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Tuesday, 20 October 2026

The world looked up Jailer 2. 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. 321,853views

    Jailer 2

    Jailer 2 is a 2026 Indian Tamil-language action comedy film written and directed by Nelson Dilipkumar. It was produced by Kalanithi Maran through Sun Pictures. A sequel to Jailer (2023), the film stars Rajinikanth, Ramya Krishnan, Yogi Babu, Mirnaa and Rithvik

  2. 301,284views

    Elizabeth Holmes

    Elizabeth Anne Holmes is an American businesswoman convicted of fraud in connection with her health technology company Theranos. Holmes founded Theranos in 2003, and its valuation soared in the early 2010s after it claimed to have revolutionized blood testing

  3. 268,900views

    You Can See Everything

    You Can See Everything is a 2026 American experimental meta-documentary film directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. It follows Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the defunct health technology company Theranos, and her partner Billy Evans, who invited a

  4. 220,295views

    Helen Haines

    Helen Mary Haines is an Australian politician and health researcher who has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for the Victorian division of Indi since 2019. She is a political independent, who has advocated for rural healthcare and housing, the building

  5. 191,702views

    Kim Jong Un

    Kim Jong Un is a North Korean politician and dictator who has been serving as the supreme leader of North Korea since 2011, following the death of his father, Kim Jong Il. He is the third ruler from the Kim family to lead the country, which was founded by his

  6. 153,073views

    Street Fighter (2026 film)

    Street Fighter is a 2026 martial arts comedy film directed by Kitao Sakurai and written by Sakurai and T. J. Fixman, with a story by Dalan Musson and Gary Dauberman. It is the third live-action feature-length film based on the Street Fighter video game series

  7. 146,026views

    Barbara Palvin

    Barbara Palvin Sprouse is a Hungarian model and actress. She first appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2016. In 2019, she became a Victoria's Secret Angel, although she first walked in 2012. She is also an ambassador for Longines and Armani Be

  8. 135,745views

    Lawrence Bishnoi

    Lawrence Bishnoi is an Indian gangster who attained notoriety as the kingpin of the "Bishnoi Gang".

  9. 134,323views

    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

  10. 115,086views

    Nathan Fielder

    Nathan Joseph Fielder is a Canadian and American filmmaker, actor, and comedian. He is known for his awkward, deadpan persona and his use of satire and surreal humor.

  11. 103,687views

    Dylan Sprouse

    Dylan Thomas Sprouse is an American actor. He is known for his role as Zack Martin on the Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and its spin-off, The Suite Life on Deck, where he starred alongside his twin brother Cole Sprouse. He is one of the o

  12. 101,742views

    2026 French student protests

    Since 18 September 2026, a series of demonstrations and blockades by lycée students has been taking place in France and later, to a lesser degree, in Belgium, Albania, Greece, and Italy, having originated in Créteil, a commune in the suburbs of Paris. The prot

  13. 100,406views

    Crystal Lake (TV series)

    Crystal Lake is an American slasher television series developed by Brad Caleb Kane that is based on the Friday the 13th film franchise. It is a spiritual prequel to the 1980 film and stars Linda Cardellini in the leading role of Pamela Voorhees, with Callum Vi

  14. 97,764views

    Richard Riehle

    Richard Riehle was an American character actor, best known for playing Tom Smykowski in Office Space (1999) and Walt Finnerty on Grounded for Life (2001–2005). He appeared in over 400 films, television shows and other projects.

  15. 93,167views

    Abdul El-Sayed

    Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is an American epidemiologist and politician who is the Democratic nominee in the 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan.

  16. 92,953views

    Presley Gerber

    Presley Walker Gerber was an American model. He was the elder child of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber and the brother of model and actress Kaia Gerber. He began modeling as a teenager and later appeared in runway shows and advertising campaigns for several ma

  17. 77,172views

    Tiger Shroff

    Jai Hemant "Tiger" Shroff is an Indian actor and singer, who works in Hindi films. Born to actors Jackie Shroff and Ayesha Dutt, he made his acting debut with the action romance Heropanti (2014), for which he won the IIFA Award for Star Debut of the Year – Mal

  18. 76,546views

    Katie Zacharia

    Kate Sharon Zacharia (née Black) is an American political commentator who served as the 37th White House press secretary in October 2026, during the second presidency of Donald Trump. She held the title for five days, making her the shortest-serving White Hous

  19. 74,366views

    Carrie (miniseries)

    Carrie is an American supernatural horror television miniseries developed by Mike Flanagan, and produced by Amazon MGM Studios for Amazon Prime Video. The first series adaptation of the eponymous franchise, it is based on the 1974 novel by Stephen King, and is

  20. 72,542views

    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4

    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is a 2026 first-person shooter game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. It is the twenty-third installment in the Call of Duty series and the fourth and final entry in the rebooted Modern Warfare sub-series, f

  21. 69,883views

    Theranos

    Theranos Inc. was an American privately held corporation that was touted as a breakthrough health technology company. Founded in 2003 by then–19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos raised more than US$700 million from venture capitalists and private investors,

  22. 69,767views

    Limonene

    Limonene is a slightly yellow-green liquid aliphatic hydrocarbon classified as a cyclic monoterpene, and is the major component in the fragrance and essential oil of citrus fruit peels, taking its name from Italian limone 'lemon'.

  23. 67,302views

    Jeff Bezos

    Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American businessman, and the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes, he was the worl

  24. 65,240views

    Osiris

    Osiris was the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion. He was classically depicted with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive atef crown an

  25. 62,833views

    Neatsville, Kentucky

    Neatsville is an unincorporated community in Adair County, located 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

  26. 61,809views

    Anna's Archive

    Anna's Archive is an open source search engine for shadow libraries that was launched by the pseudonymous Anna shortly after law enforcement efforts to shut down Z-Library in 2022. The site aggregates records from Z-Library, Sci-Hub, and Library Genesis (LibGe

  27. 61,592views

    Ansel Adams

    Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and th

  28. 61,369views

    The Diplomat (American TV series)

    The Diplomat is an American political thriller television series with elements of a romantic comedy. It was created by Debora Cahn. First airing in 2023, it stars Keri Russell as a veteran US diplomat who is unexpectedly appointed as the ambassador to the Unit

  29. 60,056views

    Aberfan disaster

    The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip on 21 October 1966. The tip had been created on a mountain slope above the Welsh village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil, and overlaid a natural spring. Heavy rain led to a build-up of

  30. 59,046views

    Whalefall (film)

    Whalefall is a 2026 American survival thriller film directed and produced by Brian Duffield, based on the 2023 novel by Daniel Kraus, who co-wrote the script with Duffield. The film follows a scuba diver who, while searching for the remains of his estranged fa

Frontier 25

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

  1. 2,245points

    DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models

    856 comments

  2. 925points

    eMudhra intermediate CA compromise

    394 comments

  3. 788points

    Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits

    371 comments

  4. 772points

    Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)

    301 comments

  5. 661points

    Voxtral 3

    166 comments

  6. 555points

    Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads

    272 comments

  7. 477points

    OpenBSD 8.0

    155 comments

  8. 439points

    Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month

    386 comments

  9. 407points

    Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust

    198 comments

  10. 407points

    MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space

    119 comments

  11. 392points

    What shall I teach my son?

    462 comments

  12. 387points

    Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe

    193 comments

  13. 385points

    Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case

    298 comments

  14. 380points

    AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right

    533 comments

  15. 362points

    How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed

    96 comments

  16. 340points

    Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs

    197 comments

  17. 335points

    Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs

    73 comments

  18. 290points

    Lula supporters protest against Meta to denounce its 'electoral interference'

    185 comments

  19. 273points

    Sixteen years after Deepwater Horizon, deep sea life shows few signs of recovery

    157 comments

  20. 241points

    France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months

    220 comments

  21. 215points

    Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming

    32 comments

  22. 200points

    Feds suspect ransom negotiator ran ShinyHunters extortion site

    91 comments

  23. 198points

    Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia

    117 comments

  24. 196points

    My Friend Bob Cringely

    51 comments

  25. 193points

    The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines

    145 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2610.28632

    Joints, Camera, Action! Co-Generating 3D Motion and Video for Arbitrary Rigs

    Video generation models can now depict remarkably realistic motion. Yet it is unclear how to use this motion beyond pixels: to animate a specific 3D asset and replay the animation in its 3D scene. For instance, a video model can show a monkey jumping over a crossbar, but it cannot return that jump as replayable 3D motion placed in the 3D scene. Here we present a model that directly co-generates the video and 3D motio

    Noam Rotstein, Yoad Tewel, Chen Tessler, Haggai Maron et al.

  2. arXiv2610.28629

    GBClaw: An agentic AI framework for atomistic grain boundary research and mechanistic discovery

    Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems hold immense potential for automating complex workflows in materials discovery and design, but extending them to domain-intensive mechanistic investigations remains challenging. Here, we present GBClaw, an agentic AI framework for investigating the structure and deformation of general grain boundaries (GBs). Although general GBs constitute the vast majority of real-world i

    Yazhuo Liu, Kunqing Ding, Xiaoguo Gong, Zifeng Wang et al.

  3. arXiv2610.28626

    UniWALM: Unified World Action Language Model for Embodied Robot Control

    Motivated by the human ability to integrate experience across language, perception, and action, we introduce UniWALM, a unified world-action-language model that learns video, action, and language in a single shared representation, where each modality is both a conditioning signal and a supervision target. We ask: can jointly generating language enrich this shared representation, improving manipulation and supporting

    Rahul Sajnani, Diego Romeres, Mingyuan Zhang, Kai Gao et al.

  4. arXiv2610.28624

    Industrial ReMEmbR: Scaling Spatiotemporal Memory to Robot Fleets

    Warehouse robot fleets continuously observe operational conditions, but preserving these observations as reusable semantic memory incurs substantial computation, communication, and storage costs. For example, explaining recurring aisle blockages can require reviewing video from multiple robots across several shifts. We present IndustrialRemembr, a shared spatiotemporal memory system that extends NVIDIA ReMEmbR to rob

    Jad Yammine, Malek Wahidi, Abrar Anwar, Yan Chang et al.

  5. arXiv2610.28622

    MindView: Benchmarking Generative Multi-View Spatial Intelligence

    Spatial intelligence has recently been assessed through generative tasks such as spatially grounded image editing, yet language-guided generation of spatially consistent views from partial multi-view observations remains underexplored. We introduce MindView, a benchmark for generative multi-view spatial intelligence with 1,500 samples from 513 scenes across three indoor datasets. Its seven tasks form two families: ge

    Yanbo Wang, Siqi Luo, Siyu Zhang, Chenming Zhu et al.

  6. arXiv2610.28619

    Adaptive Multi-Token Prediction: How far should we go?

    Multi-token prediction (MTP) can accelerate language-model decoding by drafting several tokens and verifying them in a single target-model pass. However, the best speculation horizon changes with context: longer drafts offer greater amortization when reliable, but can waste compute on suffixes discarded after a rejection. Unlike autoregressive drafting, where a stopping rule can decide token by token, MTP must fix th

    Emile Anand, Mohammed Rehan Parwani, Xinyuan Cao

  7. arXiv2610.28611

    Semantic Observability for Autonomous Systems Diagnostics

    Modern distributed microservice deployments generate massive volumes of heterogeneous, multi-format observability logs across physically and logically partitioned infrastructure. Isolating root causes during cascading failures remains an arduous task for Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), bottlenecked by manual keyword filtering and disjointed temporal correlation across monitoring dashboards. We introduce Semantic O

    Jitendra Solanki, Anand Todkar, Ziran Min

  8. arXiv2610.28607

    Benchmarking Arabic Dialects for Math Problems

    Mathematical reasoning remains underexplored for low-resource languages, including Dialectal Arabic. To bridge this gap, we introduce the DAR-MGSM (Dialectal Arabic Multilingual Grade School Math) Benchmark, the first manually curated benchmark for evaluating mathematical reasoning in Dialectal Arabic. DAR-MGSM consists of math word problems (MWPs) requiring multi-step reasoning and covers five major Arabic dialects

    Noor Abo Mokh, Teresa Lynn, Nizar Habash, Ahmed Elshabrawy et al.

  9. arXiv2610.28604

    Value-Rich, Differently Organized: Measuring Value Expression and Organization in AI-Generated Debates

    Current evaluation of LLM-generated debate largely focuses on argumentative quality, leaving the value structure of generated arguments underexamined. We introduce a diagnostic metric framework for comparing how values are expressed and organized in human-reference and AI-generated debates. The framework separates value expression, the range of recognizable values a debate invokes, from value organization, how those

    Maoyuan Li, Haoyuan Li, Zhongsheng Wang, Jiamou Liu

  10. arXiv2610.28602

    Turning TS2Vec into a Foundation Model for Time Series Classification

    TS2Vec is one of the strongest self-supervised methods for time series classification, introduced in 2022. It is designed to be trained anew on every dataset: self-supervised pre-training followed by linear probing. Since then, the field has shifted towards foundation models that reuse one encoder across datasets. Yet TS2Vec offers a compact convolutional architecture that operates directly on temporal samples and ac

    Vasilii Feofanov, Zhenghan Tai, Andrei Ermakov, Irina Rish

  11. arXiv2610.28601

    Evolving Agent Interfaces

    Computer-use agents are limited by the interfaces humans give them. An agent may type a spreadsheet cell by cell when a single line of code would do, or print all two thousand lines of a file through a shell to find one function. Both the interfaces and the knowledge of when to use each are built by hand, which cannot keep pace with new applications, workflows, and models. We argue that interface design should itself

    Saaket Agashe, Yuzhe Yang, Gonzalo Gonzalez-Pumariega, Bhuvan Chandra Koduru et al.

  12. arXiv2610.28595

    What Do RTL Repair Benchmarks Actually Measure?

    RTL repair benchmarks should measure whether a model can fix broken RTL given a specification. To this end, we construct and hash-bind RTLRepairDataset, 5,784 (broken, fixed) training pairs; RTLRepairBench, 459 held-out cases with 374 syntactic and 85 behavioral mutations; and an evaluation harness supporting simulation and formal equivalence. We then use this infrastructure to identify two measurement confounds. Fir

    Yeyin Eva Zhu, Rishabh Ranawat

  13. arXiv2610.28586

    Capable Teacher, Myopic Scorer: Reward-Free Teacher Repair for Agentic On-Policy Distillation

    Agentic on-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student agent on its own trajectories while a teacher scores every token. A natural explanation of where it goes wrong is compounding error: the student's mistakes carry its trajectories beyond the region where the teacher is reliable, so recent methods keep training inside that region, through episode-length curricula, teacher-guided turns, prefix replay, or teacher inte

    Shu Zhao, Tan Yu

  14. arXiv2610.28585

    SceneRig: An Agentic System for Simulation-Ready 3D Scene Reconstruction from Single Images

    Simulation is a powerful tool for robotics, but building diverse, simulation-ready scenes at scale remains difficult. Reconstructing scenes from single images is a promising alternative, but visual similarity alone is insufficient: objects must also be recovered, accurately placed, and physically grounded. Existing methods that rely on post-hoc physics settling often misplace objects, producing scenes that look corre

    Rundong Luo, Yunong Liu, Di Cao, Matthew Tancik et al.

  15. arXiv2610.28584

    Beyond the Sequentiality Bottleneck: A Hybrid Diffusion-Autoregressive Framework for Efficient Multimodal Reasoning

    Autoregressive models (ARMs) face a "Sequentiality Bottleneck" in reasoning, while diffusion language models (DLMs) offer parallelism but lack semantic coherence. To addresses both limitations, we propose Collaborative Reasoning Asymmetric Learning (CoRAL), a hybrid framework via an Asymmetric Planner-Executor (APE) architecture: a DLM Planner generates K diverse reasoning trajectories in parallel, while a large ARM

    Wei Cai, Jian Zhao, Yuchen Yuan, Xuelong Li

  16. arXiv2610.28579

    Spatially Informed and Direction Sensitive Representation Learning for Spatial Transcriptomics

    Cellular states are shaped by both intrinsic gene expression programs and the spatial microenvironment in which cells reside. Spatial transcriptomics makes this context measurable, but effective representation learning requires capturing both spatially informative molecular signals and intercellular organization. Existing approaches address these challenges only partially: conventional gene selection can overlook spa

    Azim Dehghani Amirabad, Ali Khodabandeh Yalabadi, Artem Moskalev, Yun-Ching Chen et al.

  17. arXiv2610.28578

    Sage-A1.5: From Long-Horizon Execution to Scientific Exploration with Capability Composition

    In this report, we introduce Sage-A1.5, a 35B Mixture-of-Experts agentic model that builds on A1 to advance long-horizon problem solving through adaptive capability composition. Compared with A1, Sage-A1.5 learns not only to solve individual tasks, but also to organize work and revise its approach during execution. Sage-A1.5 highlights three improvements: agentic orchestration, verification, and open scientific disco

    Wenjie Lou, Tianshuo Peng, Shiyang Feng, Shengji Tang et al.

  18. arXiv2610.28568

    Evolving Semantic Indexes for Generative Retrieval

    Generative retrieval (GR) casts search and recommendation as autoregressive generation of discrete semantic identifiers (SIDs). SID design largely determines GR quality, but its discrete, interdependent components (SID construction, collision handling, decoding, and training) cannot be optimized end-to-end with gradients and remain largely hand-designed. We introduce a framework that improves these components through

    Jinming Nian, Jyun-Yu Jiang, Henry Tsai, Yi Fang et al.

  19. arXiv2610.28562

    OptScientist: Automated Discovery of Optimization Laws

    Many scientific phenomena are best understood as outcomes of underlying optimization problems, yet automated scientific discovery has largely focused on recovering equations that describe observed input-output patterns. We introduce OptScientist, a novel automated framework for discovering compact symbolic optimization laws directly from data. OptScientist comprises (i) a model that infers symbolic optimization probl

    Ma ZhenYao, Yue Liang, Jian-Qiao Zhu

  20. arXiv2610.28560

    Agentic Ensemble with Vision-Language Models for Visual Anomaly Detection

    Visual anomaly detection aims to detect abnormal objects, while anomaly samples are often scarce during model training. Assembling multiple pretrained detectors can help by leveraging their transferable image scores and anomaly maps. However, most existing ensemble methods apply fixed fusion rules over saved predictions which struggle when pretrained detectors clearly disagree due to different training objectives, pr

    Shangquan Sun, Wenjun Luo, Xu He, Yoonsoo Lee et al.

  21. arXiv2610.28559

    Large Flow Language Models

    Continuous flow language models offer a path to parallel generation with tools for control and acceleration unavailable to discrete diffusion, yet effective techniques for building them at the billion-parameter scale remain less established. We present Lafa (Large flow language model), a fast, high-performing flow language model scaled to 8B parameters in a data-efficient manner. Lafa is a blockwise flow model with c

    Arnav Chavan, Chanhyuk Lee, Udbhav Bamba, Jaehoon Yoo et al.

  22. arXiv2610.28556

    When Do LLMs Help with Feature Selection? A Systematic Empirical Study

    Large language models (LLMs) can leverage semantic feature names alongside summary statistics for tabular feature selection, yet it remains unclear when such information improves subset selection relative to established statistical methods. We investigate this question within an 18-dataset framework comprising 10 datasets for Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) training, 2 for checkpoint validation, and 6 held-

    Fateme Memar, Dongjie Wang, Arvin Agah

  23. arXiv2610.28555

    Learning Computational Structure for Sample-Efficient Prediction

    Statistical learning in high dimensions suffers from the curse of dimensionality. Fortunately, many functions of practical interest are compositionally sparse, meaning they admit a composition of local functions, each depending on only a few variables, allowing sample complexity to depend on local arity rather than ambient dimension. Yet realizing this benefit requires exploiting hidden compositional structure, which

    Hangyu Zhou, Constantine Dovrolis, Stephen Mussmann

  24. arXiv2610.28543

    Binary Discrete Diffusion: Candidate-Set Diffusion for Logic and Planning Tasks

    Discrete diffusion models iteratively denoise a noisy sequence of categorical data such as text, enabling any-order generation with self-correction and in-filling capabilities. This makes them promising candidates for reasoning, planning, and constrained-generation tasks like coding and math. Yet masked and uniform diffusion erase a token's identity in a single corruption event, so their noisy states cannot explicitl

    Rodrigo Casado Noguerales, Dimitri von Rütte, Bernhard Schölkopf, Thomas Hofmann et al.

  25. arXiv2610.28539

    Humans Correct Their Judgments Through Debate, but Weaker AI Models Do Not

    How can we effectively oversee AI systems that surpass human intelligence? AI Safety via Debate proposes that two AI systems argue opposing positions and a judge, either a human or a weaker model, decides which is correct. By facilitating supervisors in providing high-quality training signals, debate aims to encourage truthful and safe behavior from AI systems whose capabilities exceed our own. However, human judgmen

    Maria Victoria Carro, Denise Alejandra Mester, Facundo Nieto, Oscar Agustin Stanchi et al.

Who invites agents in 14,770 probes

Origins publishing files written for machines rather than people. Measured against a frozen cohort, so a change in the number means a change in adoption.

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On this calendar day 17

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

  1. 2024year

    Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka were sworn in as president and vice president of Indonesia, becoming the oldest and the youngest person to assume respective offices.

  2. 2022year

    Protests broke out across Chad after President Mahamat Déby (pictured) declared his intentions to extend his rule by another two years.

  3. 2011year

    First Libyan Civil War: Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed Libyan leader, was captured by rebel forces during the Battle of Sirte, and was killed shortly thereafter.

  4. 1991year

    An earthquake struck the Indian state of Uttarakhand, killing at least 768 people and destroying thousands of homes.

  5. 1986year

    Aeroflot Flight 6502 crashed on approach to Kurumoch Airport in Samara, Russia (then Kuybyshev in the Soviet Union), killing 70 people on board.

  6. 1986year

    Soviet Aeroflot Flight 6502 crashed after overrunning the runway at Kuibyshev Airport, killing 70 people on board.

  7. 1984year

    The Spanish trawler Sonia sank in British waters after a five-hour chase by the Irish Naval Service patrol vessel Aisling, during which almost 600 shots were fired.

  8. 1982year

    During a UEFA Cup match between Spartak Moscow and Haarlem, a large number of attendees trying to leave the Central Lenin Stadium resulted in a stampede that caused 66 deaths.

  9. 1977year

    Three members of the American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd died when their chartered plane crashed in Gillsburg, Mississippi.

  10. 1973year

    Watergate scandal: Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy William Ruckelshaus resigned after refusing to obey President Richard Nixon's order to have Archibald Cox fired.

  11. 1969year

    Experimental results from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center were published showing that protons were composed of smaller particles, the first evidence of quarks.

  12. 1967year

    Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin filmed an unidentified subject, which they claimed was Bigfoot, at Six Rivers National Forest in California.

  13. 1951year

    African-American college football player Johnny Bright was the victim of an on-field assault, eventually leading to changes in NCAA football rules that mandated the use of more protective helmets with face guards.

  14. 1944year

    World War II: Fulfilling a promise he made two years previously, General Douglas MacArthur landed on Leyte to begin the recapture of the Philippines.

  15. 1939year

    Pope Pius XII (pictured) published his first encyclical, Summi Pontificatus, which critiqued ideologies such as racism, cultural superiority and totalitarianism.

  16. 1936year

    British woman Mabel Freer was refused entry to Australia after failing a dictation test given in Italian, leading to a debate over Australia's immigration policy.

  17. 1740year

    Under the terms of the Pragmatic Sanction, Maria Theresa (pictured) ascended the Habsburg throne.