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Friday, 27 March 2026

The world looked up Dhurandhar: The Revenge. 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. 526,817views

    Dhurandhar: The Revenge

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

  2. 225,958views

    List of highest-grossing Indian films

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

  3. 173,104views

    2026 Iran war

    Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been at war with Iran and its regional allies. Hostilities broke out after US–Israeli airstrikes killed several Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The strikes were launched amid o

  4. 167,110views

    Project Hail Mary (film)

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

  5. 148,500views

    Send Help

    Send Help is a 2026 American survival horror film directed and co-produced by Sam Raimi and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. The film stars Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien as an employee and her boss, respectively, who become stranded on a desert isl

  6. 137,470views

    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

  7. 136,565views

    2026 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA second round

    The UEFA second round of the qualification tournament for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, also known as the UEFA play-offs or European play-offs, was contested by sixteen teams from the UEFA segment of qualifying. The play-offs determined the final four European team

  8. 128,514views

    Solved game

    A solved game is a game whose outcome can be correctly predicted from any position, assuming that both players play perfectly. This concept is usually applied to abstract strategy games, and especially to games with full information and no element of chance; s

  9. 127,074views

    Harry Potter (TV series)

    Harry Potter is an upcoming fantasy television series developed for HBO, based on the series of eponymous fantasy books by British author J. K. Rowling. Produced by HBO, Warner Bros. Television, Brontë Film & TV, and Heyday Films, it stars Dominic McLaughlin a

  10. 113,195views

    Dhurandhar

    Dhurandhar is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language spy action thriller film written and directed by Aditya Dhar. It is produced by Aditya Dhar, Lokesh Dhar and Jyoti Deshpande under Jio Studios and B62 Studios. The film features an ensemble cast consisting of Ranveer

  11. 113,064views

    2026 FIFA World Cup qualification

    The 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification decided the 45 teams that joined hosts Canada, Mexico, and the United States at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

  12. 99,981views

    2026 FIFA World Cup

    The 2026 FIFA World Cup was the 23rd FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international men's soccer championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament began on June 11, 2026, and concluded on July 19 with Spain winning

  13. 97,593views

    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

  14. 90,230views

    2026 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

    The European section of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification competition acted as qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, that was held in Canada, Mexico and the United States, for national teams that were members of the Union of European Football Association

  15. 76,022views

    G. V. Prakash Kumar

    G. V. Prakash Kumar, also known as GVP, is an Indian musician, actor, and film producer who works predominantly in Tamil cinema. He is a recipient of three National Film Awards, four Filmfare Awards, and three SIIMA Awards.

  16. 75,685views

    Project Hail Mary

    Project Hail Mary is a 2021 hard science fiction novel by American writer Andy Weir. It centers on science teacher and former biologist Ryland Grace, who wakes up aboard a spacecraft, afflicted with amnesia.

  17. 74,633views

    Dawood Ibrahim

    Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar is an Indian gangster, mob boss, drug lord and narcoterrorist. He is the leader of the organised crime syndicate D-Company, which he founded in Mumbai in the 1970s. Dawood is wanted on multiple charges of murder, extortion, targeted killi

  18. 74,417views

    Aditya Dhar

    Aditya Dhar is an Indian filmmaker who works in Hindi cinema. Having previously worked as a lyricist, Dhar made his directorial debut with the 2019 war film Uri: The Surgical Strike, a commercially successful venture which earned him the National Film Award fo

  19. 73,404views

    Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway

    The Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX), also known as the Cebu–Cordova Bridge and the Third Cebu–Mactan Bridge, is an 8.9-kilometer (5.5 mi) toll bridge expressway in Metro Cebu, Philippines. The bridge connects the South Road Properties in Cebu City on main

  20. 73,397views

    Chuck Norris

    Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris was an American martial artist, actor, screenwriter, and author. He held black belts in karate, taekwondo, Tang Soo Do, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and judo. After serving in the United States Air Force, he won numerous martial arts champion

  21. 72,466views

    Exhibition game

    An exhibition game is a sporting event whose prize money and impact on the player's or the team's rankings are either zero or otherwise greatly reduced. Exhibition games often serve as "warm-up matches", particularly in many team sports where these games help

  22. 69,991views

    Will Wade

    William Wade is an American college basketball coach who is currently in his second stint as the head men's basketball coach at LSU, a position he held from 2017 to 2022. He previously served as head coach at Chattanooga, VCU, McNeese, and NC State.

  23. 67,577views

    Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen

    Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen is an American horror television miniseries created by Haley Z. Boston for Netflix. Boston serves as the series showrunner and is also an executive producer along with the Duffer Brothers. Camila Morrone and Adam DiMarco s

  24. 67,449views

    Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fans

    Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fans is the 50th season of the American competitive reality television series Survivor. It premiered on February 25, 2026, on CBS in the United States, and it is the eighteenth consecutive season to be filmed in the Mamanuca Is

  25. 63,746views

    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

  26. 63,667views

    Dash Crofts

    Darrell George "Dash" Crofts was an American musician, one half of the soft rock duo Seals & Crofts with Jim Seals.

  27. 63,658views

    Edin Džeko

    Edin Džeko is a Bosnian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club Schalke 04 and captains the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team. Nicknamed the "Bosnian Diamond" or simply the "Diamond", he is widely regarded as one of the best strik

  28. 56,994views

    Strait of Hormuz

    The Strait of Hormuz is a waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. On the north coast lies Iran, and on the south coast lies the Musandam Peninsula under the Musandam Governorate of Oman, with a portion of the southwest of the peninsula under th

  29. 56,670views

    Donald Trump

    Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.

  30. 52,918views

    The Madison (TV series)

    The Madison is a contemporary Western television series created by Taylor Sheridan for Paramount+. The series follows the Clyburn family, originally from New York City, who relocate to the Madison River valley of southwest Montana for emotional recovery follow

Frontier 25

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

  1. 764points

    People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account

    616 comments

  2. 745points

    If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos

    316 comments

  3. 662points

    Hold on to Your Hardware

    535 comments

  4. 627points

    Anatomy of the .claude/ folder

    265 comments

  5. 611points

    The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

    485 comments

  6. 539points

    Make macOS consistently bad unironically

    372 comments

  7. 467points

    Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

    536 comments

  8. 465points

    Desk for people who work at home with a cat

    164 comments

  9. 414points

    AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying

    383 comments

  10. 396points

    A Faster Alternative to Jq

    258 comments

  11. 355points

    Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct

    74 comments

  12. 354points

    ‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms

    352 comments

  13. 331points

    Meow.camera

    73 comments

  14. 300points

    15 Years of Forking

    60 comments

  15. 298points

    Schedule tasks on the web

    243 comments

  16. 286points

    4D Doom

    80 comments

  17. 264points

    DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email was hacked

    7 comments

  18. 246points

    Installing a Let's Encrypt TLS certificate on a Brother printer with Certbot

    53 comments

  19. 234points

    TinyLoRA – Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

    45 comments

  20. 228points

    ISBN Visualization

    41 comments

  21. 199points

    I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper

    66 comments

  22. 196points

    Velxio 2.0 – Emulate Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi 3 in the Browser

    58 comments

  23. 194points

    Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing

    350 comments

  24. 180points

    Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most

    94 comments

  25. 171points

    Last gasps of the rent seeking class?

    165 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2006.09534

    Discriminative reconstruction via simultaneous dense and sparse coding

    Discriminative features extracted from the sparse coding model have been shown to perform well for classification. Recent deep learning architectures have further improved reconstruction in inverse problems by considering new dense priors learned from data. We propose a novel dense and sparse coding model that integrates both representation capability and discriminative features. The model studies the problem of reco

    Tasissa, Abiy, Theodosis, Emmanouil, Tolooshams, Bahareh, Ba, Demba

  2. arXiv2110.11736

    MANDERA: Malicious Node Detection in Federated Learning via Ranking

    Byzantine attacks hinder the deployment of federated learning algorithms. Although we know that the benign gradients and Byzantine attacked gradients are distributed differently, to detect the malicious gradients is challenging due to (1) the gradient is high-dimensional and each dimension has its unique distribution and (2) the benign gradients and the attacked gradients are always mixed (two-sample test methods can

    Zhu, Wanchuang, Zhao, Benjamin Zi Hao, Luo, Simon, Liu, Tongliang et al.

  3. arXiv2111.14259

    Performance of a GPU- and Time-Efficient Pseudo 3D Network for Magnetic Resonance Image Super-Resolution and Motion Artifact Reduction

    Shortening acquisition time and reducing motion artifacts are the most critical challenges in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Deep learning-based image restoration has emerged as a promising solution capable of generating high-resolution and motion-artifact-free MRI images from low-resolution images acquired with shortened acquisition times or from motion-artifact-corrupted images. To facilitate clinical integratio

    Li, Hao, Liu, Jianan, Schell, Marianne, Huang, Tao et al.

  4. arXiv2205.04464

    Differentiable Electron Microscopy Simulation: Methods and Applications for Visualization

    We propose a new microscopy simulation system that can depict atomistic models in a micrograph visual style, similar to results of physical electron microscopy imaging. This system is scalable, able to represent simulation of electron microscopy of tens of viral particles and synthesizes the image faster than previous methods. On top of that, the simulator is differentiable, both its deterministic as well as stochast

    Nguyen, Ngan, Liang, Feng, Engel, Dominik, Bohak, Ciril et al.

  5. arXiv2208.09843

    CODER: Coupled Diversity-Sensitive Momentum Contrastive Learning for Image-Text Retrieval

    Image-Text Retrieval (ITR) is challenging in bridging visual and lingual modalities. Contrastive learning has been adopted by most prior arts. Except for limited amount of negative image-text pairs, the capability of constrastive learning is restricted by manually weighting negative pairs as well as unawareness of external knowledge. In this paper, we propose our novel Coupled Diversity-Sensitive Momentum Constrastiv

    Wang, Haoran, He, Dongliang, Wu, Wenhao, Xia, Boyang et al.

  6. arXiv2304.02941

    Dr. KID: Direct Remeshing and K-set Isometric Decomposition for Scalable Physicalization of Organic Shapes

    Dr. KID is an algorithm that uses isometric decomposition for the physicalization of potato-shaped organic models in a puzzle fashion. The algorithm begins with creating a simple, regular triangular surface mesh of organic shapes, followed by iterative k-means clustering and remeshing. For clustering, we need similarity between triangles (segments) which is defined as a distance function. The distance function maps e

    Khan, Dawar, Bohak, Ciril, Viola, Ivan

  7. arXiv2306.04810

    Correlative Information Maximization: A Biologically Plausible Approach to Supervised Deep Neural Networks without Weight Symmetry

    The backpropagation algorithm has experienced remarkable success in training large-scale artificial neural networks; however, its biological plausibility has been strongly criticized, and it remains an open question whether the brain employs supervised learning mechanisms akin to it. Here, we propose correlative information maximization between layer activations as an alternative normative approach to describe the si

    Bozkurt, Bariscan, Pehlevan, Cengiz, Erdogan, Alper T

  8. arXiv2308.12351

    Improving Generative Model-based Unfolding with Schrödinger Bridges

    Machine learning-based unfolding has enabled unbinned and high-dimensional differential cross section measurements. Two main approaches have emerged in this research area: one based on discriminative models and one based on generative models. The main advantage of discriminative models is that they learn a small correction to a starting simulation while generative models scale better to regions of phase space with li

    Diefenbacher, Sascha, Liu, Guan-Horng, Mikuni, Vinicius, Nachman, Benjamin et al.

  9. arXiv2310.11703

    A Comprehensive Survey on Vector Database: Storage and Retrieval Technique, Challenge

    As high-dimensional vector data increasingly surpasses the processing capabilities of traditional database management systems, Vector Databases (VDBs) have emerged and become tightly integrated with large language models, being widely applied in modern artificial intelligence systems. However, existing research has primarily focused on underlying technologies such as approximate nearest neighbor search, with relative

    Ma, Le, Zhang, Ran, Han, Yikun, Yu, Shirui et al.

  10. arXiv2311.10270

    Multiscale Hodge Scattering Networks for Data Analysis

    We propose new scattering networks for signals measured on simplicial complexes, which we call \emph{Multiscale Hodge Scattering Networks} (MHSNs). Our construction builds on multiscale basis dictionaries on simplicial complexes -- namely, the $κ$-GHWT and $κ$-HGLET -- which we recently developed for simplices of dimension $κ\in \mathbb{N}$ in a given simplicial complex by generalizing the node-based Generalized Haar

    Saito, Naoki, Schonsheck, Stefan C., Shvarts, Eugene

  11. arXiv2312.10431

    Continuous Diffusion for Mixed-Type Tabular Data

    Score-based generative models, commonly referred to as diffusion models, have proven to be successful at generating text and image data. However, their adaptation to mixed-type tabular data remains underexplored. In this work, we propose CDTD, a Continuous Diffusion model for mixed-type Tabular Data. CDTD is based on a novel combination of score matching and score interpolation to enforce a unified continuous noise d

    Mueller, Markus, Gruber, Kathrin, Fok, Dennis

  12. arXiv2401.11605

    Scalable High-Resolution Pixel-Space Image Synthesis with Hourglass Diffusion Transformers

    We present the Hourglass Diffusion Transformer (HDiT), an image generative model that exhibits linear scaling with pixel count, supporting training at high-resolution (e.g. $1024 \times 1024$) directly in pixel-space. Building on the Transformer architecture, which is known to scale to billions of parameters, it bridges the gap between the efficiency of convolutional U-Nets and the scalability of Transformers. HDiT t

    Crowson, Katherine, Baumann, Stefan Andreas, Birch, Alex, Abraham, Tanishq Mathew et al.

  13. arXiv2401.12546

    On Building Myopic MPC Policies using Supervised Learning

    The application of supervised learning techniques in combination with model predictive control (MPC) has recently generated significant interest, particularly in the area of approximate explicit MPC, where function approximators like deep neural networks are used to learn the MPC policy via optimal state-action pairs generated offline. While the aim of approximate explicit MPC is to closely replicate the MPC policy,

    Orrico, Christopher A., Yang, Bokan, Krishnamoorthy, Dinesh

  14. arXiv2402.01677

    Embedding Ontologies via Incorporating Extensional and Intensional Knowledge

    Ontologies contain rich knowledge within domain, which can be divided into two categories, namely extensional knowledge and intensional knowledge. Extensional knowledge provides information about the concrete instances that belong to specific concepts in the ontology, while intensional knowledge details inherent properties, characteristics, and semantic associations among concepts. However, existing ontology embeddin

    Wang, Keyu, Qi, Guilin, Chen, Jiaoyan, Huang, Yi et al.

  15. arXiv2402.05122

    History of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots: past, present, and future development

    This research provides an in-depth comprehensive review of the progress of chatbot technology over time, from the initial basic systems relying on rules to today's advanced conversational bots powered by artificial intelligence. Spanning many decades, the paper explores the major milestones, innovations, and paradigm shifts that have driven the evolution of chatbots. Looking back at the very basic statistical mod

    Al-Amin, Md., Ali, Mohammad Shazed, Salam, Abdus, Khan, Arif et al.

  16. arXiv2402.12760

    A User-Friendly Framework for Generating Model-Preferred Prompts in Text-to-Image Synthesis

    Well-designed prompts have demonstrated the potential to guide text-to-image models in generating amazing images. Although existing prompt engineering methods can provide high-level guidance, it is challenging for novice users to achieve the desired results by manually entering prompts due to a discrepancy between novice-user-input prompts and the model-preferred prompts. To bridge the distribution gap between user i

    Hei, Nailei, Guo, Qianyu, Wang, Zihao, Wang, Yan et al.

  17. arXiv2404.05290

    MindSet: Vision. A toolbox for testing DNNs on key psychological experiments

    Multiple benchmarks have been developed to assess the alignment between deep neural networks (DNNs) and human vision. In almost all cases these benchmarks are observational in the sense they are composed of behavioural and brain responses to naturalistic images that have not been manipulated to test hypotheses regarding how DNNs or humans perceive and identify objects. Here we introduce the toolbox \textit{MindSet: V

    Biscione, Valerio, Montero, Milton L., Dujmovic, Marin, Malhotra, Gaurav et al.

  18. arXiv2405.17490

    Revisit, Extend, and Enhance Hessian-Free Influence Functions

    Influence functions serve as crucial tools for assessing sample influence in model interpretation, subset training set selection, noisy label detection, and more. By employing the first-order Taylor extension, influence functions can estimate sample influence without the need for expensive model retraining. However, applying influence functions directly to deep models presents challenges, primarily due to the non-con

    Yang, Ziao, Yue, Han, Chen, Jian, Liu, Hongfu

  19. arXiv2406.07737

    The Future of AI-Driven Software Engineering

    A paradigm shift is underway in Software Engineering, with AI systems such as LLMs playing an increasingly important role in boosting software development productivity. This trend is anticipated to persist. In the next years, we expect a growing symbiotic partnership between human software developers and AI. The Software Engineering research community cannot afford to overlook this trend; we must address the key rese

    Terragni, Valerio, Vella, Annie, Roop, Partha, Blincoe, Kelly

  20. arXiv2408.05696

    SMILES-Mamba: Chemical Mamba Foundation Models for Drug ADMET Prediction

    In drug discovery, predicting the absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and toxicity (ADMET) properties of small-molecule drugs is critical for ensuring safety and efficacy. However, the process of accurately predicting these properties is often resource-intensive and requires extensive experimental data. To address this challenge, we propose SMILES-Mamba, a two-stage model that leverages both unlabeled an

    Xu, Bohao, Lu, Yingzhou, Li, Chenhao, Yue, Ling et al.

  21. arXiv2408.13366

    CodeRefine: A Pipeline for Enhancing LLM-Generated Code Implementations of Research Papers

    This paper presents CodeRefine, a novel framework for automatically transforming research paper methodologies into functional code using Large Language Models (LLMs). Our multi-step approach first extracts and summarizes key text chunks from papers, analyzes their code relevance, and creates a knowledge graph using a predefined ontology. Code is then generated from this structured representation and enhanced through

    Trofimova, Ekaterina, Sataev, Emil, Jowhari, Abhijit Singh

  22. arXiv2409.16441

    A novel open-source ultrasound dataset with deep learning benchmarks for spinal cord injury localization and anatomical segmentation

    While deep learning has catalyzed breakthroughs across numerous domains, its broader adoption in clinical settings is inhibited by the costly and time-intensive nature of data acquisition and annotation. To further facilitate medical machine learning, we present an ultrasound dataset of 10,223 Brightness-mode (B-mode) images consisting of sagittal slices of porcine spinal cords (N=25) before and after a contusion inj

    Kumar, Avisha, Kotkar, Kunal, Jiang, Kelly, Bhimreddy, Meghana et al.

  23. arXiv2410.10700

    LLMs know their vulnerabilities: Uncover Safety Gaps through Natural Distribution Shifts

    Safety concerns in large language models (LLMs) have gained significant attention due to their exposure to potentially harmful data during pre-training. In this paper, we identify a new safety vulnerability in LLMs: their susceptibility to \textit{natural distribution shifts} between attack prompts and original toxic prompts, where seemingly benign prompts, semantically related to harmful content, can bypass safety m

    Ren, Qibing, Li, Hao, Liu, Dongrui, Xie, Zhanxu et al.

  24. arXiv2410.12476

    Retrieval-Reasoning Large Language Model-based Synthetic Clinical Trial Generation

    Machine learning (ML) holds great promise for clinical applications but is often hindered by limited access to high-quality data due to privacy concerns, high costs, and long timelines associated with clinical trials. While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in general-purpose generation tasks, their application to synthesizing realistic clinical trials remains underexplored. In this wo

    Xu, Zerui, Wu, Fang, Lu, Yingzhou, Zhang, Yuanyuan et al.

  25. arXiv2410.13874

    Chain-Oriented Objective Logic with Neural Network Feedback Control and Cascade Filtering for Dynamic Multi-DSL Regulation

    Contributions to AI: This paper proposes a neuro-symbolic search architecture integrating discrete rule-based logic with lightweight Neural Network Feedback Control (NNFC). Utilizing cascade filtering to isolate neural mispredictions while dynamically compensating for static heuristic biases, the framework theoretically guarantees search stability and efficiency in massive discrete state spaces. Contributions to Engi

    Han, Jipeng

On this calendar day 18

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

  1. 2023year

    Forty people are killed in a fire at a migrant detention facility in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

  2. 2022year

    At the 94th Academy Awards, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock onstage resulting in Smith being expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and banned from its events for ten years.

  3. 2020year

    North Macedonia became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

  4. 2015year

    Himeji Castle, the largest and most visited Japanese castle, re-opened after five years of restoration work.

  5. 2009year

    A failure of the dam holding Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Tangerang, Indonesia, caused floods that killed at least 100 people.

  6. 2002year

    Second Intifada: A suicide bomber killed around 30 Israeli civilians and injured about 140 others in Netanya, triggering Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale counter-terrorist military incursion into the West Bank.

  7. 1999year

    NATO bombing of Yugoslavia: A U.S. Air Force F-117 stealth aircraft was shot down by a Yugoslav Army unit.

  8. 1998year

    The Food and Drug Administration approved the drug sildenafil (chemical structure pictured), better known by the trade name Viagra, as the first treatment approved in the United States for erectile dysfunction.

  9. 1993year

    Jiang Zemin succeeded Yang Shangkun to become President of the People's Republic of China.

  10. 1981year

    The Solidarity movement in Poland staged a warning strike, the largest in the history of the Eastern Bloc, in which at least 12 million Poles walked off their jobs for four hours.

  11. 1980year

    Brothers Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt failed in their attempt to corner the world silver market, causing panic in commodity and futures exchanges.

  12. 1976year

    The Washington Metro (rolling stock pictured), the second-busiest rapid transit system in the U.S., opened to commuters.

  13. 1975year

    Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, an oil pipeline spanning the length of Alaska, began.

  14. 1958year

    Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, assumed the office of premier.

  15. 1945year

    World War II: The United States Army Air Forces began Operation Starvation, laying naval mines in many of Japan's vital water routes and ports to disrupt enemy shipping.

  16. 1941year

    World War II: A group of Serbian-nationalist officers of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force carried out a coup d'état after Yugoslavia joined the Axis powers.

  17. 1899year

    Philippine–American War: American forces defeated troops commanded by Philippine president Emilio Aguinaldo at the Battle of Marilao River.

  18. 1884year

    Outraged by a jury's decision to convict a man of manslaughter instead of murder, a mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, began three days of rioting.