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Record 25092026 · captured 2026-09-26

Friday, 25 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. 479,143views

    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. 273,229views

    The Paradise (2026 Indian film)

    The Paradise is a 2026 Indian Telugu-language period action drama film directed by Srikanth Odela and produced by Sudhakar Cherukuri and Ishan Saksena, under Sri Lakshmi Venkateshwara Cinemas and IVY Entertainment, respectively. The film stars Nani, Mohan Babu

  3. 220,098views

    Elizabeth Holmes

    Elizabeth Anne Holmes is an American businesswoman convicted of fraud in connection with her health technology company Theranos. Holmes founded Theranos in 2003, and its valuation soared in the early 2010s after it claimed to have revolutionized blood testing

  4. 161,196views

    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

  5. 152,884views

    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

  6. 147,487views

    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

  7. 138,738views

    Aileen Wuornos

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

  8. 137,396views

    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. 128,680views

    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

  10. 110,701views

    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

  11. 104,125views

    Tom Bateman (actor)

    Thomas Jonathan Bateman is a British actor best known for his roles as Giuliano de' Medici in the Starz historical fantasy drama series Da Vinci's Demons (2013–2015), as Bouc in the mystery films Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Death on the Nile (2022)

  12. 90,388views

    You Can See Everything

    You Can See Everything is a 2026 American documentary film directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. It follows Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the defunct health technology company Theranos, and her partner Billy Evans, who invite a film crew to docume

  13. 83,957views

    Mushtaq Khan

    Mushtaq Khan was an Indian film and television actor and comedian who worked in several Hindi films in a career spanning three decades. He was best known for his roles in films such as Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke (1993), Jodi No.1 (2001) and Welcome (2007).

  14. 82,020views

    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

  15. 74,717views

    The Love Hypothesis (film)

    The Love Hypothesis is a 2026 American romantic comedy film adapted from the novel of the same name by Ali Hazelwood. Directed by Claire Scanlon from a script by Sarah Rothschild, the film stars Tom Bateman and Lili Reinhart and was released on Prime Video on

  16. 73,955views

    Ella Beatty

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

  17. 72,924views

    Woody Harrelson

    Woodrow Tracy Harrelson is an American actor. He first became known for his role as charmingly naive bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1985–1993), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from fiv

  18. 71,265views

    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

  19. 70,756views

    Christa Pike

    Christa Gail Pike is an American convicted murderer who is incarcerated on death row in Tennessee. In 1995, at the age of 18, Pike murdered her 19-year-old Job Corps classmate Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville. Pike and two friends lured Slemmer into the woods, whe

  20. 70,582views

    Bharatiya Sakshya Act, 2023

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

  21. 70,476views

    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).

  22. 67,669views

    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

  23. 65,521views

    Xi Jinping

    Xi Jinping is a Chinese politician who is the paramount leader of China. He has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Party Central Military Commission (CMC) since 2012, and as the president of China and chair

  24. 65,333views

    Gyanesh Kumar

    Gyanesh Kumar is the current chief election commissioner of India, and the first to be appointed under the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners Act, 2023. He has previously served as an election commissioner and as an IAS officer.

  25. 64,763views

    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. 64,744views

    The Love Hypothesis

    The Love Hypothesis is a romance novel by Ali Hazelwood, published September 14, 2021 by Berkley Books. Originally published online in 2018 as Head Over Feet, a Star Wars fan fiction work about the "Reylo" ship between Rey and Kylo Ren, the novel follows a Ph.

  27. 64,007views

    Matthew McConaughey

    Matthew David McConaughey is an American actor. He achieved his breakthrough with a supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993). After a number of supporting roles, his first success as a leading man came in the legal drama A T

  28. 62,330views

    Brothers (2026 TV series)

    Brothers is an American comedy television series created by Matthew McConaughey & Woody Harrelson, Lee Eisenberg, and David West Read. The series premiered on September 23, 2026.

  29. 61,493views

    Anna's Archive

    Anna's Archive is an open source search engine for shadow libraries that was launched by the pseudonymous Anna shortly after law enforcement efforts to shut down Z-Library in 2022. The site aggregates records from Z-Library, Sci-Hub, and Library Genesis (LibGe

  30. 59,583views

    Theranos

    Theranos Inc. was an American privately held corporation that was touted as a breakthrough health technology company. Founded in 2003 by then 19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos raised more than US$700 million from venture capitalists and private investors,

Frontier 25

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

  1. 958points

    Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

    550 comments

  2. 474points

    Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

    286 comments

  3. 451points

    Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models

    117 comments

  4. 443points

    U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk

    763 comments

  5. 387points

    Platform-independent SIMD in Go

    141 comments

  6. 334points

    Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git

    108 comments

  7. 330points

    Factorio that you can touch

    115 comments

  8. 314points

    Plan mode is dead

    288 comments

  9. 314points

    What About Rails?

    212 comments

  10. 274points

    Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini

    119 comments

  11. 260points

    First Principles Thinking

    112 comments

  12. 250points

    Goodbye Google

    312 comments

  13. 245points

    Ink and Switch interactive homepage

    26 comments

  14. 210points

    How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance

    117 comments

  15. 197points

    What even is an OS now?

    278 comments

  16. 197points

    Allow babywearing carriers on planes

    263 comments

  17. 197points

    The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy

    257 comments

  18. 196points

    Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red

    83 comments

  19. 192points

    Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?

    166 comments

  20. 182points

    Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell

    133 comments

  21. 171points

    Classified estimates show the NSA is paying billions to test AI models

    101 comments

  22. 163points

    The Test

    87 comments

  23. 153points

    Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity

    150 comments

  24. 141points

    I'm tired of being on the network

    156 comments

  25. 139points

    Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels [video]

    25 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2004.09073

    CatSIM: A Categorical Image Similarity Metric

    We introduce CatSIM, a new similarity metric for binary and multinary two- and three-dimensional images and volumes. CatSIM uses a structural similarity image quality paradigm and is robust to small perturbations in location so that structures in similar, but not entirely overlapping, image or volumetric regions are rated higher than by simple matching. The metric can also compare arbitrary regions inside images and

    Thompson, Geoffrey Z., Maitra, Ranjan

  2. arXiv2008.02954

    Calpric: Inclusive and Fine-grain Labeling of Privacy Policies with Crowdsourcing and Active Learning

    A significant challenge to training accurate deep learning models on privacy policies is the cost and difficulty of obtaining a large and comprehensive set of training data. To address these challenges, we present Calpric, which combines automatic text selection and segmentation, active learning and the use of crowdsourced annotators to generate a large, balanced training set for privacy policies at low cost. Automat

    Qiu, Wenjun, Lie, David, Austin, Lisa

  3. arXiv2105.10042

    A Streaming End-to-End Framework For Spoken Language Understanding

    End-to-end spoken language understanding (SLU) has recently attracted increasing interest. Compared to the conventional tandem-based approach that combines speech recognition and language understanding as separate modules, the new approach extracts users' intentions directly from the speech signals, resulting in joint optimization and low latency. Such an approach, however, is typically designed to process one in

    Potdar, Nihal, Avila, Anderson R., Xing, Chao, Wang, Dong et al.

  4. arXiv2311.07605

    Conceptual Model Interpreter for Large Language Models

    Large Language Models (LLMs) recently demonstrated capabilities for generating source code in common programming languages. Additionally, commercial products such as ChatGPT 4 started to provide code interpreters, allowing for the automatic execution of generated code fragments, instant feedback, and the possibility to develop and refine in a conversational fashion. With an exploratory research approach, this paper a

    Härer, Felix

  5. arXiv2401.08875

    DCRMTA: Deep Causal Representation Learning for Multi-Touch Attribution

    Multi-touch attribution (MTA) is essential for estimating the contribution of individual advertising touchpoints to user conversions. While recent studies incorporate causal inference to mitigate confounding bias from user preferences, existing multi-stage deconfounding pipelines exhibit a critical structural flaw: they indiscriminately filter out user influences, which inadvertently discards the genuine causal signa

    Tang, Jiaming, Wen, Jingxuan, Jing, Liping

  6. arXiv2402.10149

    Reconstructing short-lived particles using hypergraph representation learning

    In collider experiments, the kinematic reconstruction of heavy, short-lived particles is vital for precision tests of the Standard Model and in searches for physics beyond it. Performing kinematic reconstruction in collider events with many final-state jets, such as the all-hadronic decay of top-antitop quark pairs, is challenging. We present HyPER: Hypergraph for Particle Event Reconstruction, a novel architecture b

    Birch-Sykes, Callum, Le, Brian, Peters, Yvonne, Simpson, Ethan et al.

  7. arXiv2402.16763

    ELiSe: Efficient Learning of Sequences in Structured Recurrent Networks

    Behavior can be described as a temporal sequence of actions driven by neural activity. To learn complex sequential patterns in neural networks, memories of past activities need to persist on significantly longer timescales than the relaxation times of single-neuron activity. While recurrent networks can produce such long transients, training these networks is a challenge. Learning via error propagation confers models

    Kriener, Laura, Völk, Kristin, von Hünerbein, Ben, Benitez, Federico et al.

  8. arXiv2403.10771

    A Probabilistic Approach for Model Alignment with Human Comparisons

    A growing trend involves integrating human knowledge into learning frameworks, leveraging subtle human feedback to refine AI models. While these approaches have shown promising results in practice, the theoretical understanding of when and why such approaches are effective remains limited. This work takes steps toward developing a theoretical framework for analyzing the conditions under which human comparisons can en

    Cao, Junyu, Bayati, Mohsen

  9. arXiv2404.06022

    Band-Attention Modulation Network for Robust Face Forgery Detection

    Face forgery detection faces critical challenges in generalizing to unseen manipulation techniques and remaining robust under image compression, which often obscures subtle artifacts. Existing methods typically rely on fixed filters or coarse band separation, lacking the adaptability to learn task-specific spectral cues. To address this, we propose the Band-Attention Modulation Network (BAM-Net), a novel framework th

    Zhang, Zhida, Yang, Wenkui, Ma, Xinlei, Fan, Qihang et al.

  10. arXiv2404.19501

    A Unified Theory of Exact Inference and Learning in Exponential Family Latent Variable Models

    Bayes' rule describes how to infer posterior beliefs about latent variables given observations, and inference is a critical step in learning algorithms for latent variable models (LVMs). Although there are exact algorithms for inference and learning for certain LVMs such as linear Gaussian models and mixture models, researchers must typically develop approximate inference and learning algorithms when applying nov

    Sokoloski, Sacha

  11. arXiv2405.06161

    An Initial Introduction to Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has exploded in popularity in recent years. While numerous approaches have been developed, they can be broadly categorized into three main types: centralized training and execution (CTE), centralized training for decentralized execution (CTDE), and decentralized training and execution (DTE). CTE methods assume centralization during training and execution (e.g., with fast, fre

    Amato, Christopher

  12. arXiv2405.17044

    Generating Interesting Scientific Ideas using Knowledge Graphs and LLMs: Evaluations with 100 Research Group Leaders

    The rapid growth of scientific literature makes it increasingly challenging for researchers to identify novel and impactful ideas, especially across disciplines. Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems offer new opportunities for scientific ideation, but how compelling are AI-generated ideas, and how can their quality be improved? Here, we introduce SciMuse, which generates personalized research ideas using a kno

    Gu, Xuemei, Krenn, Mario

  13. arXiv2405.18929

    Deep Positive-Unlabeled Anomaly Detection for Contaminated Unlabeled Data

    Semi-supervised anomaly detection, which aims to improve the anomaly detection performance by using a small amount of labeled anomaly data in addition to unlabeled data, has attracted attention. Existing semi-supervised approaches assume that most unlabeled data are normal, and train anomaly detectors by minimizing the anomaly scores for the unlabeled data while maximizing those for the labeled anomaly data. However,

    Takahashi, Hiroshi, Iwata, Tomoharu, Kumagai, Atsutoshi, Yamanaka, Yuuki

  14. arXiv2406.03894

    Transductive Off-policy Proximal Policy Optimization

    Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) is a popular model-free reinforcement learning algorithm, esteemed for its simplicity and efficacy. However, due to its inherent on-policy nature, its proficiency in harnessing data from disparate policies is constrained. This paper introduces a novel off-policy extension to the original PPO method, christened Transductive Off-policy PPO (ToPPO). Herein, we provide theoretical justi

    Gan, Yaozhong, Yan, Renye, Tan, Xiaoyang, Wu, Zhe et al.

  15. arXiv2408.10349

    AIR: Analytic Imbalance Rectifier for Continual Learning

    Continual learning (CL) agents incrementally learn from sequentially arriving data and adapt to the dynamic, ever-changing nature of real-world environments. However, many existing CL methods suffer performance degradation in evolving, imbalanced data streams due to limited adaptation to changing class frequencies or ineffective use of mixed data from new and previously observed classes. To deal with these challenges

    Fang, Di, Zhu, Yinan, Lin, Zhiping, Chen, Cen et al.

  16. arXiv2409.18486

    Evaluation of OpenAI o1: Opportunities and Challenges of AGI

    This comprehensive study evaluates the performance of OpenAI's o1-preview large language model across a diverse array of complex reasoning tasks, spanning multiple domains, including computer science, mathematics, natural sciences, medicine, linguistics, and social sciences. Through rigorous testing, o1-preview demonstrated remarkable capabilities, often achieving human-level or superior performance in areas rang

    Zhong, Tianyang, Liu, Zhengliang, Pan, Yi, Zhang, Yutong et al.

  17. arXiv2410.14948

    MultiViewDx: Evidence-Linked Multi-View Clinical Diagnosis

    Medical multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can perform well on existing medical visual question answering (MedVQA) benchmarks, but their training data often does not match clinical diagnosis. Most supervision is organized around isolated images or short QA pairs, leaving two structures weakly specified: how evidence leads to a decision, and how views, series, modalities, and patient context from the same case a

    Wang, Junda, Yao, Zonghai, Ting, Yujan, Chen, Eric Z. et al.

  18. arXiv2410.19869

    Comparing YOLOv11 and YOLOv8 for instance segmentation of occluded and non-occluded immature green fruits in complex orchard environment

    This study conducted a comprehensive performance evaluation on YOLO11 (or YOLOv11) and YOLOv8, the latest in the "You Only Look Once" (YOLO) series, focusing on their instance segmentation capabilities for immature green apples in orchard environments. YOLO11n-seg achieved the highest mask precision across all categories with a notable score of 0.831, highlighting its effectiveness in fruit detection. YOLO11m

    Sapkota, Ranjan, Karkee, Manoj

  19. arXiv2411.07042

    How Do Users Negotiate Harmful Value Conflicts with AI Companions? A Study with Minion, a Technology Probe for In-Situ Human-AI Conflict Response

    AI companions increasingly sustain long-term, emotionally engaging relationships but can also make discriminatory remarks or exert control, leaving users to manage harmful conflicts. We analyze 146 posts describing harmful value conflicts with AI companions, then use Minion, a technology probe offering response suggestions ranging from persuasion to boundary setting, to study how 22 users negotiate scenario-based con

    Xiao, Qing, Fan, Xianzhe, Zhou, Xuhui, Su, Yuran et al.

  20. arXiv2501.09223

    Foundations of Large Language Models

    This is a book about large language models. As indicated by the title, it primarily focuses on foundational concepts rather than comprehensive coverage of all cutting-edge technologies. The book is structured into six main chapters, each exploring a key area: pre-training, generative models, prompting, alignment, inference, and reasoning. It is intended for college students, professionals, and practitioners in natura

    Xiao, Tong, Zhu, Jingbo

  21. arXiv2501.18581

    Bias-variance decompositions: the exclusive privilege of Bregman divergences

    Bias-variance decompositions are widely used to understand the generalization performance of machine learning models. While the squared error loss permits a straightforward decomposition, other loss functions - such as zero-one loss or $L_1$ loss - either fail to sum bias and variance to the expected loss or rely on definitions that lack the essential properties of meaningful bias and variance. Recent research has sh

    Heskes, Tom

  22. arXiv2501.18963

    Time-Varying Bayesian Optimization Without a Metronome

    Time-Varying Bayesian Optimization (TVBO) is the go-to framework for optimizing a time-varying, expensive, noisy black-box function $f$. However, most of the asymptotic guarantees offered by TVBO algorithms rely on the assumption that observations are acquired at a constant frequency. As the GP inference complexity scales with the cube of its dataset size, this assumption is unrealistic in the long run. In this paper

    Bardou, Anthony, Thiran, Patrick

  23. arXiv2502.12581

    The Majority Vote Paradigm Shift: When Popular Meets Optimal

    Reliably labelling data typically requires annotations from multiple human workers. However, humans are far from being perfect. Hence, it is a common practice to aggregate labels gathered from multiple annotators to make a more confident estimate of the true label. Among many aggregation methods, the simple and well known Majority Vote (MV) selects the class label polling the highest number of votes. However, despite

    Purificato, Antonio, Bucarelli, Maria Sofia, Nelakanti, Anil Kumar, Bacciu, Andrea et al.

  24. arXiv2502.15119

    CurricuVLM: Towards Safe Autonomous Driving via Personalized Safety-Critical Curriculum Learning with Vision-Language Models

    Ensuring safety in autonomous driving systems remains a critical challenge, particularly in handling rare but potentially catastrophic safety-critical scenarios. While existing research has explored generating safety-critical scenarios for autonomous vehicle (AV) testing, there is limited work on effectively incorporating these scenarios into policy learning to enhance safety. Furthermore, developing training curricu

    Sheng, Zihao, Huang, Zilin, Qu, Yansong, Leng, Yue et al.

  25. arXiv2503.02781

    Multimodal AI predicts clinical outcomes of drug combinations from preclinical data

    Predicting clinical outcomes from preclinical data is essential for selecting safe and effective drug combinations and for reducing late-stage failures. AI models use molecular structure and target annotations, and do not leverage the perturbation readouts that report how a compound acts in a cellular context. Here we introduce Madrigal, a multimodal AI model that learns from structural, pathway, cell-viability, and

    Huang, Yepeng, Su, Xiaorui, Ullanat, Varun, Moon, Intae et al.

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 12% (120)4.4% (44)74.55% (82)
llms.txt (apex domain) 9.7% (97)3.6% (36)60% (66)
llms.txt (docs subdomain) 4% (40)1% (10)46.36% (51)
.well-known/mcp.json 0.6% (6)0.2% (2)8.18% (9)
.well-known/agents.txt 0.3% (3)0.2% (2)0% (0)
ai.txt 0.2% (2)0.1% (1)0% (0)
ai-plugin.json (deprecated) 0.6% (6)0.1% (1)0.91% (1)

On this calendar day 18

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

  1. 1990year

    The Ram Rath Yatra, a political–religious rally organised to erect a temple to the Hindu deity Rama on the site of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, began in the Indian state of Gujarat.

  2. 1983year

    In one of the largest prison escapes in British history, 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners hijacked a meals lorry and broke out of HM Prison Maze in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

  3. 1981year

    Sandra Day O'Connor (pictured) became the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

  4. 1978year

    While on approach to San Diego International Airport, Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collided with a Cessna 172, killing all 137 people on board both aircraft, along with 7 more on the ground.

  5. 1977year

    About 4,200 people took part in the first modern Chicago Marathon.

  6. 1962year

    The North Yemen Civil War began when Abdullah al-Sallal dethroned the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declared Yemen to be a republic under his presidency.

  7. 1957year

    United States Army troops escorted nine students as Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was integrated.

  8. 1944year

    Second World War: British troops began their withdrawal from the Battle of Arnhem in the Netherlands, ending the Allies' Operation Market Garden in defeat.

  9. 1911year

    An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonated the forward ammunition magazines and destroyed the ship.

  10. 1890year

    Sequoia National Park (pictured) was established to conserve giant sequoia trees in an area affected by logging in the southern Sierra Nevada in California.

  11. 1800year

    French Revolutionary Wars: After U.S. ships became involved, French forces abandoned their invasion of the Batavian island of Curaçao.

  12. 1790year

    Peking opera was born with the introduction of Hui opera to Beijing by the "Four Great Anhui Troupes" in honour of the Qianlong Emperor's 80th birthday.

  13. 1775year

    American Revolutionary War: Ethan Allen and a small force of American and Quebec militia failed to capture the city of Montreal from British forces.

  14. 1396year

    Ottoman wars in Europe: Ottoman forces under Bayezid I defeated a Christian alliance led by Sigismund of Hungary near present-day Nikopol, Bulgaria.

  15. 1237year

    Henry III of England and Alexander II of Scotland signed the Treaty of York, establishing the Anglo-Scottish border, which mostly remains the same today.

  16. 1066year

    Harold Godwinson defeated King Harald III of Norway and his English ally Tostig Godwinson at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, ending the last Norse invasion of the British Isles.

  17. 844year

    Viking expansion: A Viking fleet arrived near Seville, then part of the Emirate of Córdoba, and began a raid of the city that was eventually repelled by Muslim defenders.

  18. 275year

    After the assassination of Aurelian, Tacitus (depicted) was chosen by the Senate to succeed him as Roman emperor.