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Record 13012026 · captured 2026-08-25

Tuesday, 13 January 2026

The world looked up Donald Trump. 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. 739,258views

    Donald Trump

    Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.

  2. 545,297views

    83rd Golden Globes

    The 83rd Golden Globes was an awards ceremony that honored excellence in film and American television productions of 2025. The winners were revealed during the live telecast, airing on CBS and streaming on Paramount+ on January 11, 2026, at the Beverly Hilton.

  3. 356,895views

    Hamnet (film)

    Hamnet is a 2025 historical drama film directed by Chloé Zhao, who co-wrote the screenplay with Maggie O'Farrell, based on the 2020 novel by O'Farrell. The film dramatises the family life of William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes Hathaway as they cope with the

  4. 330,706views

    One Battle After Another

    One Battle After Another is a 2025 American action thriller film written, directed, and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. Inspired by the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon, the film's ensemble cast includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, R

  5. 299,812views

    Álvaro Arbeloa

    Álvaro Arbeloa Coca is a Spanish professional football manager and former footballer who is the head coach of Premier League club Fulham. He predominantly played as a right-back, and occasionally on the left side.

  6. 265,031views

    Jessie Buckley

    Jessie Buckley is an Irish actress and singer. Her accolades include an Academy Award, two BAFTAs, an Actor Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Critics' Choice Award and a Laurence Olivier Award.

  7. 262,069views

    Teyana Taylor

    Teyana Me Shay Jacqueline Taylor is an American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, choreographer, and music video director. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award, two Critics Choice Awards, and an NAACP Image Award, along with nominations for an Academy

  8. 228,923views

    Rose Byrne

    Mary Rose Byrne is an Australian actress. Renowned for her versatility across screen and stage, she is particularly recognised for her leading roles in blockbuster comedies, independent dramas, and horror films. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award, Nati

  9. 213,501views

    Timothée Chalamet

    Timothée Hal Chalamet is an American and French actor. Known for his work in a diverse range of blockbusters and independent films, he is the recipient of numerous accolades including an Actor Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Critics' Choice Awards, in add

  10. 195,351views

    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

  11. 192,401views

    Nikki Glaser

    Nicole Rene Glaser is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She has had five television stand-up specials, hosted numerous award shows, and performed at numerous televised roasts, gaining significant popularity for her set on The Roast of Tom Brady. Previ

  12. 190,169views

    The RajaSaab

    The RajaSaab is a 2026 Indian Telugu-language fantasy horror comedy film written and directed by Maruthi, and produced by People Media Factory and IVY Entertainment. The film stars Prabhas, alongside Sanjay Dutt, Nidhhi Agerwal, Malavika Mohanan, Riddhi Kumar

  13. 183,593views

    Venezuela

    Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and various islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It comprises an area of 912,050 km2 (352,140 sq mi), with

  14. 167,380views

    Heated Rivalry

    Heated Rivalry is a Canadian sports romance television series created, written, and directed by Jacob Tierney for Crave. Based on the Game Changers book series by Rachel Reid, the show takes its title from the 2019 second installment. It stars Hudson Williams

  15. 166,851views

    Hudson Williams

    Hudson Williams is a Canadian actor. He rose to prominence for his breakout role as Shane Hollander in the Crave original television series, Heated Rivalry (2025–present), for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Leading Performance in a Drama Serie

  16. 164,850views

    Marty Supreme

    Marty Supreme is a 2025 American sports comedy-drama film directed by Josh Safdie, who co-wrote it with Ronald Bronstein. Set in the 1950s, it stars Timothée Chalamet as table tennis player Marty Mauser and follows his quest to become world champion. Gwyneth P

  17. 161,319views

    Paul Thomas Anderson

    Paul Thomas Anderson, also known by his initials PTA, is an American filmmaker. Often described as one of the preeminent filmmakers of his generation, he is the recipient of numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and four

  18. 157,296views

    Hailee Steinfeld

    Hailee Steinfeld is an American actress and singer. She had her breakthrough with the western film True Grit (2010), which earned her various accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award and an Actor Award

  19. 150,806views

    Golden Globes

    The Golden Globes are American awards presented for excellence in international film and television. It is an annual award with an award ceremony held since 1944 to honor artists, professionals, and their work. The ceremony is normally held every January, and

  20. 148,609views

    Bob Weir

    Robert Hall Weir was an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the group disbanded in 1995, he performed with the Other Ones, later known as the Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead

  21. 147,730views

    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

  22. 147,343views

    Stellan Skarsgård

    Stellan John Skarsgård is a Swedish actor. He is known for his collaborations with director Lars von Trier, appearing in Breaking the Waves (1996), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville (2003), Melancholia (2011), and Nymphomaniac (2013). Skarsgård's early Engli

  23. 137,259views

    2025–2026 Iranian protests

    The 2025–2026 Iranian protests were a series of nationwide demonstrations against the government of Iran that began on 28 December 2025 amid a deepening economic crisis. The unrest followed a sharp depreciation of the Iranian rial, rising inflation, and widesp

  24. 136,654views

    His & Hers (2026 TV series)

    His & Hers is an American mystery thriller limited series starring Tessa Thompson, Jon Bernthal, Pablo Schreiber, Marin Ireland, Sunita Mani, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Chris Bauer, Poppy Liu and Crystal Fox. It is an adaptation of the 2020 novel of the same name by

  25. 135,855views

    President of Venezuela

    The president of Venezuela, officially known as the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is the executive head of state and head of government of Venezuela. The president leads the National Executive of the Venezuelan government and is the comman

  26. 132,445views

    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

  27. 131,984views

    Owen Cooper

    Owen Patrick Cooper is an English actor. He is best known for his debut role as a teenage murder suspect in the Netflix miniseries Adolescence (2025). For his performance, he became the youngest male actor to win an Actor Award and Primetime Emmy Award, as wel

  28. 131,507views

    Noah Wyle

    Noah Strausser Speer Wyle is an American actor, television director, producer and writer. He is best known for portraying Dr. John Carter in the NBC medical drama ER (1994–2005) and Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch in the HBO Max medical drama The Pitt (2025–pr

  29. 131,257views

    Greenland

    Greenland is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark and is the largest of the kingdom's three constituent parts by land area, the others being Denmark proper and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenland are citizens of Denmark. They are thus citizen

  30. 130,534views

    Killing of Renée Good

    On January 7, 2026, Renée Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old American woman, was fatally shot by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during Operation Metro Surge. Good was in her car stopped si

Frontier 25

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

  1. 1,069points

    Scott Adams has died

    1,794 comments

  2. 949points

    AI generated music barred from Bandcamp

    726 comments

  3. 515points

    Apple Creator Studio

    443 comments

  4. 465points

    We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers

    266 comments

  5. 451points

    Chromium Has Merged JpegXL

    186 comments

  6. 424points

    Scott Adams has died

    3 comments

  7. 415points

    Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests

    324 comments

  8. 411points

    Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation

    176 comments

  9. 403points

    When hardware goes end-of-life, companies need to open-source the software

    133 comments

  10. 390points

    Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home

    264 comments

  11. 370points

    A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap

    78 comments

  12. 349points

    Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk

    104 comments

  13. 327points

    Every GitHub object has two IDs

    75 comments

  14. 326points

    The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

    87 comments

  15. 318points

    Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout

    263 comments

  16. 310points

    No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams

    346 comments

  17. 288points

    Text-based web browsers

    114 comments

  18. 286points

    Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever

    64 comments

  19. 282points

    90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet

    371 comments

  20. 251points

    The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists

    280 comments

  21. 246points

    How to make a damn website (2024)

    78 comments

  22. 243points

    What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025

    358 comments

  23. 243points

    The Tulip Creative Computer

    61 comments

  24. 232points

    Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well

    334 comments

  25. 232points

    Games Workshop bans staff from using AI

    127 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv1605.07833

    Effective Blind Source Separation Based on the Adam Algorithm

    In this paper, we derive a modified InfoMax algorithm for the solution of Blind Signal Separation (BSS) problems by using advanced stochastic methods. The proposed approach is based on a novel stochastic optimization approach known as the Adaptive Moment Estimation (Adam) algorithm. The proposed BSS solution can benefit from the excellent properties of the Adam approach. In order to derive the new learning rule, the

    Scarpiniti, Michele, Scardapane, Simone, Comminiello, Danilo, Parisi, Raffaele et al.

  2. arXiv1906.02358

    Survey on Publicly Available Sinhala Natural Language Processing Tools and Research

    Sinhala is the native language of the Sinhalese people who make up the largest ethnic group of Sri Lanka. The language belongs to the globe-spanning language tree, Indo-European. However, due to poverty in both linguistic and economic capital, Sinhala, in the perspective of Natural Language Processing tools and research, remains a resource-poor language which has neither the economic drive its cousin English has nor

    de Silva, Nisansa

  3. arXiv1911.05075

    Time-Dynamic Estimates of the Reliability of Deep Semantic Segmentation Networks

    In the semantic segmentation of street scenes with neural networks, the reliability of predictions is of highest interest. The assessment of neural networks by means of uncertainties is a common ansatz to prevent safety issues. As in applications like automated driving, video streams of images are available, we present a time-dynamic approach to investigating uncertainties and assessing the prediction quality of neur

    Maag, Kira, Rottmann, Matthias, Gottschalk, Hanno

  4. arXiv2012.07504

    Improving Video Instance Segmentation by Light-weight Temporal Uncertainty Estimates

    Instance segmentation with neural networks is an essential task in environment perception. In many works, it has been observed that neural networks can predict false positive instances with high confidence values and true positives with low ones. Thus, it is important to accurately model the uncertainties of neural networks in order to prevent safety issues and foster interpretability. In applications such as automat

    Maag, Kira, Rottmann, Matthias, Varghese, Serin, Hueger, Fabian et al.

  5. arXiv2103.04031

    Accumulation of Sub-Sampling Matrices with Applications to Statistical Computation

    With appropriately chosen sampling probabilities, sampling-based random projection can be used to implement large-scale statistical methods, substantially reducing computational cost while maintaining low statistical error. However, computing optimal sampling probabilities is often itself expensive, and in practice one typically resorts to suboptimal schemes. This generally leads to increased time and space costs, as

    Chen, Yifan, Yang, Yun

  6. arXiv2106.14474

    False Negative Reduction in Video Instance Segmentation using Uncertainty Estimates

    Instance segmentation of images is an important tool for automated scene understanding. Neural networks are usually trained to optimize their overall performance in terms of accuracy. Meanwhile, in applications such as automated driving, an overlooked pedestrian seems more harmful than a falsely detected one. In this work, we present a false negative detection method for image sequences based on inconsistencies in ti

    Maag, Kira

  7. arXiv2204.09155

    Approximating Persistent Homology for Large Datasets

    Persistent homology is an important methodology in topological data analysis which adapts theory from algebraic topology to data settings. Computing persistent homology produces persistence diagrams, which have been successfully used in diverse domains. Despite its widespread use, persistent homology is simply impossible to compute when a dataset is very large. We study a statistical approach to the problem of comput

    Cao, Yueqi, Monod, Anthea

  8. arXiv2207.03513

    False Negative Reduction in Semantic Segmentation under Domain Shift using Depth Estimation

    State-of-the-art deep neural networks demonstrate outstanding performance in semantic segmentation. However, their performance is tied to the domain represented by the training data. Open world scenarios cause inaccurate predictions which is hazardous in safety relevant applications like automated driving. In this work, we enhance semantic segmentation predictions using monocular depth estimation to improve segmentat

    Maag, Kira, Rottmann, Matthias

  9. arXiv2210.02074

    Two Video Data Sets for Tracking and Retrieval of Out of Distribution Objects

    In this work we present two video test data sets for the novel computer vision (CV) task of out of distribution tracking (OOD tracking). Here, OOD objects are understood as objects with a semantic class outside the semantic space of an underlying image segmentation algorithm, or an instance within the semantic space which however looks decisively different from the instances contained in the training data. OOD object

    Maag, Kira, Chan, Robin, Uhlemeyer, Svenja, Kowol, Kamil et al.

  10. arXiv2211.01671

    Visual Adversarial Attacks and Defenses in the Physical World: A Survey

    Although Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been widely applied in various real-world scenarios, they remain vulnerable to adversarial examples. Adversarial attacks in computer vision can be categorized into digital attacks and physical attacks based on their different forms. Compared to digital attacks, which generate perturbations in digital pixels, physical attacks are more practical in real-world settings. Due to t

    Wei, Xingxing, Pu, Bangzheng, Zhao, Shiji, Lu, Jiefan et al.

  11. arXiv2304.05305

    Generative Modeling via Hierarchical Tensor Sketching

    We propose a hierarchical tensor-network approach for approximating high-dimensional probability density via empirical distribution. This leverages randomized singular value decomposition (SVD) techniques and involves solving linear equations for tensor cores in this tensor network. The complexity of the resulting algorithm scales linearly in the dimension of the high-dimensional density. An analysis of estimation er

    Peng, Yifan, Chen, Yian, Stoudenmire, E. Miles, Khoo, Yuehaw

  12. arXiv2305.07216

    Versatile audio-visual learning for emotion recognition

    Most current audio-visual emotion recognition models lack the flexibility needed for deployment in practical applications. We envision a multimodal system that works even when only one modality is available and can be implemented interchangeably for either predicting emotional attributes or recognizing categorical emotions. Achieving such flexibility in a multimodal emotion recognition system is difficult due to the

    Goncalves, Lucas, Leem, Seong-Gyun, Lin, Wei-Cheng, Sisman, Berrak et al.

  13. arXiv2305.11321

    JoIN: Joint GANs Inversion for Intrinsic Image Decomposition

    Intrinsic Image Decomposition (IID) is a challenging inverse problem that seeks to decompose a natural image into its underlying intrinsic components such as albedo and shading. While recent image decomposition methods rely on learning-based priors on these components, they often suffer from component cross-contamination owing to joint training of priors; or from Sim-to-Real gap since the priors trained on synthetic

    Shah, Viraj, Lazebnik, Svetlana, Philip, Julien

  14. arXiv2307.07785

    The Interpolating Information Criterion for Overparameterized Models

    The problem of model selection is considered for the setting of interpolating estimators, where the number of model parameters exceeds the size of the dataset. Classical information criteria typically consider the large-data limit, penalizing model size. However, these criteria are not appropriate in modern settings where overparameterized models tend to perform well. For any overparameterized model, we show that the

    Hodgkinson, Liam, van der Heide, Chris, Salomone, Robert, Roosta, Fred et al.

  15. arXiv2308.04337

    Pengembangan Model untuk Mendeteksi Kerusakan pada Terumbu Karang dengan Klasifikasi Citra

    The rich biodiversity of coral reefs in Indonesian waters represents a valuable asset that must be preserved. Rapid climate change and uncontrolled human activities have caused significant degradation of coral reef ecosystems, including coral bleaching, which is a critical indicator of declining reef health. Therefore, this study aims to develop an accurate classification model to distinguish between healthy corals a

    Muhammad, Fadhil, Elfandra, Alif Bintang, Amin, Iqbal Pahlevi, Wicaksono, Alfan Farizki

  16. arXiv2309.12450

    A Convex Framework for Confounding Robust Inference

    We study policy evaluation of offline contextual bandits subject to unobserved confounders. Sensitivity analysis methods are commonly used to estimate the policy value under the worst-case confounding over a given uncertainty set. However, existing work often resorts to some coarse relaxation of the uncertainty set for the sake of tractability, leading to overly conservative estimation of the policy value. In this pa

    Ishikawa, Kei, He, Niao, Kanamori, Takafumi

  17. arXiv2310.17436

    Uncertainty-weighted Loss Functions for Improved Adversarial Attacks on Semantic Segmentation

    State-of-the-art deep neural networks have been shown to be extremely powerful in a variety of perceptual tasks like semantic segmentation. However, these networks are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations of the input which are imperceptible for humans but lead to incorrect predictions. Treating image segmentation as a sum of pixel-wise classifications, adversarial attacks developed for classification models were

    Maag, Kira, Fischer, Asja

  18. arXiv2311.07093

    A Comprehensive Study on the Effectiveness of ASR Representations for Noise-Robust Speech Emotion Recognition

    This paper proposes an efficient attempt to noisy speech emotion recognition (NSER). Conventional NSER approaches have proven effective in mitigating the impact of artificial noise sources, such as white Gaussian noise, but are limited to non-stationary noises in real-world environments due to their complexity and uncertainty. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a new method for NSER by adopting the automatic s

    Shi, Xiaohan, He, Jiajun, Li, Xingfeng, Toda, Tomoki

  19. arXiv2311.08545

    Efficient Continual Pre-training for Building Domain Specific Large Language Models

    Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable open-domain capabilities. LLMs tailored for a domain are typically trained entirely on domain corpus to excel at handling domain-specific tasks. In this work, we explore an alternative strategy of continual pre-training as a means to develop domain-specific LLMs over an existing open-domain LLM. We introduce FinPythia-6.9B, developed through domain-adaptive co

    Xie, Yong, Aggarwal, Karan, Ahmad, Aitzaz

  20. arXiv2312.10424

    A Concentration Bound for TD(0) with Function Approximation

    We derive uniform all-time concentration bound of the type 'for all $n \geq n_0$ for some $n_0$' for TD(0) with linear function approximation. We work with online TD learning with samples from a single sample path of the underlying Markov chain. This makes our analysis significantly different from offline TD learning or TD learning with access to independent samples from the stationary distribution of the Mar

    Chandak, Siddharth, Borkar, Vivek S.

  21. arXiv2312.11220

    A review of federated learning in renewable energy applications: Potential, challenges, and future directions

    Federated learning has recently emerged as a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning approach. Federated learning enables collaborative training of multiple clients and entire fleets without sharing the involved training datasets. By preserving data privacy, federated learning has the potential to overcome the lack of data sharing in the renewable energy sector which is inhibiting innovation, research and dev

    Grataloup, Albin, Jonas, Stefan, Meyer, Angela

  22. arXiv2312.16108

    LaneSegNet: Map Learning with Lane Segment Perception for Autonomous Driving

    A map, as crucial information for downstream applications of an autonomous driving system, is usually represented in lanelines or centerlines. However, existing literature on map learning primarily focuses on either detecting geometry-based lanelines or perceiving topology relationships of centerlines. Both of these methods ignore the intrinsic relationship of lanelines and centerlines, that lanelines bind centerline

    Li, Tianyu, Jia, Peijin, Wang, Bangjun, Chen, Li et al.

  23. arXiv2401.14373

    TURNA: A Turkish Encoder-Decoder Language Model for Enhanced Understanding and Generation

    The recent advances in natural language processing have predominantly favored well-resourced English-centric models, resulting in a significant gap with low-resource languages. In this work, we introduce the language model TURNA, which is developed for the low-resource language Turkish and is capable of both natural language understanding and generation tasks. TURNA is pretrained with an encoder-decoder architecture

    Uludoğan, Gökçe, Balal, Zeynep Yirmibeşoğlu, Akkurt, Furkan, Türker, Melikşah et al.

  24. arXiv2402.04691

    Learning Operators with Stochastic Gradient Descent in General Hilbert Spaces

    This study investigates leveraging stochastic gradient descent (SGD) to learn operators between general Hilbert spaces. We propose weak and strong regularity conditions for the target operator to depict its intrinsic structure and complexity. Under these conditions, we establish upper bounds for convergence rates of the SGD algorithm and conduct a minimax lower bound analysis, further illustrating that our convergenc

    Shi, Lei, Yang, Jia-Qi

  25. arXiv2402.05674

    A High Dimensional Statistical Model for Adversarial Training: Geometry and Trade-Offs

    This work investigates adversarial training in the context of margin-based linear classifiers in the high-dimensional regime where the dimension $d$ and the number of data points $n$ diverge with a fixed ratio $α= n / d$. We introduce a tractable mathematical model where the interplay between the data and adversarial attacker geometries can be studied, while capturing the core phenomenology observed in the adversaria

    Tanner, Kasimir, Vilucchio, Matteo, Loureiro, Bruno, Krzakala, Florent

On this calendar day 18

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

  1. 2012year

    The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia (pictured) ran aground on a reef and capsized off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany.

  2. 2003year

    The trans-Neptunian object 208996 Achlys was discovered by Chad Trujillo and Michael E. Brown at Palomar Observatory, California.

  3. 2001year

    The first of two large earthquakes in the span of a month struck El Salvador, killing at least 944 people and destroying over 100,000 homes.

  4. 2000year

    Steve Ballmer replaced Bill Gates as the chief executive officer of Microsoft.

  5. 1972year

    Ghanaian military officer Ignatius Kutu Acheampong led a coup to overthrow Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo.

  6. 1972year

    Bernice Gera won a sex-discrimination lawsuit against the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, allowing her to become the first female professional baseball umpire.

  7. 1969year

    British rock band Led Zeppelin released their first album, Led Zeppelin, in the United States.

  8. 1968year

    American singer Johnny Cash recorded his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at Folsom State Prison in California.

  9. 1963year

    Togo's first president, Sylvanus Olympio (pictured), was assassinated by military officers in a coup d'état led by Emmanuel Bodjollé, Étienne Eyadéma, and Kléber Dadjo.

  10. 1953year

    Nine Moscow doctors were accused of a plot to poison members of the Soviet political and military leadership.

  11. 1949year

    In the first recorded instance of strike action by Catholic laity against the clergy, gravediggers at Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York City, went on strike.

  12. 1916year

    The first Feminist Congress of Yucatán (delegates pictured) began in Mérida, Mexico, to propose reforms for women's social, educational, and legal rights.

  13. 1915year

    About 30,000 people were killed when an earthquake struck the Province of L'Aquila in Italy.

  14. 1884year

    Welsh physician William Price (pictured) was arrested for attempting to cremate his deceased infant son; this eventually led to the passing of the Cremation Act 1902 by Parliament.

  15. 1847year

    The Treaty of Cahuenga was signed, informally ending the fighting of the Mexican–American War in California.

  16. 1842year

    First Anglo-Afghan War: William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British Army, was the sole European of the 14,000 people retreating from Kabul to Jalalabad who evaded capture or death.

  17. 1815year

    British troops captured Fort Peter in St. Marys, in the only battle of the War of 1812 to take place in the state of Georgia.

  18. 1797year

    French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle off the coast of Brittany between two British frigates and a French ship of the line ended with hundreds of deaths when the latter ran aground.