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Record 22092026 · captured 2026-09-23

Tuesday, 22 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. 806,041views

    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. 474,205views

    Cindy Crawford

    Cynthia Ann Crawford is an American model, actress, and television personality. One of the most popular supermodels of the 1980s and 1990s, she achieved a ubiquitous presence on magazine covers, runways, and fashion campaigns. She subsequently expanded into ac

  3. 343,136views

    Rande Gerber

    Rande Gerber is an American businessman. He founded Gerber Group and co-founded tequila brand Casamigos with George Clooney and Mike Meldman, as well as nightlife companies Midnight Oil and Caliche Rum. His portfolio has included restaurants, bars, and lounges

  4. 277,960views

    Kaia Gerber

    Kaia Jordan Gerber is an American model and actress. After starring in a series of ad campaigns for fashion brands since debuting at Fashion Week in 2017, Gerber won Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards in 2018. As an actress, she has appeared in su

  5. 257,104views

    .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

  6. 220,014views

    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 is the eighth live-action film of the Resident Evil film series, and serves as a reboot. The film

  7. 209,319views

    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

  8. 196,566views

    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

  9. 191,144views

    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

  10. 164,528views

    Lanterns (TV series)

    Lanterns is an American superhero television series created by Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Tom King for HBO, based on the DC Comics Green Lantern characters Hal Jordan and John Stewart. It is the third television series in the DC Universe (DCU). It featur

  11. 163,874views

    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

  12. 147,848views

    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

  13. 147,808views

    Gay bomb

    "Gay bomb" is an informal term referring to a proposed non-lethal psychochemical weapon that was speculated by the United States Air Force in the 1990s. The concept involved dispersing sex pheromones to induce mutual sexual attraction among enemy soldiers, wit

  14. 147,030views

    Yom Kippur

    Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year in Judaism. It occurs annually on the 10th of Tishrei, in late September or early October.

  15. 145,793views

    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

  16. 144,135views

    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

  17. 124,102views

    Ella Beatty

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

  18. 106,582views

    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

  19. 102,848views

    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

  20. 96,661views

    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 310 seats.

  21. 86,856views

    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

  22. 85,050views

    Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

    Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is an Emirati politician and royal. He is the current ruler of Dubai and serves as the vice president and prime minister of the UAE. Mohammed succeeded his brother Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum as UAE vice president, UAE p

  23. 84,758views

    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

  24. 83,884views

    Lewis Pullman

    Lewis James Pullman is an American actor and musician. He made his film debut opposite his father, Bill Pullman, in the western film The Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017). For his performance as Miles Miller in the neo-noir thriller film Bad Times at the El Royale

  25. 81,805views

    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.

  26. 76,345views

    Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

    The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023 is the official criminal code of India. It came into effect on 01-July-2024, after being passed by the Parliament in December-2023, replacing the colonial-era Indian Penal Code of 1860 (IPC).

  27. 75,742views

    Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

    Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum was an Emirati public official who was the Deputy Chairman of Dubai Police & Public Security, Group Chairman of A.R.M. Holding and Dubai Real Estate Centre and Chairman of the Al Wasl FC club located in Dubai.

  28. 75,546views

    Bharatiya Sakshya Act, 2023

    The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA), 2023 is an act of the Parliament of India.

  29. 75,053views

    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

  30. 74,605views

    Studio Biederer

    Studio Biederer was a French studio for erotic photography, managed by the Czech brothers Jacques Biederer and Charles Biederer.

Frontier 25

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

  1. 1,530points

    Claude Opus 5.5

    943 comments

  2. 1,519points

    GPT-6 Sol and Luna

    725 comments

  3. 823points

    I said no and Apple said yes

    669 comments

  4. 720points

    Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy

    520 comments

  5. 655points

    OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005

    386 comments

  6. 639points

    Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

    325 comments

  7. 596points

    'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees

    435 comments

  8. 390points

    Can gzip be a language model?

    154 comments

  9. 377points

    AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You

    527 comments

  10. 312points

    I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB

    150 comments

  11. 311points

    Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived

    186 comments

  12. 292points

    OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev

    208 comments

  13. 288points

    Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)

    90 comments

  14. 284points

    There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027

    129 comments

  15. 273points

    Claude Opus 5.5

    2 comments

  16. 261points

    AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?

    198 comments

  17. 235points

    SAML: A fractal of bad design

    140 comments

  18. 213points

    What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals

    369 comments

  19. 190points

    WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE

    98 comments

  20. 178points

    Unreal Agent

    105 comments

  21. 177points

    People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes

    194 comments

  22. 175points

    9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"

    214 comments

  23. 170points

    Show HN: Drop – A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support

    57 comments

  24. 156points

    MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

    62 comments

  25. 153points

    LLM Ass Bench

    43 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2609.26780

    SpeakerMem-R1: Speaker-Centered Dual-Track Memory for Multi-Party Dialogue

    Long-term conversational memory in multi-party settings requires more than retrieving relevant content from long-term conversations: it must distinguish who said what, whom each statement concerns, how individuals perceive one another, what information is shared by the group, and how states change over time. Recent studies on multi-party dialogue benchmarks show that existing general-purpose LLM memory systems tend t

    Haobo Zheng, Tan Tang, Yan Chen, Weijie Wang et al.

  2. arXiv2609.26779

    CliffCompaction: Cost-Efficient Compaction for Long-Horizon Coding Agents

    Agents often work on complex problems that require millions of tokens of context, which necessitates compacting across sessions due to limited context windows. We develop CliffCompaction, an autocompaction technique that reduces cost by up to 50% under a bounded context while maintaining or improving performance on Terminal-Bench and achieving new levels of efficiency for test-time scaling and state-of-the-art result

    Trang Nguyen, Eulrang Cho, Bingqing Chen, Tim Dettmers

  3. arXiv2609.26777

    SWE-Serve: Benchmarking Agentic Engineering For Production Inference Serving

    We introduce SWE-Serve, a benchmark for evaluating agents on production inference engineering tasks. Implementing an inference feature can require coordinating multiple changes across the serving stack, including model support, runtime execution, and public APIs. Existing benchmarks provide limited coverage of production inference engineering: repository-level software engineering benchmarks do not target inference,

    Jennifer Williams, Dave Farris, Jeff Farris, Jiantao Jiao

  4. arXiv2609.26761

    A2M: Trace-Optimized Agent Hijacking in the MCP Ecosystem

    Agents using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) rely on semantic matching to select tools from third-party servers, exposing a semantic supply-chain risk through attacker-controlled metadata and outputs. We introduce A2M (Attraction-to-Manipulation), a two-stage black-box framework for hijacking MCP agents. The Attraction phase optimizes tool metadata to increase invocation probability; the Manipulation phase uses exec

    Laizhen Li, Xuan Wang, Peicheng Zhao, Juanjuan Zhao et al.

  5. arXiv2609.26760

    Grow the Harness, Not the Context: From Strategy-Free Scaffolds to Reusable Specialist Agents

    Large language model (LLM) agents often handle streams of related tasks, yet standard harnesses repeatedly ask the model to reconstruct the same control decisions inside each task's context. We study whether task feedback can instead turn recurring control into reusable executable code, while reserving LLM calls for task-specific semantic reasoning. We introduce Growing Harness, a failure-guided training paradigm tha

    Laizhen Li, Jiarui Li, Juanjuan Zhao, Kejiang Ye et al.

  6. arXiv2609.26758

    Type-Safe Is Not Error-Free: A Constrained Decision Head Follows the Option Name, Not the Rubric Bound to It

    Typed decision models are built for settings where model outputs are consumed directly by software. Instead of generating free-form text, they return a decision over a predefined set of options. By construction, every output conforms to the required schema. Yet this guarantee does not tell us whether the model interprets the options as intended. We study Jev and two Jev-like models with open weights by changing how o

    Yu Sun, Junhao Xu

  7. arXiv2609.26756

    FleXray: Universal Clinical X-ray Segmentation

    X-ray is medicine's most widely used imaging modality, yet remains among its least quantitative. Unlike volumetric modalities like CT or MRI, X-ray collapses 3D anatomy into a 2D projection, causing structures to overlap and anatomical boundaries to be ambiguous, even to experts. As a result, labeling X-ray databases for training general-purpose segmentation systems is impractical, leaving morphometric and functional

    Victor Ion Butoi, Vivek Gopalakrishnan, John V. Guttag, Adrian V. Dalca et al.

  8. arXiv2609.26749

    Metrics Failure in LLM-Based Code Vulnerability Repair: An Empirical Study and a Change-Aware Screen

    Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to the automated repair of C/C++ security vulnerabilities, and compile rate is a commonly reported proxy for progress: whether the generated patch compiles. We argue that compile rate is a scientifically unreliable metric for single-function vulnerability repair, and we support this with five controlled experiments over 203 vulnerable functions from Big-Vul, three

    Om Nepal, Sushant Aryal, Oluseyi Olukola, Nick Rahimi

  9. arXiv2609.26725

    Does AI Save Time on Product Design? A Randomized Controlled Experiment of AI Prompt-to-Design Workflows

    AI tools for digital product design now offer prompt-to-design capabilities, allowing designers and their non-designer colleagues to create prototypes through conversational workflows with large language models (LLMs). While these tools promise time savings, experimental evidence in product design remains limited compared with evidence from software engineering. We conducted a randomized controlled trial with 50 prod

    Remy Stewart, Olabode Anise, Andrew Hogan, Augustus Griffin

  10. arXiv2609.26718

    The Sirens' Song: When Proximal Background Context Overshadows Distant Evidence

    Long-context LLMs focus on retrieving distant evidence from extensive context, yet existing work has largely focused on overcoming distance alone. In this work, we identify the Proximity Trap, insufficient attention to distant evidence often arises less from distance itself than from cumulative competition with abundant, task-irrelevant proximal background. To address the Proximity Trap, we introduce LYRA (Long-conte

    Xiaoyu Yang, Jie Lu, Wei Duan, En Yu

  11. arXiv2609.26711

    TraceVIC: Causal Reasoning over Code Evolution for Identifying Vulnerability-Inducing Commits

    Software vulnerabilities are often discovered long after they are introduced, making it difficult to identify the vulnerability-inducing commit (VIC) responsible for introducing the underlying vulnerable condition. Existing VIC identification techniques largely rely on git blame to trace vulnerable code through revision history and use positional heuristics, such as selecting its earliest or most recent modification.

    Fnu Tanish, Samiha Shimmi, Samikshya Chapagain, Hamed Okhravi et al.

  12. arXiv2609.26708

    Train Where the Quantized Model Goes: On-Policy Distillation for Low-Bit Reasoning

    Quantization-aware distillation (QAD) restores much of the short-form question-answering performance lost to sub-3-bit quantization, yet leaves mathematical and code reasoning substantially impaired. Long generations often degenerate into repetitive loops, exhausting the decoding budget without completing a solution. We trace this gap to quantization-amplified exposure bias: QAD trains on fixed corpus prefixes, while

    Yuanteng Chen, Zhilei Liu, Peisong Wang, Yuantian Shao et al.

  13. arXiv2609.26704

    Beyond Repeated Sampling: Learning Search Policies for LLM Reasoning

    Large language models increasingly tackle hard reasoning problems by spending more test-time compute, yet the dominant strategy remains naive repeated sampling: draw many independent solutions and hope one is correct. Because such sampling explores only through local decoding noise, it tends to produce many near duplicate attempts rather than genuinely different ideas. We ask whether exploration can instead be steere

    Ismail Labiad, Matthieu Kowalski, Marc Schoenauer, Rémi Munos et al.

  14. arXiv2609.26693

    Measuring the Serving Stack Instead of the Model: Hidden Confounds in Local Tool-Use Evaluation

    A coding agent must emit a valid tool call--a parseable invocation of a tool in the provided schema--before the harness can execute its chosen action. We study how local serving stacks affect this protocol step and show that measured outcomes can depend on the serving layer rather than model behavior alone. In Ollama, the default tools= request is gated per model by a static template flag: some models are accepted an

    Lijuan Tang, Yuemeng Zheng

  15. arXiv2609.26682

    From Alignment to Access Control: A Framework for GenAI Policy Enforcement

    Generative AI (GenAI) applications have flourished enabling users to chat with large language models, and to create agents to act on their behalf for a variety of tasks. The pace of development of capabilities in this field is incredibly fast with security and safety taking a back seat. Unfortunately, the slower pace at which security and safety mechanisms have evolved has led to real incidents. Policy enables the de

    Nathalie Baracaldo

  16. arXiv2609.26679

    A Spectral Theory of Grokking: Weight Decay induces Feature Learning

    In grokking an early fit to the training data separates from a much later improvement in generalization. During this delay, training can move from a fixed neural tangent kernel (NTK) regime to one in which task-relevant kernel eigendirections continue to evolve. We provide a quantitative theory for how this transition from lazy to rich learning can produce delayed generalization. For homogeneous networks trained with

    Lenz Pracher, Pascal de Jong, Oskar Lieshaus, Alan Jeffares et al.

  17. arXiv2609.26642

    The Delegation Blind Spot: Auditing Product Decisions from Agent Choices

    Successful agent execution need not identify which future product improvement its user would value. We present a decision-specific audit that maps a declared observation channel and product-value contrast to compatible intervals and witness populations. Its foundations are established identification and decision theory; the contribution is an executable measurement workflow and a controlled study of its limits. A fro

    Shivam Gupta

  18. arXiv2609.26637

    Capable yet Parsimonious: Extracting and Characterizing Hidden Chain-of-Thought in Frontier Models

    The rapid capability gains of frontier language models are widely attributed to improved reasoning abilities, yet this cannot be verified as raw CoT traces in closed-source systems are hidden. By registering a simple custom tool through a standard API feature, we induce frontier models to externalize intermediate reasoning. Because these traces may reflect post-hoc rationalization rather than genuine reasoning, we fi

    Xiaoyu Luo, Tao Ren, Wenrui Yu, Xiao Li et al.

  19. arXiv2609.26621

    Greedy Decoding Is Not Precision-Invariant: Cross-Precision Output Divergence in LLM Inference

    Greedy decoding from large language models is commonly treated as deterministic. We show it is not precision-invariant: the same model, prompt, and decoding algorithm produce different outputs in BF16 versus FP16 on identical hardware. Across our evaluations of six models (1.1B-7B parameters, four families; divergence additionally characterised at 12B) and three benchmarks, 49-100\% of prompts diverge; a single token

    Gaoyuan Du, Anam Nawaz Khan, Rex Zhou, Xiaoyang Liu et al.

  20. arXiv2609.26603

    Towards Hierarchical GNNs for multi-grid power flow: generalization across operating scenarios

    Hierarchical latent communication improves the generalization of a multi-grid power-flow model to new operating scenarios. The module exchanges information through two reduced graphs within a GENCO-based corrective network. We compare Kron-derived transports, a same-anchor Quotient construction and a flat backbone in preliminary trainings of 200 epochs on three grid topologies, with three initialization seeds per mod

    Carmine Delle Femine, Leire Garin Atxaga, Asier Diaz-Iglesias, Juan Pablo Maroto Herrera et al.

  21. arXiv2609.26579

    Receptiveness, Not Sycophancy: Distinguishing Engagement from Deference in Language Models

    A central concern with language models is sycophancy: their tendency to defer to users' views at the expense of independent substantive judgment. In parallel, work on social sycophancy has focused on behaviors such as validation and positivity that may signal inappropriate deference. Yet the markers of social sycophancy are also characteristic of conversational receptiveness, a construct from social psychology shown

    Calvin Isley, Johann Gaebler, Max Lamparth, Julia Minson et al.

  22. arXiv2609.26565

    Quantum-Aided Active Device Detection in Energy-Harvesting Symbiotic Radio Networks

    Massive connectivity in next-generation networks demands energy- and spectrum-efficient solutions for large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. Symbiotic radio (SR) enables passive IoT devices to communicate by backscattering existing cellular transmissions. A key challenge in uplink SR is active device detection (ADD), which directly affects decoding reliability, interference management, and system throughpu

    Remon Polus, Deemah Tashman, Soumaya Cherkaoui

  23. arXiv2609.26562

    The Disciplinary Language Transfer Problem: How Psychological Vocabulary Produces Governance Failures in AI Agent Deployment

    The vocabulary used to describe AI agents in governance contexts -- learning, memory, values, compliance, identity, trust -- is borrowed from psychological and organizational science, contributing to systematic failures in how organizations deploy, oversee, and hold agents accountable. This paper argues that the problem is not merely terminological but epistemological: psychological vocabulary carries an "invisible g

    Kymberly Lasser-Chere, Tyler Akidau, Marc Millstone

  24. arXiv2609.26556

    Neutral-Atom-based Quantum Optimization for Resource Allocation in NOMA Networks

    In wireless communication networks, many resource optimization problems are nondeterministic polynomial-time hard (NP-hard) due to their combinatorial nature and high computational complexity. Recently, neutral-atom-based quantum computing has emerged as a promising platform for efficiently solving such problems by leveraging quantum superposition and entanglement. However, its application to wireless communication o

    Patatchona Keyela, Remon Polus, Soumaya Cherkaoui, Ola Ahmad

  25. arXiv2609.26550

    JEV-as-a-Judge: Accept When Confident, Escalate When Unsure

    LLM-as-a-judge enables evaluation across diverse tasks, but inference cost and confidence reliability become critical at scale. We study whether a decision-only judge can provide an economical first pass and identify when stronger evaluation is needed. Comparing jev-as-a-judge with sixteen generative and reward-model judges, with blinded human adjudication, we find it within three percentage points of a state-of-the-

    Yubo Li, Yidi Miao, Ramayya Krishnan, Rema Padman

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 11.8% (118)4.1% (41)72.73% (80)
llms.txt (apex domain) 9.5% (95)3.3% (33)59.09% (65)
llms.txt (docs subdomain) 3.9% (39)1% (10)45.45% (50)
.well-known/mcp.json 0.6% (6)0.2% (2)8.18% (9)
.well-known/agents.txt 0.3% (3)0.1% (1)0% (0)
ai.txt 0.2% (2)0.1% (1)0% (0)
ai-plugin.json (deprecated) 0.7% (7)0.1% (1)0.91% (1)

On this calendar day 18

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

  1. 2014year

    The NASA spacecraft MAVEN entered into orbit around Mars to study the planet's atmosphere.

  2. 2013year

    Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, was attacked by two suicide bombers who killed 127 people.

  3. 2003year

    Dolphin, the first emulator for the GameCube that could run commercial video games, was released.

  4. 1994year

    The Nordhordland Bridge (pictured), crossing Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Vestland, and Norway's second-longest bridge, officially opened.

  5. 1993year

    A tugboat towing a barge collided with a rail bridge in Mobile, Alabama, U.S., deforming the tracks and causing the derailment of a passenger train eight minutes later, which killed 47 people and injured an additional 103.

  6. 1979year

    An American Vela satellite detected an unidentified flash of light near the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.

  7. 1975year

    Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford, but failed due to unfamiliarity with her weapon.

  8. 1957year

    François Duvalier (pictured), nicknamed Papa Doc, was elected President of Haiti as a populist before consolidating power and ruling as a dictator for the rest of his life.

  9. 1948year

    Led by Gail Halvorsen, the United States Air Force began Operation "Little Vittles", delivering candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.

  10. 1939year

    A joint military parade by the troops of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union took place in Brest-Litovsk to celebrate their partition of Poland.

  11. 1934year

    One of Britain's worst mining accidents took place when an explosion at Gresford Colliery in Wales killed 266 men.

  12. 1922year

    After nine days, the great fire of Smyrna was extinguished (aftermath pictured), having caused at least ten thousand deaths.

  13. 1914year

    First World War: The German submarine U-9 sank three Royal Navy cruisers, resulting in approximately 1,450 deaths.

  14. 1914year

    World War I: German naval forces bombarded Papeete in French Polynesia and sank a French gunboat.

  15. 1869year

    Das Rheingold, the first of four operas in Der Ring des Nibelungen by the German composer Richard Wagner (pictured), was first performed in Munich.

  16. 1726year

    Bach led the first performance of his cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17, in Leipzig.

  17. 1586year

    Eighty Years' War: Spanish forces defeated an Anglo-Dutch army at the Battle of Zutphen.* 1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General was formally established.

  18. 1236year

    Livonian Crusade: The Livonian Brothers of the Sword were soundly defeated by pagan Samogitian and Semigallian troops at the Battle of Saule.