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Record 15122025 · captured 2026-08-25

Monday, 15 December 2025

The world looked up Dhurandhar. 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. 617,381views

    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

  2. 461,064views

    Bondi Beach shooting

    On 14 December 2025, an antisemitic and Islamic State (IS)-inspired terrorist attack occurred at the Archer Park area of Bondi Beach in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, during a celebration of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah attended by around 1,000 people.

  3. 413,617views

    Fernando Mendoza

    Fernando Gabriel Mendoza V is an American professional football quarterback for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). Mendoza played college football for the California Golden Bears for three seasons before transferring to the Indiana Ho

  4. 398,295views

    Wake Up Dead Man

    Wake Up Dead Man is a 2025 American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson. It is the third film in the Knives Out series. The film stars Daniel Craig, who reprises his role as master detective Benoit Blanc as he investigates the death of a Catholic

  5. 304,552views

    Peter Greene

    Peter Greene was an American actor. A character actor, he was generally known for portraying villains, corrupt police officers, and criminals. He began his acting career in 1990, landing small roles in television and film with his film debut being Laws of Grav

  6. 298,318views

    John Cena

    John Felix Anthony Cena is an American actor, retired professional wrestler, and former rapper. He is signed to WWE as a brand ambassador. Cena wrestled for WWE for 24 years, becoming a record-setting 17-time world champion, before transitioning fully into his

  7. 292,250views

    Josh O'Connor

    Joshua Mathias O'Connor is an English actor. From 2016 to 2019, he had a major role portraying Larry Durrell in ITV's The Durrells. He had his breakthrough playing the lead role of a gay sheep farmer in Francis Lee's romantic drama God's Own Country (2017), fo

  8. 283,767views

    Dick Van Dyke

    Richard Wayne Van Dyke is an American actor, comedian, singer, dancer and writer. His work spans screen and stage, and his awards include six Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and a Tony Award. He was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1993, and then the T

  9. 271,552views

    Philip Rivers

    Philip Michael Rivers is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 18 seasons, primarily with the Chargers franchise. He played college football for the NC State Wolfpack, winning ACC Player of th

  10. 253,879views

    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

  11. 245,946views

    Brown University

    Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island, United States. The university is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College

  12. 216,177views

    Saturday Night's Main Event XLII

    Saturday Night's Main Event XLII, also promoted as Saturday Night's Main Event: John Cena's Final Match, was a professional wrestling television special produced by WWE. It took place on December 13, 2025, from the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., and wa

  13. 176,356views

    Rehman Dakait

    Sardar Abdul Rehman Baloch, known by the alias Rehman Dakait, was a Pakistani gangster based in Karachi's Lyari neighbourhood who formed the Peoples' Aman Committee which was affiliated with the Pakistan People's Party. The Government of Sindh had set a reward

  14. 166,148views

    Port Arthur massacre

    The Port Arthur massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 28 April 1996 at Port Arthur, a tourist town in the Australian state of Tasmania. The perpetrator, Martin Bryant, murdered 35 people and wounded 23 others, in the deadliest massacre in modern Austra

  15. 164,394views

    Hanukkah

    Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd century BCE, when the Maccabees successfully recovered Jerusalem and the Second Temple.

  16. 149,501views

    2025 Brown University shooting

    On December 13, 2025, a mass shooting occurred at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, during the second day of final examination week for the fall semester. The shooter, Cláudio Manuel Neves Valente, entered the Barus and Holley Buildi

  17. 139,969views

    List of mass shootings in Australia

    This article is a list of mass shootings in Australia. Mass shootings are firearm-related violence with at least four casualties. Excluded are shootings associated with acts of war, such as the 1944 Cowra breakout, which saw over 200 soldiers killed. Also excl

  18. 134,783views

    Bondi Beach

    Bondi Beach is a beach and the surrounding suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Bondi Beach is located 7 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Waverley Council, in the Eastern Suburbs. In the 2021 Aus

  19. 132,514views

    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.

  20. 125,079views

    Bruce Lee

    Bruce Lee was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, actor, and filmmaker. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy, which was formed from his experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defense—as well as eclectic, Zen Buddhist, and

  21. 107,122views

    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

  22. 106,601views

    List of topics named after Leonhard Euler

    In mathematics and physics, many topics are named in honor of Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), who made many important discoveries and innovations. Many of these items named after Euler include their own unique function, equation, formula, ident

  23. 105,060views

    Nitin Nabin

    Nitin Nabin is an Indian politician, political organiser, and activist who has been serving as the 16th national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since January 2026 and an MP in the upper chamber of the Indian Parliament, the Rajya Sabha since Apr

  24. 103,288views

    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. 101,042views

    Sara Arjun

    Sara Arjun is an Indian actress who primarily appears in Tamil and Hindi films. The daughter of actor Raj Arjun, she appeared in several television commercials, including advertisements for Clinic Plus, and a short Hindi film before the age of six. She gained

  26. 99,110views

    Mohit Sharma (soldier)

    Major Mohit Sharma was an Indian Army Officer who was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peace-time military decoration. Sharma was from the elite 1st Para SF.

  27. 98,722views

    Diego Pavia

    Diego Pavia is an American professional football quarterback. He played college football for the New Mexico Military Broncos, New Mexico State Aggies, and Vanderbilt Commodores before signing with the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent in 2026 and was

  28. 98,701views

    Sean Combs

    Sean John Combs, also known professionally as Diddy, is an American former rapper, record producer, record executive, and actor. He is credited with the discovery and development of musical artists such as the Notorious B.I.G., Mary J. Blige, and Usher, among

  29. 92,976views

    Saturday Night's Main Event

    Saturday Night's Main Event is a series of American professional wrestling television specials produced by WWE. The series originally broadcast from 1985 to 1992, by NBC until 1991 then briefly by Fox. The specials were briefly revived on NBC from 2006 to 2008

  30. 87,549views

    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

Frontier 25

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

  1. 800points

    I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me

    504 comments

  2. 670points

    Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges

    809 comments

  3. 623points

    “Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number

    304 comments

  4. 601points

    Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices

    161 comments

  5. 588points

    If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?

    1,012 comments

  6. 456points

    Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide

    351 comments

  7. 439points

    Ford kills the All-Electric F-150

    896 comments

  8. 438points

    Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial

    483 comments

  9. 381points

    Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES

    163 comments

  10. 378points

    JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet

    319 comments

  11. 377points

    Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres

    449 comments

  12. 336points

    Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop

    318 comments

  13. 326points

    Rob Reiner has died

    240 comments

  14. 321points

    Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates

    322 comments

  15. 321points

    Unscii

    58 comments

  16. 302points

    Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted

    319 comments

  17. 293points

    SoundCloud has banned VPN access

    212 comments

  18. 281points

    Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable

    144 comments

  19. 271points

    Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)

    130 comments

  20. 257points

    Nvidia Nemotron 3 Family of Models

    59 comments

  21. 230points

    Arborium: Tree-sitter code highlighting with Native and WASM targets

    45 comments

  22. 228points

    US Tech Force

    299 comments

  23. 228points

    Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century

    33 comments

  24. 220points

    Umbrel – Personal Cloud

    122 comments

  25. 217points

    Full Unicode Search at 50× ICU Speed with AVX‑512

    77 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2202.09848

    Personalized Federated Learning with Exact Stochastic Gradient Descent

    We propose a Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD)-type algorithm for Personalized Federated Learning which can be particularly attractive for mobile energy-limited regimes due to its low per-client computational cost. The model to be trained includes a set of common weights for all clients, and a set of personalized weights that are specific to each client. At each optimization round, randomly selected clients perform m

    Nikoloutsopoulos, Sotirios, Koutsopoulos, Iordanis, Titsias, Michalis K.

  2. arXiv2301.00866

    3DSGrasp: 3D Shape-Completion for Robotic Grasp

    Real-world robotic grasping can be done robustly if a complete 3D Point Cloud Data (PCD) of an object is available. However, in practice, PCDs are often incomplete when objects are viewed from few and sparse viewpoints before the grasping action, leading to the generation of wrong or inaccurate grasp poses. We propose a novel grasping strategy, named 3DSGrasp, that predicts the missing geometry from the partial PCD t

    Mohammadi, Seyed S., Duarte, Nuno F., Dimou, Dimitris, Wang, Yiming et al.

  3. arXiv2303.13775

    GSplit: Scaling Graph Neural Network Training on Large Graphs via Split-Parallelism

    Graph neural networks (GNNs), an emerging class of machine learning models for graphs, have gained popularity for their superior performance in various graph analytical tasks. Mini-batch training is commonly used to train GNNs on large graphs, and data parallelism is the standard approach to scale mini-batch training across multiple GPUs. Data parallel approaches contain redundant work as subgraphs sampled by differe

    Polisetty, Sandeep, Liu, Juelin, Falus, Kobi, Fung, Yi Ren et al.

  4. arXiv2307.02146

    Joint Learning of Wording and Formatting for Singable Melody-to-Lyric Generation

    Despite progress in melody-to-lyric generation, a substantial singability gap remains between machine-generated lyrics and those written by human lyricists. In this work, we aim to narrow this gap by jointly learning both wording and formatting for melody-to-lyric generation. After general-domain pretraining, our model acquires length awareness through an self-supervised stage trained on a large text-only lyric corpu

    Ou, Longshen, Ma, Xichu, Wang, Ye

  5. arXiv2312.04180

    AI and Jobs: Has the Inflection Point Arrived? Evidence from an Online Labor Platform

    This study investigates how artificial intelligence (AI) influences various online labor markets (OLMs) over time. Employing the Difference-in-Differences method, we discovered two distinct scenarios following ChatGPT's launch: displacement effects featuring reduced work volume and earnings, exemplified by translation & localization OLM; productivity effects featuring increased work volume and earnings, exemp

    Qiao, Dandan, Rui, Huaxia, Xiong, Qian

  6. arXiv2312.12717

    DoDo-Code: an Efficient Levenshtein Distance Embedding-based Code for 4-ary IDS Channel

    With the emergence of new storage and communication methods, the insertion, deletion, and substitution (IDS) channel has attracted considerable attention. However, many topics on the IDS channel and the associated Levenshtein distance remain open, making the invention of a novel IDS-correcting code a hard task. Furthermore, current studies on single-IDS-correcting code misalign with the requirements of applications w

    Guo, Alan J. X., Sun, Sihan, Wei, Xiang, Wei, Mengyi et al.

  7. arXiv2402.03216

    M3-Embedding: Multi-Linguality, Multi-Functionality, Multi-Granularity Text Embeddings Through Self-Knowledge Distillation

    In this paper, we introduce a new embedding model called M3-Embedding, which is distinguished for its versatility in \textit{Multi-Linguality}, \textit{Multi-Functionality}, and \textit{Multi-Granularity}. It provides a uniform support for the semantic retrieval of more than 100 working languages. It can simultaneously accomplish the three common retrieval functionalities: dense retrieval, multi-vector retrieval, and

    Chen, Jianlv, Xiao, Shitao, Zhang, Peitian, Luo, Kun et al.

  8. arXiv2403.01543

    Efficient Action Counting with Dynamic Queries

    Temporal repetition counting aims to quantify the repeated action cycles within a video. The majority of existing methods rely on the similarity correlation matrix to characterize the repetitiveness of actions, but their scalability is hindered due to the quadratic computational complexity. In this work, we introduce a novel approach that employs an action query representation to localize repeated action cycles with

    Ma, Xiaoxuan, Li, Zishi, Shang, Qiuyan, Zhu, Wentao et al.

  9. arXiv2403.15780

    A Fairness-Oriented Reinforcement Learning Approach for the Operation and Control of Shared Micromobility Services

    As Machine Learning grows in popularity across various fields, equity has become a key focus for the AI community. However, fairness-oriented approaches are still underexplored in smart mobility. Addressing this gap, our study investigates the balance between performance optimization and algorithmic fairness in shared micromobility services providing a novel framework based on Reinforcement Learning. Exploiting Q-lea

    Cederle, Matteo, Piron, Luca Vittorio, Ceccon, Marina, Chiariotti, Federico et al.

  10. arXiv2405.17394

    The Expressive Capacity of State Space Models: A Formal Language Perspective

    Recently, recurrent models based on linear state space models (SSMs) have shown promising performance in language modeling (LM), competititve with transformers. However, there is little understanding of the in-principle abilities of such models, which could provide useful guidance to the search for better LM architectures. We present a comprehensive theoretical study of the capacity of such SSMs as it compares to tha

    Sarrof, Yash, Veitsman, Yana, Hahn, Michael

  11. arXiv2405.21047

    Grammar-Aligned Decoding

    Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle with reliably generating highly structured outputs, such as program code, mathematical formulas, or well-formed markup. Constrained decoding approaches mitigate this problem by greedily restricting what tokens an LLM can output at each step to guarantee that the output matches a given constraint. Specifically, in grammar-constrained decoding (GCD), the LLM's output must follo

    Park, Kanghee, Wang, Jiayu, Berg-Kirkpatrick, Taylor, Polikarpova, Nadia et al.

  12. arXiv2406.04822

    M2NO: An Efficient Multi-Resolution Operator Framework for Dynamic Multi-Scale PDE Solvers

    Solving high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) efficiently requires handling multi-scale features across varying resolutions. To address this challenge, we present the Multiwavelet-based Multigrid Neural Operator (M2NO), a deep learning framework that integrates a multigrid structure with predefined multiwavelet spaces. M2NO leverages multi-resolution analysis to selectively transfer low-frequency err

    Li, Zhihao, Lai, Zhilu, Zhang, Xiaobo, Wang, Wei

  13. arXiv2407.00900

    From Next-Token to Mathematics: The Learning Dynamics of Mathematical Reasoning in Language Models

    Large Language Models (LLMs) solely trained on next-token prediction learn to solve a wide range of problems involving mathematical reasoning. But how does this ability evolve during training? We show the first analysis of how mathematical reasoning abilities of several open-weight LLMs develop during pre-training and post-training. To this end, we construct MathCAMPS, a synthetic dataset of novel mathematical reason

    Mishra, Shubhra, Poesia, Gabriel, Goodman, Noah D.

  14. arXiv2407.21202

    Rolling in the deep of cognitive and AI biases

    Nowadays, we delegate many of our decisions to Artificial Intelligence (AI) that acts either in solo or as a human companion in decisions made to support several sensitive domains, like healthcare, financial services and law enforcement. AI systems, even carefully designed to be fair, are heavily criticized for delivering misjudged and discriminated outcomes against individuals and groups. Numerous work on AI algorit

    Tantalaki, Nicoleta, Vakali, Athena

  15. arXiv2408.08518

    Visual-Friendly Concept Protection via Selective Adversarial Perturbations

    Personalized concept generation by tuning diffusion models with a few images raises potential legal and ethical concerns regarding privacy and intellectual property rights. Researchers attempt to prevent malicious personalization using adversarial perturbations. However, previous efforts have mainly focused on the effectiveness of protection while neglecting the visibility of perturbations. They utilize global advers

    Mi, Xiaoyue, Tang, Fan, Wu, You, Cao, Juan et al.

  16. arXiv2408.14266

    HyperSBINN: A Hypernetwork-Enhanced Systems Biology-Informed Neural Network for Efficient Drug Cardiosafety Assessment

    Mathematical modeling in systems toxicology enables a comprehensive understanding of the effects of pharmaceutical substances on cardiac health. However, the complexity of these models limits their widespread application in early drug discovery. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to solving parameterized models of cardiac action potentials by combining meta-learning techniques with Systems Biology-Informed

    Soukarieh, Inass, Hessler, Gerhard, Minoux, Hervé, Mohr, Marcel et al.

  17. arXiv2409.13115

    Multimodal Learning for Scalable Representation of High-Dimensional Medical Data

    Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) with healthcare data is rapidly transforming medical diagnostics and driving progress toward precision medicine. However, effectively leveraging multimodal data, particularly digital pathology whole slide images (WSIs) and genomic sequencing, remains a significant challenge due to the intrinsic heterogeneity of these modalities and the need for scalable and interpretable frame

    Alsaafin, Areej, Shafique, Abubakr, Alfasly, Saghir, Kalari, Krishna R. et al.

  18. arXiv2409.13451

    Noise-Robust and Resource-Efficient ADMM-based Federated Learning

    Federated learning (FL) leverages client-server communications to train global models on decentralized data. However, communication noise or errors can impair model accuracy. To address this problem, we propose a novel FL algorithm that enhances robustness against communication noise while also reducing communication load. We derive the proposed algorithm through solving the weighted least-squares (WLS) regression pr

    Lari, Ehsan, Arablouei, Reza, Gogineni, Vinay Chakravarthi, Werner, Stefan

  19. arXiv2409.15371

    MiSS: Revisiting the Trade-off in LoRA with an Efficient Shard-Sharing Structure

    Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is a widely adopted technique for parameter-efficient fine-tuning, but its slow convergence has spurred the development of numerous variants. Nevertheless, existing methods often fail to improve performance, memory footprint, and computational efficiency simultaneously. To address this challenge, we revisit the causes of LoRA's slow convergence. Building on these insights, we propose Ma

    Kang, Jiale, Yin, Qingyu

  20. arXiv2410.01933

    TAEGAN: Generating Synthetic Tabular Data For Data Augmentation

    Synthetic tabular data generation has gained significant attention for its potential in data augmentation and privacy-preserving data sharing. While recent methods like diffusion and auto-regressive models (i.e., transformer) have advanced the field, generative adversarial networks (GANs) remain highly competitive due to their training efficiency and strong data generation capabilities. In this paper, we introduce Ta

    Li, Jiayu, Zhao, Zilong, Yee, Kevin, Javaid, Uzair et al.

  21. arXiv2410.04996

    Assumption-Lean Post-Integrated Inference with Surrogate Control Outcomes

    Data integration methods aim to extract low-dimensional embeddings from high-dimensional outcomes to remove unwanted variations, such as batch effects and unmeasured covariates, across heterogeneous datasets. However, multiple hypothesis testing after integration can be biased due to data-dependent processes. We introduce a robust post-integrated inference method that accounts for latent heterogeneity by utilizing co

    Du, Jin-Hong, Roeder, Kathryn, Wasserman, Larry

  22. arXiv2410.09012

    Software Engineering and Foundation Models: Insights from Industry Blogs Using a Jury of Foundation Models

    Foundation models (FMs) such as large language models (LLMs) have significantly impacted many fields, including software engineering (SE). The interaction between SE and FMs has led to the integration of FMs into SE practices (FM4SE) and the application of SE methodologies to FMs (SE4FM). While several literature surveys exist on academic contributions to these trends, we are the first to provide a practitioner's

    Li, Hao, Bezemer, Cor-Paul, Hassan, Ahmed E.

  23. arXiv2410.10868

    Large Continual Instruction Assistant

    Continual Instruction Tuning (CIT) is adopted to continually instruct Large Models to follow human intent data by data. It is observed that existing gradient update would heavily destroy the performance on previous datasets during CIT process. Instead, Exponential Moving Average (EMA), owns the ability to trace previous parameters, which can aid in decreasing forgetting. Nonetheless, its stable balance weight fails t

    Qiao, Jingyang, Zhang, Zhizhong, Tan, Xin, Qu, Yanyun et al.

  24. arXiv2410.14040

    WARPD: World model Assisted Reactive Policy Diffusion

    With the increasing availability of open-source robotic data, imitation learning has become a promising approach for both manipulation and locomotion. Diffusion models are now widely used to train large, generalized policies that predict controls or trajectories, leveraging their ability to model multimodal action distributions. However, this generality comes at the cost of larger model sizes and slower inference, an

    Hegde, Shashank, Das, Satyajeet, Salhotra, Gautam, Sukhatme, Gaurav S.

  25. arXiv2410.23834

    Denoising Diffusion Models for Anomaly Localization in Medical Images

    This review explores anomaly localization in medical images using denoising diffusion models. After providing a brief methodological background of these models, including their application to image reconstruction and their conditioning using guidance mechanisms, we provide an overview of available datasets and evaluation metrics suitable for their application to anomaly localization in medical images. In this context

    Bercea, Cosmin I., Cattin, Philippe C., Schnabel, Julia A., Wolleb, Julia

On this calendar day 18

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

  1. 2019year

    Citizenship Amendment Act protests: 10 to 15 local women blockaded a major road in Delhi, India, to protest the exclusion of Muslims from the amended Citizenship Act.

  2. 2013year

    The South Sudanese Civil War began when three opposition leaders voted to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council in Juba.

  3. 1981year

    The Iraqi Shia Islamist group al-Dawa carried out one of the first modern suicide bombings, targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, resulting in 61 deaths and at least 100 injuries.

  4. 1970year

    The Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 touched down on the surface of Venus, making the first successful landing of a spacecraft on another planet.

  5. 1961year

    Former Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death after being found guilty on fifteen criminal charges, including war crimes and crimes against humanity.

  6. 1946year

    U.S.-backed Iranian troops brought an end to the Iran crisis when they marched on the breakaway Republic of Mahabad and recaptured the territory.

  7. 1945year

    The US-led occupying forces ordered the government of Japan to cease state support for Shinto.

  8. 1943year

    World War II: Australian and American forces (pictured) began the Battle of Arawe against Japanese forces on New Britain as a diversion before a larger landing at Cape Gloucester.

  9. 1939year

    The American historical epic film Gone With the Wind, adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the same name, premiered in Atlanta, Georgia.

  10. 1906year

    The Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway, a 14.17-kilometre (8.80 mi) long deep-level underground tube railway connecting Hammersmith and Finsbury Park, London, opened.

  11. 1890year

    Sitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota leader, was killed on Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota by U.S. Indian agency police.

  12. 1871year

    Sixteen-year-old Ella Stewart sent the first telegraphed message from Arizona Territory.

  13. 1864year

    American Civil War: Union troops defeated the Army of Tennessee, one of the largest Confederate forces, at the Battle of Nashville.

  14. 1796year

    War of the First Coalition: The French navy launched an expedition to Ireland to assist the Society of United Irishmen in a rebellion against the British.

  15. 1791year

    The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified.

  16. 1778year

    American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of St. Lucia, the Royal Navy prevented French Navy ships from reaching their garrison on Saint Lucia in the West Indies.

  17. 1025year

    Constantine VIII (depicted) became the sole Byzantine emperor, 63 years after being crowned co-emperor.

  18. 687year

    Sergius was elected pope, ending the last disputed period of sede vacante during the Byzantine Papacy.