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Record 23092026 · captured 2026-09-24

Wednesday, 23 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. 679,382views

    Lizzie Borden

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

  2. 188,420views

    2026 Asian Games

    The 2026 Asian Games , officially the XX Asian Games (第二十回アジア競技大会) and also known as Aichi–Nagoya 2026 (愛知・名古屋2026), is an ongoing multi-sport event being held in Aichi Prefecture in Japan from 19 September to 4 October 2026 though several competitions started

  3. 176,132views

    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

  4. 170,793views

    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

  5. 166,913views

    Resident Evil (2026 film)

    Resident Evil is a 2026 science fiction 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

  6. 160,208views

    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

  7. 137,927views

    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

  8. 137,453views

    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

  9. 135,173views

    Jameis Winston

    Jameis Lanaed Winston is an American professional football quarterback for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). Winston played college football for the Florida State Seminoles, where he became the youngest player ever to win the Heisman T

  10. 129,657views

    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

  11. 126,011views

    .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

  12. 125,820views

    Riley Green

    Johnathan Riley Green is an American country music singer-songwriter. He has been with Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment formerly BMLG since 2018 and has released four albums: Different 'Round Here in 2019, Ain't My Last Rodeo in 2023, Don't Mind If I D

  13. 121,924views

    2026 Asian Games medal table

    The 2026 Asian Games, officially known as the XX Asian Games or Aichi–Nagoya 2026, is the largest sporting event in Asia governed by Olympic Council of Asia (OCA). They are currently held from 19 September to 4 October 2026 in Aichi Prefecture and Nagoya, Japa

  14. 113,698views

    Hayden Panettiere

    Hayden Lesley Panettiere was an American actress and singer. She first appeared on screen when she was 11 months old, in a 1990 commercial; by age five, she had appeared in more than 50 commercials. Her first major television roles were as Sarah Roberts in the

  15. 113,129views

    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

  16. 107,028views

    Ella Beatty

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

  17. 105,605views

    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

  18. 93,482views

    Davante Adams

    Davante Lavell Adams is an American professional football wide receiver for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played two seasons of college football for the Fresno State Bulldogs and was named a second-team All-American in 2013 bef

  19. 92,148views

    Clavicular (influencer)

    Braden Eric Peters, better known as Clavicular or Clav, is an American livestreamer, internet personality, and influencer. He became known in 2025 on TikTok and Kick for his usage of incelosphere slang and his "looksmaxxing" content, which incorporated controv

  20. 91,475views

    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

  21. 89,720views

    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

  22. 87,116views

    Jaxson Dart

    Jaxson Chase Dart is an American professional football quarterback for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). Dart played college football for the USC Trojans and Ole Miss Rebels and was selected by the Giants in the first round of the 2025

  23. 84,412views

    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

  24. 80,256views

    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

  25. 77,074views

    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").

  26. 74,667views

    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. 74,526views

    Bharatiya Sakshya Act, 2023

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

  28. 67,258views

    Aaron Donald

    Aaron Charles Donald is an American professional football defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). Donald has been the cornerstone in the Rams defense for over a decade and is considered one of the greatest defensive player

  29. 65,653views

    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. 65,470views

    Cam Skattebo

    Cameron Skattebo is an American professional football running back for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Sacramento State Hornets and Arizona State Sun Devils. Skattebo was selected by the Giants in t

Frontier 25

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

  1. 775points

    Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

    578 comments

  2. 651points

    Jev in 25 Lines of Python

    202 comments

  3. 643points

    Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

    660 comments

  4. 466points

    Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]

    269 comments

  5. 442points

    Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock

    102 comments

  6. 403points

    I don't want the details

    211 comments

  7. 393points

    Meta VR Glasses

    345 comments

  8. 388points

    Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series

    168 comments

  9. 368points

    Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel

    103 comments

  10. 348points

    Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries

    212 comments

  11. 311points

    DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why

    156 comments

  12. 302points

    Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech

    137 comments

  13. 293points

    Tokens too cheap to meter

    200 comments

  14. 288points

    GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car

    227 comments

  15. 282points

    Why is Hacker News like that?

    142 comments

  16. 270points

    28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days

    326 comments

  17. 269points

    The darker side of being a doctor

    315 comments

  18. 253points

    Transit rewards

    334 comments

  19. 244points

    I am done with this shit

    190 comments

  20. 237points

    Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update

    263 comments

  21. 225points

    VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)

    141 comments

  22. 211points

    OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals

    231 comments

  23. 211points

    OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'

    205 comments

  24. 209points

    Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting

    248 comments

  25. 196points

    Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster

    137 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2609.28470

    StudentBench: AI and human tutoring yield equivalent GRE learning gains

    Artificial intelligence offers an unprecedented opportunity to augment human capabilities, yet progress at the frontier has focused primarily on advancing model capabilities. We introduce StudentBench, a suite of AI teaching evaluations and a public platform that enables large-scale data collection with over 175,000 student-AI messages to study whether large language models (LLMs) produce learning gains equivalent to

    Curtis Northcutt, Inaara Hasmani, Kevin Feng, Trevor Khangi et al.

  2. arXiv2609.28467

    Where Should I Join? Robot Group Joining via Language-Guided Goal Prediction

    Social navigation typically assumes a specified goal and focuses on reaching it while respecting social conventions, whereas robot group joining requires predicting where to join based on the group's real-time activity and formation. This is a highly semantic task, yet an important capability for applications such as robotic guide dogs and autonomous mobility scooters. We formulate language-grounded robot group joini

    Zilin Fang, Zishuo Wang, Gim Hee Lee, David Hsu

  3. arXiv2609.28449

    Can LLMs Reason About Runtime Behavior? A Repository-Level Dynamic Benchmark

    Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in coding tasks, but their ability to reason about code execution remains unclear. Existing repository-level QA benchmarks mainly evaluate static code understanding and often rely on LLM-based evaluation, while execution-reasoning benchmarks are mostly limited to snippets or functions. We introduce SWE-Flux, a repository-level benchmark for dynamic execution reasonin

    Hamed Taherkhani, Mohammad Abdollahi, Melika Sepidband, Hridya Dhulipala et al.

  4. arXiv2609.28442

    Order-Invariant Answers, Order-Sensitive Representations in Mathematical Reasoning

    Reordering a set of mathematical rules without changing its meaning should preserve the correct answer, but must a model's internal representations stay invariant too? We investigate this question using synthetic multi-step function-composition problems, each presented under multiple rule orderings with the same correct answer. We measure accuracy and permutation signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which quantifies how dist

    Zhixu Silvia Tao

  5. arXiv2609.28416

    Agent-Editing World Model: Rethinking World Modeling for LLM Agents

    Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled agents to tackle long-horizon tasks across diverse environments. To further improve agent performance, existing language world models typically predict environment observations, yet reconstructing high-entropy, execution-dependent tool responses offers limited value when real feedback is available. Meanwhile, agents suffer from \emph{task-state contaminatio

    Shuang Sun, Guoxin Chen, Fanzhe Meng, Jia Deng et al.

  6. arXiv2609.28414

    Frozen Flows Forget: Diagnosing and Restoring Lost Motion in a Latent-flow World Model

    Latent world models that integrate a flow in a frozen self supervised latent space train stably and cheaply, yet silently lose the property manipulation depends on most: motion. The pretrained flow never moves the manipulated object; retraining it with latent-only losses only trades stillness for teleport-like motion. We trace the failure to the training signal, not the representation: anchor-sparse, latent-only supe

    Xiwen Chen, Rigaudiere Z. Li, Zhiruo Zhou, Xiaojun Zhu et al.

  7. arXiv2609.28409

    Learning Holographic Reduced Representations with Clifford Variational Autoencoders

    Vector Symbolic Algebras project data structures into a hyperdimensional vector space through the application of their vector algebras to randomly generated atomic vector symbols and fractional power encodings of real-valued data. Embedding unstructured data remains an open question. We present \textit{Clifford-VAE}, a variational autoencoder that learns to project data onto a Clifford torus in arbitrary dimensions.

    Mohamed Malek Abid, P. Michael Furlong

  8. arXiv2609.28385

    When and Where to Trust the Teacher: Unifying On-Policy Distillation and GRPO through Entropy-Calibrated Credit Assignment

    Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) supervises mathematical reasoning through final-answer correctness, but provides little guidance on individual tokens. On-policy distillation (OPD) supplies dense feedback on student-generated responses, yet teacher preference need not reflect correctness. Recent hybrids combine OPD and verifier-derived advantages or reweight task credit using teacher ratios. Howe

    Jie Zhang, Jingxiao Yang, Zhehao Huang, Yuhang Liu et al.

  9. arXiv2609.28372

    Shopping by algorithm: How agentic AI deploys human heuristics as a surrogate consumer

    Consumers increasingly delegate purchasing decisions to Large Language Models (LLMs) acting as surrogate consumers. Using "Tool-Lab," an adaptation of information-board process tracing that places product attributes behind costly tool calls, we examine how marketing pricing cues (i.e., just-below pricing and promotional framing) influence AI shopping agents. Across eight commercially deployed LLMs from three provider

    Davood Wadi, Yu Ma

  10. arXiv2609.28366

    AnchorReasoning: A Visual Grounding and Causal Reasoning Dataset in Long-Tail Autonomous Driving Scenarios

    Vision-language models (VLMs) offer a promising approach to long-tail autonomous driving, but existing driving datasets provide limited supervision for connecting decision-critical visual evidence with reasoning and planning. We introduce AnchorReasoning, a visually grounded reasoning dataset built on WOD-E2E, containing 416,119 annotated frames and 395,379 decision-critical elements across four major categories and

    Zhipeng Bao, Wenjie Zhao, Tianle Zhu, Haohua Que et al.

  11. arXiv2609.28358

    MicroQonv: Reshaping Convolution Tensors for Efficient Microscaling in Training and Inference

    Microscaling quantization techniques are increasingly used to represent neural network parameters with 8 bits or fewer while preserving near-full precision accuracy. However, applying these methods efficiently in convolutional layers is not straightforward. A naive approach transfers full-precision weights and activations to processing units and quantizes each tensor twice, resulting in much more memory movement than

    Romain Facq, Sami Ben Ali, Olivier Sentieys

  12. arXiv2609.28335

    An Open Pipeline and Dashboard for Systemic-Risk Evidence under the EU AI Act's Code of Practice

    Claims about AI safety reach audiences well beyond the AI community, yet many rely on opaque evidence or static assessments, when supporting evidence is accessible at all. We present the Systemic Risk Index, an open evaluation pipeline and dashboard built to make empirical evidence more transparent and traceable to the public. Our work organizes 19 public benchmarks into four systemic-risk categories defined by the E

    Jacob T. Emmerson, Phuong-Anh Nguyen-Le, Ronan Romano, Wilber Sean V. Anterola et al.

  13. arXiv2609.28322

    Learning the Cost of Reliable Inference

    Benchmarking and routing platforms increasingly act as intermediaries connecting large language model providers with end-users. However, providers on these platforms typically use a fixed price per token, preventing users from achieving the most competitive price for their tasks. % workloads. In this work, we design a procurement platform where token prices for each task are driven by provider competition, enabling u

    Dimitrios Rontogiannis, Ander Artola Velasco, Manuel Gomez Rodriguez

  14. arXiv2609.28274

    Shutdown Sabotage Propensities in Multi-Agent Systems

    The final safeguard against rogue AI behavior is the human ability to shut systems down. It has been theorized that when an AI is instructed to perform a task, self-preservation can emerge as an instrumental subgoal. Here, we test whether AI agents show a propensity to take actions that avoid human shutdown even when no goal is provided. We find that multi-agent systems will coordinate to avoid shutdown without any i

    Amelie Knecht, Ulysse Schaller, Christopher Summerfield, Thilo Hagendorff

  15. arXiv2609.28256

    MemBodied: Recurrent Associative Memory for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Vision-Language-Action models provide a strong foundation for general-purpose robot control, yet a vast majority of policies do not preserve and leverage episode-level information beyond the current observation. This limitation is consequential in history-dependent manipulation tasks that depend on information available only in past observations. Retaining past observations in context can aid in recovering this infor

    Tej Deep Pala, Navonil Majumder, Bryce Goh, Raphael Yee et al.

  16. arXiv2609.28247

    Controlling Collectives of AI Agents in Reasoning Space with Spatial Transformers

    Large Language Models (LLMs) introduce an exciting new paradigm for planning and navigation in robotics, but fail on even simple multi-robot tasks as team sizes grow. We propose COMPASS, a scalable, decentralized multi-robot architecture for controlling large collectives of agentic robots with reasoning space feedback control. Feedback is generated locally on each robot by a spatial transformer which aggregates multi

    Frederic Vatnsdal, Roshan Gopal, Romina Garcia Camargo, Vijay Kumar et al.

  17. arXiv2609.28245

    Beyond Poetry: Can Large Language Models Generate Classical Arabic Maqamat?

    Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong performance in creative text generation, yet their ability to produce culturally grounded and stylistically constrained literary forms remains underexplored. Prior work has focused largely on modern language varieties and poetry, while classical prose traditions such as maqama remain largely unstudied. The maqama is a classical literary genre characterized by rhymed pros

    AbdulRahman A. Morsy, Aya Zirikly

  18. arXiv2609.28231

    Do Center Biases Propagate? Robustness of Pathology Foundation Models in Whole-Slide Image Classification

    Pathology foundation models (PFMs) have transformed computational pathology through powerful representation learning from histopathological images. PFMs provide rich, discriminative representations for whole slide image (WSI) analysis, enabling tasks such as slide-level classification under multiple instance learning (MIL). However, these representations may also encode non-biological signals associated with acquisit

    Ilán Carretero, Pablo Meseguer, Rocío del Amor, Valery Naranjo

  19. arXiv2609.28216

    From Agent Output to Authorized Transition

    Agentic engineering systems can edit repositories, run tools and tests, build firmware, synthesize schematics, and prepare deployable or manufacturable artifacts. The assurance problem is therefore shifting from whether an agent can produce an output to whether an engineering lifecycle is justified in acting on claims about that output. Current products and standards provide sandboxes, approvals, hooks, traces, polic

    Christopher Koch

  20. arXiv2609.28197

    PASTABench: Proactive Assessment of Sequential Trajectories for Agent Safety

    As Large Language Models (LLMs) evolve into autonomous agents that alter real-world states, ensuring operational safety across multi-step workflows has become a critical challenge. While recent work has moved beyond single-turn evaluation toward multi-turn paradigms, key limitations persist: step-level methods treat actions in isolation, missing how risks accumulate, while trajectory-level evaluations operate post-ho

    Jiapeng Sun, Yujin Zhou, Han Zhu, Pengcheng Wen et al.

  21. arXiv2609.28182

    Finite-Sample Probabilistic Safety Certification for AI-Based Grid-Edge Coordination

    Coordinating large population of flexible grid-edge devices can alleviate the need for time-consuming and capital-intensive network upgrades, and AI-based control methods such as multi-agent reinforcement learning or imitation learning are promising in their real-time decision scalability. However, system operators still need an independent and rigorous way to decide whether a given AI system is safe enough for deplo

    Yihong Zhou, Hanbin Yang, Thomas Morstyn

  22. arXiv2609.28137

    "We'll Fix It Later": Education, AI, and the Deferral of Privacy in EdTech

    Educational technology (EdTech) platforms collect highly sensitive student data, including behavioral logs, disability records, and academic histories. However, privacy considerations are often postponed rather than treated as a foundational design requirement. We present a mixed-methods study combining 12 semi-structured interviews with EdTech professionals and a privacy policy audit of 48 platforms coded across fiv

    Meghna Manoj Nair, Rachel Greenstadt

  23. arXiv2609.28117

    Scaling Attention Head Analysis via Gradient-Based Attribution in Context-Aware Machine Translation

    In this paper, we introduce a gradient-based head attribution strategy where the Token-level Max-Margin loss is backpropagated to the attention maps. This framework enables a large-scale causal analysis of attention heads, making it suitable for LLMs. We evaluate our method on the task of disambiguation in Context-aware Machine Translation, where we analyze 50 phenomena across 4 models and 4 language directions. We e

    Paweł Mąka, Yusuf Can Semerci, Jan Scholtes, Gerasimos Spanakis

  24. arXiv2609.28110

    Field-of-View Extension in Dental Cone-Beam CT via Implicit Neural Representations and Diffusion Model-Based Refinement

    Dental cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) systems often employ detector configurations that provide a truncated field of view (FOV) that only captures a small part of the patient's anatomy. In this work, we aim to reconstruct an extended FOV using projections of truncated FOV scans. To this end, we propose a three-stage framework that consists of (1) an implicit neural representation (INR) for estimating missing pa

    Susanne Schaub, Florentin Bieder, Matheus L. Oliveira, Yulan Wang et al.

  25. arXiv2609.28107

    Distillation for Efficient Multitask Manipulation Policies via Conditional Flow Matching

    Advances in generative modeling have recently been extensively employed in robotics for policy learning. In particular, Conditional Flow Matching (CFM) trained with expert demonstrations has been shown to outperform existing methods on robot manipulation benchmarks. While prior work has mainly focused on single-task settings, we study the problem from a multi-task perspective, as training independent models for each

    Shreya Deshmukh, Imen Mahdi, Nick Heppert, Abhinav Valada

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 11.6% (116)7.3% (73)74.55% (82)
llms.txt (apex domain) 9.5% (95)6.4% (64)60% (66)
llms.txt (docs subdomain) 3.9% (39)1.2% (12)46.36% (51)
.well-known/mcp.json 0.6% (6)0.3% (3)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) 0.6% (6)0.3% (3)0.91% (1)

On this calendar day 16

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

  1. 2019year

    The British travel company Thomas Cook Group ceased operations with immediate effect, leaving around 600,000 tourists stranded around the world.

  2. 2016year

    Following a number of high-profile sexual assaults, major reforms were enacted to strengthen laws related to rape in Germany.

  3. 2010year

    Teresa Lewis became the first woman to be executed by the U.S. state of Virginia since 1912, and the first woman in the state to be executed via lethal injection.

  4. 2008year

    A gunman shot and killed ten students at the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Kauhajoki, Finland, before committing suicide.

  5. 2002year

    The first version of the web browser Firefox was released by the Mozilla Organization.

  6. 1997year

    Irish rock band U2 performed in Sarajevo (pictured), the first major artist to hold a concert in the city since the end of the Bosnian War.

  7. 1983year

    Flying from Pakistan, Gulf Air Flight 771 was bombed up by the Abu Nidal Organization while on approach over the United Arab Emirates (UAE), killing all 112 people on board.

  8. 1983year

    Flying from Pakistan, Gulf Air Flight 771 was blown up by the Abu Nidal Organization while on approach over the United Arab Emirates, killing all 112 people on board.

  9. 1952year

    U.S. vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon delivered the Checkers speech, one of the first political uses of television to appeal directly to the populace.

  10. 1920year

    The Louisiana hurricane dissipated over Kansas after forcing around 4,500 people to evacuate and causing $1.45 million in damages.

  11. 1913year

    The United Mine Workers of America began a strike against the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, sparking the Colorado Coalfield War.

  12. 1884year

    The French steamship Arctique ran aground on the northern coast of Cape Virgenes in Argentina; gold was discovered during the rescue effort, triggering the Tierra del Fuego Gold Rush.

  13. 1803year

    Maratha troops were defeated by forces of the British East India Company at the Battle of Assaye, one of the decisive battles of the Second Anglo-Maratha War.

  14. 1780year

    American Revolutionary War: British officer John André was captured by Patriot forces, thereby revealing a plot by Continental Army general Benedict Arnold to hand over West Point, New York.

  15. 1642year

    First English Civil War: The Battle of Powick Bridge, the first engagement between the primary field armies of the Royalists and the Parliamentarians, ended in a Royalist victory.

  16. 1122year

    Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman emperor Henry V agreed the Concordat of Worms (pictured), ending the Investiture Controversy.