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Record 12112025 · captured 2026-08-25

Wednesday, 12 November 2025

The world looked up Dharmendra. 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. 1,392,953views

    Dharmendra

    Dharmendra was an Indian actor, producer and politician, primarily known for his work in Hindi films. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most commercially successful actors in the history of Indian cinema. Known as the "He-man", he was popular for his h

  2. 332,922views

    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

  3. 266,550views

    James A. Garfield

    James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death in September that year after being shot in July. A preacher, lawyer, and Civil War general, Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Repre

  4. 234,029views

    SS Edmund Fitzgerald

    SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes and re

  5. 205,396views

    Frankenstein (2025 film)

    Frankenstein is a 2025 American Gothic science fiction horror film written, co-produced, and directed by Guillermo del Toro, based on the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley. The film stars Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the Creature, with Mia G

  6. 201,524views

    Veterans Day

    Veterans Day is a federal holiday in the United States observed annually on November 11, for honoring military veterans of the United States Armed Forces. It coincides with holidays in several countries, including Armistice Day and Remembrance Day, which also

  7. 184,379views

    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

  8. 146,411views

    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.

  9. 142,222views

    Sally Kirkland

    Sally Kirkland Jr. was an American actress and producer. A one-time member of Andy Warhol's The Factory, she was a part of 1960s New York avant-garde theater. She appeared in more than 250 film and television productions during a 60-year career. Kirkland was t

  10. 139,188views

    Zohran Mamdani

    Zohran Kwame Mamdani is an American politician who has served since 2026 as the 112th mayor of New York City. A member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, he represented the 36th district in the New York State Assembly from 2021 t

  11. 136,896views

    Fuck

    Fuck is a profanity in the English language. It often refers to the act of sexual intercourse, but it is most commonly used as an intensifier or to convey disdain. While its origin is obscure, it is usually considered to be first attested to around 1475. In mo

  12. 134,176views

    1xBet

    1xBet is an online gambling company founded in 2007 and licensed by Curaçao eGaming License. 1xBet is one of the largest online casinos in the world. According to Forbes, its turnover exceeded $2 billion in 2020. The company sponsors major professional footbal

  13. 131,339views

    2025 Delhi Red Fort blast

    On 10 November 2025, a car exploded near the Red Fort in Delhi, India, killing at least 15 people and injuring more than 20 others. According to the Delhi Police, there were two to three people inside the car at the time of the explosion. The preliminary polic

  14. 126,796views

    2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election

    Legislative Assembly elections were held in Bihar from 30 April and 7 May 2025, to elect the 243 members of the Bihar Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 16 May 2025.

  15. 126,045views

    2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup

    The 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup was the 20th edition of the FIFA U-17 World Cup, contested by the under-17 national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It took place in Qatar from 3–27 November. This edition marked the last of the biannual scheduling and th

  16. 121,209views

    Remembrance Day

    Remembrance Day is a memorial day observed in former countries of the British Empire, and current Commonwealth member states since the end of the First World War to honour armed forces members who have died in the line of duty. The day is also marked by war re

  17. 118,202views

    Chester A. Arthur

    Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st president of the United States, serving from 1881 to 1885. A Republican from New York, he served as the 20th vice president under President James A. Garfield in 1881, assuming the presidency after Garfield's assassination. Arth

  18. 115,834views

    Predator: Badlands

    Predator: Badlands is a 2025 American science fiction action film directed by Dan Trachtenberg and written by Patrick Aison from a story by Trachtenberg and Aison. It is the seventh installment in the Predator franchise and set after the events of The Predator

  19. 107,830views

    Charles J. Guiteau

    Charles Julius Guiteau was an American office seeker who assassinated the 20th President of the United States, James A. Garfield, in 1881. A failed lawyer suffering from mental illness, Guiteau delusionally believed he had played a major role in Garfield's ele

  20. 105,224views

    Jacob Elordi

    Jacob Nathaniel Elordi is an Australian actor. His accolades include a Critics' Choice Award and three AACTA Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, three British Academy Film Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.

  21. 103,070views

    Hema Malini

    Hema Malini Dharmendra Deol is an Indian actress, director, producer, and politician who is currently serving as a member of the Lok Sabha from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), representing Mathura constituency since 2014. She was a member of the Rajya Sabha

  22. 96,627views

    6-7

    6-7 was an Internet meme, slang term, and gesture that became popular in 2025 on TikTok and Instagram Reels. It has no fixed meaning.

  23. 89,406views

    Christy (2025 American film)

    Christy is a 2025 American biographical sports drama film directed by David Michôd, written by Michôd and Mirrah Foulkes, and starring Sydney Sweeney, Ben Foster, Merritt Wever, Katy O'Brian, Ethan Embry, and Chad L. Coleman. The film chronicles the rise of fo

  24. 89,203views

    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

  25. 87,178views

    Armistice Day

    Armistice Day, later known as Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth and Veterans Day in the United States, is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, at 5:45 am for t

  26. 87,064views

    Frankenstein

    Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature from different body parts in an unorthodox scientific

  27. 84,487views

    Sydney Sweeney

    Sydney Bernice Sweeney is an American actress. She gained early recognition for her roles in Everything Sucks!, The Handmaid's Tale, and Sharp Objects in 2018. She received wider acclaim for her performances in the drama series Euphoria (2019–2026) and the fir

  28. 82,670views

    Survivor Series: WarGames (2025)

    The 2025 Survivor Series: WarGames, also promoted as Survivor Series: WarGames San Diego, was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was the 39th annual Survivor Series and took place on November 29, 2025, at Pe

  29. 81,729views

    Richard Burton

    Richard Walter Burton was a Welsh actor.

  30. 79,801views

    Ed Gein

    Edward Theodore Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield and the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities disc

Frontier 25

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

  1. 2,928points

    Steam Machine

    1,514 comments

  2. 1,915points

    Steam Frame

    698 comments

  3. 1,278points

    Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter

    209 comments

  4. 1,106points

    Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support

    627 comments

  5. 841points

    Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'

    653 comments

  6. 735points

    The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia

    938 comments

  7. 647points

    Valve is about to win the console generation

    537 comments

  8. 566points

    Project Euler

    134 comments

  9. 555points

    GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT

    726 comments

  10. 537points

    Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

    171 comments

  11. 408points

    Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller and Steam Frame

    4 comments

  12. 397points

    Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy

    418 comments

  13. 345points

    Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software

    287 comments

  14. 341points

    Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix

    437 comments

  15. 334points

    Perkeep – Personal storage system for life

    75 comments

  16. 326points

    Learn Prolog Now (2006)

    242 comments

  17. 312points

    Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

    235 comments

  18. 304points

    FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices

    138 comments

  19. 272points

    Voyager 1 is a light-day away by November 2026

    121 comments

  20. 267points

    Marble: A Multimodal World Model

    83 comments

  21. 266points

    Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage

    206 comments

  22. 261points

    You will own nothing and be (un)happy

    246 comments

  23. 241points

    GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients

    203 comments

  24. 235points

    What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO

    153 comments

  25. 212points

    Shop Sans is a typeface for curved text paths

    52 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2511.09822

    Robust Watermarking on Gradient Boosting Decision Trees

    Gradient Boosting Decision Trees (GBDTs) are widely used in industry and academia for their high accuracy and efficiency, particularly on structured data. However, watermarking GBDT models remains underexplored compared to neural networks. In this work, we present the first robust watermarking framework tailored to GBDT models, utilizing in-place fine-tuning to embed imperceptible and resilient watermarks. We propose

    Jun Woo Chung, Yingjie Lao, Weijie Zhao

  2. arXiv2511.09820

    From Street to Orbit: Training-Free Cross-View Retrieval via Location Semantics and LLM Guidance

    Cross-view image retrieval, particularly street-to-satellite matching, is a critical task for applications such as autonomous navigation, urban planning, and localization in GPS-denied environments. However, existing approaches often require supervised training on curated datasets and rely on panoramic or UAV-based images, which limits real-world deployment. In this paper, we present a simple yet effective cross-view

    Jeongho Min, Dongyoung Kim, Jaehyup Lee

  3. arXiv2511.09814

    Multiple Treatments Causal Effects Estimation with Task Embeddings and Balanced Representation Learning

    The simultaneous application of multiple treatments is increasingly common in many fields, such as healthcare and marketing. In such scenarios, it is important to estimate the single treatment effects and the interaction treatment effects that arise from treatment combinations. Previous studies have proposed using independent outcome networks with subnetworks for interactions, or combining task embedding networks tha

    Yuki Murakami, Takumi Hattori, Kohsuke Kubota

  4. arXiv2511.09810

    On the Convergence of Overparameterized Problems: Inherent Properties of the Compositional Structure of Neural Networks

    This paper investigates how the compositional structure of neural networks shapes their optimization landscape and training dynamics. We analyze the gradient flow associated with overparameterized optimization problems, which can be interpreted as training a neural network with linear activations. Remarkably, we show that the global convergence properties can be derived for any cost function that is proper and real a

    Arthur Castello Branco de Oliveira, Dhruv Jatkar, Eduardo Sontag

  5. arXiv2511.09809

    Test-Time Spectrum-Aware Latent Steering for Zero-Shot Generalization in Vision-Language Models

    Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at zero-shot inference but often degrade under test-time domain shifts. For this reason, episodic test-time adaptation strategies have recently emerged as powerful techniques for adapting VLMs to a single unlabeled image. However, existing adaptation strategies, such as test-time prompt tuning, typically require backpropagating through large encoder weights or altering core model c

    Konstantinos M. Dafnis, Dimitris N. Metaxas

  6. arXiv2511.09808

    Constrained Best Arm Identification with Tests for Feasibility

    Best arm identification (BAI) aims to identify the highest-performance arm among a set of $K$ arms by collecting stochastic samples from each arm. In real-world problems, the best arm needs to satisfy additional feasibility constraints. While there is limited prior work on BAI with feasibility constraints, they typically assume the performance and constraints are observed simultaneously on each pull of an arm. Howeve

    Ting Cai, Kirthevasan Kandasamy

  7. arXiv2511.09804

    SlideBot: A Multi-Agent Framework for Generating Informative, Reliable, Multi-Modal Presentations

    Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown immense potential in education, automating tasks like quiz generation and content summarization. However, generating effective presentation slides introduces unique challenges due to the complexity of multimodal content creation and the need for precise, domain-specific information. Existing LLM-based solutions often fail to produce reliable and informative outputs, limiting th

    Eric Xie, Danielle Waterfield, Michael Kennedy, Aidong Zhang

  8. arXiv2511.09796

    Predicate-Argument Structure Divergences in Chinese and English Parallel Sentences and their Impact on Language Transfer

    Cross-lingual Natural Language Processing (NLP) has gained significant traction in recent years, offering practical solutions in low-resource settings by transferring linguistic knowledge from resource-rich to low-resource languages. This field leverages techniques like annotation projection and model transfer for language adaptation, supported by multilingual pre-trained language models. However, linguistic divergen

    Rocco Tripodi, Xiaoyu Liu

  9. arXiv2512.00036

    Refined Bayesian Optimization for Efficient Beam Alignment in Intelligent Indoor Wireless Environments

    Future intelligent indoor wireless environments require fast and reliable beam alignment to sustain high-throughput links under mobility and blockage. Exhaustive beam training achieves optimal performance but is prohibitively costly. In indoor settings, dense scatterers and transceiver hardware imperfections introduce multipath and sidelobe leakage, producing measurable power across multiple angles and reducing the e

    Parth Ashokbhai Shiroya, Amod Ashtekar, Swarnagowri Shashidhar, Mohammed E. Eltayeb

  10. arXiv2511.13744

    nuCarla: A nuScenes-Style Bird's-Eye View Perception Dataset for CARLA Simulation

    End-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving heavily relies on closed-loop simulation, where perception, planning, and control are jointly trained and evaluated in interactive environments. Yet, most existing datasets are collected from the real world under non-interactive conditions, primarily supporting open-loop learning while offering limited value for closed-loop testing. Due to the lack of standardized, large-scale, and

    Zhijie Qiao, Zhong Cao, Henry X. Liu

  11. arXiv2511.11719

    ECCENTRIC: Edge-Cloud Collaboration Framework for Distributed Inference Using Knowledge Adaptation

    The massive growth in the utilization of edge AI has made the applications of machine learning models ubiquitous in different domains. Despite the computation and communication efficiency of these systems, due to limited computation resources on edge devices, relying on more computationally rich systems on the cloud side is inevitable in most cases. Cloud inference systems can achieve the best performance while the c

    Mohammad Mahdi Kamani, Zhongwei Cheng, Lin Chen

  12. arXiv2511.09788

    Why Open Small AI Models Matter for Interactive Art

    This position paper argues for the importance of open small AI models in creative independence for interactive art practices. Deployable locally, these models offer artists vital control over infrastructure and code, unlike dominant large, closed-source corporate systems. Such centralized platforms function as opaque black boxes, imposing severe limitations on interactive artworks, including restrictive content filte

    Mar Canet Sola, Varvara Guljajeva

  13. arXiv2511.09785

    AI Annotation Orchestration: Evaluating LLM verifiers to Improve the Quality of LLM Annotations in Learning Analytics

    Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to annotate learning interactions, yet concerns about reliability limit their utility. We test whether verification-oriented orchestration-prompting models to check their own labels (self-verification) or audit one another (cross-verification)-improves qualitative coding of tutoring discourse. Using transcripts from 30 one-to-one math sessions, we compare three produ

    Bakhtawar Ahtisham, Kirk Vanacore, Jinsook Lee, Zhuqian Zhou et al.

  14. arXiv2511.09783

    Koopman Invariants as Drivers of Emergent Time-Series Clustering in Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures

    Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs), a powerful class of self-supervised models, exhibit an unexplained ability to cluster time-series data by their underlying dynamical regimes. We propose a novel theoretical explanation for this phenomenon, hypothesizing that JEPA's predictive objective implicitly drives it to learn the invariant subspace of the system's Koopman operator. We prove that an idealized JEP

    Pablo Ruiz-Morales, Dries Vanoost, Davy Pissoort, Mathias Verbeke

  15. arXiv2511.09775

    Privacy-Preserving Explainable AIoT Application via SHAP Entropy Regularization

    The widespread integration of Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) in smart home environments has amplified the demand for transparent and interpretable machine learning models. To foster user trust and comply with emerging regulatory frameworks, the Explainable AI (XAI) methods, particularly post-hoc techniques such as SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP), and Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIM

    Dilli Prasad Sharma, Xiaowei Sun, Liang Xue, Xiaodong Lin et al.

  16. arXiv2511.09774

    Solvaformer: an SE(3)-equivariant graph transformer for small molecule solubility prediction

    Accurate prediction of small molecule solubility using material-sparing approaches is critical for accelerating synthesis and process optimization, yet experimental measurement is costly and many learning approaches either depend on quantumderived descriptors or offer limited interpretability. We introduce Solvaformer, a geometry-aware graph transformer that models solutions as multiple molecules with independent SE(

    Jonathan Broadbent, Michael Bailey, Mingxuan Li, Abhishek Paul et al.

  17. arXiv2511.09768

    ProbLog4Fairness: A Neurosymbolic Approach to Modeling and Mitigating Bias

    Operationalizing definitions of fairness is difficult in practice, as multiple definitions can be incompatible while each being arguably desirable. Instead, it may be easier to directly describe algorithmic bias through ad-hoc assumptions specific to a particular real-world task, e.g., based on background information on systemic biases in its context. Such assumptions can, in turn, be used to mitigate this bias durin

    Rik Adriaensen, Lucas Van Praet, Jessa Bekker, Robin Manhaeve et al.

  18. arXiv2511.09766

    Ksurf-Drone: Attention Kalman Filter for Contextual Bandit Optimization in Cloud Resource Allocation

    Resource orchestration and configuration parameter search are key concerns for container-based infrastructure in cloud data centers. Large configuration search space and cloud uncertainties are often mitigated using contextual bandit techniques for resource orchestration including the state-of-the-art Drone orchestrator. Complexity in the cloud provider environment due to varying numbers of virtual machines introduce

    Michael Dang'ana, Yuqiu Zhang, Hans-Arno Jacobsen

  19. arXiv2511.09765

    Brian Intensify: An Adaptive Machine Learning Framework for Auditory EEG Stimulation and Cognitive Enhancement in FXS

    Neurodevelopmental disorders such as Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are characterized by disrupted cortical oscillatory activity, particularly in the alpha and gamma frequency bands. These abnormalities are linked to deficits in attention, sensory processing, and cognitive function. In this work, we present an adaptive machine learning-based brain-computer interface (BCI) system designed

    Zag ElSayed, Grace Westerkamp, Jack Yanchen Liu, Ernest Pedapati

  20. arXiv2511.09754

    History Rhymes: Macro-Contextual Retrieval for Robust Financial Forecasting

    Financial markets are inherently non-stationary: structural breaks and macroeconomic regime shifts often cause forecasting models to fail when deployed out of distribution (OOD). Conventional multimodal approaches that simply fuse numerical indicators and textual sentiment rarely adapt to such shifts. We introduce macro-contextual retrieval, a retrieval-augmented forecasting framework that grounds each prediction in

    Sarthak Khanna, Armin Berger, Muskaan Chopra, David Berghaus et al.

  21. arXiv2511.09748

    How Small Can You Go? Compact Language Models for On-Device Critical Error Detection in Machine Translation

    Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at evaluating machine translation (MT), but their scale and cost hinder deployment on edge devices and in privacy-sensitive workflows. We ask: how small can you get while still detecting meaning-altering translation errors? Focusing on English->German Critical Error Detection (CED), we benchmark sub-2B models (LFM2-350M, Qwen-3-0.6B/1.7B, Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct, Gemma-3-1B) across

    Muskaan Chopra, Lorenz Sparrenberg, Sarthak Khanna, Rafet Sifa

  22. arXiv2511.09742

    Feature Quality and Adaptability of Medical Foundation Models: A Comparative Evaluation for Radiographic Classification and Segmentation

    Foundation models (FMs) promise to generalize medical imaging, but their effectiveness varies. It remains unclear how pre-training domain (medical vs. general), paradigm (e.g., text-guided), and architecture influence embedding quality, hindering the selection of optimal encoders for specific radiology tasks. To address this, we evaluate vision encoders from eight medical and general-domain FMs for chest X-ray analys

    Frank Li, Theo Dapamede, Mohammadreza Chavoshi, Young Seok Jeon et al.

  23. arXiv2511.09741

    TawPipe: Topology-Aware Weight Pipeline Parallelism for Accelerating Long-Context Large Models Training

    Training large language models (LLMs) is fundamentally constrained by limited device memory and costly inter-device communication. Although pipeline parallelism alleviates memory pressure by partitioning models across devices, it incurs activation communication overhead that scales linearly with sequence length, limiting efficiency in long-context training. Recent weight-passing approaches (e.g., WeiPipe) mitigate th

    Houming Wu, Ling Chen

  24. arXiv2511.09740

    Soiling detection for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems

    Soiling detection for automotive cameras is a crucial part of advanced driver assistance systems to make them more robust to external conditions like weather, dust, etc. In this paper, we regard the soiling detection as a semantic segmentation problem. We provide a comprehensive comparison of popular segmentation methods and show their superiority in performance while comparing them to tile-level classification appro

    Filip Beránek, Václav Diviš, Ivan Gruber

  25. arXiv2511.09737

    Out-of-Distribution Generalization with a SPARC: Racing 100 Unseen Vehicles with a Single Policy

    Generalization to unseen environments is a significant challenge in the field of robotics and control. In this work, we focus on contextual reinforcement learning, where agents act within environments with varying contexts, such as self-driving cars or quadrupedal robots that need to operate in different terrains or weather conditions than they were trained for. We tackle the critical task of generalizing to out-of-d

    Bram Grooten, Patrick MacAlpine, Kaushik Subramanian, Peter Stone et al.

On this calendar day 18

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

  1. 2014year

    The European Space Agency's lander Philae touched down on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, becoming the first spacecraft to land on a comet.

  2. 2011year

    An explosion in the Shahid Modarres missile base led to the deaths of 17 members of the Revolutionary Guards, including Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile program.

  3. 2006year

    Although the Georgian government declared it illegal, South Ossetia held a referendum on independence, with more than 99 percent of voters in favour of preserving the region's status as a de facto independent state.

  4. 2001year

    American Airlines Flight 587 crashed into residential buildings five minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, killing a total of 265 people.

  5. 1996year

    A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 collided in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349 people, the deadliest such collision in history.

  6. 1991year

    Indonesian forces opened fire on student demonstrators protesting the occupation of East Timor in the capital Dili, killing at least 250 people.

  7. 1973year

    The first episode of Last of the Summer Wine, the longest-running television sitcom in history, premiered on the BBC.

  8. 1970year

    The Oregon Highway Division unsuccessfully attempted to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale near Florence, Oregon, with dynamite.

  9. 1970year

    The deadliest tropical cyclone in history made landfall on the coast of East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh), killing at least 250,000 people.

  10. 1956year

    Suez Crisis: During an invasion of Rafah, Israeli soldiers shot and killed an estimated 111 Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants.

  11. 1944year

    Second World War: In Operation Catechism, the Royal Air Force sank the German battleship Tirpitz (video featured) near Tromsø, Norway, killing about 1,000 sailors on board.

  12. 1942year

    World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, the decisive engagement in a series of sea battles between Allied and Japanese forces during the months-long Guadalcanal campaign in the Solomon Islands, began.

  13. 1940year

    World War II: Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrived in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis powers.

  14. 1940year

    World War II: Free French forces captured Gabon from Vichy France.

  15. 1932year

    At the request of the Government of Western Australia, the Australian military officially resumed fighting the Emu War after their prior withdrawal.

  16. 1928year

    The British ocean liner SS Vestris sank in the western Atlantic Ocean, killing 111 people.

  17. 1920year

    The Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes signed the Treaty of Rapallo to establish national borders east of the Adriatic Sea.

  18. 1912year

    Eight months after perishing during the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, the bodies of Robert Falcon Scott (pictured) and his companions were discovered on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.