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Record 09072026 · captured 2026-08-25

Thursday, 9 July 2026

The world looked up Arthur Fery. 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. 597,106views

    Arthur Fery

    Arthur Fery is a British professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 36 achieved on 13 July 2026 and a doubles ranking of No. 201 achieved on 29 July 2024. His breakthrough came at the 2026 Wimbledon Championships, reachin

  2. 439,920views

    Erling Haaland

    Erling Braut Haaland is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester City and the Norway national team. Regarded as one of the best players in the world and the greatest Norwegian player of all time, he is known

  3. 434,629views

    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

  4. 361,723views

    Count Binface

    Count Binface is a novelty candidate persona adopted by the British writer and comedian Jon Harvey to contest British elections. Binface is presented as an "intergalactic space warrior" who wears a dustbin-shaped helmet.

  5. 237,184views

    Lionel Messi

    Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains both Major League Soccer (MLS) club Inter Miami and the Argentina national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in history, Messi has set

  6. 235,161views

    .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

  7. 219,546views

    Mitch McConnell

    Addison Mitchell McConnell III is an American politician and attorney who has been a United States senator from Kentucky since 1985 and has been Kentucky's senior U.S. senator since 1999. A member of the Republican Party, McConnell is in his seventh Senate ter

  8. 215,801views

    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

  9. 212,833views

    Cristiano Ronaldo

    Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains the Saudi Pro League club Al-Nassr and the Portugal national team. Nicknamed CR7, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in histor

  10. 188,530views

    Gianni Infantino

    Giovanni Vincenzo "Gianni" Infantino is a Swiss football administrator who has served as the president of FIFA since 2016. He was previously Secretary General of UEFA from 2009 to 2016, where he formalised the body's financial regulations and oversaw tournamen

  11. 161,667views

    Obsession (2025 film)

    Obsession is a 2025 American supernatural horror film written, directed, and edited by Curry Barker. The film follows Bear, a music store employee who buys a supernatural toy that grants his wish for his friend Nikki to fall in love with him, which makes her b

  12. 158,204views

    FIFA World Cup

    The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition among the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament has been held every

  13. 156,495views

    Andrey Santos

    Andrey Nascimento dos Santos is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Manchester United and the Brazil national team. Operating primarily as a central or defensive midfielder, Santos is known for his work rate, t

  14. 148,175views

    François Letexier

    François Letexier is a French football referee who has officiated in Ligue 1 since January 2016. He has been a FIFA referee since 2017 and is ranked as a UEFA elite category referee, and has taken charge in every major UEFA club and international-level tournam

  15. 134,961views

    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

  16. 134,003views

    2026 Clacton by-election

    A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Clacton was held on 13 August 2026, following the resignation of Nigel Farage, its member of Parliament. Farage, who is the leader of Reform UK, had represented Clacton since the 2024 general e

  17. 129,524views

    Graham Platner

    Graham Cunningham Platner is an American oyster farmer, Marine Corps veteran, and politician. Platner was the Democratic nominee in the 2026 US Senate election in Maine until he ended his campaign in July.

  18. 119,702views

    List of FIFA World Cup finals

    The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every fou

  19. 118,480views

    Kylian Mbappé

    Kylian Mbappé Lottin is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga club Real Madrid and captains the France national team. Widely regarded as one of the best players in the world and one of the greatest French players of all time, he i

  20. 102,104views

    Loïc Féry

    Loïc Féry is a French businessman. He worked as a financial trader in Hong Kong and the City of London from 1997 to 2007, for Société Générale and Crédit Agricole. He founded the investment firm Chenavari in 2007. He became the owner and president of FC Lorien

  21. 101,424views

    Olivia Féry

    Olivia Féry is a French former tennis player, who also represented Hong Kong during parts of her professional career.

  22. 98,931views

    Jude Bellingham

    Jude Victor William Bellingham is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid and the England national team. Regarded as one of the best players in the world, he is known for his athleticism and ball-winning abilit

  23. 93,767views

    Jaswant Singh Khalra

    Jaswant Singh Khalra (1952–1995) was an Indian human rights activist. He was one of the most prominent human rights activists in Punjab. He gained international recognition after uncovering evidence of thousands of alleged extrajudicial killings, enforced disa

  24. 90,359views

    Lord Buckethead

    Lord Buckethead was a novelty candidate who stood in four British general elections between 1987 and 2019, portrayed by three different people. Buckethead is an interstellar villain resembling the Star Wars character Darth Vader.

  25. 89,445views

    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

  26. 88,162views

    Mohamed Salah

    Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Süper Lig club Trabzonspor and captains the Egypt national team. He is widely regarded as one of the best players of his generation and one of the greatest

  27. 87,810views

    FIFA Men's World Ranking

    The FIFA Men's World Ranking is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football, first introduced in December 1992. The men's teams of the member nations of FIFA, football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with th

  28. 82,630views

    Ruth Ellis

    Ruth Ellis was a Welsh-born nightclub hostess and convicted murderer who became the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom, following the fatal shooting of her abusive lover, David Blakely.

  29. 81,244views

    Margaret Qualley

    Sarah Margaret Qualley is an American actress. A daughter of actress Andie MacDowell, she trained as a ballet dancer in her youth. She made her acting debut in the 2013 drama film Palo Alto and gained recognition for her supporting role in the HBO drama series

  30. 80,994views

    Lauren Bennett

    Lauren Diane Bennett-Wormald was an English singer from Meopham, Kent. She was a member of Paradiso Girls, who were known for the song "Patron Tequila", and G.R.L., who were featured on Pitbull's "Wild Wild Love" and were known for their song "Ugly Heart". She

Frontier 25

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

  1. 1,636points

    EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0

    863 comments

  2. 1,561points

    GPT-5.6

    1,113 comments

  3. 1,160points

    Show HN: 18 Words

    366 comments

  4. 937points

    Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer

    240 comments

  5. 832points

    Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

    729 comments

  6. 817points

    My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite

    707 comments

  7. 561points

    Hy3

    120 comments

  8. 470points

    The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war

    682 comments

  9. 413points

    Muse Spark 1.1

    214 comments

  10. 408points

    I think I have LLM burnout

    364 comments

  11. 405points

    Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig

    256 comments

  12. 401points

    AI 2040: Plan A

    539 comments

  13. 367points

    Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives

    261 comments

  14. 353points

    ChatGPT Work

    191 comments

  15. 340points

    Bonnie Tyler has died

    126 comments

  16. 337points

    Why American ambulance rides are so expensive

    503 comments

  17. 318points

    A possible future for Damn Interesting

    45 comments

  18. 311points

    No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026

    244 comments

  19. 307points

    Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees

    140 comments

  20. 299points

    A road to Lisp: Why Lisp

    301 comments

  21. 278points

    US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers

    340 comments

  22. 247points

    AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

    218 comments

  23. 225points

    GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper

    122 comments

  24. 186points

    TLS certificates for internal services done right

    168 comments

  25. 159points

    A tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology

    26 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2009.13384

    Transparency, Auditability and eXplainability of Machine Learning Models in Credit Scoring

    A major requirement for credit scoring models is to provide a maximally accurate risk prediction. Additionally, regulators demand these models to be transparent and auditable. Thus, in credit scoring, very simple predictive models such as logistic regression or decision trees are still widely used and the superior predictive power of modern machine learning algorithms cannot be fully leveraged. Significant potential

    Bücker, Michael, Szepannek, Gero, Gosiewska, Alicja, Biecek, Przemyslaw

  2. arXiv2204.08476

    Research on Domain Information Mining and Theme Evolution of Scientific Papers

    In recent years, with the increase of social investment in scientific research, the number of research results in various fields has increased significantly. Cross-disciplinary research results have gradually become an emerging frontier research direction. There is a certain dependence between a large number of research results. It is difficult to effectively analyze today's scientific research results when looki

    Zheng, Changwei, Xue, Zhe, Liang, Meiyu, Kou, Feifei et al.

  3. arXiv2210.08342

    Symbolic Recovery of Differential Equations: The Identifiability Problem

    Symbolic recovery of differential equations is the ambitious attempt at automating the derivation of governing equations with the use of machine learning techniques. In contrast to classical methods which assume the structure of the equation to be known and focus on the estimation of specific parameters, these algorithms aim to learn the structure and the parameters simultaneously. While the uniqueness and, therefore

    Scholl, Philipp, Bacho, Aras, Boche, Holger, Kutyniok, Gitta

  4. arXiv2211.14966

    Adversarial Rademacher Complexity of Deep Neural Networks

    Deep neural networks (DNNs) are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Ideally, a robust model should perform well on both perturbed training data and unseen perturbed test data. While DNNs can fit perturbed training data, generalizing to perturbed test data remains a significant challenge. This motivates the study of generalization guarantees from a learning theory perspective. This paper focuses on adversarial R

    Xiao, Jiancong, Fan, Yanbo, Sun, Ruoyu, Luo, Zhi-Quan

  5. arXiv2301.01679

    COVID-Net USPro: An Open-Source Explainable Few-Shot Deep Prototypical Network to Monitor and Detect COVID-19 Infection from Point-of-Care Ultrasound Images

    As the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to impact many aspects of life and the global healthcare systems, the adoption of rapid and effective screening methods to prevent further spread of the virus and lessen the burden on healthcare providers is a necessity. As a cheap and widely accessible medical image modality, point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) imaging allows radiologists to identify symptoms and ass

    Song, Jessy, Ebadi, Ashkan, Florea, Adrian, Xi, Pengcheng et al.

  6. arXiv2304.03388

    InferNet: Exploiting Aggregate GPU Profiles as Side-Channel for DNN Architecture Inference

    Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become ubiquitous for their ability to solve problems across various domains, including computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition. However, as their adoption grows, they face a range of security threats, such as model stealing, architecture extraction, and manipulation, which can compromise their integrity, privacy, and functionality. Past works have relied

    Anwar, Raja Hasnain, Weiss, Jonah O'Brien, Alves, Tiago, Kundu, Sandip

  7. arXiv2306.12859

    Reinforcement Federated Learning Method Based on Adaptive OPTICS Clustering

    Federated learning is a distributed machine learning technology, which realizes the balance between data privacy protection and data sharing computing. To protect data privacy, feder-ated learning learns shared models by locally executing distributed training on participating devices and aggregating local models into global models. There is a problem in federated learning, that is, the negative impact caused by the n

    Zhao, Tianyu, Du, Junping, Shao, Yingxia, Guan, Zeli

  8. arXiv2308.13380

    From system models to class models: An in-context learning paradigm

    Is it possible to understand the intricacies of a dynamical system not solely from its input/output pattern, but also by observing the behavior of other systems within the same class? This central question drives the study presented in this paper. In response to this query, we introduce a novel paradigm for system identification, addressing two primary tasks: one-step-ahead prediction and multi-step simulation. Unlik

    Forgione, Marco, Pura, Filippo, Piga, Dario

  9. arXiv2310.04055

    Kick Bad Guys Out! Conditionally Activated Anomaly Detection in Federated Learning with Zero-Knowledge Proof Verification

    Federated Learning (FL) systems are susceptible to adversarial attacks, such as model poisoning attacks and backdoor attacks. Existing defense mechanisms face critical limitations in deployments, such as relying on impractical assumptions (e.g., adversaries acknowledging the presence of attacks before attacking) or undermining accuracy in model training, even in benign scenarios. To address these challenges, we propo

    Han, Shanshan, Wu, Wenxuan, Buyukates, Baturalp, Jin, Weizhao et al.

  10. arXiv2402.01811

    A Distributionally Robust Optimisation Approach to Fair Credit Scoring

    Credit scoring has been catalogued by the European Commission and the Executive Office of the US President as a high-risk classification task, in light of the potential harms of making loan approval decisions based on models that would be biased against certain groups. To address this concern, recent credit scoring research has considered a range of fairness-enhancing techniques put forward by the machine learning co

    Casas, Pablo, Yu, Huan, Mues, Christophe

  11. arXiv2402.14446

    Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Control of Reaction-Diffusion Problems

    Mathematical and computational tools have proven to be reliable in decision-making processes. In recent times, in particular, machine learning-based methods are becoming increasingly popular as advanced support tools. When dealing with control problems, reinforcement learning has been applied to decision-making in several applications, most notably in games. The success of these methods in finding solutions to comple

    Schenk, Christina, Vasudevan, Aditya, Haranczyk, Maciej, Romero, Ignacio

  12. arXiv2404.13879

    Lipschitz-Regularized Critics Lead to Policy Robustness Against Transition Dynamics Uncertainty

    Uncertainties in transition dynamics pose a critical challenge in reinforcement learning (RL), often resulting in performance degradation of trained policies when deployed on hardware. Many robust RL approaches follow two strategies: enforcing smoothness in actor or actor-critic modules with Lipschitz regularization, or learning robust Bellman operators. However, the first strategy does not investigate the impact of

    Chen, Xulin, Liu, Ruipeng, Gan, Zhenyu, Katz, Garrett E.

  13. arXiv2405.16668

    Provably Efficient Off-Policy Adversarial Imitation Learning with Convergence Guarantees

    Adversarial Imitation Learning (AIL) faces challenges with sample inefficiency because of its reliance on sufficient on-policy data to evaluate the performance of the current policy during reward function updates. In this work, we study the convergence properties and sample complexity of off-policy AIL algorithms. We show that, even in the absence of importance sampling correction, reusing samples generated by the $o

    Chen, Yilei, Giammarino, Vittorio, Queeney, James, Paschalidis, Ioannis Ch.

  14. arXiv2405.18884

    MEGO: Learning Mixture-of-Experts for General-Purpose Binary Optimization

    Discrete optimization is ubiquitous in science and engineering. The vast array of existing discrete optimization problems, coupled with the continuous emergence of new ones, necessitates off-the-shelf optimizers capable of generating high-quality solutions for a large variety of optimization problems. This article introduces MEGO, a novel general-purpose neural optimizer for binary optimization under the black-box se

    Liu, Shengcai, Wang, Zhiyuan, Ong, Yew-Soon, Yao, Xin et al.

  15. arXiv2407.11217

    Faster and Simpler Greedy Algorithm for $k$-Median and $k$-Means

    Clustering problems such as $k$-means and $k$-median are staples of unsupervised learning, and many algorithmic techniques have been developed to tackle their numerous aspects. In this paper, we focus on the class of greedy approximation algorithm, that attracted less attention than local-search or primal-dual counterparts. In particular, we study the recursive greedy algorithm developed by Mettu and Plaxton [SIAM J.

    la Tour, Max Dupré, Saulpic, David

  16. arXiv2407.17395

    The Costs of Pretending That There Are Data-Generating Probability Distributions in the Social World

    Machine Learning research, including work promoting fair or equitable algorithms, often relies on the concept of a data-generating probability distribution. The standard presumption is that since data points are 'sampled from' such a distribution, one can learn from observed data about this distribution and, thus, predict future data points which are also drawn from it. We argue, however, that such true proba

    Höltgen, Benedikt, Williamson, Robert C.

  17. arXiv2408.09140

    Learning to Explore for Stochastic Gradient MCMC

    Bayesian Neural Networks(BNNs) with high-dimensional parameters pose a challenge for posterior inference due to the multi-modality of the posterior distributions. Stochastic Gradient MCMC(SGMCMC) with cyclical learning rate scheduling is a promising solution, but it requires a large number of sampling steps to explore high-dimensional multi-modal posteriors, making it computationally expensive. In this paper, we prop

    Kim, SeungHyun, Jung, Seohyeon, Kim, Seonghyeon, Lee, Juho

  18. arXiv2408.10572

    A Tutorial on Explainable Image Classification for Dementia Stages Using Convolutional Neural Network and Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping

    This paper presents a tutorial of an explainable approach using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM) to classify four progressive dementia stages based on open MRI brain images. The detailed implementation steps are demonstrated with an explanation. Whilst the proposed CNN architecture is demonstrated to achieve more than 99% accuracy for the test dataset, the c

    Yuen, Kevin Kam Fung

  19. arXiv2409.03761

    Efficient Scene Appearance Aggregation for Level-of-Detail Rendering

    Creating an appearance-preserving level-of-detail (LoD) representation for arbitrary 3D scenes is a challenging problem. The appearance of a scene is an intricate combination of both geometry and material models, and is further complicated by correlation due to the spatial configuration of scene elements. We present a novel volumetric representation for the aggregated appearance of complex scenes and an efficient pip

    Zhou, Yang, Huang, Tao, Ramamoorthi, Ravi, Sen, Pradeep et al.

  20. arXiv2410.07719

    How Learning Dynamics Drive Adversarially Robust Generalization?

    Despite being widely adopted as a canonical framework for learning robust models, adversarial training suffers from robust overfitting. Existing empirical and theoretical explorations fail to provide a satisfactory mechanistic interpretation of the phenomenon. By modeling adversarial training with momentum SGD as a discrete-time dynamical system, we propose a PAC-Bayesian analytical framework that proves time-resolve

    Xu, Yuelin, Zhang, Xiao

  21. arXiv2411.01683

    ROAD-Waymo: A Large-Scale Action Awareness Dataset for Autonomous Driving

    Autonomous Vehicle (AV) perception systems require more than simply seeing, via e.g., object detection or scene segmentation. They need a holistic understanding of what is happening within the scene for safe interaction with other road users. Few datasets exist for the purpose of developing and training algorithms to comprehend the actions of other road users. This paper presents ROAD-Waymo, an extensive dataset for

    Khan, Salman, Teeti, Izzeddin, Alitappeh, Reza Javanmard, Stoian, Mihaela C. et al.

  22. arXiv2411.17077

    ContrastiveCFG: Guiding Diffusion Sampling by Contrasting Positive and Negative Concepts

    As Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) has proven effective in conditional diffusion model sampling for improved condition alignment, many applications use a negated CFG term as a Negative Prompting (NP) to filter out unwanted features from samples. However, simply negating CFG guidance creates an inverted probability distribution, often distorting samples away from the marginal distribution. Inspired by recent advances i

    Chang, Jinho, Lee, Changsun, Chung, Hyungjin, Ye, Jong Chul

  23. arXiv2412.03405

    Deep Operator BSDE: a Numerical Scheme to Approximate Solution Operators

    Motivated by dynamic risk measures and conditional $g$-expectations, in this work we propose a numerical method to approximate the solution operator given by a Backward Stochastic Differential Equation (BSDE). The main ingredients for this are the Wiener chaos decomposition and the classical Euler scheme for BSDEs. We show convergence of this scheme under very mild assumptions, and provide a rate of convergence in mo

    Diaz-Lozano, Pere, Di Nunno, Giulia

  24. arXiv2412.12152

    GraphTool-Instruction: Revolutionizing Graph Reasoning in LLMs through Decomposed Subtask Instruction

    Large language models (LLMs) have been demonstrated to possess the capabilities to understand fundamental graph properties and address various graph reasoning tasks. Existing methods fine-tune LLMs to understand and execute graph reasoning tasks by specially designed task instructions. However, these Text-Instruction methods generally exhibit poor performance. Inspired by tool learning, researchers propose Tool-Instr

    Wang, Rongzheng, Liang, Shuang, Chen, Qizhi, Zhang, Jiasheng et al.

  25. arXiv2501.02436

    Network Dynamics-Based Framework for Understanding Deep Neural Networks

    Advancements in artificial intelligence call for a deeper understanding of the fundamental mechanisms underlying deep learning. In this work, we propose a theoretical framework to analyze learning dynamics through the lens of dynamical systems theory. We redefine the notions of linearity and nonlinearity in neural networks by introducing two fundamental transformation units at the neuron level: order-preserving trans

    Lin, Yuchen, Zhang, Yong, Feng, Sihan, Zhao, Hong

On this calendar day 18

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

  1. 2008year

    Under the belief that Israel and the United States were planning to attack its nuclear program, Iran conducted the Great Prophet III missile test and war games.

  2. 2006year

    Italy won their fourth FIFA World Cup title, defeating France 5–3 on penalties following a 1–1 draw after extra time (players pictured).

  3. 1995year

    Sri Lankan civil war: After advising civilians to take shelter in places of worship, the Sri Lanka Air Force bombed a church in Navaly, killing at least 147 people.

  4. 1982year

    A British man named Michael Fagan broke into Buckingham Palace and entered Queen Elizabeth II's bedroom when she was asleep.

  5. 1981year

    Nintendo released the arcade game Donkey Kong, which featured the debut of Mario, one of the most famous characters in video-game history.

  6. 1962year

    The United States conducted the Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test, the largest nuclear explosion in outer space.

  7. 1962year

    In a seminal moment for pop art, Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans exhibition opened at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.

  8. 1958year

    An earthquake struck Lituya Bay, Alaska; the subsequent megatsunami, the largest in modern times, reached an elevation of 1,720 ft (524 m).

  9. 1955year

    Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell (pictured) and nine other preeminent intellectuals and scientists issued the Russell–Einstein Manifesto, calling for a conference to assess the dangers posed by weapons of mass destruction.

  10. 1943year

    World War II: The Battle of Saipan concluded after a mass Japanese suicide attack was repelled by American forces.

  11. 1937year

    Nitrate film being stored in a 20th Century Fox facility spontaneously combusted, destroying more than 40,000 reels of negatives and film prints.

  12. 1896year

    Politician William Jennings Bryan made his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism, considered one of the greatest political speeches in American history.

  13. 1877year

    The inaugural Wimbledon Championship, the world's oldest tennis tournament, began in London.

  14. 1868year

    The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, including the Citizenship Clause and the Equal Protection Clause, was ratified by the minimum required twenty-eight states.

  15. 1850year

    Following Zachary Taylor's death, Millard Fillmore (pictured) became president of the United States, the last member of the Whig Party to hold that office.

  16. 1811year

    British explorer David Thompson posted a notice at the confluence of the Columbia and Snake Rivers (in modern Washington state, U.S.), claiming the area for Great Britain.

  17. 1790year

    Russo-Swedish War: During the Battle of Svensksund in the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captured a third of the Russian fleet.

  18. 1763year

    The Mozart family grand tour began, presenting the child prodigies Maria Anna and Wolfgang Amadeus across Western Europe.