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Monday, 19 January 2026

The world looked up Jarrett Stidham. 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. 422,921views

    Jarrett Stidham

    Jarrett Ryan Stidham is an American professional football quarterback for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Auburn Tigers following a stint with the Baylor Bears. Stidham was selected by the New Englan

  2. 326,597views

    The Rip (film)

    The Rip is a 2026 American action thriller film written and directed by Joe Carnahan, who developed the story with Michael McGrale. The film stars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck as police officers in the Miami-Dade Police Department narcotics unit. It also stars S

  3. 272,919views

    Bo Nix

    Bo Chapman Nix is an American professional football quarterback for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He played his first three seasons of college football for the Auburn Tigers, winning SEC Freshman of the Year in 2019. During his last

  4. 252,295views

    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

  5. 240,430views

    Bigg Boss Kannada season 12

    Bigg Boss Kannada 12 is a reality show and the twelfth season of the Indian Kannada-language reality television series Bigg Boss produced by Banijay. The show began on 28 September 2025, on Colors Kannada and JioHotstar, with Kichcha Sudeep as a host for the t

  6. 180,210views

    Africa Cup of Nations

    The Africa Cup of Nations, commonly abbreviated as AFCON in English and CAN in French, and currently known as the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, is the main biennial international men's association football competition in Africa.

  7. 178,489views

    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

  8. 171,598views

    28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

    28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a 2026 post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Alex Garland. It is the direct sequel to 28 Years Later (2025) and the fourth instalment in the 28 Days Later film series. It stars Ralph Fiennes, Jac

  9. 168,266views

    C. J. Stroud

    Coleridge Bernard "C. J." Stroud IV is an American professional football quarterback for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). Stroud played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, where he holds several school records, including most

  10. 164,695views

    Sam Darnold

    Samuel Richard Darnold is an American professional football quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the USC Trojans, becoming the first freshman to win the Archie Griffin Award.

  11. 158,579views

    Josh Allen

    Joshua Patrick Allen is an American professional football quarterback for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He is regarded as one of the greatest dual-threat quarterbacks of all time and is the NFL leader in quarterback rushing touchdown

  12. 152,746views

    Bigg Boss (Tamil TV series) season 9

    Bigg Boss 9 is the ninth season of the Indian Tamil-language reality television series Bigg Boss, produced by Banijay. Vijay Sethupathi is returning as a host for the second time in a row. The season premiered on 5 October 2025 on Star Vijay and JioHotstar. Un

  13. 147,643views

    Agatha Christie's Seven Dials

    Agatha Christie's Seven Dials is a British miniseries based on the 1929 novel The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie. Dramatised by Chris Chibnall and directed by Chris Sweeney, the series stars Mia McKenna-Bruce, Edward Bluemel, Iain Glen, Martin Freeman,

  14. 134,173views

    Melanie McGuire

    Melanie Lyn McGuire is an American former nurse who was convicted of the murder of her husband. He was murdered on April 28th, 2004, in what media dubbed the "Suitcase Murder". She was sentenced to life in prison, on July 19, 2007 and is serving her sentence a

  15. 129,130views

    Kevin Stefanski

    Kevin Stefanski is an American professional football coach and former player who is the head coach for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns from 2020 to 2025. He played colleg

  16. 127,965views

    Mike Vrabel

    Michael George Vrabel is an American professional football coach and former linebacker who is the head coach for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). Vrabel previously played in the NFL for 14 seasons, most notably with the Patriots.

  17. 121,445views

    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

  18. 120,275views

    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

  19. 119,114views

    Brahim Díaz

    Brahim Abdelkader Díaz, also known mononymously as Brahim, is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for La Liga club Real Madrid. Born in Spain, he plays for the Morocco national team. A versatile playmaker, he is known for h

  20. 118,625views

    2026 Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation election

    The 2026 Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation election took place on 15 January 2026 to elect members to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, the second largest city in India. Voting lasted one day and the results were released on 16 January

  21. 116,838views

    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

  22. 111,118views

    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

  23. 110,543views

    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

  24. 110,418views

    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

  25. 109,933views

    Jim Cornelison

    James Cornelison is an American singer who sings "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "O Canada" at the beginning of home games for the Chicago Blackhawks, accompanied by the organist Frank Pellico/Carrie Marcotte. Cornelison, a dramatic tenor, started singing the a

  26. 106,826views

    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

  27. 103,501views

    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.

  28. 101,039views

    Gregory Bovino

    Gregory Kent Bovino is a United States Border Patrol officer who served as the commander-at-large of the Border Patrol from October 2025 to January 2026.

  29. 99,099views

    XXX (Kendrick Lamar song)

    "XXX" is a song by American rapper Kendrick Lamar, from his fourth studio album Damn, released on April 14, 2017. The eleventh track on the album, the song was written by Lamar, Mike Will Made It, DJ Dahi, Mark Spears a.k.a. Sounwave, Anthony Tiffith, Bono, th

  30. 97,838views

    Mike Macdonald

    Michael Macdonald is an American professional football coach who is the head coach for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He began his career with the Baltimore Ravens in 2014, serving as a defensive assistant. In 2021, Macdonald left

Frontier 25

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

  1. 787points

    American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis

    783 comments

  2. 636points

    A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth

    339 comments

  3. 628points

    Level S4 solar radiation event

    198 comments

  4. 618points

    Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results

    510 comments

  5. 537points

    Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees

    247 comments

  6. 523points

    Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026

    259 comments

  7. 481points

    Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)

    170 comments

  8. 466points

    What came first: the CNAME or the A record?

    162 comments

  9. 378points

    GLM-4.7-Flash

    135 comments

  10. 349points

    Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack

    94 comments

  11. 327points

    Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry

    126 comments

  12. 314points

    Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

    433 comments

  13. 272points

    Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights

    181 comments

  14. 265points

    The coming industrialisation of exploit generation with LLMs

    170 comments

  15. 257points

    Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)

    139 comments

  16. 249points

    Nvidia contacted Anna's Archive to access books

    158 comments

  17. 235points

    Wikipedia: WikiProject AI Cleanup

    93 comments

  18. 233points

    The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets

    187 comments

  19. 232points

    Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs

    202 comments

  20. 221points

    Some C habits I employ for the modern day

    158 comments

  21. 220points

    San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz

    72 comments

  22. 192points

    There's a hidden Android setting that spots fake cell towers

    52 comments

  23. 188points

    Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds

    99 comments

  24. 177points

    Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end)

    131 comments

  25. 174points

    3D printing my laptop ergonomic setup

    80 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2206.13405

    Utilizing Class Separation Distance for the Evaluation of Corruption Robustness of Machine Learning Classifiers

    Robustness is a fundamental pillar of Machine Learning (ML) classifiers, substantially determining their reliability. Methods for assessing classifier robustness are therefore essential. In this work, we address the challenge of evaluating corruption robustness in a way that allows comparability and interpretability on a given dataset. We propose a test data augmentation method that uses a robustness distance $ε$ der

    Siedel, Georg, Vock, Silvia, Morozov, Andrey, Voß, Stefan

  2. arXiv2306.07541

    A Simple Unified Uncertainty-Guided Framework for Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning

    Offline reinforcement learning (RL) provides a promising solution to learning an agent fully relying on a data-driven paradigm. However, constrained by the limited quality of the offline dataset, its performance is often sub-optimal. Therefore, it is desired to further finetune the agent via extra online interactions before deployment. Unfortunately, offline-to-online RL can be challenging due to two main challenges:

    Guo, Siyuan, Sun, Yanchao, Hu, Jifeng, Huang, Sili et al.

  3. arXiv2309.03773

    Feature Propagation on Knowledge Graphs using Cellular Sheaves

    Many inference tasks on knowledge graphs, including relation prediction, operate on knowledge graph embeddings -- vector representations of the vertices (entities) and edges (relations) that preserve task-relevant structure encoded within the underlying combinatorial object. Such knowledge graph embeddings can be modeled as an approximate global section of a cellular sheaf, an algebraic structure over the graph. Usin

    Cobb, John, Gebhart, Thomas

  4. arXiv2309.16686

    ecoBLE: A Low-Computation Energy Consumption Prediction Framework for Bluetooth Low Energy

    Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is a de-facto technology for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, promising very low energy consumption. However, this low energy consumption accounts only for the radio part, and it overlooks the energy consumption of other hardware and software components. Monitoring and predicting the energy consumption of IoT nodes after deployment can substantially aid in ensuring low energy consumpt

    Schuhmacher, Luisa, Pollin, Sofie, Sallouha, Hazem

  5. arXiv2310.18783

    Are NLP Models Good at Tracing Thoughts: An Overview of Narrative Understanding

    Narrative understanding involves capturing the author's cognitive processes, providing insights into their knowledge, intentions, beliefs, and desires. Although large language models (LLMs) excel in generating grammatically coherent text, their ability to comprehend the author's thoughts remains uncertain. This limitation hinders the practical applications of narrative understanding. In this paper, we conduct

    Zhu, Lixing, Zhao, Runcong, Gui, Lin, He, Yulan

  6. arXiv2312.03543

    GPT-4 Enhanced Multimodal Grounding for Autonomous Driving: Leveraging Cross-Modal Attention with Large Language Models

    In the field of autonomous vehicles (AVs), accurately discerning commander intent and executing linguistic commands within a visual context presents a significant challenge. This paper introduces a sophisticated encoder-decoder framework, developed to address visual grounding in AVs.Our Context-Aware Visual Grounding (CAVG) model is an advanced system that integrates five core encoders-Text, Image, Context, and Cross

    Liao, Haicheng, Shen, Huanming, Li, Zhenning, Wang, Chengyue et al.

  7. arXiv2312.05827

    Detecting Toxic Flow

    This paper develops a framework to predict toxic trades that a broker receives from her clients. Toxic trades are predicted with a novel online learning Bayesian method which we call the projection-based unification of last-layer and subspace estimation (PULSE). PULSE is a fast and statistically-efficient Bayesian procedure for online training of neural networks. We employ a proprietary dataset of foreign exchange tr

    Cartea, Álvaro, Duran-Martin, Gerardo, Sánchez-Betancourt, Leandro

  8. arXiv2402.14515

    Spectral invariance and maximality properties of the frequency spectrum of quantum neural networks

    We analyze the frequency spectrum of Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) using Minkowski sums, which yields a compact algebraic description and permits explicit computation. Using this description, we prove several maximality results for broad classes of QNN architectures. Under some mild technical conditions we establish a bijection between classes of models with the same area $A:=R\cdot L$ that preserves the frequency s

    Holzer, Patrick, Turkalj, Ivica

  9. arXiv2403.01318

    High-Dimensional Tail Index Regression

    Motivated by the empirical observation of power-law distributions in the credits (e.g., ``likes'') of viral posts in social media, we introduce a high-dimensional tail index regression model and propose methods for estimation and inference of its parameters. First, we propose a regularized estimator, establish its consistency, and derive its convergence rate. Second, we debias the regularized estimator to fac

    Sasaki, Yuya, Tao, Jing, Wang, Yulong

  10. arXiv2403.15437

    Apriori Knowledge in an Era of Computational Opacity: The Role of AI in Mathematical Discovery

    Can we acquire apriori knowledge of mathematical facts from the outputs of computer programs? People like Burge have argued (correctly in our opinion) that, for example, Appel and Haken acquired apriori knowledge of the Four Color Theorem from their computer program insofar as their program simply automated human forms of mathematical reasoning. However, unlike such programs, we argue that the opacity of modern LLMs

    Duede, Eamon, Davey, Kevin

  11. arXiv2403.18344

    LC-LLM: Explainable Lane-Change Intention and Trajectory Predictions with Large Language Models

    To ensure safe driving in dynamic environments, autonomous vehicles should possess the capability to accurately predict lane change intentions of surrounding vehicles in advance and forecast their future trajectories. Existing motion prediction approaches have ample room for improvement, particularly in terms of long-term prediction accuracy and interpretability. In this paper, we address these challenges by proposin

    Peng, Mingxing, Guo, Xusen, Chen, Xianda, Zhu, Meixin et al.

  12. arXiv2404.02937

    Towards Explainable Traffic Flow Prediction with Large Language Models

    Traffic forecasting is crucial for intelligent transportation systems. It has experienced significant advancements thanks to the power of deep learning in capturing latent patterns of traffic data. However, recent deep-learning architectures require intricate model designs and lack an intuitive understanding of the mapping from input data to predicted results. Achieving both accuracy and explainability in traffic pre

    Guo, Xusen, Zhang, Qiming, Jiang, Junyue, Peng, Mingxing et al.

  13. arXiv2406.01423

    Value Improved Actor Critic Algorithms

    To learn approximately optimal acting policies for decision problems, modern Actor Critic algorithms rely on deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to parameterize the acting policy and greedification operators to iteratively improve it. The reliance on DNNs suggests an improvement that is gradient based, which is per step much less greedy than the improvement possible by greedier operators such as the greedy update used by Q-l

    Oren, Yaniv, Zanger, Moritz A., van der Vaart, Pascal R., Celikok, Mustafa Mert et al.

  14. arXiv2406.12783

    Zeroing neural dynamics solving time-variant complex conjugate matrix equation $X(τ)F(τ)-A(τ)\overline{X}(τ)=C(τ)$

    Complex conjugate matrix equations (CCME) are important in computation and antilinear systems. Existing research mainly focuses on the time-invariant version, while studies on the time-variant version and its solution using artificial neural networks are still lacking. This paper introduces zeroing neural dynamics (ZND) to solve the earliest time-variant CCME. Firstly, the vectorization and Kronecker product in the c

    He, Jiakuang, Wu, Dongqing

  15. arXiv2407.00949

    SpectralKAN: Weighted Activation Distribution Kolmogorov-Arnold Network for Hyperspectral Image Change Detection

    Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) represent data features by learning the activation functions and demonstrate superior accuracy with fewer parameters, FLOPs, GPU memory usage (Memory), shorter training time (TraT), and testing time (TesT) when handling low-dimensional data. However, when applied to high-dimensional data, which contains significant redundant information, the current activation mechanism of KANs leads

    Wang, Yanheng, Yu, Xiaohan, Gao, Yongsheng, Sha, Jianjun et al.

  16. arXiv2407.05934

    Balanced Edge Pruning for Graph Anomaly Detection with Noisy Labels

    Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is widely applied in many areas, such as financial fraud detection and social spammer detection. Anomalous nodes in the graph not only impact their own communities but also create a ripple effect on neighbors throughout the graph structure. Detecting anomalous nodes in complex graphs has been a challenging task. While existing GAD methods assume all labels are correct, real-world scenari

    Wang, Zhu, Dong, Junnan, Zhou, Shuang, Yang, Chang et al.

  17. arXiv2407.06703

    HERMES: Holographic Equivariant neuRal network model for Mutational Effect and Stability prediction

    Predicting the stability and fitness effects of amino acid mutations in proteins is a cornerstone of biological discovery and engineering. Various experimental techniques have been developed to measure mutational effects, providing us with extensive datasets across a diverse range of proteins. By training on these data, traditional computational modeling and more recent machine learning approaches have advanced signi

    Visani, Gian Marco, Galvin, William, Jones, Zac, Pun, Michael N. et al.

  18. arXiv2407.20114

    FiCo-ITR: bridging fine-grained and coarse-grained image-text retrieval for comparative performance analysis

    In the field of Image-Text Retrieval (ITR), recent advancements have leveraged large-scale Vision-Language Pretraining (VLP) for Fine-Grained (FG) instance-level retrieval, achieving high accuracy at the cost of increased computational complexity. For Coarse-Grained (CG) category-level retrieval, prominent approaches employ Cross-Modal Hashing (CMH) to prioritise efficiency, albeit at the cost of retrieval performanc

    Williams-Lekuona, Mikel, Cosma, Georgina

  19. arXiv2408.17380

    Traffic expertise meets residual RL: Knowledge-informed model-based residual reinforcement learning for CAV trajectory control

    Model-based reinforcement learning (RL) is anticipated to exhibit higher sample efficiency compared to model-free RL by utilizing a virtual environment model. However, it is challenging to obtain sufficiently accurate representations of the environmental dynamics due to uncertainties in complex systems and environments. An inaccurate environment model may degrade the sample efficiency and performance of model-based R

    Sheng, Zihao, Huang, Zilin, Chen, Sikai

  20. arXiv2409.16876

    Automating Traffic Model Enhancement with AI Research Agent

    Developing efficient traffic models is crucial for optimizing modern transportation systems. However, current modeling approaches remain labor-intensive and prone to human errors due to their dependence on manual workflows. These processes typically involve extensive literature reviews, formula tuning, and iterative testing, which often lead to inefficiencies. To address this, we propose TR-Agent, an AI-powered frame

    Guo, Xusen, Yang, Xinxi, Peng, Mingxing, Lu, Hongliang et al.

  21. arXiv2410.07173

    Better Language Models Exhibit Higher Visual Alignment

    How well do text-only large language models (LLMs) align with the visual world? We present a systematic evaluation of this question by incorporating frozen representations of various language models into a discriminative vision-language framework and measuring zero-shot generalization to novel concepts. We find that decoder-based models exhibit stronger visual alignment than encoders, even when controlling for model

    Ruthardt, Jona, Burghouts, Gertjan J., Belongie, Serge, Asano, Yuki M.

  22. arXiv2411.10775

    Beyond Feature Mapping GAP: Integrating Real HDRTV Priors for Superior SDRTV-to-HDRTV Conversion

    The rise of HDR-WCG display devices has highlighted the need to convert SDRTV to HDRTV, as most video sources are still in SDR. Existing methods primarily focus on designing neural networks to learn a single-style mapping from SDRTV to HDRTV. However, the limited information in SDRTV and the diversity of styles in real-world conversions render this process an ill-posed problem, thereby constraining the performance an

    He, Gang, Xu, Kepeng, Xu, Li, Wang, Siqi et al.

  23. arXiv2411.10962

    V2X-Radar: A Multi-modal Dataset with 4D Radar for Cooperative Perception

    Modern autonomous vehicle perception systems often struggle with occlusions and limited perception range. Previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of cooperative perception in extending the perception range and overcoming occlusions, thereby enhancing the safety of autonomous driving. In recent years, a series of cooperative perception datasets have emerged; however, these datasets primarily focus on came

    Yang, Lei, Zhang, Xinyu, Li, Jun, Wang, Chen et al.

  24. arXiv2411.16747

    FollowGen: A Scaled Noise Conditional Diffusion Model for Car-Following Trajectory Prediction

    Vehicle trajectory prediction is crucial for advancing autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Although deep learning-based approaches - especially those utilizing transformer-based and generative models - have markedly improved prediction accuracy by capturing complex, non-linear patterns in vehicle dynamics and traffic interactions, they frequently overlook detailed car-following behaviors

    You, Junwei, Gan, Rui, Tang, Weizhe, Huang, Zilin et al.

  25. arXiv2412.05961

    FOF-X: Towards Real-time Detailed Human Reconstruction from a Single Image

    We introduce FOF-X for real-time reconstruction of detailed human geometry from a single image. Balancing real-time speed against high-quality results is a persistent challenge, mainly due to the high computational demands of existing 3D representations. To address this, we propose Fourier Occupancy Field (FOF), an efficient 3D representation by learning the Fourier series. The core of FOF is to factorize a 3D occupa

    Feng, Qiao, Yang, Yuanwang, Liu, Yebin, Lai, Yu-Kun et al.

On this calendar day 14

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

  1. 2012year

    The Hong Kong–based file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down by the FBI.

  2. 2007year

    Turkish-Armenian journalist and human-rights activist Hrant Dink was assassinated by a Turkish nationalist in Istanbul.

  3. 2007year

    A four-man team, using only skis and kites, completed a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility, the first people to get there since 1967, and the first to do so on foot.

  4. 2006year

    In the deadliest aviation accident in Slovak history, an Antonov An-24 operated by the Slovak Air Force crashed in northern Hungary, killing 42 of the 43 people on board.

  5. 1996year

    A tank barge and a tug grounded on a beach in Rhode Island, causing a spill of an estimated 828,000 U.S. gallons (3.13 million litres) of home heating oil.

  6. 1977year

    Iva Toguri (pictured), convicted of treason for broadcasting Japanese propaganda, was granted a full pardon by U.S. president Gerald Ford.

  7. 1975year

    An earthquake registering 6.8 Ms struck northern Himachal Pradesh in India, causing extensive damage to the region.

  8. 1972year

    The French newspaper L'Aurore revealed that the former Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon", had been found to be living in Peru.

  9. 1920year

    The American Civil Liberties Union was founded by the directors of the National Civil Liberties Bureau.

  10. 1915year

    World War I: The first major attack of the German bombing campaign against Britain took place when Zeppelins bombed several towns in Norfolk.

  11. 1909year

    A deed was recorded for David Hanbury to sell Island No. 2 in northern California to his brother John for $10 ($358.33 in .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}2025).

  12. 1795year

    The Batavian Republic was established the day after William V fled the Dutch Republic as a result of the Batavian Revolution in Amsterdam.

  13. 1511year

    War of the League of Cambrai: Troops led by Pope Julius II captured Mirandola (depicted) after a brief siege.

  14. 1419year

    Hundred Years' War: The siege of Rouen ended with English troops capturing the city from Norman French forces.