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Record 07092026 · captured 2026-09-08

Monday, 7 September 2026

The world looked up Killing of the Clancy children. 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. 466,193views

    Killing of the Clancy children

    On January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy fatally strangled her three children—five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan—at the family's home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, United States. She then attempted suicide by cutting her wrists and n

  2. 256,468views

    2026 Saxony-Anhalt state election

    The 2026 Saxony-Anhalt state election was held on 6 September 2026 to elect the 9th Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt, two weeks before the state elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It resulted in the highest vote share for the far-right in Germany since 19

  3. 223,622views

    Andy Williams (guitarist)

    Andrew Williams was an American musician and professional wrestler. He is best known as the rhythm guitarist of the metalcore band Every Time I Die.

  4. 212,681views

    Mirzapur (film)

    Mirzapur: The Movie is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language action crime thriller film directed by Gurmeet Singh and written by Puneet Krishna. Produced by Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar under Excel Entertainment, the film stars Pankaj Tripathi, Ali Fazal, Divyennd

  5. 178,023views

    Iva Jovic

    Iva Jovic is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 14 achieved on August 24, 2026, and a best doubles ranking of No. 64 reached on August 24, 2026. She has won one WTA Tour title, at the 2025 Guadalajara Open.

  6. 158,979views

    Hanuman Ansh

    Hanuman Ansh is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language biographical devotional drama film written, directed and produced by Dr Vishal Chaturvedi under his banner, Swambhu Media Network. The film is first instalment of the film trilogy based on his book Divine Detour: Th

  7. 134,641views

    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

  8. 131,293views

    Katie Taylor

    Katie Taylor is an Irish former professional boxer and footballer. She is the former three-time undisputed champion, having previously been the undisputed and undefeated lineal world lightweight champion from 2019 to 2024. She then vacated her titles and went

  9. 130,720views

    G. D. Naidu

    Gopalaswamy Doraiswamy Naidu was an Indian innovator, inventor, industrialist, and educator. He redesigned and transformed imported technologies into practical and affordable innovations for India. He is widely regarded as a versatile genius, his contributions

  10. 121,197views

    Toxic (2026 film)

    Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups is a 2026 Indian psychological thriller gangster film directed by Geetu Mohandas and jointly produced by Venkat K. Narayana and Yash through KVN Productions and Monster Mind Creations respectively. It stars Yash, Kiara Advani,

  11. 120,717views

    The Gentlemen (2024 TV series)

    The Gentlemen is an action comedy television series created by Guy Ritchie for Netflix and is a spin-off of Ritchie's 2019 film. The series stars Theo James in the lead role and premiered on March 7, 2024. In August 2024, the series was renewed for a second se

  12. 119,408views

    Ainsley Maitland-Niles

    Ainsley Cory Maitland-Niles is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Premier League club Everton.

  13. 104,795views

    Spider-Man: Brand New Day

    Spider-Man: Brand New Day is a 2026 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. Produced by Columbia Pictures, Marvel Studios, and Pascal Pictures, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is the 38th film in the Marvel Cinem

  14. 104,360views

    Lane Kiffin

    Lane Monte Kiffin is an American football coach who is the head coach for the LSU Tigers. He previously served as the head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers in 2009, the USC Trojans from 2010 to 2013, the Florida Atlantic Owls from 2017 to 2019, and the Ole Mi

  15. 103,378views

    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

  16. 103,348views

    Coyote vs. Acme

    Coyote vs. Acme is a 2026 American comedy film directed by Dave Green and written by Samy Burch, who developed the story with James Gunn and Jeremy Slater. Loosely based on the 1990 The New Yorker magazine article "Coyote v. Acme" by Ian Frazier, it follows Wi

  17. 95,306views

    Neem Karoli Baba

    Neem Karoli Baba also known as Neeb Karori Baba and by his followers as Maharaj-ji, was a Hindu guru and devotee of the Hindu deity Hanuman.

  18. 94,878views

    Gloria Steinem

    Gloria Marie Steinem was an American journalist and social movement activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and who remained particularly prominent in the 1980s and

  19. 89,947views

    Alternative for Germany

    Alternative for Germany is a far-right, right-wing populist, national conservative, and in parts völkisch nationalist political party in Germany. It has 151 members of the Bundestag and 15 members of the European Parliament. It is the largest opposition party

  20. 84,773views

    Frances Tiafoe

    Frances Tiafoe Jr. is an American professional tennis player, nicknamed "Big Foe" or simply "Foe". He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 10, achieved in June 2023, and a best doubles ranking of No. 160, reached in November 2021. Tiafoe has won four

  21. 84,519views

    .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

  22. 84,085views

    2027 AFC U-20 Asian Cup qualification

    The 2027 AFC U-20 Asian Cup qualification was an international men's under-20 football competition organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The tournament was held from 31 August to 6 September 2026 to determine the participating teams for the 2027

  23. 79,307views

    Alexandra Eala

    Alexandra Maniego Eala is a Filipino professional tennis player. On August 24, 2026, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 18, the highest ever for a Filipino and Southeast Asian in WTA Tour history. She is the first Filipino to break into th

  24. 78,007views

    Dolly Parton

    Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean was an American singer-songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. Dubbed the "Queen of Country", Parton was one of the most successful country music performers in history. She was also known for her cultural influence and philanthropy, p

  25. 77,239views

    The Whisper Man

    The Whisper Man is a 2026 American crime thriller film directed by James Ashcroft and written by Ben Jacoby and Chase Palmer. It is based on the novel of the same name by Alex North and stars Robert De Niro, Michelle Monaghan, and Adam Scott.

  26. 74,646views

    Buddy (2026 film)

    Buddy is a 2026 American independent supernatural comedy horror film directed by Casper Kelly and written by Kelly and Jamie King. The film stars Cristin Milioti, Delaney Quinn, Patton Oswalt, Clint Howard, Michael Shannon, Topher Grace, and Keegan-Michael Key

  27. 74,430views

    Equal Earth projection

    The Equal Earth map projection is an equal-area pseudocylindrical global map projection invented by Bojan Šavrič, Bernhard Jenny, and Tom Patterson in 2018. It is inspired by the widely used Robinson projection, but unlike the Robinson projection, it retains t

  28. 73,215views

    Saxony-Anhalt

    Saxony-Anhalt is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of 20,555 square kilometres (7,936 sq mi) and has a population of about 2.14 million inhabitants, making it the 8th-large

  29. 72,814views

    Theo James

    Theodore Peter James Kinnaird Taptiklis is an English actor and producer. He gained recognition for playing Tobias Eaton in The Divergent Series (2014–2016). He has starred in the horror films Underworld: Awakening (2012) and Underworld: Blood Wars (2016), the

  30. 72,307views

    Mayday (2026 film)

    Mayday is a 2026 American action comedy film written and directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, and produced by Apple Original Films, Skydance Media, and Maximum Effort. It stars Ryan Reynolds, Kenneth Branagh, Marcin Dorociński, Maria Bakalova

Frontier 25

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

  1. 1,136points

    LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices

    3 comments

  2. 989points

    Keep Our Servers Running

    257 comments

  3. 743points

    216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]

    899 comments

  4. 483points

    De-Brainrot Vacations

    195 comments

  5. 405points

    bzip3

    113 comments

  6. 393points

    Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)

    264 comments

  7. 347points

    Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers

    272 comments

  8. 307points

    'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes

    271 comments

  9. 290points

    Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements

    191 comments

  10. 286points

    Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)

    141 comments

  11. 258points

    Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics

    92 comments

  12. 223points

    Splash-free urinals (2025)

    124 comments

  13. 214points

    TALA Is Open-Source

    14 comments

  14. 204points

    Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader

    201 comments

  15. 193points

    Live map of public transport in Belgium

    78 comments

  16. 187points

    Programming is Art

    189 comments

  17. 186points

    Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads

    75 comments

  18. 177points

    TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings

    102 comments

  19. 164points

    A Tesla ran a stop sign and killed a man, Full Self-Driving/Autopilot was on

    106 comments

  20. 155points

    Show HN: Stuxnet – A reconstructed source code of the infamous cyber-weapon

    46 comments

  21. 136points

    Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs

    50 comments

  22. 128points

    Tesla killing Solar Roof is leaving installers with six-figure losses

    121 comments

  23. 127points

    No constitutional right to clean water, federal court finds

    163 comments

  24. 125points

    Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users

    140 comments

  25. 111points

    Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type

    56 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2108.02283

    Machine Learning Classification and Portfolio Construction: Does the Loss Function Matter?

    Classification outperforms regression across matched machine learning models in portfolio construction. A stacking ensemble of gradient boosted tree, random forest, and neural network yields a value-weighted annualized Sharpe ratio of 2.08 for classification and 1.39 for regression. This outperformance strengthens with class granularity and persists across subsamples and after transaction costs. Spanning tests show t

    Bai, Yang, Pukthuanthong, Kuntara

  2. arXiv2208.09983

    Collaboration between parallel connected neural networks -- A possible criterion for distinguishing artificial neural networks from natural organs

    We find experimentally that when artificial neural networks are connected in parallel and trained together, they display the following properties. (i) When the parallel-connected neural network (PNN) is optimized, each sub-network in the connection is not optimized. (ii) The contribution of an inferior sub-network to the whole PNN can be on par with that of the superior sub-network. (iii) The PNN can output the corre

    He, Guang Ping

  3. arXiv2211.12337

    Quality-diversity in dissimilarity spaces

    The theory of magnitude provides a mathematical framework for quantifying and maximizing diversity. We apply this framework to formulate quality-diversity algorithms in generic dissimilarity spaces. In particular, we instantiate and demonstrate a very general version of Go-Explore with promising performance.

    Huntsman, Steve

  4. arXiv2310.00177

    A Neural-preconditioned Poisson Solver for Mixed Dirichlet and Neumann Boundary Conditions

    We introduce a neural-preconditioned iterative solver for Poisson equations with mixed boundary conditions. Typical Poisson discretizations yield large, ill-conditioned linear systems. Iterative solvers can be effective for these problems, but only when equipped with powerful preconditioners. Unfortunately, effective preconditioners like multigrid require costly setup phases that must be re-executed every time domain

    Lan, Kai Weixian, Gueidon, Elias, Kaneda, Ayano, Panetta, Julian et al.

  5. arXiv2402.19371

    OpenMedLM: Prompt engineering can out-perform fine-tuning in medical question-answering with open-source large language models

    LLMs have become increasingly capable at accomplishing a range of specialized-tasks and can be utilized to expand equitable access to medical knowledge. Most medical LLMs have involved extensive fine-tuning, leveraging specialized medical data and significant, thus costly, amounts of computational power. Many of the top performing LLMs are proprietary and their access is limited to very few research groups. However,

    Maharjan, Jenish, Garikipati, Anurag, Singh, Navan Preet, Cyrus, Leo et al.

  6. arXiv2404.07124

    Measuring proximity to standard planes during fetal brain ultrasound scanning

    This paper presents a pipeline designed to bring ultrasound (US) plane pose estimation closer to clinical use, demonstrating the feasibility of continuous, real-time proximity feedback for navigation to the standard planes (SPs) in the fetal brain. We propose a semi-supervised segmentation model that uses labeled SPs and unlabeled slices from 3D US volumes (non-SPs), achieving 0.93 mean Intersection over Union (mIoU)

    Di Vece, Chiara, Cirigliano, Antonio, Lous, Meala Le, Napolitano, Raffaele et al.

  7. arXiv2404.09363

    Momentum-based gradient descent methods for Lie groups

    Polyak's Heavy Ball (PHB; Polyak, 1964), a.k.a. Classical Momentum, and Nesterov's Accelerated Gradient (NAG; Nesterov, 1983) are well-established momentum-descent methods for optimization. Although the latter generally outperforms the former, primarily, generalizations of PHB-like methods to nonlinear spaces have not been sufficiently explored in the literature. In this paper, we propose a generalization of

    Campos, Cédric M., de Diego, David Martín, Torrente-Teruel, José

  8. arXiv2404.11716

    A Survey on Semantic Modeling for Building Energy Management

    Building Energy Management (BEM) is central to reducing energy use and CO2 emissions in the building sector. Although IoT technologies now provide extensive operational data, heterogeneous data models, device descriptions, and contextual representations continue to limit semantic interoperability, limiting the development of generalisable, autonomous, context-aware BEM applications. Ontologies address this challenge

    Aniakor, Miracle, Cogo, Vinicius V., Ferreira, Pedro M.

  9. arXiv2406.02465

    An Empirical Study into Clustering of Unseen Datasets with Self-Supervised Encoders

    Can pretrained models generalize to new datasets without any retraining? We deploy pretrained image models on datasets they were not trained for, and investigate whether their embeddings form meaningful clusters. Our suite of benchmarking experiments uses encoders pretrained solely on ImageNet-1k with either supervised or self-supervised training techniques, deployed on image datasets that were not seen during traini

    Lowe, Scott C., Haurum, Joakim Bruslund, Oore, Sageev, Moeslund, Thomas B. et al.

  10. arXiv2407.09013

    Procedural Content Generation via Generative Artificial Intelligence

    The attempt to utilize machine learning in procedural content generation (PCG) has been made in the past. In this survey paper, we investigate how generative artificial intelligence (AI), which saw a significant increase in interest in the mid-2010s, is being used for PCG. We review applications of generative AI for the creation of various types of content, including terrains, items, and even storylines. While genera

    Mao, Xinyu, Yu, Wanli, Okawara, Yuya, Zhan, Xueying et al.

  11. arXiv2407.18897

    Small Molecule Optimization with Large Language Models

    Molecular optimization, the process of designing molecules with desirable properties, represents a critical challenge in drug discovery. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have opened new opportunities for their integration with traditional molecular optimization algorithms to improve performance. In this work, we propose Molecular Language Model powered Evolutionary Algorithm (Mol-E), an evolutionar

    Guevorguian, Philipp, Bedrosian, Menua, Fahradyan, Tigran, Chilingaryan, Gayane et al.

  12. arXiv2408.06737

    Multilingual Models for Check-Worthy Social Media Posts Detection

    This work presents an extensive study of transformer-based NLP models application for detection of social media posts that contain verifiable factual claims and harmful claims. The study covers various activities, including dataset collection, dataset pre-processing, architecture selection, setup of settings, model training (fine-tuning), model testing, and implementation. The study includes a comprehensive analysis

    Kula, Sebastian

  13. arXiv2410.23440

    The Sample Complexity of Learning Lipschitz Operators with respect to Gaussian Measures

    Operator learning, the approximation of mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces using machine learning, has gained increasing research attention in recent years. Operator approximations can serve as efficient surrogate models for problems in computational science and engineering, complementing traditional methods. However, despite their empirical success, our understanding of the underlying mathematical

    Adcock, Ben, Griebel, Michael, Maier, Gregor

  14. arXiv2411.01576

    Explainable Clustering of Mixture Models

    The explainable clustering problem was first posed by Moshkovitz et al. (ICML 2020) and studies how well an axis-aligned decision tree with $K$ leaves can approximate a given clustering. The performance of the tree is measured via the \textit{price of explainability}, defined as the ratio between the clustering cost of the tree (where every leaf is a cluster) and the optimal cost. Several recent works have given wors

    Fleissner, Maximilian, Zarvandi, Maedeh, Ghoshdastidar, Debarghya

  15. arXiv2412.05641

    Hyperedge Anomaly Detection with Hypergraph Neural Network

    Hypergraph is a data structure that enables us to model higher-order associations among data entities. Conventional graph-structured data can represent pairwise relationships only, whereas hypergraph enables us to associate any number of entities, which is essential in many real-life applications. Hypergraph learning algorithms have been well-studied for numerous problem settings, such as node classification, link pr

    Alam, Md. Tanvir, Rahman, Md. Mahmudur, Arefin, Md. Fahim, Ahmed, Chowdhury Farhan et al.

  16. arXiv2412.11194

    Direction for Detection: A Survey of Automated Vulnerability Detection and all of its Pain Points

    Security vulnerabilities in software can have severe consequences; however, manual vulnerability detection is costly and does not scale, especially as agentic coding frameworks increase the rate of code production. Over the last decade, a large body of research has applied machine learning machine learning to automate vulnerability detection (ML4AVD), yet self-reported performance on the most popular datasets shows n

    Ristea, Dan, McFadden, Shae, Shereen, Ezzeldin, Dwyer, Madeleine et al.

  17. arXiv2501.06002

    DeltaGNN: Graph Neural Network with Information Flow Control

    Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are popular deep learning models designed to process graph-structured data through recursive neighborhood aggregations in the message passing process. When applied to semi-supervised node classification, the message-passing enables GNNs to understand short-range spatial interactions, but also causes them to suffer from over-smoothing and over-squashing. These challenges hinder model expre

    Mancini, Kevin, Rekik, Islem

  18. arXiv2501.10396

    AI-Powered CPS-Enabled Vulnerable-User-Aware Urban Transportation Digital Twin: Methods and Applications

    We present methods and applications for the development of digital twins (DT) for urban traffic management. While the majority of studies on the DT focus on its ``eyes," which is the emerging sensing and perception like object detection and tracking, what really distinguishes the DT from a traditional simulator lies in its ``brain," the prediction and decision making capabilities of extracting patterns and ma

    Fu, Yongjie, Turkcan, Mehmet K., Ghasemi, Mahshid, Mo, Zhaobin et al.

  19. arXiv2502.00285

    TSMini: A Simple Yet Highly Effective Trajectory Similarity Learning Model

    Trajectory similarity is fundamental to many spatio-temporal data mining applications. Recent studies propose deep learning models to approximate conventional trajectory similarity measures, exploiting their fast inference time once trained. Although efficient inference has been reported, challenges remain in similarity approximation accuracy due to difficulties in trajectory granularity modeling and in exploiting si

    Chang, Yanchuan, Lyu, Dingyang, Cai, Xu, Jensen, Christian S. et al.

  20. arXiv2502.01262

    FSPGD: Rethinking Black-box Attacks on Semantic Segmentation

    Black-box adversarial attacks on semantic segmentation remain a challenging problem, particularly in the black-box transfer attack setting where perturbations crafted on a surrogate model are expected to mislead unseen target models. Existing methods typically operate only on output logits and thus fail to account for the spatial structure and class-wise feature relationships that are crucial for dense prediction. To

    Park, Eun-Sol, Park, MiSo, Shin, Yong-Goo

  21. arXiv2502.08346

    Graph Foundation Models for Recommendation: A Comprehensive Survey

    Recommender systems (RS) serve as a fundamental tool for navigating the vast expanse of online information, with deep learning advancements playing an increasingly important role in improving ranking accuracy. Among these, graph neural networks (GNNs) excel at extracting higher-order structural information, while large language models (LLMs) are designed to process and comprehend natural language, making both approac

    Wu, Bin, Wang, Yihang, Zeng, Yuanhao, Liu, Jiawei et al.

  22. arXiv2502.21318

    How far can we go with ImageNet for Text-to-Image generation?

    Recent text-to-image (T2I) generation models have achieved remarkable sucess by training on billion-scale datasets, following a `bigger is better' paradigm that prioritizes data quantity over availability (closed vs open source) and reproducibility (data decay vs established collections). We challenge this established paradigm by demonstrating that one can achieve capabilities of models trained on massive web-scr

    Degeorge, L., Ghosh, A., Dufour, N., Picard, D. et al.

  23. arXiv2503.08904

    Towards Efficient Parametric State Estimation in Circulating Fuel Reactors with Shallow Recurrent Decoder Networks

    The recent developments in data-driven methods have paved the way to new methodologies to provide accurate state reconstruction of engineering systems; nuclear reactors represent particularly challenging applications for this task due to the complexity of the strongly coupled physics involved and the extremely harsh and hostile environments, especially for new technologies such as Generation-IV reactors. Data-driven

    Riva, Stefano, Introini, Carolina, Kutz, J. Nathan, Cammi, Antonio

  24. arXiv2503.20654

    AccidentSim: Generating Vehicle Collision Videos with Physically Realistic Collision Trajectories from Real-World Accident Reports

    Collecting real-world vehicle accident videos for autonomous driving research is challenging due to their rarity and complexity. While existing driving video generation methods may produce visually realistic videos, they often fail to deliver physically realistic simulations because they lack the capability to generate accurate post-collision trajectories. In this paper, we introduce AccidentSim, a novel framework th

    Zhang, Xiangwen, Zhang, Qian, Han, Longfei, Qu, Qiang et al.

  25. arXiv2503.24377

    Harnessing the Reasoning Economy: A Survey of Efficient Reasoning for Large Language Models

    Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced their ability to perform complex reasoning tasks, transitioning from fast and intuitive thinking (System 1) to slow and deep reasoning (System 2). While System 2 reasoning improves task accuracy, it often incurs substantial computational costs due to its slow thinking nature and inefficient or unnecessary reasoning behaviors. In contrast,

    Wang, Rui, Wang, Hongru, Xue, Boyang, Pang, Jianhui 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 9.5% (95)3.7% (37)75.45% (83)
llms.txt (apex domain) 7.4% (74)3% (30)60% (66)
llms.txt (docs subdomain) 3.2% (32)0.9% (9)44.55% (49)
.well-known/mcp.json 0.6% (6)0.2% (2)7.27% (8)
.well-known/agents.txt 0.3% (3)0.1% (1)0% (0)
ai.txt 0.2% (2)0.1% (1)0% (0)
ai-plugin.json (deprecated) 0.7% (7)0.1% (1)0.91% (1)

On this calendar day 18

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

  1. 2011year

    Yak-Service Flight 9633, carrying the players and coaching staff of the ice hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, crashed on take-off near Yaroslavl, Russia, resulting in the deaths of 44 of the 45 people on board.

  2. 2010year

    A Chinese fishing trawler operating in disputed waters collided with Japan Coast Guard patrol boats near the Senkaku Islands, sparking a major diplomatic dispute between the two countries.

  3. 2004year

    Hurricane Ivan made landfall on Grenada, devastating at least 85 per cent of buildings on the island.

  4. 1999year

    Three weeks after an earthquake struck northwestern Turkey, a second earthquake struck Athens, causing Greece and Turkey to initiate "earthquake diplomacy".

  5. 1996year

    American rapper Tupac Shakur was fatally shot in Paradise, Nevada, dying six days later.

  6. 1986year

    Desmond Tutu became the first black leader of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.

  7. 1984year

    An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat that was disposing of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo killed seven soldiers and policemen.

  8. 1940year

    Second World War: The Luftwaffe changed their strategy in the Battle of Britain and began bombing London and other cities and towns.

  9. 1936year

    The last thylacine died in captivity in Hobart Zoo, Australia.

  10. 1916year

    World War I: The Supreme War Command was established to oversee the armed forces of all the Central Powers.

  11. 1901year

    With Beijing occupied by foreign troops from the Eight-Nation Alliance, Qing China was forced to sign the Boxer Protocol, an unequal treaty that ended the Boxer Rebellion.

  12. 1822year

    Pedro I declared the independence of Brazil from Portugal, establishing the Empire of Brazil (flag pictured).

  13. 1822year

    Pedro I declared the independence of Brazil from Portugal, establishing the Empire of Brazil (flag pictured).

  14. 1778year

    Anglo-French War: Having established an alliance with the United States, France invaded the Caribbean island of Dominica and captured its British fort.

  15. 1652year

    Chinese peasants on Formosa (now Taiwan) began a rebellion against Dutch rule which was suppressed four days later.

  16. 1642year

    First English Civil War: Royalist and Parliamentarian forces clashed in the Battle of Babylon Hill, after which both sides claimed victory.

  17. 1191year

    Third Crusade: Crusaders under Richard I of England defeated Ayyubid troops under Saladin at the Battle of Arsuf (depicted) in present-day Israel.

  18. 1159year

    Pope Alexander III was chosen to succeed of Adrian IV in a disputed election.