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Thursday, 19 February 2026

The world looked up Jesse Jackson. 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. 370,415views

    Jesse Jackson

    Jesse Louis Jackson was an American civil rights activist, LGBTQ rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister. A protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. and James Bevel during the civil rights movement, he became one of the most prominent civil rights

  2. 311,253views

    Ash Wednesday

    Ash Wednesday is a holy day of prayer and fasting in many Western Christian denominations. It is preceded by Shrove Tuesday and marks the first day of Lent: the seven weeks of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving before the arrival of Easter.

  3. 267,615views

    James Talarico

    James Dell Talarico is an American politician and educator who has served since 2018 as a member of the Texas House of Representatives. He is the Democratic nominee in the 2026 U.S. Senate election in Texas.

  4. 245,950views

    Eileen Gu

    Eileen Feng Gu, also known by her Chinese name Gu Ailing (谷爱凌), is a Chinese-American freestyle skier and model. She has represented China in halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air events since the 2018–19 season. With three gold and three silver medals, Gu is the

  5. 237,118views

    Robert Duvall

    Robert Selden Duvall was an American actor and filmmaker, best known for his roles in films of the later 20th century. Duvall began acting professionally on stage in 1952, performing in summer plays at the Gateway Playhouse in Bellport on Long Island until 195

  6. 208,471views

    Alysa Liu

    Alysa Liu is an American figure skater. She is the 2026 Olympic champion in both the women's singles and team events, the 2025 World champion, the 2022 World bronze medalist, the 2025–26 Grand Prix Final champion, a two-time Grand Prix medalist, a four-time Ch

  7. 205,997views

    Jeffrey Epstein

    Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and child sex offender. He began his career as a math teacher at the Dalton School in New York City, before entering the banking and finance sector. Over several decades, he made much of his fortune providing ta

  8. 190,849views

    United Airlines Flight 232

    United Airlines Flight 232 was a regularly scheduled United Airlines flight from Stapleton International Airport in Denver to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, continuing to Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, United States. On July 19,

  9. 172,811views

    2026 Winter Olympics

    The 2026 Winter Olympics, officially the XXV Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Milano Cortina 2026, were an international winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 22 February 2026, at multiple sites across Lombardy, Veneto and Trentino-Alto Adige/Südti

  10. 168,554views

    Ice hockey at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament

    The men's tournament in ice hockey at the 2026 Winter Olympics took place in Milan, Italy, between 11 and 22 February 2026. Twelve countries qualified for the tournament; eight via ranking by the IIHF, three via qualification tournaments, and Italy as hosts. R

  11. 159,884views

    Shia LaBeouf

    Shia Saide LaBeouf is an American actor and filmmaker. His accolades include a BAFTA Award and Daytime Emmy Award.

  12. 157,987views

    Mikaela Shiffrin

    Mikaela Pauline Shiffrin is an American alpine skier. Shiffrin is the most decorated American alpine skier in World Championships history. She has the most World Cup wins of any alpine skier in history and is the only one to have reached the milestone of 100 v

  13. 151,579views

    Ramadan

    Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. It is observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (sawm), communal prayer (salah), reflection, study of the Quran, charity, and strengthening community ties. It is also the month in which the Quran is

  14. 146,348views

    Amber Glenn

    Amber Elaine Glenn is an American figure skater. She is a 2026 Olympic Games team event gold medalist, the 2024–25 Grand Prix Final champion, a three-time U.S. national champion (2024–26), a six-time ISU Grand Prix medalist, and a five-time ISU Challenger Seri

  15. 141,653views

    Epstein files

    The Epstein files are a partially released collection of millions of documents, images, videos, and emails related to the activities of American financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including his social circle of public figures, politici

  16. 140,739views

    Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name Ellis Bell. It concerns two extensive upland estates and their landowning families on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons

  17. 137,938views

    Gianluca Prestianni

    Gianluca Prestianni Gross is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a winger for Primeira Liga club Benfica and the Argentina national team.

  18. 133,302views

    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. 124,423views

    Men's T20 World Cup

    The ICC Men's T20 World Cup, formerly the ICC World Twenty20, is a biennial world cup for cricket in Twenty20 International (T20I) format, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It was held in every odd year from 2007 to 2009, and since 2010 has

  20. 118,631views

    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV series)

    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is an American fantasy drama television series created by Ira Parker and George R. R. Martin. A prequel to Game of Thrones (2011–2019), it is the third television series in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire franchise and is an adap

  21. 116,887views

    Wuthering Heights (2026 film)

    Wuthering Heights is a 2026 romantic period drama film produced, written and directed by Emerald Fennell. Loosely based on the 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, the film is a reinterpretation intended by Fennell to "recreate the feeling of a teenage girl reading thi

  22. 114,958views

    John F. Kennedy Jr.

    John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., also referred to as JFK Jr., was an American businessman, attorney, magazine publisher, and journalist. He was the son of the 35th U.S. president John F. Kennedy, and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

  23. 111,748views

    Les Wexner

    Leslie Herbert Wexner is an American billionaire businessman and political activist. He is the co-founder and chair emeritus of Bath & Body Works, Inc. He has been the principal in Abercrombie & Fitch, Victoria's Secret and La Senza, amongst several other reta

  24. 109,522views

    Tom Noonan

    Thomas Patrick Noonan was an American actor, director and screenwriter, best known for his roles as Francis Dollarhyde in Manhunter (1986), Frankenstein's Monster in The Monster Squad (1987), Cain in RoboCop 2 (1990), The Ripper in Last Action Hero (1993), Kel

  25. 107,897views

    Tiki Ghosn

    Khalil Ghosn, better known by his ringname Tiki Ghosn, is an American retired mixed martial artist, competing from 1998 to 2009 in the Welterweight division.

  26. 107,441views

    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

  27. 107,258views

    2026 Men's T20 World Cup

    The 2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup was the tenth edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, co-hosted by Board of Control for Cricket in India and Sri Lanka Cricket from 7 February to 8 March 2026. Sri Lanka had previously hosted the competition in 2012 and India i

  28. 105,310views

    Carolyn Bessette Kennedy

    Carolyn Jeanne Bessette-Kennedy was an American fashion publicist. Raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, she graduated from Boston University and joined Calvin Klein, where she rose from a sales position in Boston to publicity and show-production roles in New York

  29. 97,017views

    List of people named in the Epstein files

    The Epstein files comprise over six million pages of documents detailing the activities of American financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. So far about three and a half million files have been made public with redactions, among them 180,00

  30. 94,512views

    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

Frontier 25

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

  1. 963points

    Gemini 3.1 Pro

    914 comments

  2. 705points

    AI makes you boring

    370 comments

  3. 657points

    Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

    218 comments

  4. 655points

    Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

    792 comments

  5. 612points

    Gemini 3.1 Pro

    9 comments

  6. 522points

    AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton

    576 comments

  7. 519points

    We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science

    550 comments

  8. 436points

    Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]

    74 comments

  9. 422points

    Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics

    564 comments

  10. 348points

    0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix

    117 comments

  11. 345points

    DOGE Track

    209 comments

  12. 318points

    California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves

    370 comments

  13. 314points

    Pebble Production: February Update

    161 comments

  14. 311points

    America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks

    473 comments

  15. 289points

    Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan

    171 comments

  16. 282points

    South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection

    162 comments

  17. 271points

    IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup

    168 comments

  18. 266points

    A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data

    48 comments

  19. 257points

    European Tech Alternatives

    183 comments

  20. 231points

    Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed

    91 comments

  21. 212points

    Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial

    125 comments

  22. 202points

    15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern

    80 comments

  23. 199points

    Micropayments as a reality check for news sites

    394 comments

  24. 198points

    Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia

    92 comments

  25. 198points

    Show HN: cmux - Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications

    77 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv1907.06386

    Comprehensive Process Drift Detection with Visual Analytics

    Recent research has introduced ideas from concept drift into process mining to enable the analysis of changes in business processes over time. This stream of research, however, has not yet addressed the challenges of drift categorization, drilling-down, and quantification. In this paper, we propose a novel technique for managing process drifts, called Visual Drift Detection (VDD), which fulfills these requirements. T

    Yeshchenko, Anton, Di Ciccio, Claudio, Mendling, Jan, Polyvyanyy, Artem

  2. arXiv2208.14153

    Identifying Weight-Variant Latent Causal Models

    The task of causal representation learning aims to uncover latent higher-level causal variables that affect lower-level observations. Identifying the true latent causal variables from observed data, while allowing instantaneous causal relations among latent variables, remains a challenge, however. To this end, we start with the analysis of three intrinsic indeterminacies in identifying latent variables from observati

    Liu, Yuhang, Zhang, Zhen, Gong, Dong, Gong, Mingming et al.

  3. arXiv2305.05418

    Measuring Rule-based LTLf Process Specifications: A Probabilistic Data-driven Approach

    Declarative process specifications define the behavior of processes by means of rules based on Linear Temporal Logic on Finite Traces (LTLf). In a mining context, these specifications are inferred from, and checked on, multi-sets of runs recorded by information systems (namely, event logs). To this end, being able to gauge the degree to which process data comply with a specification is key. However, existing mining a

    Cecconi, Alessio, Barbaro, Luca, Di Ciccio, Claudio, Senderovich, Arik

  4. arXiv2308.00010

    Monaural Multi-Speaker Speech Separation Using Efficient Transformer Model

    Cocktail party problem is the scenario where it is difficult to separate or distinguish individual speaker from a mixed speech from several speakers. There have been several researches going on in this field but the size and complexity of the model is being traded off with the accuracy and robustness of speech separation. "Monaural multi-speaker speech separation" presents a speech-separation model based on t

    Rijal, S., Neupane, R., Mainali, S. P., Regmi, S. K. et al.

  5. arXiv2310.01181

    Graph Isomorphic Networks for Assessing Reliability of the Medium-Voltage Grid

    Ensuring electricity grid reliability becomes increasingly challenging with the shift towards renewable energy and declining conventional capacities. Distribution System Operators (DSOs) aim to achieve grid reliability by verifying the n-1 principle, ensuring continuous operation in case of component failure. Electricity networks' complex graph-based data holds crucial information for n-1 assessment: graph struct

    van Nooten, Charlotte Cambier, van de Poll, Tom, Füllhase, Sonja, Heres, Jacco et al.

  6. arXiv2401.04536

    Evaluating Language Model Agency through Negotiations

    We introduce an approach to evaluate language model (LM) agency using negotiation games. This approach better reflects real-world use cases and addresses some of the shortcomings of alternative LM benchmarks. Negotiation games enable us to study multi-turn, and cross-model interactions, modulate complexity, and side-step accidental evaluation data leakage. We use our approach to test six widely used and publicly acce

    Davidson, Tim R., Veselovsky, Veniamin, Josifoski, Martin, Peyrard, Maxime et al.

  7. arXiv2402.00468

    RadDQN: a Deep Q Learning-based Architecture for Finding Time-efficient Minimum Radiation Exposure Pathway

    Recent advancements in deep reinforcement learning (DRL) techniques have sparked its multifaceted applications in the automation sector. Managing complex decision-making problems with DRL encourages its use in the nuclear industry for tasks such as optimizing radiation exposure to the personnel during normal operating conditions and potential accidental scenarios. However, the lack of efficient reward function and ef

    Sadhu, Biswajit, Sadhu, Trijit, Anand, S.

  8. arXiv2402.18060

    Benchmarking Large Language Models on Answering and Explaining Challenging Medical Questions

    LLMs have demonstrated impressive performance in answering medical questions, such as achieving passing scores on medical licensing examinations. However, medical board exams or general clinical questions do not capture the complexity of realistic clinical cases. Moreover, the lack of reference explanations means we cannot easily evaluate the reasoning of model decisions, a crucial component of supporting doctors in

    Chen, Hanjie, Fang, Zhouxiang, Singla, Yash, Dredze, Mark

  9. arXiv2402.19456

    Statistical Estimation in the Spiked Tensor Model via the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

    The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a general-purpose algorithm for combinatorial optimization. In this paper, we analyze the performance of the QAOA on a statistical estimation problem, namely, the spiked tensor model, which exhibits a statistical-computational gap classically. We prove that the weak recovery threshold of $1$-step QAOA matches that of $1$-step tensor power iteration. Additional

    Zhou, Leo, Basso, Joao, Mei, Song

  10. arXiv2403.00553

    Standardizing the Measurement of Text Diversity: A Tool and a Comparative Analysis of Scores

    The diversity across outputs generated by LLMs shapes perception of their quality and utility. High lexical diversity is often desirable, but there is no standard method to measure this property. Templated answer structures and ``canned'' responses across different documents are readily noticeable, but difficult to visualize across large corpora. This work aims to standardize measurement of text diversity. Sp

    Shaib, Chantal, Govindarajan, Venkata S., Barrow, Joe, Sun, Jiuding et al.

  11. arXiv2403.10751

    LightCode: Light Analytical and Neural Codes for Channels with Feedback

    The design of reliable and efficient codes for channels with feedback remains a longstanding challenge in communication theory. While significant improvements have been achieved by leveraging deep learning techniques, neural codes often suffer from high computational costs, a lack of interpretability, and limited practicality in resource-constrained settings. We focus on designing low-complexity coding schemes that a

    Ankireddy, Sravan Kumar, Narayanan, Krishna, Kim, Hyeji

  12. arXiv2405.05523

    Prompt When the Animal is: Temporal Animal Behavior Grounding with Positional Recovery Training

    Temporal grounding is crucial in multimodal learning, but it poses challenges when applied to animal behavior data due to the sparsity and uniform distribution of moments. To address these challenges, we propose a novel Positional Recovery Training framework (Port), which prompts the model with the start and end times of specific animal behaviors during training. Specifically, \port{} enhances the baseline model with

    Yan, Sheng, Du, Xin, Li, Zongying, Wang, Yi et al.

  13. arXiv2407.15329

    Less is More: Skim Transformer for Light Field Image Super-resolution

    A light field image captures scenes through its micro-lens array, providing a rich representation that encompasses spatial and angular information. While this richness comes at significant data redundancy, most existing methods tend to indiscriminately utilize all the information from sub-aperture images (SAIs) in an attempt to harness every visual cue regardless of their disparity significance. However, this paradig

    Hu, Zeke Zexi, Chen, Haodong, Ye, Hui, Chen, Xiaoming et al.

  14. arXiv2409.04332

    Amortized Bayesian Workflow

    Bayesian inference often faces a trade-off between computational speed and sampling accuracy. We propose an adaptive workflow that integrates rapid amortized inference with gold-standard MCMC techniques to achieve a favorable combination of both speed and accuracy when performing inference on many observed datasets. Our approach uses principled diagnostics to guide the choice of inference method for each dataset, mov

    Li, Chengkun, Vehtari, Aki, Bürkner, Paul-Christian, Radev, Stefan T. et al.

  15. arXiv2409.17091

    Ctrl-GenAug: Controllable Generative Augmentation for Medical Sequence Classification

    In the medical field, the limited availability of large-scale datasets and labor-intensive annotation processes hinder the performance of deep models. Diffusion-based generative augmentation approaches present a promising solution to this issue, having been proven effective in advancing downstream medical recognition tasks. Nevertheless, existing works lack sufficient semantic and sequential steerability for challeng

    Zhou, Xinrui, Huang, Yuhao, Dou, Haoran, Chen, Shijing et al.

  16. arXiv2409.20390

    When Stereotypes GTG: The Impact of Predictive Text Suggestions on Gender Bias in Human-AI Co-Writing

    AI-based systems such as language models have been shown to replicate and even amplify social biases reflected in their training data. Among other questionable behaviors, this can lead to AI-generated text--and text suggestions--that contain normatively inappropriate stereotypical associations. Little is known, however, about how this behavior impacts the writing produced by people using these systems. We address thi

    Baumler, Connor, Daumé III, Hal

  17. arXiv2410.23742

    Fused-Planes: Why Train a Thousand Tri-Planes When You Can Share?

    Tri-Planar NeRFs enable the application of powerful 2D vision models for 3D tasks, by representing 3D objects using 2D planar structures. This has made them the prevailing choice to model large collections of 3D objects. However, training Tri-Planes to model such large collections is computationally intensive and remains largely inefficient. This is because the current approaches independently train one Tri-Plane per

    Kassab, Karim, Schnepf, Antoine, Franceschi, Jean-Yves, Caraffa, Laurent et al.

  18. arXiv2411.04760

    Zero-Shot Temporal Resolution Domain Adaptation for Spiking Neural Networks

    Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are biologically-inspired deep neural networks that efficiently extract temporal information while offering promising gains in terms of energy efficiency and latency when deployed on neuromorphic devices. SNN parameters are sensitive to temporal resolution, leading to significant performance drops when the temporal resolution of target data during deployment is not the same as that of t

    Karilanova, Sanja, Fabre, Maxime, Neftci, Emre, Özçelikkale, Ayça

  19. arXiv2411.06624

    A Review of Fairness and A Practical Guide to Selecting Context-Appropriate Fairness Metrics in Machine Learning

    Recent regulatory proposals for artificial intelligence emphasize fairness requirements for machine learning models. However, precisely defining the appropriate measure of fairness is challenging due to philosophical, cultural and political contexts. Biases can infiltrate machine learning models in complex ways depending on the model's context, rendering a single common metric of fairness insufficient. This ambig

    Barr, Caleb J. S., Erdelyi, Olivia, Docherty, Paul D., Grace, Randolph C.

  20. arXiv2411.11024

    VeGaS: Video Gaussian Splatting

    Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) employ neural networks to approximate discrete data as continuous functions. In the context of video data, such models can be utilized to transform the coordinates of pixel locations along with frame occurrence times (or indices) into RGB color values. Although INRs facilitate effective compression, they are unsuitable for editing purposes. One potential solution is to use a 3D

    Smolak-Dyżewska, Weronika, Malarz, Dawid, Howil, Kornel, Kaczmarczyk, Jan et al.

  21. arXiv2411.11706

    MC-LLaVA: Multi-Concept Personalized Vision-Language Model

    Current vision-language models (VLMs) show exceptional abilities across diverse tasks, such as visual question answering. To enhance user experience, recent studies have investigated VLM personalization to understand user-provided concepts. However, they mainly focus on single concepts, neglecting the existence and interplay of multiple concepts, which limits real-world applicability. This paper proposes MC-LLaVA, a

    An, Ruichuan, Yang, Sihan, Zhang, Renrui, Lu, Ming et al.

  22. arXiv2411.15395

    ChatBCI: A P300 Speller BCI Leveraging Large Language Models for Improved Sentence Composition in Realistic Scenarios

    P300 speller BCIs allow users to compose sentences by selecting target keys on a GUI through the detection of P300 component in their EEG signals following visual stimuli. Most P300 speller BCIs require users to spell words letter by letter, or the first few initial letters, resulting in high keystroke demands that increase time, cognitive load, and fatigue. This highlights the need for more efficient, user-friendly

    Hong, Jiazhen, Wang, Weinan, Najafizadeh, Laleh

  23. arXiv2411.16370

    A Review of Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification in Deep Probabilistic Image Segmentation

    Advances in architectural design, data availability, and compute have driven remarkable progress in semantic segmentation. Yet, these models often rely on relaxed Bayesian assumptions, omitting critical uncertainty information needed for robust decision-making. Despite growing interest in probabilistic segmentation to address point-estimate limitations, the research landscape remains fragmented. In response, this rev

    Valiuddin, M. M. A., van Sloun, R. J. G., Viviers, C. G. A., de With, P. H. N. et al.

  24. arXiv2411.16537

    RoboSpatial: Teaching Spatial Understanding to 2D and 3D Vision-Language Models for Robotics

    Spatial understanding is a crucial capability that enables robots to perceive their surroundings, reason about their environment, and interact with it meaningfully. In modern robotics, these capabilities are increasingly provided by vision-language models. However, these models face significant challenges in spatial reasoning tasks, as their training data are based on general-purpose image datasets that often lack so

    Song, Chan Hee, Blukis, Valts, Tremblay, Jonathan, Tyree, Stephen et al.

  25. arXiv2412.00364

    LMSeg: Unleashing the Power of Large-Scale Models for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    It is widely agreed that open-vocabulary-based approaches outperform classical closed-set training solutions for recognizing unseen objects in images for semantic segmentation. Existing open-vocabulary approaches leverage vision-language models, such as CLIP, to align visual features with rich semantic features acquired through pre-training on large-scale vision-language datasets. However, the text prompts employed i

    Tang, Huadong, Zhao, Youpeng, Huang, Yan, Xu, Min et al.

On this calendar day 16

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

  1. 2026year

    Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor became the first member of the British royal family to be arrested in 379 years.

  2. 2012year

    Mexican drug war: Forty-four inmates died in a prison riot in Apodaca, Mexico, between members of Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel.

  3. 2011year

    Items from the Belitung shipwreck, the largest single collection of Tang-dynasty artefacts found in one location, were first exhibited in Singapore.

  4. 2006year

    A methane explosion in a coal mine in Nueva Rosita, Mexico, trapped and killed 65 miners.

  5. 1965year

    Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm attempted a coup against the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.

  6. 1963year

    Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, a non-fiction book credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States, was first published.

  7. 1948year

    The Southeast Asian Youth Conference, which is believed to have inspired armed communist rebellions in different Asian countries, opened in Calcutta, India.

  8. 1942year

    World War II: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the forcible relocation of over 112,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps.

  9. 1942year

    Second World War: In the largest attack mounted by a foreign power against Australia, more than 240 Japanese aircraft bombed the city of Darwin (pictured).

  10. 1942year

    A book-burning was held and politicians were arrested in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, as part of a simulated Nazi invasion.

  11. 1937year

    Italian forces began a brutal crackdown on Ethiopians following an attempted assassination of Rodolfo Graziani, the viceroy of Italian East Africa, in Addis Ababa.

  12. 1931year

    The Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia (flag pictured) was dissolved and reformed as the Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, an autonomous republic of the Soviet Union within Georgia.

  13. 1910year

    Old Trafford, a football stadium in Greater Manchester, England, hosted its inaugural match, between Manchester United and Liverpool.

  14. 1903year

    A blockade against Venezuela (depicted), caused by President Cipriano Castro's refusal to pay foreign debts, was lifted.

  15. 1811year

    Peninsular War: Outnumbered French forces under Édouard Mortier routed and nearly destroyed Spanish troops at the Battle of the Gebora near Badajoz, Spain.

  16. 1600year

    Huaynaputina, a stratovolcano in present-day Peru, produced the largest recorded volcanic explosion in South America.