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Record 14042026 · captured 2026-08-25

Tuesday, 14 April 2026

The world looked up 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election. 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. 544,944views

    2026 Hungarian parliamentary election

    Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 12 April 2026 to elect all 199 members of the National Assembly. It was the 10th parliamentary election and the highest-turnout election since Hungary's transition to democracy in 1990. The incumbent Fidesz–KDNP

  2. 517,672views

    Péter Magyar

    Péter Magyar is a Hungarian politician who has served as prime minister of Hungary since May 2026. He has been the president of the Tisza Party since 2024 and was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2024 to 2026.

  3. 496,373views

    Rory McIlroy

    Rory Daniel McIlroy is a Northern Irish professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and the European Tour. He is a former world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking and has spent over 100 weeks in that position during his career. A six-time major ch

  4. 439,220views

    Asha Bhosle

    Asha Bhosle was an Indian playback singer and actress who predominantly worked in Indian cinema. Known for her versatility, she was described in the media as one of the greatest and most influential singers in Hindi cinema. In a career spanning over eight deca

  5. 362,981views

    Eric Swalwell

    Eric Michael Swalwell is an American former politician who served as a U.S. representative from California from 2013 to 2026. A member of the Democratic Party, Swalwell previously served on the city council for Dublin, California from 2010 to 2013.

  6. 264,555views

    Tisza Party

    The Respect and Freedom Party, commonly known by its Hungarian abbreviations Tisza Party and TISZA, is a conservative, centre-right, pro-European, and populist political party in Hungary. It has been the governing party since the 2026 general election.

  7. 257,079views

    Viktor Orbán

    Viktor Mihály Orbán is a Hungarian lawyer and politician who served as the prime minister of Hungary from 1998 to 2002 and from 2010 to 2026. He has also been the president of Fidesz, which has been variously characterised as a Christian nationalist, illiberal

  8. 224,032views

    Euphoria (American TV series)

    Euphoria is an American psychological drama television series created and written by Sam Levinson for HBO. Based on the Israeli miniseries of the same name created by Ron Leshem, the series stars Zendaya as drug-addicted teenager Rue Bennett, who also serves a

  9. 192,900views

    Dhurandhar: The Revenge

    Dhurandhar: The Revenge is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language spy action-thriller film written and directed by Aditya Dhar. It is produced by Dhar, Lokesh Dhar, and Jyoti Deshpande under Jio Studios and B62 Studios. It is a sequel to the 2025 film Dhurandhar and the

  10. 179,435views

    List of highest-grossing Indian films

    This ranking lists the highest-grossing Indian films produced by Indian cinema, based on conservative global box office estimates as reported by organisations classified as green by Wikipedia. The figures are not adjusted for inflation. However, there is no of

  11. 157,598views

    AEW Dynasty (2026)

    The 2026 Dynasty was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It was the third annual Dynasty and took place on April 12, 2026, at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, marking the first AEW PPV to

  12. 147,479views

    List of men's major championships winning golfers

    The men's major golf championships, also known simply as the majors, are the four most prestigious events in professional golf. The competitions are the Masters Tournament, the PGA Championship, the U.S. Open, and The Open Championship, contested annually.

  13. 130,142views

    Coachella 2026

    Coachella 2026 was a music and arts festival that took place at the Empire Polo Club, in Indio, California, from April 10 to 19, 2026. It was the 25th edition of the festival. The scheduled headlining performers were Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, Karol G,

  14. 129,877views

    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

  15. 121,157views

    Lata Mangeshkar

    Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar was an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer. She is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential singers of the Indian subcontinent. Her contribution to the Indian music industry in a career spanning eight

  16. 116,405views

    Dacre railway station

    Dacre railway station served the villages of Dacre and Summerbridge, North Yorkshire, England from 1862 to 1951 on the Nidd Valley Railway.

  17. 111,815views

    ArtsFest

    ArtsFest was an annual free arts festival held in September in and around Birmingham, England from 1997 to 2012. The festival was free for all attendees and featured varied performances ranging from orchestral music, ballet, rock bands, flash mobs, and dance g

  18. 111,489views

    Varsha Bhosle

    Varsha Bhosle was an Indian singer, journalist and writer based in Mumbai. She was the daughter of acclaimed playback singer Asha Bhosle.

  19. 108,783views

    Project Hail Mary (film)

    Project Hail Mary is a 2026 American science fiction film produced and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and written by Drew Goddard, based on the 2021 novel of the same name by Andy Weir. It stars Ryan Gosling, who also produced the film, as Ryland

  20. 107,708views

    Harbin Russians

    The term Harbin Russians or Russian Harbinites refers to several generations of Russians who lived in the city of Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. Russian settlers were responsible for turning Harbin into a Russian city with the majority of the population being fr

  21. 106,112views

    List of Masters Tournament champions

    The Masters Tournament is a golf competition that was established in 1934, with Horton Smith winning the inaugural tournament. The Masters is the first of four major championships to be played each year, with the final round of the Masters always being schedul

  22. 104,087views

    Judit Varga

    Judit Varga is a Hungarian lawyer and retired politician who served as Minister of Justice of Hungary from her appointment in July 2019, until her resignation in June 2023. In the 2022 Hungarian parliamentary election, she was elected to the National Assembly.

  23. 103,840views

    2022 Hungarian parliamentary election

    Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 3 April 2022 to elect the National Assembly, coinciding with a referendum. Hungary's incumbent prime minister Viktor Orbán won re-election to a fourth term. Addressing his supporters after the partial results sho

  24. 103,438views

    Pope Leo XIV

    Pope Leo XIV is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City.

  25. 99,418views

    2026 Iran war

    Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been at war with Iran and its regional allies. Hostilities broke out after US–Israeli airstrikes killed several Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The strikes were launched amid o

  26. 97,587views

    Hungary

    Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Aust

  27. 94,700views

    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

  28. 94,058views

    Scottie Scheffler

    Scott Alexander Scheffler is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He is currently ranked world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking, a position he has held for over 175 weeks during his career. He has won four major championships

  29. 91,430views

    Fidesz

    Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance is a political party in Hungary led by Viktor Orbán. It is most notable for dominating Hungarian politics from 2010 to 2026, a period known as the Orbán era. Earlier, from 1998 to 2002, it was the senior partner in a conservat

  30. 87,936views

    Artemis II

    Artemis II was a crewed flyby of the Moon. It is currently the only crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. It was the first crewed flight of the NASA-led Artemis program, the first crewed flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), and the

Frontier 25

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

  1. 1,147points

    DaVinci Resolve – Photo

    296 comments

  2. 1,130points

    Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

    693 comments

  3. 993points

    Stop Flock

    308 comments

  4. 918points

    A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

    513 comments

  5. 831points

    Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable

    232 comments

  6. 720points

    Claude Code Routines

    413 comments

  7. 708points

    Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive

    219 comments

  8. 670points

    I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program

    258 comments

  9. 562points

    Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now

    214 comments

  10. 549points

    jj – the CLI for Jujutsu

    498 comments

  11. 446points

    Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times

    461 comments

  12. 395points

    Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug

    178 comments

  13. 290points

    The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work

    219 comments

  14. 281points

    Introspective Diffusion Language Models

    55 comments

  15. 280points

    OpenSSL 4.0.0

    86 comments

  16. 272points

    Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit

    155 comments

  17. 231points

    CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models

    65 comments

  18. 218points

    US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed

    225 comments

  19. 214points

    It's OK to compare floating-points for equality

    144 comments

  20. 213points

    An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story

    211 comments

  21. 203points

    5NF and Database Design

    83 comments

  22. 195points

    Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

    114 comments

  23. 192points

    Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out

    97 comments

  24. 190points

    Distributed DuckDB Instance

    36 comments

  25. 174points

    40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal

    323 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv1810.07793

    The Wasserstein transform

    We introduce the Wasserstein Transform (WT), a general unsupervised framework for updating distance structures on given data sets with the purpose of enhancing features and denoising. Our framework represents each data point by a probability measure reflecting the neighborhood structure of the point, and then updates the distance by computing the Wasserstein distance between these probability measures. The Wasserstei

    Jin, Kun, Mémoli, Facundo, Smith, Zane, Wan, Zhengchao

  2. arXiv2210.01749

    Lightweight Strategy for XOR PUFs as Security Primitives for Resource-constrained IoT device

    Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are promising security primitives for resource-constrained IoT devices. And the XOR Arbiter PUF (XOR-PUF) is one of the most studied PUFs, out of an effort to improve the resistance against machine learning attacks of probably the most lightweight delay-based PUFs - the Arbiter PUFs. However, recent attack studies reveal that even XOR-PUFs with large XOR sizes are still not safe a

    Li, Gaoxiang, Mursi, Khalid T., Zhuang, Yu

  3. arXiv2301.01864

    AXIL: Exact Instance Attribution for Gradient Boosting

    We derive an exact, prediction-specific instance-attribution method for fitted gradient boosting machines (GBMs) trained with squared-error loss, with the learned tree structure held fixed. Each prediction can be written as a weighted sum of training targets, with coefficients determined only by the fitted tree structure and learning rate. These coefficients are exact instance attributions, or AXIL weights. Our main

    Geertsema, Paul, Lu, Helen

  4. arXiv2301.06081

    A Data-driven Loss Weighting Scheme across Heterogeneous Tasks for Image Denoising

    In a variational denoising model, weight in the data fidelity term plays the role of enhancing the noise-removal capability. It is profoundly correlated with noise information, while also balancing the data fidelity and regularization terms. However, the difficulty of assigning weight is expected to be substantial when the noise pattern is beyond independent identical Gaussian distribution, e.g., impulse noise, strip

    Rui, Xiangyu, Cao, Xiangyong, Zhao, Xile, Meng, Deyu et al.

  5. arXiv2302.05545

    Privacy Against Agnostic Inference Attacks in Vertical Federated Learning

    A novel form of inference attack in vertical federated learning (VFL) is proposed, where two parties collaborate in training a machine learning (ML) model. Logistic regression is considered for the VFL model. One party, referred to as the active party, possesses the ground truth labels of the samples in the training phase, while the other, referred to as the passive party, only shares a separate set of features corre

    Varasteh, Morteza

  6. arXiv2303.10894

    M$^{2}$SNet: Multi-scale in Multi-scale Subtraction Network for Medical Image Segmentation

    Accurate medical image segmentation is critical for early medical diagnosis. Most existing methods are based on U-shape structure and use element-wise addition or concatenation to fuse different level features progressively in decoder. However, both the two operations easily generate plenty of redundant information, which will weaken the complementarity between different level features, resulting in inaccurate locali

    Zhao, Xiaoqi, Jia, Hongpeng, Pang, Youwei, Lv, Long et al.

  7. arXiv2305.09958

    SIGMA: An Efficient Heterophilous Graph Neural Network with Fast Global Aggregation

    Graph neural networks (GNNs) realize great success in graph learning but suffer from performance loss when meeting heterophily, i.e. neighboring nodes are dissimilar, due to their local and uniform aggregation. Existing attempts of heterophilous GNNs incorporate long-range or global aggregations to distinguish nodes in the graph. However, these aggregations usually require iteratively maintaining and updating full-gr

    Liu, Haoyu, Liao, Ningyi, Luo, Siqiang

  8. arXiv2305.14299

    Template-assisted Contrastive Learning of Task-oriented Dialogue Sentence Embeddings

    Learning high quality sentence embeddings from dialogues has drawn increasing attentions as it is essential to solve a variety of dialogue-oriented tasks with low annotation cost. Annotating and gathering utterance relationships in conversations are difficult, while token-level annotations, \eg, entities, slots and templates, are much easier to obtain. Other sentence embedding methods are usually sentence-level self-

    Oh, Minsik, Li, Jiwei, Wang, Guoyin

  9. arXiv2305.15404

    RoMa: Robust Dense Feature Matching

    Feature matching is an important computer vision task that involves estimating correspondences between two images of a 3D scene, and dense methods estimate all such correspondences. The aim is to learn a robust model, i.e., a model able to match under challenging real-world changes. In this work, we propose such a model, leveraging frozen pretrained features from the foundation model DINOv2. Although these features a

    Edstedt, Johan, Sun, Qiyu, Bökman, Georg, Wadenbäck, Mårten et al.

  10. arXiv2307.01139

    SCITUNE: Aligning Large Language Models with Human-Curated Scientific Multimodal Instructions

    Instruction finetuning is a popular paradigm to align large language models (LLM) with human intent. Despite its popularity, this idea is less explored in improving LLMs to align existing foundation models with scientific disciplines, concepts and goals. In this work, we present \textit{SciTune} as a tuning framework to improve the ability of LLMs to follow multimodal instructions generated from scientific publicatio

    Horawalavithana, Sameera, Munikoti, Sai, Stewart, Ian, Kvinge, Henry et al.

  11. arXiv2308.01917

    A Heavy-Load-Enhanced and Changeable-Periodicity-Perceived Workload Prediction Network

    Cloud providers can greatly benefit from accurate workload prediction. However, the workload of cloud servers is highly variable, with occasional workload bursts, which makes workload prediction challenging. The time series forecasting methods relying on periodicity information, often assume fixed and known periodicity length, which does not align with the periodicity-changeable nature of cloud service workloads. Alt

    Chen, Feiyi, Liu, Naijin, Qin, Zhen, Zhao, Hailiang et al.

  12. arXiv2308.12067

    MM-LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment in Multi-Modal Datasets

    Multimodal large language models are typically trained in two stages: first pre-training on image-text pairs, and then fine-tuning using supervised vision-language instruction data. Recent studies have shown that large language models can achieve satisfactory results even with a limited amount of high-quality instruction-following data. In this paper, we introduce MM-LIMA, which is fine-tuned on a small dataset compr

    Wei, Lai, Li, Xiaozhe, Jiang, Zihao, Huang, Weiran et al.

  13. arXiv2309.09513

    Learning Parallax for Stereo Event-based Motion Deblurring

    Due to the extremely low latency, events have been recently exploited to supplement lost information for motion deblurring. Existing approaches largely rely on the perfect pixel-wise alignment between intensity images and events, which is not always fulfilled in the real world. To tackle this problem, we propose a novel coarse-to-fine framework, named NETwork of Event-based motion Deblurring with STereo event and int

    Lin, Mingyuan, Zhang, Chi, He, Chu, Yu, Lei

  14. arXiv2309.17257

    A Survey on Deep Learning Techniques for Action Anticipation

    The ability to anticipate possible future human actions is essential for a wide range of applications, including autonomous driving and human-robot interaction. Consequently, numerous methods have been introduced for action anticipation in recent years, with deep learning-based approaches being particularly popular. In this work, we review the recent advances of action anticipation algorithms with a particular focus

    Zhong, Zeyun, Martin, Manuel, Voit, Michael, Gall, Juergen et al.

  15. arXiv2310.07099

    ClausewitzGPT Framework: A New Frontier in Theoretical Large Language Model Enhanced Information Operations

    In a digital epoch where cyberspace is the emerging nexus of geopolitical contention, the melding of information operations and Large Language Models (LLMs) heralds a paradigm shift, replete with immense opportunities and intricate challenges. As tools like the Mistral 7B LLM (Mistral, 2023) democratise access to LLM capabilities (Jin et al., 2023), a vast spectrum of actors, from sovereign nations to rogue entities

    Kereopa-Yorke, Benjamin

  16. arXiv2403.01919

    Randomized Approach to Matrix Completion: Applications in Recommendation Systems and Image Inpainting

    We present a novel method for matrix completion, specifically designed for matrices where one dimension is significantly larger than the other. Our Columns Selected Matrix Completion (CSMC) method combines Column Subset Selection with Low-Rank Matrix Completion to efficiently reconstruct incomplete datasets. CSMC substantially reduces computational cost while preserving the solution quality of state-of-the-art convex

    Krajewska, Antonina, Niewiadomska-Szynkiewicz, Ewa

  17. arXiv2403.15651

    GaNI: Global and Near Field Illumination Aware Neural Inverse Rendering

    In this paper, we present GaNI, a Global and Near-field Illumination-aware neural inverse rendering technique that can reconstruct geometry, albedo, and roughness parameters from images of a scene captured with co-located light and camera. Existing inverse rendering techniques with co-located light-camera focus on single objects only, without modeling global illumination and near-field lighting more prominent in scen

    Wu, Jiaye, Hadadan, Saeed, Lin, Geng, Zwicker, Matthias et al.

  18. arXiv2404.13972

    Non-Uniform Exposure Imaging via Neuromorphic Shutter Control

    By leveraging the blur-noise trade-off, imaging with non-uniform exposures largely extends the image acquisition flexibility in harsh environments. However, the limitation of conventional cameras in perceiving intra-frame dynamic information prevents existing methods from being implemented in the real-world frame acquisition for real-time adaptive camera shutter control. To address this challenge, we propose a novel

    Lin, Mingyuan, Liu, Jian, Zhang, Chi, Zhao, Zibo et al.

  19. arXiv2405.11597

    Language Reconstruction with Brain Predictive Coding from fMRI Data

    Many recent studies have shown that the perception of speech can be decoded from brain signals and subsequently reconstructed as continuous language. However, there is a lack of neurological basis for how the semantic information embedded within brain signals can be used more effectively to guide language reconstruction. Predictive coding theory suggests the human brain naturally engages in continuously predicting fu

    Yin, Congchi, Ye, Ziyi, Li, Piji

  20. arXiv2405.16091

    Near OOD Detection for Vision-Language Prompt Learning with Contrastive Logit Score

    Prompt learning has emerged as an efficient and effective method for fine-tuning vision-language models such as CLIP. While many studies have explored generalisation abilities of these models in few-shot classification tasks and a few studies have addressed far out-of-distribution (OOD) of the models, their potential for addressing near OOD detection remains underexplored. Existing methods either require training fro

    Jung, Myong Chol, Dipnall, Joanna, Gabbe, Belinda, Zhao, He

  21. arXiv2406.05358

    Reinforcement Learning for Intensity Control: An Application to Choice-Based Network Revenue Management

    Intensity control is a class of continuous-time dynamic optimization problems with many important applications in Operations Research including queueing and revenue management. In this study, we propose a practical continuous-time reinforcement learning framework for intensity control using choice-based network revenue management as a case study, which is a classical problem in revenue management that features a larg

    Meng, Huiling, Chen, Ningyuan, Gao, Xuefeng

  22. arXiv2406.09588

    Learning Color Equivariant Representations

    In this paper, we introduce group convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) equivariant to color variation. GCNNs have been designed for a variety of geometric transformations from 2D and 3D rotation groups, to semi-groups such as scale. Despite the improved interpretability, accuracy and generalizability of these architectures, GCNNs have seen limited application in the context of perceptual quantities. Notably, the rec

    Yang, Yulong, O'Mahony, Felix, Allen-Blanchette, Christine

  23. arXiv2406.11290

    An Iterative Utility Judgment Framework Inspired by Philosophical Relevance via LLMs

    Relevance and utility are two frequently used measures to evaluate the effectiveness of an information retrieval (IR) system. Relevance emphasizes the aboutness of a result to a query, while utility refers to the result's usefulness or value to an information seeker. In retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), high-utility results should be prioritized to feed to LLMs due to their limited input bandwidth. Re-examini

    Zhang, Hengran, Bi, Keping, Guo, Jiafeng, Cheng, Xueqi

  24. arXiv2406.13621

    LaMI: Augmenting Large Language Models via Late Multi-Image Fusion

    Commonsense reasoning often requires both textual and visual knowledge, yet Large Language Models (LLMs) trained solely on text lack visual grounding (e.g., "what color is an emperor penguin's belly?"). Visual Language Models (VLMs) perform better on visually grounded tasks but face two limitations: (i) often reduced performance on text-only commonsense reasoning compared to text-trained LLMs, and (ii) ad

    Yariv, Guy, Schwartz, Idan, Adi, Yossi, Benaim, Sagie

  25. arXiv2407.05087

    Linear Attention Based Deep Nonlocal Means Filtering for Multiplicative Noise Removal

    Multiplicative noise widely exists in radar images, medical images and other important fields' images. Compared to normal noises, multiplicative noise has a generally stronger effect on the visual expression of images. Aiming at the denoising problem of multiplicative noise, we linearize the nonlocal means algorithm with deep learning and propose a linear attention mechanism based deep nonlocal means filtering (L

    Siyao, Xiao, Libing, Huang, Shunsheng, Zhang

On this calendar day 18

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

  1. 2024year

    Flooding in the Persian Gulf began, killing 19 in Oman.

  2. 2015year

    Western Kentucky University announced a five-year suspension of their swimming and diving programs as a result of a hazing scandal.

  3. 2010year

    Plumes of ash from a major eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland led to widespread disruption of air travel throughout Europe for several days.

  4. 2010year

    Nearly 2,700 people were killed in an earthquake registering 6.9 Mw in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China.

  5. 2005year

    The Oregon Supreme Court nullified marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.

  6. 1999year

    A storm dropped around 500,000 tonnes of hailstones on Sydney (examples pictured) and the east coast of New South Wales, causing about A$2.3 billion in damages, the costliest natural disaster in Australian insurance history.

  7. 1994year

    Iraqi no-fly zones conflict: In a friendly-fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort, two U.S. Air Force aircraft mistakenly shot down two U.S. Army helicopters over northern Iraq, killing 26 people.

  8. 1983year

    Let's Dance, English musician David Bowie's best-selling album, was released.

  9. 1978year

    Thousands of Georgians demonstrated in Tbilisi against an attempt by the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.

  10. 1970year

    After an oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 (mission patch pictured) exploded, disabling the spacecraft's electrical and life-support systems, astronaut Jack Swigert reported: "Houston, we've had a problem here".

  11. 1967year

    After leading a military coup three months earlier, Gnassingbé Eyadéma installed himself as President of Togo, a post that he held until 2005.

  12. 1945year

    World War II: The German town of Friesoythe was razed by the 4th Canadian Division on the orders of Major General Christopher Vokes.

  13. 1944year

    The freighter Fort Stikine, carrying cotton bales, gold and ammunition, exploded in the harbour of Bombay, India, sinking surrounding ships and causing about 800 deaths.

  14. 1935year

    Dust Bowl: A severe dust storm swept across Oklahoma and northern Texas, removing an estimated 300 million tons of topsoil from the prairies.

  15. 1931year

    After King Alfonso XIII left Spain, the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed by a provisional government led by Niceto Alcalá-Zamora.

  16. 1909year

    Following a reactionary military revolt against the Committee of Union and Progress, a mob began a massacre of Armenian Christians in the Adana Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire.

  17. 1908year

    The first Hauser Dam in the U.S. state of Montana failed, causing severe flooding and damage downstream.

  18. 1906year

    The Azusa Street Revival, the primary catalyst for the spread of Pentecostalism in the 20th century, opened in Los Angeles.