401.12783

    A Scoping Review of Deep Learning Methods for Photoplethysmography Data

    Background: Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a non-invasive optical sensing technique widely used to capture hemodynamic information, with broad deployment in both clinical monitoring systems and wearable devices. In recent years, the integration of deep learning has substantially advanced PPG signal analysis and expanded its applications across healthcare and non-healthcare domains. Methods: We conducted a comprehensiv

    Nie, Guangkun, Zhu, Jiabao, Tang, Gongzheng, Zhang, Deyun et al.

  15. arXiv2401.16522

    Dropout Concrete Autoencoder for Band Selection on HSI Scenes

    Deep learning-based informative band selection methods on hyperspectral images (HSI) recently have gained intense attention to eliminate spectral correlation and redundancies. However, the existing deep learning-based methods either need additional post-processing strategies to select the descriptive bands or optimize the model indirectly, due to the parameterization inability of discrete variables for the selection

    Xu, Lei, Ahishali, Mete, Gabbouj, Moncef

  16. arXiv2402.15995

    Improved Hardness Results for Learning Intersections of Halfspaces

    We show strong (and surprisingly simple) lower bounds for weakly learning intersections of halfspaces in the improper setting. Strikingly little is known about this problem. For instance, it is not even known if there is a polynomial-time algorithm for learning the intersection of only two halfspaces. On the other hand, lower bounds based on well-established assumptions (such as approximating worst-case lattice probl

    Tiegel, Stefan

  17. arXiv2405.16971

    A Unified Framework for Tabular Generative Modeling: Loss Functions, Benchmarks, and Improved Multi-objective Bayesian Optimization Approaches

    Deep learning (DL) models require extensive data to achieve strong performance and generalization. Deep generative models (DGMs) offer a solution by synthesizing data. Yet current approaches for tabular data often fail to preserve feature correlations and distributions during training, struggle with multi-metric hyperparameter selection, and lack comprehensive evaluation protocols. We address this gap with a unified

    Vu, Minh H., Edler, Daniel, Wibom, Carl, Löfstedt, Tommy et al.

  18. arXiv2406.08917

    Predicting Fault-Ride-Through Probability of Inverter-Dominated Power Grids using Machine Learning

    Due to the increasing share of renewables, the analysis of the dynamical behavior of power grids gains importance. Effective risk assessments necessitate the analysis of large number of fault scenarios. The computational costs inherent in dynamic simulations impose constraints on the number of configurations that can be analyzed. Machine Learning (ML) has proven to efficiently predict complex power grid properties. H

    Nauck, Christian, Büttner, Anna, Liemann, Sebastian, Hellmann, Frank et al.

  19. arXiv2407.10266

    psifx -- Psychological and Social Interactions Feature Extraction Package

    psifx is a plug-and-play multi-modal feature extraction toolkit, aiming to facilitate and democratize the use of state-of-the-art machine learning techniques for human sciences research. It is motivated by a need (a) to automate and standardize data annotation processes that typically require expensive, lengthy, and inconsistent human labour; (b) to develop and distribute open-source community-driven psychology resea

    Rochette, Guillaume, Rochat, Mathieu, Michaud, Nizar, Vowels, Matthew J.

  20. arXiv2407.11077

    Deep deterministic policy gradient with symmetric data augmentation for lateral attitude tracking control of a fixed-wing aircraft

    The symmetry of dynamical systems can be exploited for state-transition prediction and to facilitate control policy optimization. This paper leverages system symmetry to develop sample-efficient offline reinforcement learning (RL) approaches. Under the symmetry assumption for a Markov Decision Process (MDP), a symmetric data augmentation method is proposed. The augmented samples are integrated into the dataset of Dee

    Li, Yifei, van Kampen, Erik-Jan

  21. arXiv2407.12419

    Dirac--Bianconi Graph Neural Networks -- Enabling Non-Diffusive Long-Range Graph Predictions

    The geometry of a graph is encoded in dynamical processes on the graph. Many graph neural network (GNN) architectures are inspired by such dynamical systems, typically based on the graph Laplacian. Here, we introduce Dirac--Bianconi GNNs (DBGNNs), which are based on the topological Dirac equation recently proposed by Bianconi. Based on the graph Laplacian, we demonstrate that DBGNNs explore the geometry of the graph

    Nauck, Christian, Gorantla, Rohan, Lindner, Michael, Schürholt, Konstantin et al.

  22. arXiv2407.20068

    Unleash the Power of Ellipsis: Accuracy-enhanced Sparse Vector Technique with Exponential Noise

    The Sparse Vector Technique (SVT) is one of the most fundamental tools in differential privacy (DP). It works as a backbone for adaptive data analysis by answering a sequence of queries on a given dataset, and gleaning useful information in a privacy-preserving manner. Unlike the typical private query releases that directly publicize the noisy query results, SVT is less informative -- it keeps the noisy query results

    Liu, Yuhan, Wang, Sheng, Liu, Yixuan, Li, Feifei et al.

  23. arXiv2408.12622

    The AI risk repository: A meta-review, database, and taxonomy of risks from artificial intelligence

    Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping society, from video generation to medical diagnosis, coding agents to autonomous vehicles. Yet researchers, policymakers, and technology companies lack shared terminology for discussing AI risks. Consider "privacy": one framework uses this term to describe a model's ability to leak sensitive training data, while another uses it to mean freedom from government surv

    Slattery, Peter, Saeri, Alexander K., Grundy, Emily A. C., Graham, Jess et al.

  24. arXiv2410.09457

    Power-Softmax: Towards Secure LLM Inference over Encrypted Data

    Modern cryptographic methods for implementing privacy-preserving LLMs such as \gls{HE} require the LLMs to have a polynomial form. Forming such a representation is challenging because transformers include non-polynomial components, such as \Softmax and layer normalization. Previous approaches have either directly approximated pre-trained models with large-degree polynomials, which are less efficient over HE, or repla

    Zimerman, Itamar, Adir, Allon, Aharoni, Ehud, Avitan, Matan et al.

  25. arXiv2412.14737

    On Verbalized Confidence Scores for LLMs

    The rise of large language models (LLMs) and their tight integration into our daily life make it essential to dedicate efforts towards their trustworthiness. Uncertainty quantification for LLMs can establish more human trust into their responses, but also allows LLM agents to make more informed decisions based on each other's uncertainty. To estimate the uncertainty in a response, internal token logits, task-spec

    Yang, Daniel, Tsai, Yao-Hung Hubert, Yamada, Makoto

On this calendar day 18

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

  1. 2023year

    King Charles III and Queen Camilla were crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.

  2. 2013year

    Amanda Berry escaped from the Cleveland, Ohio, home of her captor, Ariel Castro, having been held there with two other women for ten years.

  3. 2008year

    British barrister Mark Saunders was shot dead by police after a five-hour siege at his home in Chelsea, London.

  4. 2004year

    The final episode of the television sitcom Friends was aired.

  5. 1998year

    Steve Jobs unveiled the iMac G3' personal computer.

  6. 1991year

    Time magazine published the article "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" by Richard Behar criticizing the Church of Scientology, leading to years of legal conflict.

  7. 1988year

    Widerøe Flight 710 crashed into the fog-covered mountain of Torghatten in Brønnøy, Norway, killing all 36 people on board.

  8. 1976year

    An earthquake struck Northern Italy, killing 990 people and injuring up to 3,000.

  9. 1975year

    About 100,000 Armenians gathered during a lull in fighting to mark the 60th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

  10. 1954year

    At Oxford's Iffley Road Track, English runner Roger Bannister became the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.

  11. 1942year

    World War II: Japanese troops overcame fierce American and Philippine resistance to win the Battle of Corregidor.

  12. 1941year

    American entertainer Bob Hope performed his first show with the United Service Organizations, beginning a 50-year involvement with them.

  13. 1937year

    The German airship Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during an attempt to dock at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, killing 36 people.

  14. 1930year

    Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson purchased the Kent property they would transform into Sissinghurst Castle Garden.

  15. 1915year

    Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: SY Aurora, anchored in McMurdo Sound, broke loose during a gale, beginning a 312-day ordeal in the Ross Sea and Southern Ocean for her 18-man crew.

  16. 1882year

    Irish civil servants Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish were stabbed to death by members of the radical Irish National Invincibles in Phoenix Park, Dublin.

  17. 1882year

    U.S. president Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act into law (cartoon pictured), implementing a ban on Chinese immigration to the United States that remained for 61 years.

  18. 1801year

    French Revolutionary Wars: The 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo was captured by the outmanned and outgunned HMS Speedy.