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Record 22042026 · captured 2026-08-25

Wednesday, 22 April 2026

The world looked up Nahui Ollin. 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. 909,531views

    Nahui Ollin

    Nahui Ollin is a 16th-century concept in Aztec/Mexica cosmology with a variety of meanings. Nahui translates to "four," and Ollin translates to "movement" or "motion." Ollin was primarily portrayed in Aztec codices as two interlaced lines, each portrayed with

  2. 413,418views

    John Ternus

    John Ternus is an American engineer and business executive who has been the senior vice president of hardware engineering at Apple Inc. since 2021. On September 1, 2026, he will succeed Tim Cook as the CEO of Apple.

  3. 252,759views

    Patrick Muldoon

    William Patrick Muldoon III was an American actor, film producer, and musician. He was best known for his roles as Austin Reed on Days of Our Lives and Zander Barcalow on Starship Troopers.

  4. 178,454views

    Patti Davis

    Patricia Ann Davis is an American actress and author. She is the daughter of U.S. president Ronald Reagan and his second wife, Nancy Reagan.

  5. 164,758views

    D4vd

    David Anthony Burke, known professionally as D4vd, is an American singer-songwriter. Born in Queens, New York City, and raised in Houston, Texas, Burke began composing music in 2021 for his Fortnite gameplay montages. He first achieved commercial success with

  6. 159,781views

    Tim Cook

    Timothy Donald Cook is an American business executive who has served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple since 2011. He had previously been the company's chief operating officer under its co-founder Steve Jobs. Cook joined Apple in March 1998 as a se

  7. 153,008views

    Alan Osmond

    Alan Ralph Osmond was an American singer and musician. He was a member of the family musical group The Osmonds. Prior to that, Alan and his brothers performed as the Osmond Brothers Boys' Quartet. He served as leader of the group.

  8. 152,373views

    List of highest-grossing Indian films

    This ranking lists the highest-grossing Indian films produced by Indian cinema, based on conservative global box office estimates as reported by organisations classified as green by Wikipedia. The figures are not adjusted for inflation. However, there is no of

  9. 136,551views

    Dhurandhar: The Revenge

    Dhurandhar: The Revenge is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language spy action-thriller film written and directed by Aditya Dhar. It is produced by Dhar, Lokesh Dhar, and Jyoti Deshpande under Jio Studios and B62 Studios. It is a sequel to the 2025 film Dhurandhar and the

  10. 134,035views

    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

  11. 119,550views

    Olly Robbins

    Sir Oliver Robbins is a British former senior civil servant who served as the Prime Minister's Europe Adviser, the chief Brexit negotiator from 2017 to 2019, and Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 2025 to 2026.

  12. 113,819views

    Michael (2026 film)

    Michael is a 2026 biographical film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by John Logan. It follows the early life of the American singer Michael Jackson, from his time with the Jackson 5 in the 1960s to the Bad World Tour in the late 1980s. Jackson is portray

  13. 109,624views

    Euphoria (American TV series)

    Euphoria is an American psychological drama television series created and written by Sam Levinson for HBO. Based on the Israeli miniseries of the same name created by Ron Leshem, the series stars Zendaya as drug-addicted teenager Rue Bennett, who also serves a

  14. 101,802views

    Belvidere, Kansas

    Belvidere is an unincorporated community in Kiowa County, Kansas, United States, and located along the Medicine Lodge River.

  15. 100,526views

    Slovenia at the 2016 European Athletics Championships

    Slovenia competed at the 2016 European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam, Netherlands, between 6 and 10 July 2016.

  16. 98,895views

    Bhooth Bangla

    Bhooth Bangla is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language comedy horror film directed by Priyadarshan and produced by Akshay Kumar, Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor under Balaji Motion Pictures and Cape of Good Films. The film stars Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal, Jisshu Sengupt

  17. 97,816views

    Bomis

    Bomis, Inc. was an American dot-com company best known for supporting the creations of free-content online-encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. It was co-founded in 1996 by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell, and Michael Davis. By 2007, the company was inactive, w

  18. 96,784views

    Beef (TV series)

    Beef is an American comedy drama anthology television series created by Lee Sung Jin for Netflix. Season 1 stars Steven Yeun and Ali Wong as Danny Cho and Amy Lau, two strangers whose involvement in a road rage incident escalates into a prolonged feud. Appeari

  19. 96,740views

    Kevin Warsh

    Kevin Maxwell Warsh is an American financier and attorney who has served as the 17th chair of the Federal Reserve and a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since 2026. Warsh previously served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors f

  20. 92,042views

    Lori Chavez-DeRemer

    Lori Michelle Chavez-DeRemer is an American politician and businesswoman who served as the United States secretary of labor from 2025 until her resignation in 2026. A member of the Republican Party, Chavez-DeRemer served as the U.S. representative for Oregon's

  21. 91,865views

    WrestleMania 42

    WrestleMania 42, also promoted as WrestleMania Vegas, was a 2026 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was the 42nd annual WrestleMania and took place as a two-night event on Saturday, April 18 and Sunday, April

  22. 88,967views

    2026 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election

    Elections to appoint the 234 members of the 17th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, the highest body of the Government of Tamil Nadu, were held on 23 April 2026. The results were declared on 4 May 2026 by the Election Commission of India. It recorded the highest

  23. 80,549views

    2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

    Legislative Assembly elections were held in West Bengal to elect all 294 members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly in two phases on 23 and 29 April 2026, with the votes counted and results for 293 seats released on 4 May 2026. The election saw the defeat

  24. 79,342views

    Jami Gertz

    Jami Beth Gertz is an American actress and businesswoman. Gertz has performed in the films Crossroads, Quicksilver, Less than Zero (1987), The Lost Boys (1987), and Twister (1996). On television, she acted in the 1980s TV series Square Pegs, in the CBS sitcom

  25. 74,744views

    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

  26. 74,427views

    Claudia Doumit

    Claudia Doumit is an Australian actress. She portrayed Jiya Marri in the NBC series Timeless (2016–2018), and is best known for her portrayal of Farah Karim from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) and Victoria Neuman in the superhero series The Boys (2020-202

  27. 69,645views

    Lee Cronin's The Mummy

    Lee Cronin's The Mummy is a 2026 supernatural horror film written and directed by Lee Cronin. A reimagining of The Mummy franchise based around the Nasmaranian, an ancient Egyptian demon that possesses victims with exorcism themes, the film stars Jack Reynor,

  28. 69,388views

    Anne Hathaway

    Anne Jacqueline Hathaway is an American actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Her films have grossed over $6.8 billion worldwide.

  29. 66,022views

    Project Hail Mary (film)

    Project Hail Mary is a 2026 American science fiction film produced and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and written by Drew Goddard, based on the 2021 novel of the same name by Andy Weir. It stars Ryan Gosling, who also produced the film, as Ryland

  30. 65,937views

    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").

Frontier 25

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

  1. 2,320points

    Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

    779 comments

  2. 1,011points

    Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

    255 comments

  3. 993points

    Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model

    458 comments

  4. 930points

    We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities

    298 comments

  5. 888points

    Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones

    192 comments

  6. 615points

    1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

    93 comments

  7. 464points

    GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry

    345 comments

  8. 454points

    Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era

    226 comments

  9. 439points

    Website streamed live directly from a model

    118 comments

  10. 422points

    Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary

    242 comments

  11. 384points

    The Free Universal Construction Kit

    86 comments

  12. 352points

    Technical, cognitive, and intent debt

    95 comments

  13. 346points

    Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

    193 comments

  14. 333points

    Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

    235 comments

  15. 320points

    3.4M Solar Panels

    273 comments

  16. 301points

    Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

    159 comments

  17. 286points

    Paraloid B-72

    64 comments

  18. 279points

    Parallel agents in Zed

    164 comments

  19. 262points

    The Joy of Folding Bikes

    190 comments

  20. 258points

    Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops during storms

    66 comments

  21. 256points

    What async promised and what it delivered

    307 comments

  22. 247points

    Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy

    262 comments

  23. 241points

    How does GPS work?

    49 comments

  24. 233points

    FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX

    162 comments

  25. 231points

    XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub?

    216 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv1902.07683

    Modelling and Analysing Behaviours and Emotions via Complex User Interactions

    Over the past 15 years, the volume, richness and quality of data collected from the combined social networking platforms has increased beyond all expectation, providing researchers from a variety of disciplines to use it in their research. Perhaps more impactfully, it has provided the foundation for a range of new products and services, transforming industries such as advertising and marketing, as well as bringing th

    Mostafa, Mohamed

  2. arXiv2304.02296

    Data Leakage Detection and De-duplication in Large Scale Geospatial Image Datasets

    In our study, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of three widely used datasets in the domain of building footprint extraction using deep neural networks: the INRIA Aerial Image Labelling dataset, SpaceNet 2: Building Detection v2, and the AICrowd Mapping Challenge datasets. Our experiments revealed several issues in the AICrowd Mapping Challenge dataset, where nearly 90% (about 250k) of the training split images h

    Adimoolam, Yeshwanth Kumar, Poullis, Charalambos, Averkiou, Melinos

  3. arXiv2308.13983

    Interpolation of mountain weather forecasts by machine learning

    Recent advances in numerical simulation methods based on physical models and their combination with machine learning have improved the accuracy of weather forecasts. However, the accuracy decreases in complex terrains such as mountainous regions because these methods usually use grids of several kilometers square and simple machine learning models. While deep learning has also made significant progress in recent year

    Iwase, Kazuma, Takenawa, Tomoyuki

  4. arXiv2310.10865

    Will the Prince Get True Love's Kiss? On the Model Sensitivity to Gender Perturbation over Fairytale Texts

    In this paper, we study whether language models are affected by learned gender stereotypes during the comprehension of stories. Specifically, we investigate how models respond to gender stereotype perturbations through counterfactual data augmentation. Focusing on Question Answering (QA) tasks in fairytales, we modify the FairytaleQA dataset by swapping gendered character information and introducing counterfactual ge

    Chance, Christina, Yin, Da, Wang, Dakuo, Chang, Kai-Wei

  5. arXiv2401.16167

    "You tell me": A Dataset of GPT-4-Based Behaviour Change Support Conversations

    Conversational agents are increasingly used to address emotional needs on top of information needs. One use case of increasing interest are counselling-style mental health and behaviour change interventions, with large language model (LLM)-based approaches becoming more popular. Research in this context so far has been largely system-focused, foregoing the aspect of user behaviour and the impact this can have on LLM-

    Meyer, Selina, Elsweiler, David

  6. arXiv2402.06922

    Whispers in the Machine: Confidentiality in Agentic Systems

    Large language model (LLM)-based agents combine LLMs with external tools to automate tasks such as scheduling meetings, managing documents, or booking travel. While these integrations unlock powerful capabilities, they also create new and more severe attack surfaces. In particular, prompt injection attacks become far more dangerous in the agentic setting: malicious instructions embedded in connected services can misd

    Evertz, Jonathan, Chlosta, Merlin, Schönherr, Lea, Eisenhofer, Thorsten

  7. arXiv2403.03030

    Unifying Controller Design for Stabilizing Nonlinear Systems with Norm-Bounded Control Inputs

    This paper revisits a classical challenge in the design of stabilizing controllers for nonlinear systems with a norm-bounded input constraint. By extending Lin-Sontag's universal formula and introducing a generic (state-dependent) scaling term, a unifying controller design method is proposed. The incorporation of this generic scaling term gives a unified controller and enables the derivation of alternative univer

    Li, Ming, Sun, Zhiyong, Weiland, Siep

  8. arXiv2403.09905

    Personalized Embodied Navigation for Portable Object Finding

    Embodied navigation methods commonly operate in static environments with stationary objects. In this work, we present approaches for tackling navigation in dynamic scenarios with non-stationary targets. In an indoor environment, we assume that these objects are everyday portable items moved by human intervention. We therefore formalize the problem as a personalized habit learning problem. To learn these habits, we in

    Dorbala, Vishnu Sashank, Patel, Bhrij, Bedi, Amrit Singh, Manocha, Dinesh

  9. arXiv2403.10559

    Generative Models and Connected and Automated Vehicles: A Survey in Exploring the Intersection of Transportation and AI

    This report investigates the history and impact of Generative Models and Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs), two groundbreaking forces pushing progress in technology and transportation. By focusing on the application of generative models within the context of CAVs, the study aims to unravel how this integration could enhance predictive modeling, simulation accuracy, and decision-making processes in autonomous ve

    Shu, Bo, Zhang, Yiting, Hu, Saisai, Shu, Dong

  10. arXiv2404.10769

    Finite-dimensional approximations of push-forwards on locally analytic functionals

    This paper develops a functional-analytic framework for approximating the push-forward induced by an analytic map from finitely many samples. Instead of working directly with the map, we study the push-forward on the space of locally analytic functionals and identify it, via the Fourier--Borel transform, with an operator on the space of entire functions of exponential type. This yields finite-dimensional approximatio

    Ishikawa, Isao

  11. arXiv2405.09806

    A Generalist Model for Diverse Text-Guided Medical Image Synthesis

    Deep learning algorithms require extensive data to achieve robust performance. However, data availability is often restricted in the medical domain due to patient privacy concerns. Synthetic data presents a possible solution to these challenges. Image generative models have found increasing use for medical applications, but are often task-specific, thus limiting their scalability. Moreover, existing models frequently

    Cho, Joseph, Mathur, Mrudang, Zakka, Cyril, Kaur, Dhamanpreet et al.

  12. arXiv2405.13071

    A Novel Method for News Article Event-Based Embedding

    Embedding news articles is a crucial tool for multiple fields, such as media bias detection, identifying fake news, and making news recommendations. However, existing news embedding methods are not optimized to capture the latent context of news events. Most embedding methods rely on full-text information and neglect time-relevant embedding generation. In this paper, we propose a novel lightweight method that optimiz

    Ishlach, Koren, Ben-David, Itzhak, Fire, Michael, Rokach, Lior

  13. arXiv2405.14779

    Smart Bilingual Focused Crawling of Parallel Documents

    Crawling parallel texts -- texts that are mutual translations -- from the Internet is usually done following a brute-force approach: documents are massively downloaded in an unguided process, and only a fraction of them end up leading to actual parallel content. In this work we propose a smart crawling method that guides the crawl towards finding parallel content more rapidly. We follow a neural approach that consist

    García-Romero, Cristian, Esplà-Gomis, Miquel, Sánchez-Martínez, Felipe

  14. arXiv2406.14294

    DASB - Discrete Audio and Speech Benchmark

    Discrete audio tokens have recently gained considerable attention for their potential to bridge audio and language processing, enabling multimodal language models that can both generate and understand audio. However, preserving key information such as phonetic content, speaker identity, and paralinguistic cues remains a major challenge. Identifying the optimal tokenizer and configuration is further complicated by inc

    Mousavi, Pooneh, Duret, Jarod, Petermann, Darius, Ploujnikov, Artem et al.

  15. arXiv2406.18344

    AlignedCut: Visual Concepts Discovery on Brain-Guided Universal Feature Space

    We study the intriguing connection between visual data, deep networks, and the brain. Our method creates a universal channel alignment by using brain voxel fMRI response prediction as the training objective. We discover that deep networks, trained with different objectives, share common feature channels across various models. These channels can be clustered into recurring sets, corresponding to distinct brain regions

    Yang, Huzheng, Gee, James, Shi, Jianbo

  16. arXiv2407.05102

    Towards Auto-Building of Embedded FPGA-based Soft Sensors for Wastewater Flow Estimation

    Executing flow estimation using Deep Learning (DL)-based soft sensors on resource-limited IoT devices has demonstrated promise in terms of reliability and energy efficiency. However, its application in the field of wastewater flow estimation remains underexplored due to: (1) a lack of available datasets, (2) inconvenient toolchains for on-device AI model development and deployment, and (3) hardware platforms designed

    Ling, Tianheng, Qian, Chao, Schiele, Gregor

  17. arXiv2407.11041

    Integer-only Quantized Transformers for Embedded FPGA-based Time-series Forecasting in AIoT

    This paper presents the design of a hardware accelerator for Transformers, optimized for on-device time-series forecasting in AIoT systems. It integrates integer-only quantization and Quantization-Aware Training with optimized hardware designs to realize 6-bit and 4-bit quantized Transformer models, which achieved precision comparable to 8-bit quantized models from related research. Utilizing a complete implementatio

    Ling, Tianheng, Qian, Chao, Schiele, Gregor

  18. arXiv2407.11107

    Latent Linear Quadratic Regulator for Robotic Control Tasks

    Model predictive control (MPC) has played a more crucial role in various robotic control tasks, but its high computational requirements are concerning, especially for nonlinear dynamical models. This paper presents a $\textbf{la}$tent $\textbf{l}$inear $\textbf{q}$uadratic $\textbf{r}$egulator (LaLQR) that maps the state space into a latent space, on which the dynamical model is linear and the cost function is quadra

    Zhang, Yuan, Yang, Shaohui, Ohtsuka, Toshiyuki, Jones, Colin et al.

  19. arXiv2407.12027

    Idle is the New Sleep: Configuration-Aware Alternative to Powering Off FPGA-Based DL Accelerators During Inactivity

    In the rapidly evolving Internet of Things (IoT) domain, we concentrate on enhancing energy efficiency in Deep Learning accelerators on FPGA-based heterogeneous platforms, aligning with the principles of sustainable computing. Instead of focusing on the inference phase, we introduce innovative optimizations to minimize the overhead of the FPGA configuration phase. By fine-tuning configuration parameters correctly, we

    Qian, Chao, Cichiwskyj, Christopher, Ling, Tianheng, Schiele, Gregor

  20. arXiv2407.13980

    Byzantine-tolerant distributed learning of finite mixture models

    Traditional statistical methods need to be updated to work with modern distributed data storage paradigms. A common approach is the split-and-conquer framework, which involves learning models on local machines and averaging their parameter estimates. However, this does not work for the important problem of learning finite mixture models, because subpopulation indices on each local machine may be arbitrarily permuted

    Zhang, Qiong, Tan, Yan Shuo, Chen, Jiahua

  21. arXiv2408.09030

    Effects of Collaboration on the Performance of Interactive Theme Discovery Systems

    NLP-assisted solutions to support qualitative data analysis have gained considerable traction. However, no unified evaluation framework exists which can account for the many different settings in which qualitative researchers may employ them. In this paper, we propose a framework to evaluate the way collaboration settings may produce different research outcomes across a variety of interactive systems. Specifically, w

    Chen, Alvin Po-Chun, Das, Rohan, Srinivas, Dananjay, Barry, Alexandra et al.

  22. arXiv2409.06080

    Regression with Large Language Models for Materials and Molecular Property Prediction

    We demonstrate the ability of large language models (LLMs) to perform material and molecular property regression tasks, a significant deviation from the conventional LLM use case. We benchmark the Large Language Model Meta AI (LLaMA) 3 on several molecular properties in the QM9 dataset and 28 materials properties. Only composition-based input strings are used as the model input and we fine tune on only the generative

    Jacobs, Ryan, Polak, Maciej P., Schultz, Lane E., Mahdavi, Hamed et al.

  23. arXiv2409.09451

    On the Generalizability of Foundation Models for Crop Type Mapping

    Foundation models pre-trained using self-supervised learning have shown powerful transfer learning capabilities on various downstream tasks, including language understanding, text generation, and image recognition. The Earth observation (EO) field has produced several foundation models pre-trained directly on multispectral satellite imagery for applications like precision agriculture, wildfire and drought monitoring,

    Chang, Yi-Chia, Stewart, Adam J., Bastani, Favyen, Wolters, Piper et al.

  24. arXiv2409.18660

    Who Benefits from AI? Self-Selection, Skill Gap, and the Hidden Costs of AI Feedback

    Feedback from artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly easy to access and research has already established that people learn from it. But individuals choose when and how to seek such feedback, and more engaged and motivated individuals may seek it more, creating an illusion of effectiveness that masks self-selection. We investigate how the endogenous choice to seek AI feedback shapes both individual learning and

    Riedl, Christoph, Bogert, Eric

  25. arXiv2410.03294

    Resource-aware Mixed-precision Quantization for Enhancing Deployability of Transformers for Time-series Forecasting on Embedded FPGAs

    This study addresses the deployment challenges of integer-only quantized Transformers on resource-constrained embedded FPGAs (Xilinx Spartan-7 XC7S15). We enhanced the flexibility of our VHDL template by introducing a selectable resource type for storing intermediate results across model layers, thereby breaking the deployment bottleneck by utilizing BRAM efficiently. Moreover, we developed a resource-aware mixed-pre

    Ling, Tianheng, Qian, Chao, Schiele, Gregor

On this calendar day 16

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

  1. 2022year

    American climate activist Wynn Bruce set himself on fire outside the United States Supreme Court Building in an apparent protest against the climate crisis.

  2. 2020year

    A truck struck and killed four Victoria Police officers on the Eastern Freeway, Australia, the force's deadliest single incident.

  3. 2016year

    The Paris Agreement, an international treaty on climate change, opened for signature and was signed by 175 parties.

  4. 2013year

    The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested two men who were plotting to commit terrorist attacks against Via Rail operations.

  5. 2004year

    Flammable cargo exploded at a railway station in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing at least 54 people and injuring more than a thousand others.

  6. 2000year

    In a pre-dawn raid, U.S. federal agents seized six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami and returned him to his Cuban father.

  7. 1993year

    Stephen Lawrence, a black British teenager, was murdered while waiting for a bus in Eltham, London, leading to cultural changes of attitudes on racism and the police, and to the law and police practice.

  8. 1951year

    Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army attacked positions occupied mainly by Australian and Canadian forces, starting the Battle of Kapyong.

  9. 1948year

    Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: The Jewish paramilitary group Haganah captured Haifa from the Arab Liberation Army.

  10. 1945year

    About 600 prisoners of the Jasenovac concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia revolted, but only 80 managed to escape while the remainder were killed by the Ustaše regime.

  11. 1918year

    The short-lived Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic was established on territory formerly part of the Russian Empire.

  12. 1885year

    The first meeting of the Colonial Defence Committee, a standing committee of the British Colonial Office, was held to discuss the defence of Barbados.

  13. 1864year

    U.S. Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized the minting of the two-cent piece (pictured), the first U.S. coin to bear the phrase "In God We Trust".

  14. 1622year

    Anglo-Persian forces combined to capture the Portuguese garrison at Hormuz Island in the Persian Gulf.

  15. 1500year

    A fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral (pictured) anchored off present-day Brazil; he later claimed the land for the Portuguese Empire.

  16. 1073year

    Gregory VII was elected pope following the death of Alexander II.