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Record 10022026 · captured 2026-08-25

Tuesday, 10 February 2026

The world looked up Bad Bunny. 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. 1,877,041views

    Bad Bunny

    Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, known professionally as Bad Bunny, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer and record producer. Dubbed the "King of Latin Trap", he is widely credited with helping Spanish-language rap reach mainstream global popularity and is consider

  2. 821,592views

    List of Super Bowl halftime shows

    Halftime shows are common during many American football games. Entertainment during the Super Bowl, the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL), is one of the more lavish of these performances and is usually very widely watched on televi

  3. 619,425views

    Jeffrey Epstein

    Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and child sex offender. He began his career as a math teacher at the Dalton School in New York City, before entering the banking and finance sector. Over several decades, he made much of his fortune providing ta

  4. 616,915views

    Super Bowl LX

    Super Bowl LX was an American football game played to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2025 season. The National Football Conference (NFC) champion Seattle Seahawks defeated the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Ne

  5. 572,225views

    Sam Darnold

    Samuel Richard Darnold is an American professional football quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the USC Trojans, becoming the first freshman to win the Archie Griffin Award.

  6. 515,034views

    Ilia Malinin

    Ilia Malinin is an American figure skater. He is a 2026 Olympic Games team event gold medalist, three-time World champion, three-time Grand Prix Final champion, seven-time Grand Prix gold medalist, four-time Challenger Series gold medalist, and four-time U.S.

  7. 514,971views

    Epstein files

    The Epstein files are a partially released collection of millions of documents, images, videos, and emails related to the activities of American financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including his social circle of public figures, politici

  8. 496,872views

    Kenneth Walker III

    Kenneth Walker III is an American professional football running back for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons and Michigan State Spartans, winning the Walter Camp and Doak Wa

  9. 486,949views

    Drake Maye

    Drake Lee Maye is an American professional football quarterback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the North Carolina Tar Heels, winning the Shaun Alexander Award and ACC Football Player of the Ye

  10. 464,284views

    Mike Macdonald

    Michael Macdonald is an American professional football coach who is the head coach for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He began his career with the Baltimore Ravens in 2014, serving as a defensive assistant. In 2021, Macdonald left

  11. 437,247views

    Seattle Seahawks

    The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle. The Seahawks compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division. They have played their home games at Lumen Field in

  12. 431,622views

    List of Super Bowl champions

    The Super Bowl is the annual American football game that determines the champion of the National Football League (NFL). The game culminates a season that begins in the previous calendar year, and is the conclusion of the NFL playoffs. The winner receives the V

  13. 407,889views

    Kid Rock

    Robert James Ritchie, known professionally as Kid Rock, is an American musician, singer, rapper, and songwriter. After establishing himself in the Detroit hip-hop scene, he broke through into mainstream success with a rap rock sound before shifting his perform

  14. 406,219views

    Lady Gaga

    Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. An influential figure in popular music, she is known for her image reinventions, flamboyant fashion, and versatility across the entertainment

  15. 405,285views

    Lindsey Vonn

    Lindsey Caroline Vonn is an American alpine ski racer. She won four World Cup overall championships with titles in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2012. Vonn won the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first one for an American woman. She also won a

  16. 374,825views

    Ricky Martin

    Enrique "Ricky" Martín Morales is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter. He is known for his musical versatility, with his discography incorporating a wide variety of many elements, such as Latin pop, dance, reggaeton, salsa, and other genres. Dubbed the "King

  17. 315,185views

    2026 Winter Olympics

    The 2026 Winter Olympics, officially the XXV Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Milano Cortina 2026, were an international winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 22 February 2026, at multiple sites across Lombardy, Veneto and Trentino-Alto Adige/Südti

  18. 269,733views

    Super Bowl

    The Super Bowl is the league championship final game of the National Football League (NFL) of the United States. It has served as the final game of every NFL season since 1966 replacing the NFL Championship Game and also served as the final game of every Ameri

  19. 252,160views

    Super Bowl LX halftime show

    The Super Bowl LX halftime show, officially known as the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show for sponsorship purposes, was the halftime entertainment of Super Bowl LX, which took place on February 8, 2026, at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, Unit

  20. 242,173views

    Puerto Rico

    Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of commonwealth. Located about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of

  21. 240,392views

    Jessica Alba

    Jessica Marie Alba is an American actress and businesswoman. She rose to prominence at age 19 for portraying Max Guevara, the lead character in the television series Dark Angel (2000–2002), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. Her cinematic breakt

  22. 225,811views

    Ghislaine Maxwell

    Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell is a British convicted child sex trafficker and former socialite. In 2021, she was convicted of child sex trafficking, and in 2022 was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

  23. 215,517views

    Savannah Guthrie

    Savannah Clark Guthrie is an Australian-American broadcast journalist and attorney. She is a main co-anchor of the NBC News morning show Today, a position she has held since July 2012.

  24. 197,880views

    Mike Vrabel

    Michael George Vrabel is an American professional football coach and former linebacker who is the head coach for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). Vrabel previously played in the NFL for 14 seasons, most notably with the Patriots.

  25. 191,755views

    Eileen Gu

    Eileen Feng Gu, also known by her Chinese name Gu Ailing (谷爱凌), is a Chinese-American freestyle skier and model. She has represented China in halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air events since the 2018–19 season. With three gold and three silver medals, Gu is the

  26. 172,899views

    New England Patriots

    The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area. The Patriots compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team plays its home games a

  27. 170,096views

    2026 Japanese general election

    Early general elections were held in Japan on 8 February 2026 in all constituencies, including proportional blocks, to elect all 465 seats of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet.

  28. 169,185views

    Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie

    On February 1, 2026, Nancy Guthrie (née Long), the American 84‑year‑old mother of NBC News journalist and Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, was kidnapped from her home in Catalina Foothills, a suburb of Tucson, Arizona. Evidence recovered at the residence indi

  29. 167,515views

    Jmail

    Jmail is a browser-based archive of the Epstein files, which were released by the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform under the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA). The website was initially stylized in a Gmail-based interface, a

  30. 167,043views

    Jody Allen

    Jo Lynn "Jody" Allen is an American businesswoman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She is the younger sister of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and served as the chief executive officer of his investment and project management company, Vulcan Inc., from its

Frontier 25

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

  1. 1,381points

    The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday

    756 comments

  2. 1,132points

    Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun

    1,030 comments

  3. 848points

    I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed

    668 comments

  4. 798points

    Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card Number

    354 comments

  5. 721points

    Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986

    240 comments

  6. 614points

    Oxide raises $200M Series C

    335 comments

  7. 611points

    Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents

    577 comments

  8. 544points

    Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs

    366 comments

  9. 499points

    Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial

    387 comments

  10. 499points

    The Day the Telnet Died

    385 comments

  11. 490points

    The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)

    141 comments

  12. 427points

    Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine

    89 comments

  13. 422points

    Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism

    192 comments

  14. 401points

    Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser

    69 comments

  15. 326points

    Gradient.horse

    61 comments

  16. 317points

    Zulip.com Values

    71 comments

  17. 311points

    Pure C, CPU-only inference with Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model

    35 comments

  18. 303points

    The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline

    1,008 comments

  19. 299points

    Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'

    196 comments

  20. 274points

    Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time

    193 comments

  21. 260points

    AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it

    306 comments

  22. 252points

    Parse, Don't Validate (2019)

    172 comments

  23. 246points

    Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers (2024)

    377 comments

  24. 243points

    Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews

    61 comments

  25. 205points

    Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)

    56 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2007.16012

    BERT Learns (and Teaches) Chemistry

    Modern computational organic chemistry is becoming increasingly data-driven. There remain a large number of important unsolved problems in this area such as product prediction given reactants, drug discovery, and metric-optimized molecule synthesis, but efforts to solve these problems using machine learning have also increased in recent years. In this work, we propose the use of attention to study functional groups a

    Payne, Josh, Srouji, Mario, Yap, Dian Ang, Kosaraju, Vineet

  2. arXiv2106.15332

    Winner Team Mia at TextVQA Challenge 2021: Vision-and-Language Representation Learning with Pre-trained Sequence-to-Sequence Model

    TextVQA requires models to read and reason about text in images to answer questions about them. Specifically, models need to incorporate a new modality of text present in the images and reason over it to answer TextVQA questions. In this challenge, we use generative model T5 for TextVQA task. Based on pre-trained checkpoint T5-3B from HuggingFace repository, two other pre-training tasks including masked language mode

    Qiao, Yixuan, Chen, Hao, Wang, Jun, Zhao, Shanshan et al.

  3. arXiv2210.15657

    Detecting fake accounts through Generative Adversarial Network in online social media

    Online social media is integral to human life, facilitating messaging, information sharing, and confidential communication while preserving privacy. Platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook exemplify this phenomenon. However, users face challenges due to network anomalies, often stemming from malicious activities such as identity theft for financial gain or harm. This paper proposes a novel method using user s

    Bordbar, Jinus, Mohammadrezaie, Mohammadreza, Ardalan, Saman, Shiri, Mohammad Ebrahim

  4. arXiv2211.15386

    PC-SNN: Predictive Coding-based Local Hebbian Plasticity Learning in Spiking Neural Networks

    Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), regarded as the third generation of neural networks, emulate the brain's information processing with unparalleled biological plausibility compared to traditional neural networks. However, their non-linear, event-driven dynamics pose significant challenges for training, and existing methods often deviate from neuroscientific principles of cortical learning. Drawing inspiration from

    Wang, Haidong, Xiong, Xiaogang, Lan, Mengting, Chu, Yinghao et al.

  5. arXiv2302.00107

    Distributed sequential federated learning

    The analysis of data stored in multiple sites has become more popular, raising new concerns about the security of data storage and communication. Federated learning, which does not require centralizing data, is a common approach to preventing heavy data transportation, securing valued data, and protecting personal information protection. Therefore, determining how to aggregate the information obtained from the analys

    Wang, Z. F., Zhang, X. Y., Chang, Y-c I.

  6. arXiv2305.04195

    Cross-Modal Retrieval for Motion and Text via DropTriple Loss

    Cross-modal retrieval of image-text and video-text is a prominent research area in computer vision and natural language processing. However, there has been insufficient attention given to cross-modal retrieval between human motion and text, despite its wide-ranging applicability. To address this gap, we utilize a concise yet effective dual-unimodal transformer encoder for tackling this task. Recognizing that overlapp

    Yan, Sheng, Liu, Yang, Wang, Haoqiang, Du, Xin et al.

  7. arXiv2305.07741

    To transfer or not transfer: Unified transferability metric and analysis

    In transfer learning, transferability is one of the most fundamental problems, which aims to evaluate the effectiveness of arbitrary transfer tasks. Existing research focuses on classification tasks and neglects domain or task differences. More importantly, there is a lack of research to determine whether to transfer or not. To address these, we propose a new analytical approach and metric, Wasserstein Distance based

    Zhan, Qianshan, Zeng, Xiao-Jun

  8. arXiv2306.09322

    Fast Image-based Neural Relighting with Translucency-Reflection Modeling

    Image-based lighting (IBL) is a widely used technique that renders objects using a high dynamic range image or environment map. However, aggregating the irradiance at the object's surface is computationally expensive, in particular for non-opaque, translucent materials that require volumetric rendering techniques. In this paper we present a fast neural 3D reconstruction and relighting model that extends volumetri

    Zhu, Shizhan, Saito, Shunsuke, Bozic, Aljaz, Aliaga, Carlos et al.

  9. arXiv2306.13681

    Estimating the Value of Evidence-Based Decision Making

    In an era of data abundance, statistical evidence is increasingly critical for business and policy decisions. Yet, organizations lack empirical tools to assess the value of evidence-based decision making (EBDM), optimize statistical precision, and balance the costs of evidence-gathering strategies against their benefits. To tackle these challenges, this article introduces an empirical framework to estimate the value

    Abadie, Alberto, Agarwal, Anish, Imbens, Guido, Jia, Siwei et al.

  10. arXiv2307.10753

    LBL: Logarithmic Barrier Loss Function for One-class Classification

    One-class classification (OCC) aims to train a classifier only with the target class data and attracts great attention for its strong applicability in real-world application. Despite a lot of advances have been made in OCC, it still lacks the effective OCC loss functions for deep learning. In this paper, a novel logarithmic barrier function based OCC loss (LBL) that assigns large gradients to the margin samples and t

    Jiang, Ziyang, Lin, Peng, Wang, Tianlei

  11. arXiv2308.07897

    Probabilistic Phase Labeling and Lattice Refinement for Autonomous Material Research

    X-ray diffraction (XRD) is an essential technique to determine a material's crystal structure in high-throughput experimentation, and has recently been incorporated in artificially intelligent agents in autonomous scientific discovery processes. However, rapid, automated and reliable analysis method of XRD data matching the incoming data rate remains a major challenge. To address these issues, we present CrystalS

    Chang, Ming-Chiang, Ament, Sebastian, Amsler, Maximilian, Sutherland, Duncan R. et al.

  12. arXiv2309.00071

    YaRN: Efficient Context Window Extension of Large Language Models

    Rotary Position Embeddings (RoPE) have been shown to effectively encode positional information in transformer-based language models. However, these models fail to generalize past the sequence length they were trained on. We present YaRN (Yet another RoPE extensioN method), a compute-efficient method to extend the context window of such models, requiring 10x less tokens and 2.5x less training steps than previous metho

    Peng, Bowen, Quesnelle, Jeffrey, Fan, Honglu, Shippole, Enrico

  13. arXiv2310.08785

    DeltaSpace: A Semantic-aligned Feature Space for Flexible Text-guided Image Editing

    Text-guided image editing faces significant challenges when considering training and inference flexibility. Much literature collects large amounts of annotated image-text pairs to train text-conditioned generative models from scratch, which is expensive and not efficient. After that, some approaches that leverage pre-trained vision-language models have been proposed to avoid data collection, but they are limited by e

    Lyu, Yueming, Zhao, Kang, Peng, Bo, Chen, Huafeng et al.

  14. arXiv2401.06157

    Cognitive Edge Device (CED) for Real-Time Environmental Monitoring in Aquatic Ecosystems

    Invasive signal crayfish have a detrimental impact on ecosystems. They spread the fungal-type crayfish plague disease (Aphanomyces astaci) that is lethal to the native white clawed crayfish, the only native crayfish species in Britain. Invasive signal crayfish extensively burrow, causing habitat destruction, erosion of river banks and adverse changes in water quality, while also competing with native species for reso

    Monari, Dennis, Tash, Farhad Fassihi, Bird, Jordan J., Lotfi, Ahmad et al.

  15. arXiv2401.06740

    A deep implicit-explicit minimizing movement method for option pricing in jump-diffusion models

    We develop a novel deep learning approach for pricing European basket options written on assets that follow jump-diffusion dynamics. The option pricing problem is formulated as a partial integro-differential equation, which is approximated via a new implicit-explicit minimizing movement time-stepping approach, involving approximation by deep, residual-type Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for each time step. The int

    Georgoulis, Emmanuil H., Papapantoleon, Antonis, Smaragdakis, Costas

  16. arXiv2401.10777

    Determination of efficiency indicators of the stand for intelligent control of manual operations in industrial production

    Manual operations remain essential in industrial production because of their flexibility and low implementation cost. However, ensuring their quality and monitoring execution in real time remains a challenge, especially under conditions of high variability and human-induced errors. In this paper, we present an AI-based control system for tracking manual assembly and propose a novel methodology to evaluate its overall

    Sergeev, Anton, Minchenkov, Victor, Soldatov, Aleksei

  17. arXiv2401.15719

    Rates of Convergence in the Central Limit Theorem for Markov Chains, with an Application to TD Learning

    We prove a non-asymptotic central limit theorem for vector-valued martingale differences using Stein's method, and use Poisson's equation to extend the result to functions of Markov Chains. We then show that these results can be applied to establish a non-asymptotic central limit theorem for Temporal Difference (TD) learning with averaging.

    Srikant, R.

  18. arXiv2402.01212

    TSJNet: A Multi-modality Target and Semantic Awareness Joint-driven Image Fusion Network

    This study aims to address the problem of incomplete information in unimodal images for semantic segmentation and object detection tasks. Existing multimodal fusion methods suffer from limited capability in discriminative modeling of multi-scale semantic structures and salient target regions, which further restricts the effective fusion of task-related semantic details and target information across modalities. To tac

    Jie, Yuchan, Xu, Yushen, Li, Xiaosong, Li, Huafeng et al.

  19. arXiv2402.01373

    cmaes: A Simple yet Practical Python Library for CMA-ES

    The covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMA-ES) has been highly effective in black-box continuous optimization, as demonstrated by its success in both benchmark problems and various real-world applications. To address the need for an accessible and powerful tool in this domain, we developed cmaes, a simple and practical Python library for CMA-ES. cmaes is characterized by its simplicity, offering intuiti

    Nomura, Masahiro, Shibata, Masashi, Hamano, Ryoki

  20. arXiv2402.05346

    Knowledge-Centric Metacognitive Learning

    Interactions are central to intelligent reasoning and learning abilities, with the interpretation of abstract knowledge guiding meaningful interaction with objects in the environment. While humans readily adapt to novel situations by leveraging abstract knowledge acquired over time, artificial intelligence systems lack principled mechanisms for incorporating abstract knowledge into learning, leading to fundamental ch

    Kumar, Arun, Schrater, Paul

  21. arXiv2403.09170

    Analysis of singular subspaces under random perturbations

    We present a comprehensive analysis of singular vector and singular subspace perturbations in the signal-plus-noise matrix model with random Gaussian noise. Assuming a low-rank signal matrix, we extend the Davis-Kahan-Wedin theorem in a fully generalized manner, applicable to any unitarily invariant matrix norm, building on previous results by O'Rourke, Vu, and the author. Our analysis provides fine-grained insig

    Wang, Ke

  22. arXiv2403.10830

    View-Centric Multi-Object Tracking with Homographic Matching in Moving UAV

    In this paper, we address the challenge of Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) in moving Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) scenarios, where irregular flight trajectories, such as hovering, turning left/right, and moving up/down, lead to significantly greater complexity compared to fixed-camera MOT. Specifically, changes in the scene background not only render traditional frame-to-frame object IoU association methods ineffective

    Ji, Deyi, Zhu, Lanyun, Gao, Siqi, Zhu, Qi et al.

  23. arXiv2403.17834

    Generalist Foundation Models from a Multimodal Dataset for 3D Computed Tomography

    Advancements in medical imaging AI, particularly in 3D imaging, have been limited due to the scarcity of comprehensive datasets. We introduce CT-RATE, a public dataset that pairs 3D medical images with corresponding textual reports. CT-RATE comprises 25,692 non-contrast 3D chest CT scans from 21,304 unique patients. Each scan is accompanied by its corresponding radiology report. Leveraging CT-RATE, we develop CT-CLIP

    Hamamci, Ibrahim Ethem, Er, Sezgin, Wang, Chenyu, Almas, Furkan et al.

  24. arXiv2404.13182

    Spectral Convolutional Conditional Neural Processes

    Neural Processes (NPs) are meta-learning models that learn to map sets of observations to approximations of the corresponding posterior predictive distributions. By accommodating variable-sized, unstructured collections of observations and enabling probabilistic predictions at arbitrary query points, NPs provide a flexible framework for modeling functions over continuous domains. Since their introduction, numerous va

    Mohseni, Peiman, Duffield, Nick

  25. arXiv2405.13979

    Robust Hyperbolic Learning with Curvature-Aware Optimization

    Hyperbolic deep learning has become a growing research direction in computer vision due to the unique properties afforded by the alternate embedding space. The negative curvature and exponentially growing distance metric provide a natural framework for capturing hierarchical relationships between datapoints and allowing for finer separability between their embeddings. However, current hyperbolic learning approaches a

    Bdeir, Ahmad, Burchert, Johannes, Schmidt-Thieme, Lars, Landwehr, Niels

On this calendar day 18

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

  1. 2009year

    The satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 destroyed each other in the first accidental hypervelocity collision between two intact satellites in low Earth orbit.

  2. 2008year

    The Namdaemun gate in Seoul, the first of South Korea's National Treasures, was severely damaged by arson (damage pictured).

  3. 1996year

    Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in a game of chess, the first ever game won by a chess-playing computer against a World Chess Champion under chess tournament conditions.

  4. 1962year

    Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy arrested by the FBI, was exchanged for Francis Gary Powers, the pilot of the CIA spy plane that had been shot down over Soviet airspace two years earlier.

  5. 1962year

    The first solo exhibition by Roy Lichtenstein (pictured) opened, including the painting Look Mickey, which featured his first use of Ben Day dots, speech balloons, and comic imagery sourcing.

  6. 1941year

    In the first airborne operation undertaken by the British military, a small force of paratroopers landed near Calitri, Italy, to destroy an aqueduct.

  7. 1940year

    Puss Gets the Boot, the first Tom and Jerry cartoon, was released to theaters.

  8. 1939year

    Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists concluded their conquest of Catalonia and sealed the border with France.

  9. 1936year

    Second Italo-Ethiopian War: The Battle of Amba Aradam began, ending nine days later in a decisive tactical victory for Italy and the neutralisation of almost the entire Ethiopian army as a fighting force.

  10. 1930year

    The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launched the failed Yên Bái mutiny in the hope of ending French colonial rule in Vietnam.

  11. 1919year

    The Inter-Allied Women's Conference (delegates pictured) opened as a counterpart to the Paris Peace Conference, marking the first time that women were allowed formal participation in an international treaty negotiation.

  12. 1906year

    The Royal Navy battleship HMS Dreadnought was launched, representing such a marked advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships.

  13. 1862year

    American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroyed the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.

  14. 1840year

    Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Queen Victoria married at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace, London, with Albert being granted the title prince consort.

  15. 1814year

    War of the Sixth Coalition: A French army led by Napoleon effectively destroyed a small Russian corps commanded by Zakhar Dmitrievich Olsufiev.

  16. 1763year

    To end the Seven Years' War, Britain, France and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris, which significantly reduced the size of the French colonial empire and marked the beginning of an extensive period of British dominance outside of Europe.

  17. 1712year

    The Huilliche in Chile's Chiloé Archipelago rose up against Spanish encomenderos in revenge for perceived injustices.

  18. 1355year

    A tavern dispute between students of the University of Oxford and townspeople in Oxford became a riot that left about 90 people dead.