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Wednesday, 17 December 2025

The world looked up Rob Reiner. 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. 2,209,431views

    Rob Reiner

    Robert Reiner was an American filmmaker, actor, and political activist. He directed a series of acclaimed studio films in a career that spanned comedy, drama, romance, and documentary. Reiner received numerous accolades, including winning two Primetime Emmy Aw

  2. 464,310views

    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

  3. 344,881views

    Tracy Reiner

    Tracy Reiner is an American former actress. She is known for her roles in When Harry Met Sally..., Masque of the Red Death, A League of Their Own, and Apollo 13.

  4. 307,106views

    Penny Marshall

    Carole Penny Marshall was an American actress, film director, and producer. She starred as Laverne DeFazio on the television sitcom Laverne & Shirley from 1976 to 1983, and received three nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Ser

  5. 300,030views

    Anthony Geary

    Anthony Geary was an American actor. His career spanned more than four decades, and began in episodic television. He appeared as a guest on several primetime series and transitioned into a career predominantly in the soap opera genre. His first soap role was D

  6. 291,019views

    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

  7. 289,079views

    Carl Reiner

    Carl Reiner was an American actor, author, comedian, director, and screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades. His awards and honors include 12 Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. He was inducted into the Te

  8. 250,689views

    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.

  9. 176,396views

    It – Welcome to Derry

    It: Welcome to Derry is an American supernatural horror television series based on Stephen King's 1986 novel It. Serving as a prequel to the films It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019), the series was developed by Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fu

  10. 169,988views

    Being Charlie

    Being Charlie is a 2015 American drama film directed by Rob Reiner and written by his son, Nick Reiner, alongside Matt Elisofon. The film stars Nick Robinson, Common, Cary Elwes, Devon Bostick, Morgan Saylor, Susan Misner, and Ricardo Chavira.

  11. 163,477views

    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

  12. 146,514views

    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.

  13. 145,783views

    Disclosure Day

    Disclosure Day is a 2026 American science fiction thriller film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by David Koepp, based on a story by Spielberg. The film stars an ensemble cast, including Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, Eve H

  14. 129,702views

    Rachael Carpani

    Rachael Anna-Maie Carpani was an Australian actress best known for her role as Jodi Fountain-McLeod in McLeod's Daughters.

  15. 117,892views

    Avatar: Fire and Ash

    Avatar: Fire and Ash is a 2025 American epic science fiction film directed by James Cameron from a screenplay he co-wrote with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. Produced by Lightstorm Entertainment, it is the third installment in the Avatar film series and the seq

  16. 116,497views

    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

  17. 116,267views

    Killing of Rob and Michele Reiner

    On December 14, 2025, American filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, photographer and producer Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead with multiple sharp force injuries at their home in Brentwood, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California. Their son, Nick Reiner,

  18. 113,712views

    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

  19. 109,067views

    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

  20. 103,372views

    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

  21. 99,392views

    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

  22. 97,470views

    Susie Wiles

    Susan L. Wiles is an American Republican political consultant and lobbyist who has served as the 32nd White House chief of staff since January 2025.

  23. 94,624views

    Stand by Me (film)

    Stand by Me is a 1986 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Rob Reiner. Based on Stephen King's 1982 novella The Body, the film is set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Oregon, in 1959. Stand by Me stars Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, a

  24. 88,410views

    Estelle Reiner

    Estelle Reiner was an American actress and singer, described by The New York Times as "matriarch of one of the leading families in American comedy". She was the wife of Carl Reiner and the mother of Rob Reiner, Lucas Reiner, and Annie Reiner.

  25. 86,509views

    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

  26. 85,536views

    Trump derangement syndrome

    Trump derangement syndrome (TDS) is a pejorative term used to describe negative reactions to U.S. president Donald Trump in order to characterize them as irrational and disconnected from Trump's actual policy positions. The term has mainly been used by Trump s

  27. 82,418views

    This Is Spinal Tap

    This Is Spinal Tap is a 1984 American mockumentary comedy film directed by Rob Reiner in his feature directorial debut. Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer play members of the parody heavy metal band Spinal Tap, while Reiner plays Martin "Mart

  28. 82,381views

    The Princess Bride

    The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy-adventure-comedy film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner and starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, André the Giant, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, Peter Falk, Fred Savage, Billy

  29. 78,604views

    2026 PDC World Darts Championship

    The 2026 PDC World Darts Championship was a professional darts tournament that took place from 11 December 2025 to 3 January 2026 at Alexandra Palace in London, England. The 33rd World Darts Championship organised by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC), i

  30. 75,533views

    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

Frontier 25

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

  1. 1,102points

    Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed

    580 comments

  2. 1,073points

    AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'

    532 comments

  3. 933points

    Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

    821 comments

  4. 606points

    I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero

    412 comments

  5. 599points

    Tell HN: HN was down

    327 comments

  6. 588points

    Coursera to combine with Udemy

    377 comments

  7. 498points

    Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice

    138 comments

  8. 482points

    Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed

    299 comments

  9. 360points

    A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images

    98 comments

  10. 319points

    How SQLite is tested

    82 comments

  11. 313points

    OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer

    77 comments

  12. 292points

    A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote

    170 comments

  13. 253points

    AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating

    177 comments

  14. 192points

    Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems

    213 comments

  15. 191points

    Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT

    125 comments

  16. 171points

    Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?

    231 comments

  17. 164points

    Pornhub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data

    94 comments

  18. 159points

    NOAA deploys new generation of AI-driven global weather models

    99 comments

  19. 159points

    What's New in Python 3.15

    60 comments

  20. 158points

    How did IRC ping timeouts end up in a lawsuit?

    32 comments

  21. 157points

    GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions

    126 comments

  22. 155points

    Tesla reports another Robotaxi crash

    159 comments

  23. 151points

    FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement

    167 comments

  24. 133points

    Firefox is becoming an AI browser and the internet is not at all happy about it

    149 comments

  25. 132points

    The State of AI Coding Report 2025

    112 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2008.01519

    A Generalised Approach for Encoding and Reasoning with Qualitative Theories in Answer Set Programming

    Qualitative reasoning involves expressing and deriving knowledge based on qualitative terms such as natural language expressions, rather than strict mathematical quantities. Well over 40 qualitative calculi have been proposed so far, mostly in the spatial and temporal domains, with several practical applications such as naval traffic monitoring, warehouse process optimisation and robot manipulation. Even if a number

    Baryannis, George, Tachmazidis, Ilias, Batsakis, Sotiris, Antoniou, Grigoris et al.

  2. arXiv2205.15447

    Holistic Generalized Linear Models

    Holistic linear regression extends the classical best subset selection problem by adding additional constraints designed to improve the model quality. These constraints include sparsity-inducing constraints, sign-coherence constraints and linear constraints. The $\textsf{R}$ package $\texttt{holiglm}$ provides functionality to model and fit holistic generalized linear models. By making use of state-of-the-art conic m

    Schwendinger, Benjamin, Schwendinger, Florian, Vana, Laura

  3. arXiv2207.03485

    On Non-Linear operators for Geometric Deep Learning

    This work studies operators mapping vector and scalar fields defined over a manifold $\mathcal{M}$, and which commute with its group of diffeomorphisms $\text{Diff}(\mathcal{M})$. We prove that in the case of scalar fields $L^p_ω(\mathcal{M,\mathbb{R}})$, those operators correspond to point-wise non-linearities, recovering and extending known results on $\mathbb{R}^d$. In the context of Neural Networks defined over $

    Sergeant-Perthuis, Grégoire, Maier, Jakob, Bruna, Joan, Oyallon, Edouard

  4. arXiv2210.12590

    Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Building Energy Management System

    The building sector is one of the largest contributors to global energy consumption. Improving its energy efficiency is essential for reducing operational costs and greenhouse gas emissions. Energy management systems (EMS) play a key role in monitoring and controlling building appliances efficiently and reliably. With the increasing integration of renewable energy, intelligent EMS solutions have received growing atte

    Zhang, Huiliang, Wu, Di, Zinflou, Arnaud, Boulet, Benoit

  5. arXiv2301.10079

    Reformulation Techniques for Automated Planning: A Systematic Review

    Automated planning is a prominent area of Artificial Intelligence, and an important component for intelligent autonomous agents. A cornerstone of domain-independent planning is the separation between planning logic, i.e. the automated reasoning side, and the knowledge model, that encodes a formal representation of domain knowledge needed to reason upon a given problem to synthesise a solution plan. Such a separation

    Alarnaouti, Diaeddin, Baryannis, George, Vallati, Mauro

  6. arXiv2305.11581

    Trustworthy, responsible, ethical AI in manufacturing and supply chains: synthesis and emerging research questions

    While the increased use of AI in the manufacturing sector has been widely noted, there is little understanding on the risks that it may raise in a manufacturing organisation. Although various high level frameworks and definitions have been proposed to consolidate potential risks, practitioners struggle with understanding and implementing them. This lack of understanding exposes manufacturing to a multitude of risks,

    Brintrup, Alexandra, Baryannis, George, Tiwari, Ashutosh, Ratchev, Svetan et al.

  7. arXiv2305.13127

    Decoding Emotional Trajectories: A Temporal-Semantic Network Approach for Latent Depression Assessment in Social Media

    The early identification and intervention of latent depression are of significant societal importance for mental health governance. While current automated detection methods based on social media have shown progress, their decision-making processes often lack a clinically interpretable framework, particularly in capturing the duration and dynamic evolution of depressive symptoms. To address this, this study introduce

    Kuang, Junwei, Xie, Jiaheng, Yan, Zhijun

  8. arXiv2305.15786

    Theoretical Guarantees of Learning Ensembling Strategies with Applications to Time Series Forecasting

    Ensembling is among the most popular tools in machine learning (ML) due to its effectiveness in minimizing variance and thus improving generalization. Most ensembling methods for black-box base learners fall under the umbrella of "stacked generalization," namely training an ML algorithm that takes the inferences from the base learners as input. While stacking has been widely applied in practice, its theoretic

    Hasson, Hilaf, Maddix, Danielle C., Wang, Yuyang, Gupta, Gaurav et al.

  9. arXiv2307.03034

    General Formulation and PCL-Analysis for Restless Bandits with Limited Observability

    In this paper, we consider a general observation model for restless multi-armed bandit problems. The operation of the player is based on the past observation history that is limited (partial) and error-prone due to resource constraints or environmental or intrinsic noises. By establishing a general probabilistic model for dynamics of the observation process, we formulate the problem as a restless bandit with an infin

    Liu, Keqin, Jia, Qizhen

  10. arXiv2307.07873

    Why Does Little Robustness Help? A Further Step Towards Understanding Adversarial Transferability

    Adversarial examples (AEs) for DNNs have been shown to be transferable: AEs that successfully fool white-box surrogate models can also deceive other black-box models with different architectures. Although a bunch of empirical studies have provided guidance on generating highly transferable AEs, many of these findings lack explanations and even lead to inconsistent advice. In this paper, we take a further step towards

    Zhang, Yechao, Hu, Shengshan, Zhang, Leo Yu, Shi, Junyu et al.

  11. arXiv2309.13135

    Global Deep Forecasting with Patient-Specific Pharmacokinetics

    Forecasting healthcare time series data is vital for early detection of adverse outcomes and patient monitoring. However, it can be challenging in practice due to variable medication administration and unique pharmacokinetic (PK) properties of each patient. To address these challenges, we propose a novel hybrid global-local architecture and a PK encoder that informs deep learning models of patient-specific treatment

    Potosnak, Willa, Challu, Cristian, Olivares, Kin G., Dufendach, Keith A. et al.

  12. arXiv2312.04960

    MIMIR: Masked Image Modeling for Mutual Information-based Adversarial Robustness

    Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a fundamental architecture and serve as the backbone of modern vision-language models. Despite their impressive performance, ViTs exhibit notable vulnerability to evasion attacks, necessitating the development of specialized Adversarial Training (AT) strategies tailored to their unique architecture. While a direct solution might involve applying existing AT methods to ViTs,

    Xu, Xiaoyun, Yu, Shujian, Liu, Zhuoran, Picek, Stjepan

  13. arXiv2402.11542

    Question Answering Over Spatio-Temporal Knowledge Graph

    Spatio-temporal knowledge graphs (STKGs) enhance traditional KGs by integrating temporal and spatial annotations, enabling precise reasoning over questions with spatio-temporal dependencies. Despite their potential, research on spatio-temporal knowledge graph question answering (STKGQA) remains limited. This is primarily due to the lack of datasets that simultaneously contain spatio-temporal information, as well as m

    Dai, Xinbang, Li, Huiying, Hu, Nan, Chen, Yongrui et al.

  14. arXiv2403.00932

    Differentially Private Knowledge Distillation via Synthetic Text Generation

    Large Language models (LLMs) are achieving state-of-the-art performance in many different downstream tasks. However, the increasing urgency of data privacy puts pressure on practitioners to train LLMs with Differential Privacy (DP) on private data. Concurrently, the exponential growth in parameter size of LLMs necessitates model compression before deployment of LLMs on resource-constrained devices or latency-sensitiv

    Flemings, James, Annavaram, Murali

  15. arXiv2403.16790

    I-Diff: Structural Regularization for High-Fidelity Diffusion Models

    Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have significantly advanced generative AI, achieving impressive results in high-quality image and data generation. However, enhancing fidelity without compromising semantic content remains a key challenge in the field. Recent diffusion research in multiple disciplines has introduced objectives and architectural refinements that tighten the match between generated and r

    Perera, Shakthi, Fernando, Dilum, Malshan, H. L. P., Madushan, H. M. P. S. et al.

  16. arXiv2404.11496

    Runtime Analysis of Evolutionary Diversity Optimization on the Multi-objective (LeadingOnes, TrailingZeros) Problem

    Diversity optimization is the class of optimization problems in which we aim to find a diverse set of good solutions. One of the frequently-used approaches to solve such problems is to use evolutionary algorithms that evolve a desired diverse population. This approach is called evolutionary diversity optimization (EDO). In this paper, we analyze EDO on a three-objective function LOTZ$_k$, which is a modification of t

    Antipov, Denis, Neumann, Aneta, Neumann, Frank, Sutton, Andrew M.

  17. arXiv2404.16560

    Automated Model Selection for Generalized Linear Models

    In this paper, we show how mixed-integer conic optimization can be used to combine feature subset selection with holistic generalized linear models to fully automate the model selection process. Concretely, we directly optimize for the Akaike and Bayesian information criteria while imposing constraints designed to deal with multicollinearity in the feature selection task. Specifically, we propose a novel pairwise cor

    Schwendinger, Benjamin, Schwendinger, Florian, Vana-Gür, Laura

  18. arXiv2405.17296

    Coupling Light with Matter for Identifying Dominant Subnetworks

    We introduce DOMINO, a light-matter computing platform that exploits the full complex amplitude of coupled condensate networks to solve maximum-weight clique problems and reveal hidden indirect correlations in large graphs. By embedding network structure directly into a gain-controlled polaritonic (or photonic) oscillator array, DOMINO performs analog optimization, directly solving the maximum-weight clique problem v

    Kamaletdinov, Airat, Berloff, Natalia G.

  19. arXiv2406.04772

    REP: Resource-Efficient Prompting for Rehearsal-Free Continual Learning

    Recent rehearsal-free continual learning (CL) methods guided by prompts achieve strong performance on vision tasks with non-stationary data but remain resource-intensive, hindering real-world edge deployment. We introduce resource-efficient prompting (REP), which improves the computational and memory efficiency of prompt-based rehearsal-free continual learning methods while minimizing accuracy trade-offs. Our approac

    Jeon, Sungho, Ma, Xinyue, Kim, Kwang In, Jeon, Myeongjae

  20. arXiv2406.07151

    CrossPT-EEG: A Benchmark for Cross-Participant and Cross-Time Generalization of EEG-based Visual Decoding

    Exploring brain activity in relation to visual perception provides insights into the biological representation of the world. While functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) have enabled effective image classification and reconstruction, their high cost and bulk limit practical use. Electroencephalography (EEG), by contrast, offers low cost and excellent temporal resolution, but its

    Zhu, Shuqi, Ye, Ziyi, Ai, Qingyao, Liu, Yiqun

  21. arXiv2407.07740

    LSM: A Comprehensive Metric for Assessing the Safety of Lane Detection Systems in Autonomous Driving

    Comprehensive perception of the vehicle's environment and correct interpretation of the environment are crucial for the safe operation of autonomous vehicles. The perception of surrounding objects is the main component for further tasks such as trajectory planning. However, safe trajectory planning requires not only object detection, but also the detection of drivable areas and lane corridors. While first approac

    Gamerdinger, Jörg, Teufel, Sven, Amann, Stephan, Volk, Georg et al.

  22. arXiv2408.13926

    FedGlu: A personalized federated learning-based glucose forecasting algorithm for improved performance in glycemic excursion regions

    Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices provide real-time glucose monitoring and timely alerts for glycemic excursions, improving glycemic control among patients with diabetes. However, identifying rare events like hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia remain challenging due to their infrequency. Moreover, limited access to sensitive patient data hampers the development of robust machine learning models. Our objective i

    Dave, Darpit, Vyas, Kathan, Jayagopal, Jagadish Kumaran, Garcia, Alfredo et al.

  23. arXiv2410.03026

    Estimating Privacy Leakage of Augmented Contextual Knowledge in Language Models

    Language models (LMs) rely on their parametric knowledge augmented with relevant contextual knowledge for certain tasks, such as question answering. However, the contextual knowledge can contain private information that may be leaked when answering queries, and estimating this privacy leakage is not well understood. A straightforward approach of directly comparing an LM's output to the contexts can overestimate t

    Flemings, James, Jiang, Bo, Zhang, Wanrong, Takhirov, Zafar et al.

  24. arXiv2410.07553

    COMMA: A Communicative Multimodal Multi-Agent Benchmark

    The rapid advances of multimodal agents built on large foundation models have largely overlooked their potential for language-based communication between agents in collaborative tasks. This oversight presents a critical gap in understanding their effectiveness in real-world deployments, particularly when communicating with humans. Existing agentic benchmarks fail to address key aspects of inter-agent communication an

    Ossowski, Timothy, Maqbool, Danyal, Chen, Jixuan, Cai, Zefan et al.

  25. arXiv2410.07961

    QCircuitBench: A Large-Scale Dataset for Benchmarking Quantum Algorithm Design

    Quantum computing is an emerging field recognized for the significant speedup it offers over classical computing through quantum algorithms. However, designing and implementing quantum algorithms pose challenges due to the complex nature of quantum mechanics and the necessity for precise control over quantum states. Despite the significant advancements in AI, there has been a lack of datasets specifically tailored fo

    Yang, Rui, Wang, Ziruo, Gu, Yuntian, Chen, Tianyi et al.

On this calendar day 18

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

  1. 2016year

    The first victims of a mass methanol poisoning which eventually killed over 70 inhabitants of Irkutsk, Russia, began arriving at hospitals.

  2. 2010year

    Arab Spring: Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor in Sidi Bouzid, set himself on fire in protest against police harassment, triggering the Tunisian revolution.

  3. 1990year

    American gay rights activist William E. Woods brought three same-sex couples to fill out marriage licenses in Honolulu.

  4. 1983year

    The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a car bomb outside Harrods in London, killing six people and injuring about 90 others.

  5. 1970year

    Polish soldiers fired at workers (memorial pictured) emerging from trains in Gdynia, beginning the government's crackdown on mass anti-communist protests across the country.

  6. 1967year

    Harold Holt, the prime minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming near Portsea, Victoria; his body was never recovered.

  7. 1951year

    The Civil Rights Congress presented a document to the United Nations Genocide Convention charging the United States government with genocide against African Americans.

  8. 1948year

    The Finnish Security Police was established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police.

  9. 1945year

    The modern flag of Kurdistan was raised for the first time in Mahabad, Iran.

  10. 1944year

    Nazi troops under Joachim Peiper killed unarmed prisoners of war, captured during the Battle of the Bulge, with machine guns near Malmedy, Belgium.

  11. 1939year

    World War II: After sustaining moderate damage in the Battle of the River Plate two days earlier, the German cruiser Graf Spee was scuttled by its commander, Hans Langsdorff, to avoid its internment by Uruguay.

  12. 1926year

    A coup d'état by the Lithuanian military replaced the democratically elected President Kazys Grinius with Antanas Smetona.

  13. 1918year

    About 1,000 demonstrators marched (pictured) on Government House in Darwin, Australia, where they burned an effigy of Administrator John Gilruth and demanded his resignation.

  14. 1862year

    American Civil War: Union General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.

  15. 1790year

    The Aztec sun stone (pictured), now a modern symbol of Mexican culture, was excavated in the Zócalo, the main square of Mexico City.

  16. 1583year

    Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeated Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg's troops at the siege of Godesberg.

  17. 942year

    William Longsword of Normandy was ambushed and assassinated by supporters of Arnulf I, Count of Flanders, while both were at a peace conference to settle their differences.

  18. 546year

    Rome was sacked by the Ostrogoths led by Totila after a year-long siege.