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Record 06102026 · captured 2026-10-07

Tuesday, 6 October 2026

The world looked up Christa Pike. 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. 333,405views

    Christa Pike

    Christa Gail Pike is an American convicted murderer on death row in Tennessee. In 1995, when she was 18, Pike and her boyfriend lured their 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer into a wooded area in Knoxville where they tortured and killed her. Over roughly t

  2. 269,550views

    Wikimedia Foundation

    The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation. It is most known for hosting Wikipedia, one of the world's most visited websites.

  3. 247,828views

    2026 Brazilian general election

    General elections were held in Brazil on 4 October 2026 to elect the president, vice president, members of the National Congress, the governors, vice governors and legislative assemblies of all federative units, and the district council of Fernando de Noronha.

  4. 245,758views

    Digger (2026 film)

    Digger is a 2026 American satirical black comedy film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Tom Cruise, who also produced the film, stars as Digger Rockwell, an aging oil magnate whose drilling sets off an ecological disaster. T

  5. 226,584views

    Drishyam: The Conclusion

    Drishyam: The Conclusion is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film co-written, produced, and directed by Abhishek Pathak. Produced by Panorama Studios and Star Studio18, it is a sequel to Drishyam 2 (2022). Unlike its predecessors, the film features

  6. 225,799views

    Lanterns (TV series)

    Lanterns is an American superhero television series created by Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Tom King for HBO, based on the DC Comics Green Lantern characters Hal Jordan and John Stewart. It is the third television series in the DC Universe (DCU). It featur

  7. 180,516views

    East of Eden (novel)

    East of Eden is a 1952 family saga novel by American author and Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Many regard the work as Steinbeck's most ambitious novel, and Steinbeck himself considered it his magnum opus. Steinbeck said of East of Eden, "It has everything

  8. 165,714views

    East of Eden (2026 miniseries)

    East of Eden is a 2026 American historical drama television limited series created by Zoe Kazan, starring Florence Pugh. It is adapted from John Steinbeck's 1952 novel of the same name and premiered on Netflix on October 1, 2026.

  9. 149,574views

    Dakota Johnson

    Dakota Mayi Johnson is an American actress. Her accolades include nominations for a British Academy Film Award and a Critics' Choice Award. She was featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2016.

  10. 142,771views

    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

  11. 142,750views

    Lizzie Borden

    Lizzie Andrew Borden was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No other individuals were charged with the murders.

  12. 128,855views

    Flávio Bolsonaro

    Flávio Nantes Bolsonaro is a Brazilian lawyer and far-right politician serving as a senator for Rio de Janeiro since 2019. A son of the 38th president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, he is affiliated with the Liberal Party (PL). He previously served as a state depu

  13. 126,211views

    Robert Kelker-Kelly

    Robert Kelker-Kelly was an American soap opera actor and professional aircraft pilot, known for playing Bo Brady on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives from 1992 to 1995. He was also known for his portrayals of Sam Fowler from 1987 to 1990 and Dr. Shane Rober

  14. 120,839views

    Dennis Hastert

    John Dennis Hastert was an American politician, educator, and felon who served as the 51st speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Illinois's 14th congressional district from 198

  15. 112,054views

    Karl Deisseroth

    Karl Alexander Deisseroth is an American scientist and physician. He is the D.H. Chen Foundation Professor of Bioengineering and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or M

  16. 109,971views

    Verity (film)

    Verity is a 2026 American erotic psychological thriller film directed by Michael Showalter, written by Nick Antosca, and based on Colleen Hoover's novel of the same name. The film stars Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett.

  17. 109,390views

    Bryce Young

    Bryce Christopher Young is an American professional football quarterback for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, where he set the school single-game passing yards record with 559

  18. 108,775views

    Ted Kaczynski

    Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign.

  19. 106,298views

    Jeffrey Archer

    Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare, was an English novelist and politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Louth (Lincolnshire) from 1969 to 1974, but did not seek re-election after almost going bankrupt. Archer revived his fort

  20. 101,923views

    Pneumonic plague

    Pneumonic plague is a severe lung infection caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Symptoms include fever, headache, shortness of breath, chest pain, coughing, and coughing up blood. They typically start about three to seven days after exposure. It is one of

  21. 92,753views

    Jair Bolsonaro

    Jair Messias Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician and former military officer who served as the 38th president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1991 to 2019.

  22. 85,917views

    List of highest-grossing films

    Films generate income from several revenue streams, including theatrical exhibition, home video, television broadcast rights, and merchandising. However, theatrical box-office earnings are the primary metric for trade publications in assessing the success of a

  23. 77,223views

    2024 Cornell University rape allegations

    On September 16, 2026, an anonymous former student of Cornell University identified under the pseudonym Jane Doe filed a civil lawsuit against the university, its Chi Phi fraternity chapter, and a group of seven student members of the fraternity among others.

  24. 73,739views

    Anna's Archive

    Anna's Archive is an open source search engine for shadow libraries that was launched by the pseudonymous Anna shortly after law enforcement efforts to shut down Z-Library in 2022. The site aggregates records from Z-Library, Sci-Hub, and Library Genesis (LibGe

  25. 72,030views

    Sass Jordan

    Sarah "Sass" Jordan was a British-born, Canadian-raised rock singer. Her first single, "Tell Somebody," from her debut album of the same title, won the Juno Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist in 1989. Based on her 1992 album Racine she was Billboard's to

  26. 71,950views

    2026 Port Shuaiba drone attack

    On 1 March 2026, an Iranian one-way attack drone struck a tactical operations center belonging to the United States Armed Forces in Port Shuaiba, an industrial port in Kuwait. The operations center was described as a makeshift and relatively unprotected site w

  27. 69,609views

    Neatsville, Kentucky

    Neatsville is an unincorporated community in Adair County, located 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

  28. 68,076views

    .xyz

    .xyz is a top-level domain name that was proposed in ICANN's new generic top-level domain (gTLD) Program for consisting of the last three letters of the Latin-script alphabet. XYZ.com and CentralNic are the registries for the domain, which was created by entre

  29. 66,715views

    Florence Pugh

    Florence Pugh is an English actress. Her accolades include a British Independent Film Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and three BAFTA Awards.

  30. 65,659views

    Tetairoa McMillan

    Tetairoa McMillan, nicknamed "T-Mac", is an American professional football wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). McMillan played college football for the Arizona Wildcats, earning Polynesian College Football Player of t

Frontier 25

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

  1. 1,837points

    Mistral Large 4

    1,108 comments

  2. 955points

    Sharing AI progress in mathematics

    901 comments

  3. 583points

    JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025

    546 comments

  4. 556points

    Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen

    197 comments

  5. 519points

    Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"

    5 comments

  6. 439points

    Polars 2.0

    99 comments

  7. 378points

    Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire

    271 comments

  8. 340points

    EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

    35 comments

  9. 336points

    Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study

    164 comments

  10. 312points

    Decisions API is in public beta

    155 comments

  11. 310points

    Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore

    132 comments

  12. 292points

    OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI

    345 comments

  13. 287points

    Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language

    387 comments

  14. 281points

    AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)

    233 comments

  15. 274points

    Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month

    153 comments

  16. 255points

    What's Earth's dominant species by mass?

    192 comments

  17. 234points

    Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery

    390 comments

  18. 211points

    Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model

    122 comments

  19. 192points

    Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI

    128 comments

  20. 189points

    Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand

    271 comments

  21. 180points

    State of Devs 2026

    92 comments

  22. 175points

    Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project

    113 comments

  23. 174points

    High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days

    188 comments

  24. 169points

    I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity

    108 comments

  25. 160points

    First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months

    73 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2610.08782

    4D-HOF: Hand-Object Flow Matching for Feed-Forward 4D Interaction Reconstruction

    Existing methods for 4D hand-object reconstruction often rely on costly per-sequence optimization, while generative approaches typically synthesize interactions from random noise, which can lead to unstable interaction prediction. We introduce 4D-HOF, a feed-forward framework that reconstructs 4D hand-object interactions from coarse but informative estimates produced by vision foundation models. Concretely, we learn

    Shiqi Li, Sean Cho, Yijie Li, Fengzhi Guo et al.

  2. arXiv2610.08781

    IdeaAnchor: Teaching LLMs to Turn Literature into Research Ideas

    Scientific research often begins by synthesizing ideas from a set of related papers to identify gaps and formulate new directions. However, training language models to perform this form of literature-grounded ideation remains challenging, as existing approaches based on prompting or feedback lack structured supervision for how papers should be synthesized. We introduce IdeaAnchor, a paradigm for training LLMs to perf

    Ziyu Chen, Yilun Zhao, Jiashuo Sun, Yiling Ma et al.

  3. arXiv2610.08780

    DepthWorld: 3D World Model for Robot Manipulation

    World models offer a data-driven alternative to traditional simulators for robotics, with applications spanning policy evaluation, improvement, and planning. All of these uses depend on faithful 3D geometry, yet current video-based world models are trained on RGB alone and produce rollouts that look correct frame-by-frame but do not compose into a consistent 3D world. Closing this gap requires progress on two fronts:

    Jai Bardhan, Josef Sivic, Vladimir Petrik

  4. arXiv2610.08778

    Sherpa: Teaching LLMs to Teach Adaptively

    Large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly capable problem solvers, but being able to solve a problem is not the same as being able to teach it. Existing approaches to training LLMs as teachers rely on demonstrations, preference data, or predefined pedagogical criteria that specify what good teaching looks like. However, these signals are often not grounded in individual student learning outcomes, where ef

    Weixian Xu, Yanzhe Zhang, Zora Zhiruo Wang, Changyu Chen et al.

  5. arXiv2610.08775

    Agent in a Bottle: Can LLM Agents Turn Their Capabilities Into Cheap, Scalable Artifacts?

    Large language models (LLMs) can solve many narrow tasks, but querying them separately for millions of related instances can be prohibitively expensive. Can LLM agents autonomously create cheaper solutions for such workloads? We call this ability "bottling": the ability to turn general capabilities into task-specific solutions that balance answer quality and amortised cost. We introduce BOTTLED, a benchmark in which

    Ankit Sonthalia, Haritz Puerto, Alexander Rubinstein, Martin Gubri et al.

  6. arXiv2610.08773

    AdvSim2Real : Training Web Agents Against Adaptive Prompt Injection in a Web World Model

    Web agents complete user requests by reading and acting on pages that third parties write, so an instruction planted on a page can redirect the agent away from the user's goal. The agent cannot simply ignore the page, because the page also holds the values and controls the task requires. Current defenses fine-tune the agent on injections fixed before training, and attackers that adapt to the trained model bypass them

    Sarim Hashmi, Mukul Ranjan, Kshitij Mishra, Mikhail Kuznetsov et al.

  7. arXiv2610.08761

    VeriFine: Scaling Verification for Self-Improvement in Embodied Reasoning

    Self-improving policies continually expose new failure patterns, changing what their judges must be able to verify. However, current fixed judges constrain both optimization feedback and the discovery of useful training examples, limiting further self-improvement. This challenge is even more acute in embodied reasoning, where reliable evaluation must account for spatial grounding, causal reasoning, and safety-aware d

    Zewei Zhou, Rachel Luo, Yulong Cao, Chaowei Xiao et al.

  8. arXiv2610.08760

    WorldSonus: Bringing Sound to Worlds

    Recent advances in world models have enabled increasingly realistic visual synthesis. However, these generated environments remain largely silent. Bringing sound to world models poses three core challenges: real-time generation to keep pace with interactive video streams, interactive control to respond to mid-stream sound instructions, and spatially aligned stereo to reflect scene geometry and camera motion. To addre

    Pengjun Fang, Jingyi Fa, Kam Man Wu, Jiaming Wang et al.

  9. arXiv2610.08743

    Reinforcement Learning with Conformal Action Sets: An Application to Sequential Recommendation

    Sequential recommenders typically use a fixed slate size even though the number of useful alternatives changes within a session. We propose Reinforcement Learning with Calibrated Pruning (RLCP), which adapts the retained action set using critic scores and an online threshold. The threshold is updated from binary feedback indicating whether the set contains an action in a proxy target. We prove a deterministic bound o

    Wenwen Si, Honghao Wei

  10. arXiv2610.08726

    EgoLAP: Learning from Egocentric Human Data through Language-Action Reasoning

    Egocentric human data offer a path to scaling robot learning beyond costly robot demonstrations, yet the embodiment gap makes raw human trajectories a poor supervisory target for control. Our key insight is that, although low-level actions are embodiment-specific, their underlying motion intent can capture task-relevant structure that transfers across humans and robots. We introduce EgoLAP, a VLA pre-training framewo

    Lihan Zha, Shresth Grover, Tenny Yin, Samuel M. Bateman et al.

  11. arXiv2610.08722

    Does an Agent's History Tell You When Compaction Will Hurt? A Modest, Bounded Effect on the TRACE Paired-Replay Corpus

    Many long-horizon agents compact their context on a global rule, usually a token budget, blind to what the agent was doing. We ask whether the agent's recent behaviour predicts when a compaction will hurt. TRACE's public corpus of 590 harness-triggered AppWorld compaction boundaries replays each boundary from a re-executed prefix state under the pre-compaction context and under the summary, and records the burden of

    Egor Pakhomov, Erik Nijkamp

  12. arXiv2610.08720

    WorldSolver: Can LLM Agents Simulate the Physical Dynamics via Solver Generation?

    LLM-based agents are increasingly advancing scientific and engineering problem solving, with physics simulation emerging as a challenging yet practical testbed for reproducing complex physical phenomena with application in embodied AI, games and films. As the workhorse of such simulation, a solver computes how the state of a dynamic system evolves over time. Building such solvers requires physical understanding to id

    Siru Jiang, Yongzhe Lyu, Shuo Lu, Yubin Wang et al.

  13. arXiv2610.08699

    nanoMuse: An Open-Source Personal Agent for Every Device You Own

    Assistants from 2011 answered and waited, and agents from 2023 did a task and stopped. In September 2026 Meta's Muse showed an agent for one person, with accounts, devices, memory and a conversation that lasts, closed, in a vendor's cloud, in one country. Such an agent is expected to act on a person's accounts and devices, remember them across weeks, speak first when it is worth it, and answer for what it did. It is

    Guangyi Liu, Yong Liu, Jiangning Zhang

  14. arXiv2610.08691

    ScienceClaw: Benchmarking Continual Self-Evolution of AI-for-Science Agents Across the Natural and Social Sciences

    Large language model agents are accelerating scientific automation, yet verified executions rarely become persistent program-level improvements, and existing evaluations do not examine this process across sequential tasks in both the natural and social sciences. We formalize ScienceClaw as fixed-parameter program self-evolution that unifies task solving, scientific verification, and program updates. ScienceClaw-Eval

    Mingda Zhang, Wenjin Liu, Tiesunlong Shen, Zikai Xiao et al.

  15. arXiv2610.08683

    Coupled but Late: Turn-Taking Between Full-Duplex Speech Models in Unscripted Dialogue

    Full-duplex speech models are trained to converse with a person, but they are increasingly made to converse with each other, in self-play data generation, agent societies, and model-based evaluation. In that loop no human absorbs a timing error: each model's turn-taking is the other's input. We ask what timing the loop settles into. Two PersonaPlex-7B instances exchange audio tokens on a shared clock in unscripted co

    Lichen Zhu, Yueqian Lin, Yiheng Wang, Hai "Helen" Li et al.

  16. arXiv2610.08678

    Secure Speculative Decoding for Large Language Models

    Speculative decoding accelerates inference for a large language model (LLM), referred to as the \emph{target model}, by first using a smaller model, referred to as the \emph{draft model}, to generate candidate tokens and then verifying them with the target model for acceptance or rejection. Prior studies primarily focused on the efficiency-utility trade-off of speculative decoding, e.g., lossy speculative decoding, l

    Yichi Zhang, Zhiqi Wang, Neil Gong, Yuchen Yang

  17. arXiv2610.08670

    Principled Under Pressure: Post-Training Decides Whether LLMs Act on Their Own Moral Judgment

    Language models increasingly act as agents. An agent that says an action is wrong and then takes it anyway is a different failure from one that does not know better, and evaluations of stated values cannot see it. We build a pre-registered panel of 248 scenarios across five kinds of pressure. Each scenario is posed twice to the same model, once as the agent choosing what to do and once in the third person asking whic

    Orion Reblitz-Richardson

  18. arXiv2610.08669

    MemFLoRA: Memory-Floor LoRA for CNN Adaptation at the Edge

    On-device learning is necessary when the model encounters user-,sensor-, or environment-specific shifts after deployment. Although parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods, particularly Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) variants, enable efficient adaptation at the edge, the limiting resource for Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) adaptation is often not the number of trainable parameters but the activation state that

    Mehmet Emre Akbulut, Johannes Geier, Ulf Schlichtmann

  19. arXiv2610.08668

    Semantic Behavioral Watermarking: Paraphrase-Robust and Forgery-Resistant Provenance for LLM Agents

    Behavioral watermarking embeds an owner identifier in an LLM agent's high-level action choices, giving provenance without touching output tokens. Prior agent watermarks break in two ways. First, all three prior schemes bind the watermark to the exact action symbol, so renaming a tool desynchronizes decoding even when the observation is untouched; in AgentMark's own robustness test, paraphrasing the observation alone

    Suxin Ji, Hungtao Wan, Shaoxuan Chen, An Zhang

  20. arXiv2610.08662

    ParanoiaEval: Benchmarking Unnecessary Defensive Work in Agentic Coding

    As coding agents increasingly undertake real-world work autonomously, judging whether their risk treatments are warranted has become important. Existing work evaluates related agent behaviors from separate perspectives, but lacks a systematic framework for unifying these behaviors. To bridge this gap, we introduce ParanoiaEval, the first benchmark for unified evaluation of risk-treatment capabilities in coding agents

    Hanjun Luo, Xiucheng Zhang, Zhuoning Xu, Zhimu Huang et al.

  21. arXiv2610.08659

    Selective Transfer of RL Updates for Visual Reasoning

    Model merging provides a training-free way to transfer reasoning capabilities from language models to vision-language models (VLMs), but endpoint-based transfer can conflate pre-existing model differences with changes acquired during reasoning post-training. We instead formulate capability transfer around the training-stage update, isolating the parameter changes induced by reinforcement learning (RL). Yet transferri

    Suxin Ji, Hungtao Wan, Mingjun Liu, An Zhang

  22. arXiv2610.08651

    A Case Study in Assuring AI-Written Software

    Software-engineering agents can enable people without formal software training to build systems they could not otherwise implement and simultaneously can produce more code than even experts can meaningfully inspect. In both cases, exhaustive code review is not reliable as the sole basis for human control. We report a case study of a production healthcare platform built through coding agents and governed by an operato

    Lindsey Ferris, Sierra Bonilla

  23. arXiv2610.08647

    SquidAgent: Parallelize Wisely, Coordinate Efficiently

    LLM-based agents solve complex multi-step tasks, but sequential execution incurs substantial latency. In principle, parallelizing work across multiple agents should yield near-linear speedups. Yet existing parallel multi-agent systems often run slower than a single-agent baseline. We attribute this gap to two hidden costs that parallel execution incurs but a serial agent avoids. First, there is a re-exploration cost:

    Yexiong Lin, Shanshan Ye, Yu Yao, Zhen Fang et al.

  24. arXiv2610.08642

    HygieneRoboBench: Benchmarking Hygiene-Aware Planning for Household Robots

    Contact with contaminated objects can spread hazards through a household robot's grippers, tools, and shared surfaces, while new contacts can make an existing plan unsafe. Existing benchmarks do not jointly assess how planners identify hygiene risks from contact history and plan safe continuations after new contact events. Planners must do so within time and resource limits while respecting user priorities. We introd

    Yurun Chen, Josh Qixuan Sun, Jason Qin, Chengtai Li et al.

  25. arXiv2610.08627

    Parallel Predictive World Models for Accurate and Efficient Long-Horizon Planning

    Long-horizon world-model planning typically relies on autoregressive rollouts, where predicted states are repeatedly fed back into the model. This preserves temporal structure but creates a horizon-length sequential path and exposes later predictions to recursive decoded-state feedback. We introduce Parallel Predictive World Models (PPWM), which predict a finite-horizon trajectory in parallel while retaining causal i

    Wanjin Feng, Baobin Zhang, Ao Yu, Shibo Feng et al.

Who invites agents in 14,770 probes

Origins publishing files written for machines rather than people. Measured against a frozen cohort, so a change in the number means a change in adoption.

SignalWeb head
Tranco top 1,000
n=1,000
Web tail
sampled to rank 100k
n=1,000
AI-native
model & dev platforms
n=110
Any agent-facing signal 12.5% (125)6.4% (64)74.55% (82)
llms.txt (apex domain) 10.2% (102)5.5% (55)60% (66)
llms.txt (docs subdomain) 4.2% (42)1% (10)46.36% (51)
.well-known/mcp.json 0.6% (6)0.3% (3)9.09% (10)
.well-known/agents.txt 0.3% (3)0.2% (2)0% (0)
ai.txt 0.2% (2)0.1% (1)0% (0)
ai-plugin.json (deprecated) 0.6% (6)0.3% (3)0.91% (1)

On this calendar day 17

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

  1. 2008year

    The MESSENGER probe discovered Mercury's Rembrandt (pictured) – the second largest impact crater on the planet.

  2. 2002year

    Al-Qaeda bombed the oil tanker Limburg, causing oil to leak into the Gulf of Aden.

  3. 2000year

    Denouncing corruption in Argentine president Fernando de la Rúa's administration and the Senate, Vice President Carlos Álvarez resigned.

  4. 1998year

    Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was attacked and fatally wounded near Laramie, Wyoming, U.S., dying six days later.

  5. 1995year

    Astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz reported the discovery of a planet orbiting 51 Pegasi as the first known exoplanet around a main-sequence star.

  6. 1989year

    About 200 members of the San Francisco Police Department instigated a police riot in the Castro following a peaceful protest held by the political group ACT UP.

  7. 1985year

    Police constable Keith Blakelock was killed during rioting in the Broadwater Farm housing estate in Tottenham, London.

  8. 1981year

    Egyptian president Anwar Sadat (pictured) was assassinated while attending a parade in Cairo to mark the eighth anniversary of the Crossing of the Bar Lev Line at the start of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.

  9. 1976year

    Two bombs placed by the CIA-linked Cuban dissident group Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations exploded on Cubana Flight 455, killing all 73 people aboard.

  10. 1973year

    The Egyptian Armed Forces crossed the Suez Canal (pictured) to attack occupying Israeli forces at the Bar Lev Line in the Sinai Peninsula, beginning the Yom Kippur War.

  11. 1973year

    The Egyptian Armed Forces crossed the Suez Canal (pictured) to attack occupying Israel Defense Forces at the Bar Lev Line in the Sinai Peninsula, beginning the Yom Kippur War.

  12. 1934year

    Catalonia's autonomous government, led by Lluís Companys (pictured), declared a general strike, an armed insurgency, and the establishment of the Catalan State in reaction to the inclusion of conservatives in the Spanish republican regime.

  13. 1927year

    The Jazz Singer, one of the first feature-length motion pictures with a synchronized recorded music score, was released.

  14. 1908year

    Austria-Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, causing a crisis that permanently damaged the country's relations with the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Serbia.

  15. 1777year

    American Revolutionary War: Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery were captured by British forces under Sir Henry Clinton, dismantling the Hudson River Chains.

  16. 1762year

    Seven Years' War: The Battle of Manila concluded with a British victory over Spain, leading to an eighteen-month occupation.

  17. 618year

    Transition from Sui to Tang: Wang Shichong's army defeated Li Mi's forces at the Battle of Yanshi, allowing Wang to consolidate power and soon depose China's Sui dynasty.