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Record 08122025 · captured 2026-08-25

Monday, 8 December 2025

The world looked up Lando Norris. 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. 627,515views

    Lando Norris

    Lando Norris is a British racing driver who competes in Formula One for McLaren. Norris won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 2025 with McLaren, and has won 13 Grands Prix across eight seasons.

  2. 552,373views

    1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre

    Protests led by students and workers, known in China as the June Fourth Incident, were held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, from 15 April to 4 June 1989. After weeks of unsuccessful attempts between the demonstrators and the Chinese government to find a

  3. 502,205views

    Dhurandhar

    Dhurandhar is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language spy action thriller film written and directed by Aditya Dhar. It is produced by Aditya Dhar, Lokesh Dhar and Jyoti Deshpande under Jio Studios and B62 Studios. The film features an ensemble cast consisting of Ranveer

  4. 408,669views

    Bigg Boss (Hindi TV series) season 19

    Bigg Boss 19, also known as Bigg Boss: Iss Baar Chalegi Gharwalon Ki Sarkaar, was the nineteenth season of the Indian Hindi-language reality television series Bigg Boss. It premiered on 24 August 2025 on Colors TV and streamed digitally on JioHotstar. Salman K

  5. 334,518views

    Curt Cignetti

    Curtis John Cignetti is an American college football coach who is the head football coach at Indiana University Bloomington. He previously served as the head coach at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) from 2011 to 2016, Elon University from 2017 to 2018

  6. 322,540views

    Fernando Mendoza

    Fernando Gabriel Mendoza V is an American professional football quarterback for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). Mendoza played college football for the California Golden Bears for three seasons before transferring to the Indiana Ho

  7. 252,415views

    Google Chrome

    Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser developed by Google. It was launched in September 2008 for Microsoft Windows and was built with free software components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. Versions for Linux, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Android we

  8. 243,788views

    UFC 323

    UFC 323: Dvalishvili vs. Yan 2 was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on December 6, 2025, at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Valley, United States.

  9. 203,055views

    2025 Formula One World Championship

    The 2025 FIA Formula One World Championship was a motor racing championship for Formula One cars and the 76th running of the Formula One World Championship. It was recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the governing body of interna

  10. 201,771views

    2026 FIFA World Cup

    The 2026 FIFA World Cup was the 23rd FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international men's soccer championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament began on June 11, 2026, and concluded on July 19 with Spain winning

  11. 199,296views

    Petr Yan

    Petr Evgenyevich Yan is a Russian professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Bantamweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is the current and two-time UFC Bantamweight Champion. He is also a former interim Ban

  12. 178,172views

    Sean Combs

    Sean John Combs, also known professionally as Diddy, is an American former rapper, record producer, record executive, and actor. He is credited with the discovery and development of musical artists such as the Notorious B.I.G., Mary J. Blige, and Usher, among

  13. 169,666views

    List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions

    The World Drivers' Championship is presented by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body, to the most successful driver over the course of the season of Formula One races, through a points system based on individua

  14. 154,571views

    Rehman Dakait

    Sardar Abdul Rehman Baloch, known by the alias Rehman Dakait, was a Pakistani gangster based in Karachi's Lyari neighbourhood who formed the Peoples' Aman Committee which was affiliated with the Pakistan People's Party. The Government of Sindh had set a reward

  15. 153,203views

    Tom Read Wilson

    Thomas Read Wilson is an English television presenter, author, actor and singer. He is best known as the client coordinator on the E4 reality television series; Celebs Go Dating. In 2021, he was the runner-up on Celebrity Best Home Cook. In 2025, he was the ru

  16. 128,649views

    Lists of deaths by year

    This is a list of lists of deaths of significant people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month and then linked below.

  17. 127,234views

    Bruce Lee

    Bruce Lee was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, actor, and filmmaker. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy, which was formed from his experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defense—as well as eclectic, Zen Buddhist, and

  18. 122,374views

    Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (film)

    Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is a 2025 American supernatural horror film based on the video game series Five Nights at Freddy's created by Scott Cawthon and the sequel to the 2023 film adaptation. The film was directed by Emma Tammi and written by Cawthon. Josh H

  19. 117,778views

    Max Verstappen

    Max Emilian Verstappen is a Dutch and Belgian racing driver who competes under the Dutch flag in Formula One for Red Bull Racing. Verstappen has won four Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won consecutively from 2021 to 2024 with Red Bull

  20. 117,327views

    Margarida Corceiro

    Margarida Matias "Magui" Ferreira Corceiro is a Portuguese actress and fashion model.

  21. 114,982views

    Cassie Ventura

    Casandra Elizabeth Ventura is an American singer, dancer, actress, and model. Born in New London, Connecticut, she began her musical career in 2004 after meeting producer Ryan Leslie, who signed her to his record label, NextSelection Lifestyle Group. She was t

  22. 113,075views

    Justin Trudeau

    Justin Pierre James Trudeau is a Canadian politician who served as the 23rd prime minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025. He led the Liberal Party from 2013 until his resignation in 2025 and was the member of Parliament (MP) for Papineau from 2008 until 2025.

  23. 112,207views

    Stranger Things

    Stranger Things is an American television series created by the Duffer Brothers for Netflix. Produced by Monkey Massacre Productions and 21 Laps Entertainment, the first season was released on Netflix on July 15, 2016. The second and third seasons followed in

  24. 111,707views

    Joshua Van

    Joshua Van Bawi Thawng is a Burmese and American professional mixed martial artist currently competing in the Flyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is the current UFC Flyweight Champion. Van is the first fighter from Myanmar

  25. 109,470views

    Merab Dvalishvili

    Merab Dvalishvili is a Georgian and American professional mixed martial artist and sambo practitioner. He currently competes in the Bantamweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is the former UFC Bantamweight Champion. Dvalishvili

  26. 106,001views

    Zootopia 2

    Zootopia 2 is a 2025 American animated buddy cop comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, the second film in the series and a sequel to Zootopia (2016). Directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard and written by Bush, the film stars Ginnifer Goodwin,

  27. 102,044views

    Pluribus (TV series)

    Pluribus is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction television series created by Vince Gilligan for Apple TV. Set and filmed primarily in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows novelist Carol Sturka, who finds herself isolated after an alien virus tr

  28. 100,777views

    Stranger Things season 5

    The fifth and final season of the American science fiction horror drama television series Stranger Things, marketed as Stranger Things 5, was released on the streaming service Netflix in two volumes and the finale. The first set of four episodes was released o

  29. 99,935views

    Juan Carlos I

    Juan Carlos I was King of Spain from 1975 until his abdication in 2014. Although chosen by Francisco Franco as his successor, Juan Carlos helped dismantle the Francoist system and oversee the Spanish transition to democracy.

  30. 95,749views

    Mohit Sharma (soldier)

    Major Mohit Sharma was an Indian Army Officer who was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peace-time military decoration. Sharma was from the elite 1st Para SF.

Frontier 25

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

  1. 846points

    Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help

    333 comments

  2. 641points

    The highest quality codebase

    393 comments

  3. 494points

    The fuck off contact page

    199 comments

  4. 477points

    Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices

    575 comments

  5. 449points

    IBM to acquire Confluent

    362 comments

  6. 444points

    GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst

    262 comments

  7. 432points

    Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1

    165 comments

  8. 427points

    Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products

    372 comments

  9. 421points

    Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?

    702 comments

  10. 367points

    Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

    406 comments

  11. 349points

    Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued

    160 comments

  12. 329points

    Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle

    86 comments

  13. 302points

    NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle

    169 comments

  14. 289points

    Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables

    124 comments

  15. 279points

    AMD GPU Debugger

    51 comments

  16. 276points

    Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far

    330 comments

  17. 260points

    Uber is turning data about trips and takeout into insights for marketers

    218 comments

  18. 258points

    Twelve Days of Shell

    86 comments

  19. 257points

    Bad Dye Job

    121 comments

  20. 242points

    Damn Small Linux

    70 comments

  21. 209points

    Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users

    164 comments

  22. 204points

    A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos

    26 comments

  23. 198points

    AI should only run as fast as we can catch up

    182 comments

  24. 189points

    Flow: Actor-based language for C++, used by FoundationDB

    53 comments

  25. 188points

    In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)

    98 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2205.04491

    Statistical Guarantees for Approximate Stationary Points of Shallow Neural Networks

    Since statistical guarantees for neural networks are usually restricted to global optima of intricate objective functions, it is unclear whether these theories explain the performances of actual outputs of neural network pipelines. The goal of this paper is, therefore, to bring statistical theory closer to practice. We develop statistical guarantees for shallow linear neural networks that coincide up to logarithmic f

    Taheri, Mahsa, Xie, Fang, Lederer, Johannes

  2. arXiv2209.05463

    Modelling Business Agreements in the Multimodal Transportation Domain through Ontological Smart Contracts

    The blockchain technology provides integrity and reliability of the information, thus offering a suitable solution to guarantee trustability in a multi-stakeholder scenario that involves actors defining business agreements. The Ride2Rail project investigated the use of the blockchain to record as smart contracts the agreements between different stakeholders defined in a multimodal transportation domain. Modelling an

    Scrocca, Mario, Comerio, Marco, Carenini, Alessio, Celino, Irene

  3. arXiv2309.14779

    Towards Data-efficient Customer Intent Recognition with Prompt-based Learning Paradigm

    Recognizing customer intent accurately with language models based on customer-agent conversational data is essential in today's digital customer service marketplace, but it is often hindered by the lack of sufficient labeled data. In this paper, we introduce the prompt-based learning paradigm that significantly reduces the dependency on extensive datasets. Utilizing prompted training combined with answer mapping

    Luo, Hengyu, Liu, Peng, Esping, Stefan

  4. arXiv2402.19142

    ProtoP-OD: Explainable Object Detection with Prototypical Parts

    Interpretation and visualization of the behavior of detection transformers tends to highlight the locations in the image that the model attends to, but it provides limited insight into the \emph{semantics} that the model is focusing on. This paper introduces an extension to detection transformers that constructs prototypical local features and uses them in object detection. These custom features, which we call protot

    Rath-Manakidis, Pavlos, Strothmann, Frederik, Glasmachers, Tobias, Wiskott, Laurenz

  5. arXiv2405.05258

    Multi-Modal Data-Efficient 3D Scene Understanding for Autonomous Driving

    Efficient data utilization is crucial for advancing 3D scene understanding in autonomous driving, where reliance on heavily human-annotated LiDAR point clouds challenges fully supervised methods. Addressing this, our study extends into semi-supervised learning for LiDAR semantic segmentation, leveraging the intrinsic spatial priors of driving scenes and multi-sensor complements to augment the efficacy of unlabeled da

    Kong, Lingdong, Xu, Xiang, Ren, Jiawei, Zhang, Wenwei et al.

  6. arXiv2406.00010

    EnterpriseEM: Fine-tuned Embeddings for Enterprise Semantic Search

    Enterprises grapple with the significant challenge of managing proprietary unstructured data, hindering efficient information retrieval. This has led to the emergence of AI-driven information retrieval solutions, designed to adeptly extract relevant insights to address employee inquiries. These solutions often leverage pre-trained embedding models and generative models as foundational components. While pre-trained em

    Rathinasamy, Kamalkumar, Nettar, Jayarama, Kumar, Amit, Manchanda, Vishal et al.

  7. arXiv2406.06211

    iMotion-LLM: Instruction-Conditioned Trajectory Generation

    We introduce iMotion-LLM, a large language model (LLM) integrated with trajectory prediction modules for interactive motion generation. Unlike conventional approaches, it generates feasible, safety-aligned trajectories based on textual instructions, enabling adaptable and context-aware driving behavior. It combines an encoder-decoder multimodal trajectory prediction model with a pre-trained LLM fine-tuned using LoRA,

    Felemban, Abdulwahab, Hroub, Nussair, Ding, Jian, Abdelrahman, Eslam et al.

  8. arXiv2406.18397

    Second Maximum of a Gaussian Random Field and Exact (t-)Spacing test

    In this article, we introduce the novel concept of the second maximum of a Gaussian random field on a Riemannian submanifold. This second maximum serves as a powerful tool for characterizing the distribution of the maximum. By utilizing an ad-hoc Kac Rice formula, we derive the explicit form of the maximum's distribution, conditioned on the second maximum and some regressed component of the Riemannian Hessian. Th

    Azaïs, Jean-Marc, Dalmao, Federico, De Castro, Yohann

  9. arXiv2407.03331

    A Scene-aware Models Adaptation Scheme for Cross-scene Online Inference on Mobile Devices

    Emerging Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) applications desire online prediction using deep neural network (DNN) models on mobile devices. However, due to the movement of devices, unfamiliar test samples constantly appear, significantly affecting the prediction accuracy of a pre-trained DNN. In addition, unstable network connection calls for local model inference. In this paper, we propose a light-weight schem

    Li, Yunzhe, Zhu, Hongzi, Deng, Zhuohong, Cheng, Yunlong et al.

  10. arXiv2407.21150

    PLANesT-3D: A new annotated dataset for segmentation of 3D plant point clouds

    Creation of new annotated public datasets is crucial in helping advances in 3D computer vision and machine learning meet their full potential for automatic interpretation of 3D plant models. Despite the proliferation of deep neural network architectures for segmentation and phenotyping of 3D plant models in the last decade, the amount of data, and diversity in terms of species and data acquisition modalities are far

    Mertoğlu, Kerem, Şalk, Yusuf, Sarıkaya, Server Karahan, Turgut, Kaya et al.

  11. arXiv2408.01826

    GLDiTalker: Speech-Driven 3D Facial Animation with Graph Latent Diffusion Transformer

    Speech-driven talking head generation is a critical yet challenging task with applications in augmented reality and virtual human modeling. While recent approaches using autoregressive and diffusion-based models have achieved notable progress, they often suffer from modality inconsistencies, particularly misalignment between audio and mesh, leading to reduced motion diversity and lip-sync accuracy. To address this, w

    Lin, Yihong, Fan, Zhaoxin, Wu, Xianjia, Xiong, Lingyu et al.

  12. arXiv2408.05109

    A Survey of Text-to-SQL in the Era of LLMs: Where are we, and where are we going?

    Translating users' natural language queries (NL) into SQL queries (i.e., Text-to-SQL, a.k.a. NL2SQL) can significantly reduce barriers to accessing relational databases and support various commercial applications. The performance of Text-to-SQL has been greatly enhanced with the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs). In this survey, we provide a comprehensive review of Text-to-SQL techniques powered by LLMs,

    Liu, Xinyu, Shen, Shuyu, Li, Boyan, Ma, Peixian et al.

  13. arXiv2408.09449

    From Correlation to Causation: Max-Pooling-Based Multi-Instance Learning Leads to More Robust Whole Slide Image Classification

    In whole slide images (WSIs) analysis, attention-based multi-instance learning (MIL) models are susceptible to spurious correlations and degrade under domain shift. These methods may assign high attention weights to non-tumor regions, such as staining biases or artifacts, leading to unreliable tumor region localization. In this paper, we revisit max-pooling-based MIL methods from a causal perspective. Under mild assu

    Liu, Xin, Zhang, Weijia, Tang, Wei, Le, Thuc Duy et al.

  14. arXiv2408.13131

    Detecting the Future: All-at-Once Event Sequence Forecasting with Horizon Matching

    Long-horizon events forecasting is a crucial task across various domains, including retail, finance, healthcare, and social networks. Traditional models for event sequences often extend to forecasting on a horizon using an autoregressive (recursive) multi-step strategy, which has limited effectiveness due to typical convergence to constant or repetitive outputs. To address this limitation, we introduce DEF, a novel a

    Karpukhin, Ivan, Savchenko, Andrey

  15. arXiv2409.02098

    CRAFT Your Dataset: Task-Specific Synthetic Dataset Generation Through Corpus Retrieval and Augmentation

    Building high-quality datasets for specialized tasks is a time-consuming and resource-intensive process that often requires specialized domain knowledge. We propose Corpus Retrieval and Augmentation for Fine-Tuning (CRAFT), a method for generating synthetic datasets, given a small number of user-written few-shots that demonstrate the task to be performed. Given these examples, CRAFT uses large-scale public web-crawle

    Ziegler, Ingo, Köksal, Abdullatif, Elliott, Desmond, Schütze, Hinrich

  16. arXiv2409.11678

    EnhancedRL: An Enhanced-State Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Multi-Task Fusion in Recommender Systems

    As a key stage of Recommender Systems (RSs), Multi-Task Fusion (MTF) is responsible for merging multiple scores output by Multi-Task Learning (MTL) into a single score, finally determining the recommendation results. Recently, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been applied to MTF to maximize long-term user satisfaction within a recommendation session. However, due to limitations in modeling paradigm, all existing RL al

    Liu, Peng, Xu, Cong, Zhu, Jiawei, Zhao, Ming et al.

  17. arXiv2409.15832

    Point-PNG: Conditional Pseudo-Negatives Generation for Point Cloud Pre-Training

    We propose Point-PNG, a novel self-supervised learning framework that generates conditional pseudo-negatives in the latent space to learn point cloud representations that are both discriminative and transformation-sensitive. Conventional self-supervised learning methods focus on achieving invariance, discarding transformation-specific information. Recent approaches incorporate transformation sensitivity by explicitly

    Mahendren, Sutharsan, Rahman, Saimunur, Koniusz, Piotr, Fernando, Tharindu et al.

  18. arXiv2410.02031

    Neural Eulerian Scene Flow Fields

    We reframe scene flow as the task of estimating a continuous space-time ODE that describes motion for an entire observation sequence, represented with a neural prior. Our method, EulerFlow, optimizes this neural prior estimate against several multi-observation reconstruction objectives, enabling high quality scene flow estimation via pure self-supervision on real-world data. EulerFlow works out-of-the-box without tun

    Vedder, Kyle, Peri, Neehar, Khatri, Ishan, Li, Siyi et al.

  19. arXiv2410.02303

    Semantic Communication and Control Co-Design for Multi-Objective Distinct Dynamics

    This letter introduces a machine-learning approach to learning the semantic dynamics of correlated systems with different control rules and dynamics. By leveraging the Koopman operator in an autoencoder (AE) framework, the system's state evolution is linearized in the latent space using a dynamic semantic Koopman (DSK) model, capturing the baseline semantic dynamics. Signal temporal logic (STL) is incorporated th

    Girgis, Abanoub M., Seo, Hyowoon, Bennis, Mehdi

  20. arXiv2410.15432

    MedDiff-FM: A Diffusion-based Foundation Model for Versatile Medical Image Applications

    Diffusion models have achieved significant success in both natural image and medical image domains, encompassing a wide range of applications. Previous investigations in medical images have often been constrained to specific anatomical regions, particular applications, and limited datasets, resulting in isolated diffusion models. This paper introduces a diffusion-based foundation model to address a diverse range of m

    Yu, Yongrui, Gu, Yannian, Zhang, Shaoting, Zhang, Xiaofan

  21. arXiv2411.06060

    Wild Narratives: Exploring the Effects of Animal Chatbots on Empathy and Positive Attitudes toward Animals

    Rises in the number of animal abuse cases are reported around the world. While chatbots have been effective in influencing their users' perceptions and behaviors, little if any research has hitherto explored the design of chatbots that embody animal identities for the purpose of eliciting empathy toward animals. We therefore conducted a mixed-methods experiment to investigate how specific design cues in such chat

    Li, Jingshu, Patwari, Aaditya, Lee, Yi-Chieh

  22. arXiv2411.06890

    SPARTAN: A Sparse Transformer World Model Attending to What Matters

    Capturing the interactions between entities in a structured way plays a central role in world models that flexibly adapt to changes in the environment. Recent works motivate the benefits of models that explicitly represent the structure of interactions and formulate the problem as discovering local causal structures. In this work, we demonstrate that reliably capturing these relationships in complex settings remains

    Lei, Anson, Schölkopf, Bernhard, Posner, Ingmar

  23. arXiv2411.10500

    Edge-Only Universal Adversarial Attacks in Distributed Learning

    Distributed learning frameworks, which partition neural network models across multiple computing nodes, enhance efficiency in collaborative edge-cloud systems, but may also introduce new vulnerabilities to evasion attacks, often in the form of adversarial perturbations. In this work, we present a new threat model that explores the feasibility of generating universal adversarial perturbations (UAPs) when the attacker

    Rossolini, Giulio, Baldi, Tommaso, Biondi, Alessandro, Buttazzo, Giorgio

  24. arXiv2412.00119

    Training Multi-Layer Binary Neural Networks With Local Binary Error Signals

    Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) significantly reduce computational complexity and memory usage in machine and deep learning by representing weights and activations with just one bit. However, most existing training algorithms for BNNs rely on quantization-aware floating-point Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD), limiting the full exploitation of binary operations to the inference phase only. In this work, we propose, for

    Colombo, Luca, Pittorino, Fabrizio, Roveri, Manuel

  25. arXiv2412.03589

    Human Evaluation of Procedural Knowledge Graph Extraction from Text with Large Language Models

    Procedural Knowledge is the know-how expressed in the form of sequences of steps needed to perform some tasks. Procedures are usually described by means of natural language texts, such as recipes or maintenance manuals, possibly spread across different documents and systems, and their interpretation and subsequent execution is often left to the reader. Representing such procedures in a Knowledge Graph (KG) can be the

    Carriero, Valentina Anita, Azzini, Antonia, Baroni, Ilaria, Scrocca, Mario et al.

On this calendar day 17

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

  1. 2024year

    The Syrian civil war ended when Bashar al-Assad's party, the Syrian Ba'ath Party, surrendered to the Syrian opposition.

  2. 2013year

    After a fatal bus accident in the Little India subzone of Singapore, angry mobs of workers attacked the bus involved and emergency vehicles, the first riot in the country in over 40 years.

  3. 2013year

    Metallica (pictured) played a concert in Antarctica, becoming the first band to perform on all seven continents.

  4. 2010year

    The Japanese experimental spacecraft IKAROS flew by Venus at a distance of 80,800 km (50,200 mi), completing its planned mission to demonstrate solar-sail technology.

  5. 2009year

    Bombings in Baghdad carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq killed at least 127 people and injured at least 448 others.

  6. 1998year

    The Australian Cricket Board's cover-up of Shane Warne and Mark Waugh's involvement with bookmakers was revealed.

  7. 1991year

    Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian leaders signed the Belovezh Accords, agreeing to dissolve the Soviet Union and establish the Commonwealth of Independent States.

  8. 1987year

    Arab–Israeli conflict: An Israeli army tank transporter killed four Palestinian refugees and injured seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip border, sparking the First Intifada.

  9. 1987year

    A man shot and killed eight people at the Australia Post building in Melbourne, before jumping to his death.

  10. 1980year

    English musician John Lennon was murdered at the entrance of the Dakota, where he resided in New York City.

  11. 1963year

    After being struck by lightning while in a holding pattern, Pan Am Flight 214 crashed near Elkton, Maryland, U.S., killing all 81 people on board.

  12. 1941year

    The Holocaust: The Chełmno extermination camp in occupied Poland, the first such Nazi camp to kill Jews, began operations.

  13. 1880year

    At an assembly of 10,000 Boers, Paul Kruger announced the fulfilment of the decision to restore the government and volksraad of the South African Republic.

  14. 1854year

    Pope Pius IX promulgated the apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, proclaiming the dogmatic definition of the Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was conceived free of original sin.

  15. 1777year

    American Revolutionary War: British commander-in-chief Sir William Howe withdrew his troops from the Battle of White Marsh to Philadelphia.

  16. 1660year

    Margaret Hughes (pictured) appeared professionally on the English stage; she is thought to have been the first woman to do so.

  17. 1504year

    Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah wrote his Oran fatwa, arguing for the relaxation of Islamic law for forcibly converted Muslims in Spain.