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Record 21092026 · captured 2026-09-22

Monday, 21 September 2026

The world looked up Lizzie Borden. 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. 1,022,634views

    Lizzie Borden

    Lizzie Andrew Borden was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892, murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No other individuals were charged with the murders.

  2. 268,382views

    Resident Evil (2026 film)

    Resident Evil is a 2026 horror film directed by Zach Cregger and written by Cregger and Shay Hatten, based on the Resident Evil video game franchise by Capcom. It follows Bryan, a medical courier who must fight through an outbreak of infected monsters in Racco

  3. 253,570views

    Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story

    Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story is the fourth season of the American biographical crime drama anthology television series Monster, created by Ian Brennan for Netflix. The season centers on murder suspect Lizzie Borden who was tried and acquitted of the 1892 a

  4. 237,626views

    UFC 331

    UFC 331: Van vs. Pantoja 2 was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on September 19, 2026, at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California, United States.

  5. 220,263views

    Lane Kiffin

    Lane Monte Kiffin is an American football coach who is the head coach for the LSU Tigers. He previously served as the head coach for the Oakland Raiders from 2007 to 2009, Tennessee Volunteers in 2009, USC Trojans from 2010 to 2013, Florida Atlantic Owls from

  6. 208,302views

    Chad Gilbert

    Chad Everett Gilbert was an American guitarist, record producer and songwriter. He was a founding member of the punk rock band New Found Glory, for whom he played lead guitar and sang backing vocals. He was also the lead vocalist for the band's now-defunct sid

  7. 190,573views

    Aileen Wuornos

    Aileen Carol Wuornos was an American serial killer. Between 1989 and 1990, while engaging in street prostitution along highways in Florida, Wuornos shot, killed, and robbed seven of her male clients. She initially claimed that her victims had either raped or a

  8. 181,840views

    Trinidad Chambliss

    Trinidad Jay Chambliss is an American college football quarterback for the Ole Miss Rebels. He previously played for the Ferris State Bulldogs, leading the 2024 Bulldogs to the Division II national championship.

  9. 174,179views

    2026 Asian Games

    The 2026 Asian Games , officially the XX Asian Games (第20回アジア競技大会) and also known as Aichi–Nagoya 2026 (愛知・名古屋2026), is an ongoing multi-sport event which are being held in Aichi Prefecture in Japan from 19 September to 4 October 2026, with several events star

  10. 169,576views

    Gable Steveson

    Gable Dan Steveson is an American freestyle wrestler, professional mixed martial artist, former professional wrestler and football defensive tackle. He is currently signed to the Heavyweight divisions of both Real American Freestyle and Ultimate Fighting Champ

  11. 154,077views

    Ella Beatty

    Ella Beatty is an American actress and the daughter of Annette Bening and Warren Beatty.

  12. 143,540views

    Joshua Van

    Joshua Van Bawi Thawng is a Burmese and American professional mixed martial artist currently competing in the Flyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is the current UFC Flyweight Champion. Van is the first fighter from Myanmar

  13. 141,561views

    .xyz

    .xyz is a top-level domain name that was proposed in ICANN's new generic top-level domain (gTLD) Program for consisting of the last three letters of the Latin-script alphabet. XYZ.com and CentralNic are the registries for the domain, which was created by entre

  14. 130,933views

    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

  15. 126,611views

    Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer

    Charles Edward Maurice Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, styled Viscount Althorp between 1975 and 1992, is a British peer, author, journalist, and broadcaster. He is the younger brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, and the maternal uncle of William, Prince of Wales,

  16. 120,052views

    Killing of the Clancy children

    On January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy fatally strangled her three children—five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan—at the family's home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, United States. She then cut her wrists and neck and jumped from a sec

  17. 115,026views

    Carrot Top

    Scott Christopher Thompson, known professionally as Carrot Top, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is known for his use of prop comedy.

  18. 111,662views

    Modha Rathri

    Modha Rathri is a 2026 Indian Tamil-language comedy drama film written and directed by Raja Karuppasamy in his directorial debut and produced by Mythri Movie Makers. The film stars Rishikanth, Anishma Anilkumar, Shelly Kishore, Chetan and Bagavathi Perumal in

  19. 109,285views

    2026 Berlin state election

    The 2026 Berlin state election was held on 20 September 2026 to elect the 20th Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin. The 2026 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election took place on the same day, two weeks after the 2026 Saxony-Anhalt state election.

  20. 109,075views

    Arman Tsarukyan

  21. 107,104views

    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

  22. 104,087views

    2026 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election

    The 2026 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election was held on 20 September 2026 to elect the 9th Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The 2026 Berlin state election took place on the same day, two weeks after the AfD won the 2026 Saxony-Anhalt state election that p

  23. 102,344views

    India at the 2026 Asian Games

    India is participating in the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi Prefecture, Japan from 19 September to 4 October 2026. This is the country's 20th consecutive appearance in the competition, having made its debut at the inaugural 1951 Asian Games. The Indian contingent

  24. 85,935views

    Hanuman Ansh

    Hanuman Ansh is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language biographical film written, directed and produced by Vishal Chaturvedi under his banner, Swambhu Media Network. Serving as the first instalment of a trilogy, it is based on his book Divine Detour: That Changed My Lif

  25. 82,309views

    Vicky Krieps

    Vicky Krieps is a Luxembourgish and German actress. She has appeared in a number of American, Luxembourgish, French, and German productions. Her breakout role was in the London-based period film Phantom Thread (2017), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

  26. 81,838views

    2026 Russian legislative election

    Legislative elections were held in Russia from 18 to 20 September 2026, to elect all 450 seats of the State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly. Going into the election, United Russia was the incumbent and largest party with 324 seats.

  27. 80,247views

    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

  28. 77,297views

    Irumudi

    Irumudi is a 2026 Telugu-language action drama film written and directed by Shiva Nirvana. Produced by Mythri Movie Makers and presented by T-Series Films, the film stars Ravi Teja, Priya Bhavani Shankar, Sai Kumar, and Baby Nakshathra. The film centres on the

  29. 75,555views

    Ed Sheeran

    Edward Christopher Sheeran is an English singer-songwriter. Born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and raised in Framlingham, Suffolk, he began writing songs around the age of eleven. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play No.5 Collaboration

  30. 70,637views

    Neagley

    Neagley is an American action crime television series created by Nick Santora and Nicholas Wootton for Amazon Prime Video. Based on the character created by Lee Child, it is a spin-off of the television series Reacher. It stars Maria Sten, who reprises her rol

Frontier 25

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

  1. 894points

    MiMo v2.6

    396 comments

  2. 797points

    Attention is all you have

    235 comments

  3. 669points

    I don't want to read what you didn't write

    258 comments

  4. 599points

    ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room

    4 comments

  5. 587points

    What Sun got wrong

    333 comments

  6. 569points

    Grok 4.7

    483 comments

  7. 498points

    Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions

    353 comments

  8. 434points

    Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5

    196 comments

  9. 423points

    Spymarks, Not Watermarks

    107 comments

  10. 401points

    Transformers Explained Visually

    64 comments

  11. 390points

    ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you

    342 comments

  12. 388points

    Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August

    274 comments

  13. 386points

    NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

    323 comments

  14. 366points

    Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]

    95 comments

  15. 310points

    Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac

    198 comments

  16. 263points

    Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM

    60 comments

  17. 251points

    Heretic removes restrictions from language models

    103 comments

  18. 248points

    M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review

    246 comments

  19. 243points

    Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips

    192 comments

  20. 238points

    AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up

    262 comments

  21. 229points

    Jev-Leftpad

    87 comments

  22. 226points

    macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage

    113 comments

  23. 226points

    Python Workers are now generally available

    38 comments

  24. 221points

    US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut

    131 comments

  25. 157points

    Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death

    181 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2609.25001

    GameHorizon Suite: Multi-Horizon Data and Evaluation in Gameplay

    Modern video games provide a measurable testbed for AI models, combining abilities of visual understanding, instruction decomposition, goal planning, and precise action control over multiple temporal horizons. Existing datasets and benchmarks, however, either cover a narrow range of games, lack language instructions, or rely on high-variance online rollouts. To address these challenges, we introduce GameHorizon, a un

    Yiran Wang, Xingyilang Yin, Junfu Pu, Guangzhi Wang et al.

  2. arXiv2609.24984

    WorldCrafter: Consistent Video World Model with Implicit 3D-aware Memory

    Video world models enable interactive exploration of dynamic environments, yet struggle to respect prior observations over long horizons and across viewpoints. We present WorldCrafter, a video world model that learns a camera-queryable implicit 3D-aware memory for this purpose. The key insight is to let the requested viewpoint shape how multi-view evidence is compressed into the video generator's limited token budget

    Wangbo Yu, Kunhao Liu, Wenbo Hu, Shenghai Yuan et al.

  3. arXiv2609.24976

    DexTacWAM: A Visuo-Tactile World-Action Model for Dexterous Manipulation

    Dexterous manipulation depends on contact dynamics that are often only partially observable from vision. Recent World-Action Models (WAMs) couple predictive video world modeling with action generation, but remain largely vision-centric and therefore cannot directly model these contact dynamics. We present DexTacWAM, a visuo-tactile WAM that encodes each fingertip independently, aggregates the resulting features throu

    Haoran Yuan, Zekai Wang, Boning Shao, Haoran Lu et al.

  4. arXiv2609.24974

    Harness-Zero: Harness Distillation via Agent-as-Harness

    Agent harnesses, the external systems that mediate model-environment interaction, can substantially improve agent performance, but their gains remain tied to the harness at deployment. Because the best harness varies across domains, instances, and models, a general-purpose agent must either settle for a suboptimal shared harness or route among an ever-growing set of specialized ones. We therefore study agent harness

    Haoran Ye, Yuxing Lu, Haonan Dong, Zhaochen Su et al.

  5. arXiv2609.24972

    RRSI: Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement of Agent Harnesses

    An LLM agent's capability is largely magnified by its harness, namely the prompts, control flow, tooling, memory, and context management surrounding the frozen backbone model. Recent methods increasingly automate this process by iteratively proposing and selecting component-wise edits of an agent harness, practically establishing a form of recursive self-improvement (RSI) at the agent-system level. However, such recu

    Peng Xia, Rujun Han, Zifeng Wang, Yanfei Chen et al.

  6. arXiv2609.24971

    DolphinBench: Mapping the Pareto Frontier of Agent Memory

    Agents today often take real-world actions that depend on long-term memory and context recall over time. However, most current memory benchmarks are built for a conversational question-answer format, where the question itself signals that some fact must be retrieved, and often which one. Moreover, benchmarks rarely require anything beyond accuracy from submissions, allowing memory systems to make unreasonable cost/ti

    Soumil Rathi, Deshraj Yadav, Taranjeet Singh

  7. arXiv2609.24969

    Rare Event Estimation via Iterative Unalignment

    As agents are deployed with increased autonomy, even extremely rare events along their stochastic output trajectories can occur and prove catastrophic. Safe deployment therefore does not depend on whether these events can occur, but on how often they might. We study the problem of estimating the probability of rare events that arise from stochastic variation in the agent's own actions. Estimating this type of risk re

    Hanming Yang, Daksh Mittal, Jing Dong, Hongseok Namkoong

  8. arXiv2609.24967

    Emergent Collusion in Long-Horizon LLM Agent Interaction

    LLM agents are increasingly deployed in collaborative settings, yet long-term interaction may give rise to undesirable coordination. We study the emergence of collusion in a long-horizon multi-agent environment: two agents repeatedly complete individual tasks, share task logs, verify each other's work, and receive rewards. We introduce realistic constraints that make compliance with the verification protocol incompat

    Xinrui Shi, Yanzhe Zhang, Diyi Yang

  9. arXiv2609.24965

    Jev for Scientific Decisions: Evaluating Semantic Choices and Their Consequences

    Scientific workflows often require choosing among known relations before a deterministic calculation can proceed. Whether observations share a culture, treatment or reference standard can change the scientific meaning of the resulting count or comparison. We evaluate Jev as a semantic decision component using a harness that follows its documented guidance and assigns arithmetic to code. The study compares twelve mode

    Boyuan Deng, Shuyi Fan, Hongyang Zhang, Xinhong Xie

  10. arXiv2609.24955

    Generative Tutorial: Towards Live Contextualized Visual Instructions for Physical Tasks

    Visual instructions for physical tasks are typically authored in one context and followed in another, requiring users to translate demonstrated tools, materials, and spatial relationships into their own environment. We introduce Generative Tutorial, a conceptual framework for live visual instruction that depicts intended outcomes and actions within the user's environment and task flow. A formative evaluation of state

    Muzhe Wu, Zuchen Li, Xu Wang, Anhong Guo

  11. arXiv2609.24942

    Exactness at Inference: A Representational Criterion for Out-of-Distribution Generalization

    A model generalizes outside its training distribution only when it computes a representation structurally equivalent to the generating mechanism, not an approximation fitted to it. Such equivalence is necessary for exactness in and out of distribution, and extrapolation is governed by this exactness at inference, whatever its realization. Tensor Logic shows this: a zero-temperature contraction is equivalent to discre

    Filipe Marinho Rocha, Inês Dutra, Vítor Santos Costa, Luís Paulo Reis

  12. arXiv2609.24927

    Et Tu, Brute? Economic Misalignment in Personal AI Agents

    Personal AI agents make recommendations and take actions on people's behalf in high-stakes economic contexts, e.g., buying a flight, choosing health insurance, or selecting a graduate program. The agent is given access to the user's personal context, e.g., their email inbox and a structured profile of personal attributes, with the intention of making an optimal, personalized decision for the user. We show that by sim

    Aman Priyanshu, Supriti Vijay, Brian Jabarian, Niloofar Mireshghallah

  13. arXiv2609.24921

    BackTrend: Evaluating Scientific Weak-Signal Prediction via Backward Reconstruction

    Scientific weak signals are early, low-visibility research directions that later become central to mature scientific topics, yet existing resources such as trend tracking, citation forecasting, and foresight reports rarely provide validated reference sets that link concrete early precursors to later paradigms. We introduce BackTrend, a retrospective benchmark in which, given a mature target topic and a temporal evide

    Xiao Zhou, Yilun Zhao, Owen Jiang, Tiansheng Hu et al.

  14. arXiv2609.24906

    Visuomotor Robotic Pruning in Planar Orchards Using Hybrid Reinforcement Learning

    Dormant tree pruning is labor-intensive yet essential for maintaining modern high-productivity fruit orchards. In this work, we focus on pruning of modern planar tree training systems - V-Trellis apples and UFO cherries - where trunks and primary branches are trained into approximately planar walls. We introduce an end-to-end pipeline to learn a closed-loop visuomotor controller for robotic pruning. This controller i

    Abhinav Jain, Cindy Grimm, Stefan Lee

  15. arXiv2609.24890

    OSWorld-Pro: Process-based Evaluation for Computer Use Agents

    Evaluation of Computer-Use Agents (CUAs) is often limited to the final deliverables they create (at the end of hundreds of steps) and assessed with functional verifiers, as seen in OSWorld. However, such evaluation of end-state performance lacks transparency into how and why agents fail in various tasks, obfuscating critical insight for subsequent improvement. For instance, agents that err during keyboard inputs woul

    Zhilin Wang, Shaokun Zhang, Yifan Zhang, Hao Zhang et al.

  16. arXiv2609.24883

    A Global Comparison of Schemas, Transparency, and Interoperability in Public-Sector AI Registers and Inventories

    Artificial intelligence (AI) registers and inventories aim to make governmental AI visible, but their institutional scope, schemas, and reporting practices construct different representations of public-sector AI. We compare 8,368 records from country-specific and transnational inventories covering 72 countries. Across 23 harmonized fields, registers shared a descriptive core but rarely requested information about app

    Dipto Das, Shion Guha

  17. arXiv2609.24881

    Pinocchio: Fast Uncertainty Estimates for Black-Box Language Models

    In high-stakes decision-making applications of large language models (LLMs), practitioners require not only accurate LLMs but also uncertainty estimates for their predictions. Existing approaches to uncertainty estimation for LLMs require access to log-probabilities output by the model or require fine-tuning access. However, many industrial LLM products use closed-source API models, and many such API models like GPT

    Kevin David Hayes, Arka Pal, Haosong Zhang, Tom Goldstein et al.

  18. arXiv2609.24876

    Partner-Specific Affective Precision in Social Active Inference

    In multi-agent social settings, model reliability varies across relationships. Beyond inferring what others will do, an agent must calibrate how confidently those inferences should guide policy selection for each relationship. An agent may maintain a well-validated model of one partner, a fragile model of another, and a model under revision for a third; collapsing these into a single confidence estimate loses informa

    Harshil Shah, Andrew Pashea

  19. arXiv2609.24864

    SE(3) Neural Potential Fields for 6-DoF Trajectory Planning Directly from Images Without Explicit 3D Reconstruction

    Reaching a 6-DoF grasp pose in clutter requires a collision-free trajectory, conventionally obtained by reconstructing the scene in 3D and planning inside that reconstruction, at the cost of its accuracy and compute. Potential fields learned directly from images remove that dependency but inherit the classical weakness of artificial potential fields: where attractive and repulsive gradients cancel, the descent grazes

    Jeffrey Eiyike, Masoud Ataei, Elvis Gyaase, Vikas Dhiman

  20. arXiv2609.24862

    When Tomorrow Becomes Today: Self-Evolving Policies for Agentic Time-Series Forecasting

    Agentic time series forecasting concerns systems whose underlying mechanisms evolve, making the relative effectiveness of numerical models, reasoning strategies, and intervention rules inherently time-varying. Consequently, a time series agent must adapt the forecasts it produces and the orchestration policy that determines which components to trust and how to coordinate them. The deployment process naturally provide

    Yifan Hu, Xilin Dai, Zhiyuan Qu, Yiding Liu et al.

  21. arXiv2609.24859

    Small-world Networks of Agents Brainstorm AI Risks to Support Ideation

    The ideation phase of participatory AI risk assessment often starts with a blank slate or a limited list of predefined risks, making it difficult to surface indirect or systemic harms. To address this limitation, we propose a three-stage ideation support tool. The tool complements participatory AI, rather than replacing it, and helps focus later engagement with affected communities. First, it dynamically discovers st

    Ke Zhou, Edyta Bogucka, Daniele Quercia

  22. arXiv2609.24855

    Extracting Arguments, Not Just Classifying Them: Instruction-Tuned LLMs for Generative Component Detection

    Argumentative component detection (ACD) is a core subtask of Argument(ation) Mining (AM) and one of its most challenging aspects, as it requires jointly delimiting argumentative spans and classifying them into components such as claims and premises. While research on this subtask remains relatively limited compared to other AM tasks, most existing approaches formulate it as a simplified sequence labeling problem, com

    Sofiane Elguendouze, Erwan Hain, Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata

  23. arXiv2609.24847

    SPECTRA: Adaptive Execution of Speculative Decoding on a Runtime-Reconfigurable Tiled Architecture

    LLM inference on edge devices is constrained by computational and memory resources, making efficient autoregressive decoding challenging. Speculative decoding alleviates this bottleneck by generating tokens with a smaller draft model and verifying multiple tokens in parallel with a batched target model pass. However, verification introduces a runtime-dependent intermediate regime between memory-bound general matrix-v

    Gabriele Tombesi, William Baisi, Je Yang, Elisavet Lydia Alvanaki et al.

  24. arXiv2609.24838

    MedRSI: Recursive Self-Improvement for Medical Agents via Clinically Aligned Self-Evolution

    Medical agents increasingly combine general reasoning models with specialized clinical tools, yet their capabilities remain largely fixed by what clinicians and engineers design before deployment. Recursive self-improvement (RSI) offers a different paradigm in which agents learn from their own failures and autonomously expand their capabilities, but directly applying RSI to medicine introduces fundamental safety chal

    Junde Wu, Jiayuan Zhu, Minghao Hu, Fenglin Liu et al.

  25. arXiv2609.24831

    GRUET: Quantifying Uncertainty of Agentic Reasoning-and-Acting Processes

    Agents have attracted considerably increasing attention due to the power of executing both Reasoning and Acting (ReAct) in open and dynamic environments. The ReAct process typically exhibits a multi-turn trajectory in which one drives Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate both reasoning chains and task-specific actions in an interleaved manner. However, agents often suffer from significant uncertainty, where ident

    Shuang Liang, Xin-Yu Hu, Shao-Qun Zhang

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.

SignalWeb head
Tranco top 1,000
n=1,000
Web tail
sampled to rank 100k
n=1,000
AI-native
model & dev platforms
n=110
Any agent-facing signal 11.5% (115)5.7% (57)74.55% (82)
llms.txt (apex domain) 9.2% (92)4.9% (49)60% (66)
llms.txt (docs subdomain) 3.9% (39)1.1% (11)45.45% (50)
.well-known/mcp.json 0.6% (6)0.2% (2)8.18% (9)
.well-known/agents.txt 0.3% (3)0.2% (2)0% (0)
ai.txt 0.2% (2)0.1% (1)0% (0)
ai-plugin.json (deprecated) 0.7% (7)0.2% (2)0.91% (1)

On this calendar day 18

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

  1. 2013year

    Unidentified gunmen began a three-day attack on the upmarket Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, resulting in the deaths of 67 people with at least another 175 wounded.

  2. 2004year

    American rock band Green Day released their seventh studio album, American Idiot.

  3. 2001year

    Several British Muslim youths in Peterborough, England, murdered 17-year-old Ross Parker, leading to debate over whether the British media failed to cover racially motivated crimes with white victims.

  4. 2001year

    America: A Tribute to Heroes was broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.

  5. 1999year

    A 7.7 Mw earthquake struck Jiji, Taiwan, killing 2,415 people, injuring more than 11,000 others and causing about NT$300 billion (US$10 billion) in damage across the island.

  6. 1999year

    The first chapter of Naruto, later one of the best-selling manga series, was published.

  7. 1996year

    The Defense of Marriage Act was passed by the United States Congress, prohibiting federal recognition of same-sex marriage, while allowing states to adopt any marital definition of their choosing.

  8. 1968year

    The Soviet Union's Zond 5 landed in the Indian Ocean, becoming the first spacecraft to safely return to Earth after travelling around the Moon.

  9. 1965year

    Portugal accepted a diplomatic mission from Southern Rhodesia despite objections by Britain, which had required the colony to implement black majority rule as a condition of independence.

  10. 1938year

    The Great New England Hurricane made landfall on Long Island, New York, killing an estimated 682 people and injuring 1,754 others.

  11. 1937year

    J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy children's novel The Hobbit, which later served as a prelude to The Lord of the Rings, was first published.

  12. 1934year

    The Muroto typhoon, the strongest in Japanese history at the time, made landfall on the mainland, killing more than 3,000 and leaving around 200,000 homeless.

  13. 1934year

    Chandrashekhar Agashe established the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd., one of the oldest companies in India.

  14. 1918year

    World War I: The Battle of Nazareth ended with the British Empire victorious over the Ottomans.

  15. 1897year

    In response to a letter written by eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon, The New York Sun published an editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church stating, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".

  16. 1776year

    American Revolutionary War: The Great Fire of New York (depicted) broke out during the British occupation of New York City, destroying up to 1,000 buildings.

  17. 1675year

    Led by Antonio de Vea, a Spanish naval expedition departed El Callao, Peru, for the fjords and channels of Patagonia to find whether rival colonial powers were in the region.

  18. 1170year

    Norman invasion of Ireland: English and Irish forces conquered Dublin, forcing Ascall mac Ragnaill, the last Norse–Gaelic king of Dublin, into exile.