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Record 24022026 · captured 2026-08-25

Tuesday, 24 February 2026

The world looked up El Mencho. 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. 1,171,468views

    El Mencho

    Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, commonly referred to by his alias "El Mencho", was a Mexican drug lord and head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), an organized crime group based in Jalisco. He was the most wanted person in Mexico and one of the mos

  2. 696,006views

    Johnny Gaudreau

    John Michael Gaudreau was an American professional ice hockey player. A left winger, he played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played college ice hockey for the Boston College Eagles in NCAA Division I for three seasons beginning in 2011 and

  3. 538,779views

    Blord

    Linus Williams Ifejirika, popularly known as Blord, is a Nigerian cryptocurrency entrepreneur and the founder of Blord Group. His business interests span fintech, digital payments, and real estate, with companies such as Blord Real Estate Ltd., Blord Jetpay Lt

  4. 477,959views

    Jack Hughes

    Jack Rowden Hughes is an American professional ice hockey player who is a center and alternate captain for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League (NHL). A product of the U.S. National Development Team, Hughes was drafted first overall by the Devil

  5. 339,639views

    Alysa Liu

    Alysa Liu is an American figure skater. She is the 2026 Olympic champion in both the women's singles and team events, the 2025 World champion, the 2022 World bronze medalist, the 2025–26 Grand Prix Final champion, a two-time Grand Prix medalist, a four-time Ch

  6. 330,604views

    Jalisco New Generation Cartel

    The Jalisco New Generation Cartel, also known as CJNG, is a Mexican criminal syndicate based in Jalisco founded and headed by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, commonly known as El Mencho, until he was killed by the Mexican Army in 2026. The cartel has been characte

  7. 309,864views

    Robert Aramayo

    Robert Michael Aramayo is an English actor. From 2016 to 2017, he played the role of young Eddard Stark in the sixth and seventh seasons of the HBO series Game of Thrones. In 2021, he starred in the Netflix psychological thriller miniseries Behind Her Eyes. Si

  8. 270,913views

    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV series)

    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is an American fantasy drama television series created by Ira Parker and George R. R. Martin. A prequel to Game of Thrones (2011–2019), it is the third television series in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire franchise and is an adap

  9. 242,536views

    Eileen Gu

    Eileen Feng Gu, also known by her Chinese name Gu Ailing (谷爱凌), is a Chinese-American freestyle skier and model. She has represented China in halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air events since the 2018–19 season. With three gold and three silver medals, Gu is the

  10. 225,034views

    Eric Dane

    Eric William Dane was an American actor. After multiple television roles in the 1990s and 2000s, including his recurring role as Jason Dean on Charmed, he was cast as Dr. Mark Sloan on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy. He went on to appear in films such as

  11. 212,239views

    2026 Jalisco operation

    On 22 February 2026, the Mexican Armed Forces conducted an operation which killed El Mencho, the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), and six others in Tapalpa, Jalisco, Mexico. The operation sparked clashes in the area, resulting in shootouts,

  12. 204,888views

    I Swear (film)

    I Swear is a 2025 British biographical drama film directed, written, and produced by Kirk Jones. It is based on the true life story of John Davidson, a Scottish man with severe Tourette syndrome who, as a teenager, was the subject of the 1989 television docume

  13. 184,193views

    Rosalinda González Valencia

    Rosalinda González Valencia is a Mexican businesswoman and convicted money launderer of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), a criminal group based in Jalisco. She has also been known by her alias "La Jefa". She was married to El Mencho, once one of Mexic

  14. 175,120views

    John Davidson (activist)

    John Craig Davidson is a Scottish activist and campaigner for Tourette syndrome. At age 16, Davidson was the subject of the BBC television documentary John's Not Mad (1989) about the manifestations of his Tourette's. He has also appeared in several other BBC d

  15. 158,627views

    Connor Hellebuyck

    Connor Charles Hellebuyck is an American professional ice hockey player who is a goaltender for the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League (NHL).

  16. 157,676views

    El Menchito

    Rubén Oseguera González, commonly referred to by his alias El Menchito, is a Mexican-American convicted drug lord and former high-ranking member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), a criminal group based in Jalisco. He is the son of Nemesio Oseguera C

  17. 157,403views

    Jeffrey Epstein

    Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and child sex offender. He began his career as a math teacher at the Dalton School in New York City, before entering the banking and finance sector. Over several decades, he made much of his fortune providing ta

  18. 154,982views

    Rondale Moore

    Rondale DaSean Moore was an American professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Purdue Boilermakers, earning consensus All-American honors as a freshman. Moore was selected by

  19. 142,406views

    Jane Andrews

    Jane Dawn Elizabeth Andrews was a royal dresser for Sarah, Duchess of York. Andrews was imprisoned in 2001 for murdering her lover, and released from prison in 2019.

  20. 137,244views

    2026 Winter Olympics

    The 2026 Winter Olympics, officially the XXV Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Milano Cortina 2026, were an international winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 22 February 2026, at multiple sites across Lombardy, Veneto and Trentino-Alto Adige/Südti

  21. 132,727views

    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

  22. 124,253views

    Quinn Hughes

    Quintin Jerome Hughes is an American professional ice hockey player who is a defenseman for the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League (NHL). Hughes was drafted seventh overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the 2018 NHL entry draft and played his first sev

  23. 118,323views

    John F. Kennedy Jr.

    John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., also referred to as JFK Jr., was an American businessman, attorney, magazine publisher, and journalist. He was the son of the 35th U.S. president John F. Kennedy, and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

  24. 110,409views

    Carolyn Bessette Kennedy

    Carolyn Jeanne Bessette-Kennedy was an American fashion publicist. Raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, she graduated from Boston University and joined Calvin Klein, where she rose from a sales position in Boston to publicity and show-production roles in New York

  25. 100,151views

    Peter Mandelson

    Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson, is a British former Labour Party politician, lobbyist and diplomat. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004. He served in Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's cabinets as Minister without portfo

  26. 98,713views

    79th British Academy Film Awards

    The 79th British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, were held on 22 February 2026, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2025, at the Royal Festival Hall within London's Southbank Centre. Presented by the British Academy of Film

  27. 98,710views

    Sinaloa Cartel

    The Sinaloa Cartel is a large and powerful drug trafficking transnational organized crime syndicate based in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, that specializes in illegal drug trafficking, money laundering, and murder. It has been Mexico’s most dominant drug cartel s

  28. 97,648views

    List of Olympic medalists in ice hockey

    Ice hockey is a sport that is contested at the Winter Olympic Games. A men's ice hockey tournament has been held every Winter Olympics ; an ice hockey tournament was also held at the 1920 Summer Olympics. From 1920 to 1968, the Olympics also acted as the Ice H

  29. 96,556views

    El Chapo

    Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, commonly known as "El Chapo", is a Mexican former drug lord and the former top leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. Guzmán is believed to be responsible for the deaths of over 34,000 people, and was considered to be the most powerful

  30. 95,367views

    Rebecca Gayheart

    Rebecca Gayheart is an American actress and model. Gayheart began her career as a teen model in the 1980s before becoming an advertising spokeswoman. She has been active as an actress since 1990.

Frontier 25

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

  1. 2,084points

    IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

    997 comments

  2. 1,106points

    I'm helping my dog vibe code games

    377 comments

  3. 657points

    OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine

    195 comments

  4. 634points

    Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

    682 comments

  5. 608points

    Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness

    306 comments

  6. 561points

    I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978

    200 comments

  7. 540points

    How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week

    236 comments

  8. 478points

    How to talk to anyone and why you should

    11 comments

  9. 464points

    Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements

    394 comments

  10. 462points

    Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution

    378 comments

  11. 451points

    Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows

    167 comments

  12. 447points

    Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

    326 comments

  13. 433points

    Nearby Glasses

    220 comments

  14. 373points

    Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148

    159 comments

  15. 364points

    Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs

    234 comments

  16. 351points

    Mercury 2: Fast reasoning LLM powered by diffusion

    128 comments

  17. 334points

    Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times

    88 comments

  18. 328points

    Show HN: Steerling-8B, a language model that can explain any token it generates

    91 comments

  19. 316points

    Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3

    81 comments

  20. 291points

    Steel Bank Common Lisp

    107 comments

  21. 275points

    Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS

    93 comments

  22. 238points

    Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter

    245 comments

  23. 225points

    Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14%

    284 comments

  24. 225points

    OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B

    191 comments

  25. 222points

    An interactive intro to quadtrees

    30 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv1705.10494

    Joint auto-encoders: a flexible multi-task learning framework

    The incorporation of prior knowledge into learning is essential in achieving good performance based on small noisy samples. Such knowledge is often incorporated through the availability of related data arising from domains and tasks similar to the one of current interest. Ideally one would like to allow both the data for the current task and for previous related tasks to self-organize the learning system in such a wa

    Epstein, Baruch, Meir, Ron, Michaeli, Tomer

  2. arXiv1905.00961

    An Elo-based rating system for TopCoder SRM

    This paper presents an Elo-based rating system for programming contests, specifically Topcoder's Single Round Matches (SRMs). We introduce a logarithmic rank-based performance metric that allows single-round, multi-player contest results to be incorporated into an Elo-style continuous rating framework. Model parameters and adjustment factors are calibrated empirically by minimizing absolute prediction error over

    Batty, Fred

  3. arXiv2005.05744

    Deep Learning: Our Miraculous Year 1990-1991

    The Deep Learning Artificial Neural Networks (NNs) of our team have revolutionised Machine Learning & AI. Many of the basic ideas behind this revolution were published within the 12 months of our "Annus Mirabilis" 1990-1991 at our lab in TU Munich. Back then, few people were interested. But a quarter century later, NNs based on our "Miraculous Year" were on over 3 billion devices, and used many bi

    Schmidhuber, Juergen

  4. arXiv2101.00753

    Schemes of Propagation Models and Source Estimators for Rumor Source Detection in Online Social Networks: A Short Survey of a Decade of Research

    Recent years have seen various rumor diffusion models being assumed in detection of rumor source research of the online social network. Diffusion model is arguably considered as a very important and challengeable factor for source detection in networks but it is less studied. This paper provides an overview of three representative schemes of Independent Cascade-based, Epidemic-based, and Learning-based to model the p

    Jin, Rong, Wu, Weili

  5. arXiv2103.00250

    Effective Universal Unrestricted Adversarial Attacks using a MOE Approach

    Recent studies have shown that Deep Leaning models are susceptible to adversarial examples, which are data, in general images, intentionally modified to fool a machine learning classifier. In this paper, we present a multi-objective nested evolutionary algorithm to generate universal unrestricted adversarial examples in a black-box scenario. The unrestricted attacks are performed through the application of well-known

    Baia, A. E., Di Bari, G., Poggioni, V.

  6. arXiv2112.06841

    Information-Theoretic Limits of Quantum Learning via Data Compression

    Understanding the power of quantum data in machine learning is central to many proposed applications of quantum technologies. While access to quantum data can offer exponential advantages for carefully designed learning tasks and often under strong assumptions on the data distribution, it remains an open question whether such advantages persist in less structured settings and under more realistic, naturally occurring

    Angrisani, Armando, Coyle, Brian, Kashefi, Elham

  7. arXiv2204.07520

    Resource-Aware Distributed Submodular Maximization: A Paradigm for Multi-Robot Decision-Making

    Multi-robot decision-making is the process where multiple robots coordinate actions. In this paper, we aim for efficient and effective multi-robot decision-making despite the robots' limited on-board resources and the often resource-demanding complexity of their tasks. We introduce the first algorithm enabling the robots to choose with which few other robots to coordinate and provably balance the trade-off of cen

    Xu, Zirui, Tzoumas, Vasileios

  8. arXiv2206.13174

    Towards Unifying Perceptual Reasoning and Logical Reasoning

    An increasing number of scientific experiments support the view of perception as Bayesian inference, which is rooted in Helmholtz's view of perception as unconscious inference. Recent study of logic presents a view of logical reasoning as Bayesian inference. In this paper, we give a simple probabilistic model that is applicable to both perceptual reasoning and logical reasoning. We show that the model unifies the

    Kido, Hiroyuki

  9. arXiv2210.11974

    Face Pyramid Vision Transformer

    A novel Face Pyramid Vision Transformer (FPVT) is proposed to learn a discriminative multi-scale facial representations for face recognition and verification. In FPVT, Face Spatial Reduction Attention (FSRA) and Dimensionality Reduction (FDR) layers are employed to make the feature maps compact, thus reducing the computations. An Improved Patch Embedding (IPE) algorithm is proposed to exploit the benefits of CNNs in

    Islam, Khawar, Zaheer, Muhammad Zaigham, Mahmood, Arif

  10. arXiv2211.12817

    Learning to See the Elephant in the Room: Self-Supervised Context Reasoning in Humans and AI

    Humans rarely perceive objects in isolation but interpret scenes through relationships among co-occurring elements. How such contextual knowledge is acquired without explicit supervision remains unclear. Here we combine human psychophysics experiments with computational modelling to study the emergence of contextual reasoning. Participants were exposed to novel objects embedded in naturalistic scenes that followed pr

    Liu, Xiao, Sarker, Soumick, Sikarwar, Ankur, Kiely, Bryan Atista et al.

  11. arXiv2301.00201

    Exploring Singularities in point clouds with the graph Laplacian: An explicit approach

    We develop theory and methods that use the graph Laplacian to analyze the geometry of the underlying manifold of datasets. Our theory provides theoretical guarantees and explicit bounds on the functional forms of the graph Laplacian when it acts on functions defined close to singularities of the underlying manifold. We use these explicit bounds to develop tests for singularities and propose methods that can be used t

    Andersson, Martin, Avelin, Benny

  12. arXiv2305.11098

    A Simple Generative Model of Logical Reasoning and Statistical Learning

    Statistical learning and logical reasoning are two major fields of AI expected to be unified for human-like machine intelligence. Most existing work considers how to combine existing logical and statistical systems. However, there is no theory of inference so far explaining how basic approaches to statistical learning and logical reasoning stem from a common principle. Inspired by the fact that much empirical work in

    Kido, Hiroyuki

  13. arXiv2306.01485

    Robust low-rank training via approximate orthonormal constraints

    With the growth of model and data sizes, a broad effort has been made to design pruning techniques that reduce the resource demand of deep learning pipelines, while retaining model performance. In order to reduce both inference and training costs, a prominent line of work uses low-rank matrix factorizations to represent the network weights. Although able to retain accuracy, we observe that low-rank methods tend to co

    Savostianova, Dayana, Zangrando, Emanuele, Ceruti, Gianluca, Tudisco, Francesco

  14. arXiv2306.03584

    RDFC-GAN: RGB-Depth Fusion CycleGAN for Indoor Depth Completion

    Raw depth images captured in indoor scenarios frequently exhibit extensive missing values due to the inherent limitations of the sensors and environments. For example, transparent materials frequently elude detection by depth sensors; surfaces may introduce measurement inaccuracies due to their polished textures, extended distances, and oblique incidence angles from the sensor. The presence of incomplete depth maps i

    Wang, Haowen, Che, Zhengping, Yang, Yufan, Wang, Mingyuan et al.

  15. arXiv2310.01770

    A simple connection from loss flatness to compressed neural representations

    Despite extensive study, the significance of sharpness -- the trace of the loss Hessian at local minima -- remains unclear. We investigate an alternative perspective: how sharpness relates to the geometric structure of neural representations, specifically representation compression, defined as how strongly neural activations concentrate under local input perturbations. We introduce three measures -- Local Volumetric

    Chen, Shirui, Recanatesi, Stefano, Shea-Brown, Eric

  16. arXiv2401.01343

    IoTGeM: Generalizable Models for Behaviour-Based IoT Attack Detection

    Previous research on behavior-based attack detection for networks of IoT devices has resulted in machine learning models whose ability to adapt to unseen data is limited and often not demonstrated. This paper presents IoTGeM, an approach for modeling IoT network attacks that focuses on generalizability, yet also leads to better detection and performance. We first introduce an improved rolling window approach for feat

    Kostas, Kahraman, Just, Mike, Lones, Michael A.

  17. arXiv2401.08957

    Learning from Imperfect Demonstrations with Self-Supervision for Robotic Manipulation

    Improving data utilization, especially for imperfect data from task failures, is crucial for robotic manipulation due to the challenging, time-consuming, and expensive data collection process in the real world. Current imitation learning (IL) typically discards imperfect data, focusing solely on successful expert data. While reinforcement learning (RL) can learn from explorations and failures, the sim2real gap and it

    Wu, Kun, Liu, Ning, Zhao, Zhen, Qiu, Di et al.

  18. arXiv2402.08646

    Inference of Abstraction for a Unified Account of Symbolic Reasoning from Data

    Inspired by empirical work in neuroscience for Bayesian approaches to brain function, we give a unified probabilistic account of various types of symbolic reasoning from data. We characterise them in terms of formal logic using the classical consequence relation, an empirical consequence relation, maximal consistent sets, maximal possible sets and maximum likelihood estimation. The theory gives new insights into reas

    Kido, Hiroyuki

  19. arXiv2402.10758

    Stochastic Localization via Iterative Posterior Sampling

    Building upon score-based learning, new interest in stochastic localization techniques has recently emerged. In these models, one seeks to noise a sample from the data distribution through a stochastic process, called observation process, and progressively learns a denoiser associated to this dynamics. Apart from specific applications, the use of stochastic localization for the problem of sampling from an unnormalize

    Grenioux, Louis, Noble, Maxence, Gabrié, Marylou, Durmus, Alain Oliviero

  20. arXiv2402.13904

    Calibrating Large Language Models with Sample Consistency

    Accurately gauging the confidence level of Large Language Models' (LLMs) predictions is pivotal for their reliable application. However, LLMs are often uncalibrated inherently and elude conventional calibration techniques due to their proprietary nature and massive scale. In this work, we explore the potential of deriving confidence from the distribution of multiple randomly sampled model generations, via three m

    Lyu, Qing, Shridhar, Kumar, Malaviya, Chaitanya, Zhang, Li et al.

  21. arXiv2403.00506

    PoTeC: A German Naturalistic Eye-tracking-while-reading Corpus

    The Potsdam Textbook Corpus (PoTeC) is a naturalistic eye-tracking-while-reading corpus containing data from 75 participants reading 12 scientific texts. PoTeC is the first naturalistic eye-tracking-while-reading corpus that contains eye-movements from domain-experts as well as novices in a within-participant manipulation: It is based on a 2x2x2 fully-crossed factorial design which includes the participants' leve

    Jakobi, Deborah N., Kern, Thomas, Reich, David R., Haller, Patrick et al.

  22. arXiv2403.10996

    Mixed-Reality Digital Twins: Leveraging the Physical and Virtual Worlds for Hybrid Sim2Real Transition of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Policies

    Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) for cyber-physical vehicle systems usually requires a significantly long training time due to their inherent complexity. Furthermore, deploying the trained policies in the real world demands a feature-rich environment along with multiple physical embodied agents, which may not be feasible due to monetary, physical, energy, or safety constraints. This work seeks to address the

    Samak, Chinmay Vilas, Samak, Tanmay Vilas, Krovi, Venkat Narayan

  23. arXiv2404.00424

    Quantformer: from attention to profit with a quantitative transformer trading strategy

    In traditional quantitative trading practice, navigating the complicated and dynamic financial market presents a persistent challenge. Fully capturing various market variables, including long-term information, as well as essential signals that may lead to profit remains a difficult task for learning algorithms. In order to tackle this challenge, this paper introduces quantformer, an enhanced neural network architectu

    Zhang, Zhaofeng, Chen, Banghao, Zhu, Shengxin, Langrené, Nicolas

  24. arXiv2404.09877

    Synergising Human-like Responses and Machine Intelligence for Planning in Disaster Response

    In the rapidly changing environments of disaster response, planning and decision-making for autonomous agents involve complex and interdependent choices. Although recent advancements have improved traditional artificial intelligence (AI) approaches, they often struggle in such settings, particularly when applied to agents operating outside their well-defined training parameters. To address these challenges, we propos

    Papaioannou, Savvas, Kolios, Panayiotis, Panayiotou, Christos G., Polycarpou, Marios M.

  25. arXiv2404.10652

    ViTextVQA: A Large-Scale Visual Question Answering Dataset and a Novel Multimodal Feature Fusion Method for Vietnamese Text Comprehension in Images

    Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging task that requires the joint understanding of natural language and visual content. While early research primarily focused on recognizing objects and scene context, it often overlooked scene text-an essential source of explicit semantic information. This paper introduces \textbf{ViTextVQA} (\textbf{Vi}etnamese \textbf{Text}-based \textbf{V}isual \textbf{Q}uestion \textb

    Van Nguyen, Quan, Tran, Dan Quang, Pham, Huy Quang, Nguyen, Thang Kien-Bao et al.

On this calendar day 15

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

  1. 2015year

    At a restaurant in Uherský Brod, Czech Republic, a gunman opened fire in a restaurant, killing eight people before committing suicide.

  2. 1989year

    United Airlines Flight 811 experienced uncontrolled decompression after leaving Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii, blowing seats out of the aircraft and killing nine passengers.

  3. 1979year

    Uganda–Tanzania War: Ugandan government forces fled Masaka as the Tanzania People's Defence Force bombarded and captured the town.

  4. 1978year

    Five men disappeared after attending a college basketball game in Chico, California; the bodies of four of them were discovered months later.

  5. 1968year

    Vietnam War: Led by Ngô Quang Trưởng, South Vietnamese forces recaptured the citadel of Huế.

  6. 1943year

    World War II: The Battle of Kasserine Pass, the first major engagement between American and Axis forces in Africa, ended with the Allied forces suffering heavy losses.

  7. 1868year

    Andrew Johnson became the first U.S. president to be impeached.

  8. 1826year

    The Treaty of Yandabo was signed, ending the First Anglo-Burmese War, the longest and most expensive war in the history of British India.

  9. 1809year

    After standing for only 15 years, the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (pictured), the third building in London of that name, burned down.

  10. 1809year

    Napoleonic Wars: The British invasion of Martinique ended with the unconditional surrender of French admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse (pictured), beginning a five-year occupation of the island.

  11. 1803year

    In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court declared an act of Congress unconstitutional for the first time, forming the basis of judicial review in the United States.

  12. 1720year

    War of the Quadruple Alliance: Spanish forces began a failed assault on the British settlement of Nassau in the Bahamas.

  13. 1711year

    George Frideric Handel's Rinaldo, the first Italian-language opera written specifically for the London stage, premiered.

  14. 1607year

    Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, considered the first fully developed opera, premiered in Mantua.

  15. 303year

    The Diocletianic Persecution, the last and most severe episode of the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire, began with the publication of a first edict by Roman emperor Diocletian.