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Record 28092026 · captured 2026-09-29

Monday, 28 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. 440,478views

    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. 438,924views

    Ted Kaczynski

    Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign.

  3. 340,205views

    Justin Verlander

    Justin Brooks Verlander is a American former professional baseball pitcher who played 21 seasons of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros, New York Mets, and San Francisco Giants. A three-time Cy Young Award winner, an A

  4. 239,721views

    Kate Upton

    Katherine Elizabeth Upton is an American model and actress. She first appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2011, and was the cover model for the 2012, 2013, and 2017 issues. In addition, she was the subject of the 100th-anniversary Vanity Fair

  5. 227,528views

    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 being held from 19 September to 4 October 2026 in Aichi Prefecture and Nagoya

  6. 213,653views

    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. 186,716views

    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 which the public is exited at the c

  8. 162,718views

    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

  9. 145,932views

    Christa Pike

    Christa Gail Pike is an American convicted murderer who is incarcerated on death row in Tennessee. In 1995, when she was 18, Pike murdered her 19-year-old Job Corps classmate Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville. Pike and two friends led Slemmer into the woods, where

  10. 135,742views

    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

  11. 132,778views

    All Out (2026)

    The 2026 All Out was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It was the eighth annual All Out and took place on September 26, 2026, at the Now Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. This was

  12. 132,649views

    Primetime (film)

    Primetime is a 2026 American psychological crime thriller film directed by Lance Oppenheim in his narrative feature film debut. Based on the 2007 Esquire article "Tonight on Dateline This Man Will Die" by Luke Dittrich, the film follows the production of the r

  13. 125,670views

    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

  14. 115,596views

    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

  15. 110,953views

    Virat Kohli

    Virat Kohli is an Indian international cricketer and former all-format captain of the Indian national cricket team. He is a right-handed batter and an occasional right-arm medium-pace bowler. Considered one of the greatest batters in cricket, he has been accla

  16. 110,939views

    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

  17. 106,190views

    Katseye

    Katseye is a girl group based in Los Angeles. The group consists of six members: Daniela Avanzini, Lara Raj, Manon Bannerman, Megan Skiendiel, Sophia Laforteza, and Yoonchae Jeung. With members from the Philippines, South Korea, Switzerland, and the United Sta

  18. 105,104views

    Orange Order

    The Loyal Orange Institution, commonly known as the Orange Order, is an international Protestant fraternal order based in Northern Ireland and primarily associated with Ulster Protestants. Due to the spread and outreach of Orangeism, there are lodges around th

  19. 95,974views

    Backrooms (film)

    Backrooms is a 2026 American psychological horror film directed and co-scored by Kane Parsons, and written by Will Soodik. It is based on Parsons's web series which was inspired by the "Backrooms" creepypasta. In the film, Clark, a furniture store owner, and h

  20. 91,760views

    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

  21. 86,920views

    Dorothy (film)

    Dorothy is a 2026 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Karthik Subbaraj and produced by Guneet Monga Kapoor, Achin Jain and Jyoti Deshpande. The film stars Keerthy Suresh, Sananth and Rishikanth. It follows two inseparable friends whose lives are trans

  22. 84,629views

    Heart of the Beast

    Heart of the Beast is a 2026 American survival thriller film directed by David Ayer and written by Cameron Alexander. The film stars Brad Pitt as a retired Special Forces veteran navigating a grueling 58-mile trek to safety with his traumatized combat German S

  23. 81,481views

    Unabomber (film)

    Unabomber is a 2026 American crime drama television film directed by Janus Metz Pedersen and written by Sam Chalsen and Nelson Greaves based on the domestic terrorist, Ted Kaczynski. The film stars Russell Crowe, Jacob Tremblay, Annabelle Wallis, and Shailene

  24. 81,291views

    Avengers: Endgame

    Avengers: Endgame is a 2019 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the direct sequel to Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and the 22nd

  25. 77,544views

    Drumcree conflict

    The Drumcree conflict or Drumcree standoff is a dispute over yearly parades in the town of Portadown in the north of County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The town is mainly Protestant and hosts numerous Protestant and Ulster loyalist marches each summer, but has a

  26. 76,641views

    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)

  27. 76,496views

    Chris Hansen

    Christopher Edward Hansen is an American television presenter, journalist, and YouTube personality. During his tenure as a correspondent for Dateline NBC, he hosted the program's segment To Catch a Predator (2004–2007), which revolved around catching potential

  28. 76,003views

    Passenger pigeon

    The passenger pigeon or wild pigeon is an extinct species of pigeon that was endemic to North America. Its common name is derived from the French word passager, meaning "passing by", due to the migratory habits of the species. The scientific name also refers t

  29. 73,037views

    .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

  30. 71,127views

    Forgotten Island

    Forgotten Island is a 2026 American animated fantasy comedy film written and directed by Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado. Produced by DreamWorks Animation, the film features the voices of H.E.R., Liza Soberano, Dave Franco, Jenny Slate, Manny Jacinto, Dolly d

Frontier 25

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

  1. 1,067points

    Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

    447 comments

  2. 802points

    Sonnet 5.5

    533 comments

  3. 597points

    Pirating the Pirates

    294 comments

  4. 573points

    Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

    402 comments

  5. 513points

    It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs

    209 comments

  6. 499points

    Coding is not solved

    491 comments

  7. 499points

    Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms

    192 comments

  8. 481points

    Windows 11½

    154 comments

  9. 431points

    AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity

    390 comments

  10. 409points

    Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat

    224 comments

  11. 365points

    The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent

    233 comments

  12. 349points

    MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta

    284 comments

  13. 315points

    Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

    181 comments

  14. 297points

    SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today

    349 comments

  15. 281points

    World Labs is Joining AMD

    111 comments

  16. 258points

    Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream

    86 comments

  17. 247points

    MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser

    86 comments

  18. 244points

    So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes

    97 comments

  19. 228points

    California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops

    562 comments

  20. 227points

    Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests

    285 comments

  21. 203points

    Prompting Claude Opus 5.5

    221 comments

  22. 190points

    Musk, the Movie

    155 comments

  23. 190points

    Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline

    88 comments

  24. 183points

    Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts

    95 comments

  25. 178points

    Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent

    225 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2609.35770

    FurE: Efficient Instance-Specific 3D Fur Reconstruction without Animal-Fur Datasets

    Realistic and editable animal fur reconstruction from multi-view images is challenging due to fine-scale detail, self-occlusion and obfuscation, and, unlike human hair, the lack of animal-fur datasets. Fur usually covers most of an animal's body, with large inter-species and intra-species variability. We present FurE, an efficient strand-based animal fur reconstruction method that recovers a per-strand, editable groo

    Srinjay Sarkar, Prakhar Kaushik, Soumava Paul, Alan Yuille

  2. arXiv2609.35769

    Telescopic Language Models

    One deployed language model must often serve many compute budgets, yet serving each budget still means a separate training or compression run per point. We train a Telescopic Language Model (TLM) to be that continuum: a nested-capacity Transformer supervised by stochastic prefix supervision with a full anchor. At every step, one randomly truncated prefix of the capacity axis is trained against the full next-token tar

    Zhilin Guo, Boqiao Zhang, Hakan Aktas, Kyle Fogarty et al.

  3. arXiv2609.35767

    Learning Native Reflection in Unified Models with Interleaved Reinforcement Learning

    Unified multimodal models can both look at and render images, so in principle they can repair their own generations: diagnose what an image gets wrong, revise it, observe the result, and diagnose again. Whether a revision helps is known only after it is rendered, so the reflection text and the image generation must be learned jointly, over the whole loop. Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on reflection trajectories gives

    Yijia Fan, Ziqi Huang, Zhongang Cai, Yan Li et al.

  4. arXiv2609.35760

    TokenCast: Forecasting Token Consumption During LLM Agent Execution

    When a large language model (LLM) agent executes the same task, token consumption can vary by over an order of magnitude across runs. The agent chooses its next steps based on tool feedback and intermediate results, while the growing context steadily inflates the input size of every subsequent call. The total consumption of a task is therefore hard to predict before execution and the prediction must be revised as the

    Chaoqian Ouyang, Ling Yue, Libin Zheng, Huanghui Guo et al.

  5. arXiv2609.35751

    How to Loop MoE: Flatten the Experts, Untie the Attention

    Looped Transformers reuse one block of layers several times: by spending extra computation they push a model of fixed size further, and so use its parameters more fully; while sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) models activate only a few of many experts for each token. Looped MoE bridges these two design philosophies and gives MoE models new potential for better expert usage, but it raises a question: how to loop a MoE?

    Shouren Wang, Chuang Ma, Mohsen Hariri, Debargha Ganguly et al.

  6. arXiv2609.35750

    KV-streams for Efficient Compaction in Agentic Reinforcement Learning

    Scaling the horizon of agentic LLMs is bottlenecked by the need to fit ever longer context traces in GPU memory. Context compaction has been the most popular mechanism to alleviate this issue, keeping GPU memory constant for a given trace. Unfortunately, most compaction strategies rely on prefilling the LLM context many times over, hindering training throughput. To alleviate this bottleneck and enable efficient train

    Emiliano Penaloza, Dane Malenfant, Dheeraj Vattikonda, Roger Creus Castanyer et al.

  7. arXiv2609.35745

    Copy the Same, Distill the Difference: Initializing Linear Vision Transformers

    Linear Vision Transformers (ViTs) are designed to replace the attention in Softmax ViTs with the linear-complexity attention operator for more efficient token routing, but they require from-scratch pre-training and typically underperform the original Softmax version. How to initialize linear ViTs both efficiently and effectively still remains unclear. In this work, we explicitly ask: given that most foundation ViTs a

    Huaiyuan Qin, Muli Yang, Gabriel James Goenawan, Shiqi Huang et al.

  8. arXiv2609.35744

    FinAutoRubric: Expert-Guided Automatic Rubric Generation for Evaluating Financial Research Agents

    Evaluating finance research agents requires rubrics that reflect expert standards and fix the values correct as of an information cutoff. Expert-reviewed finance benchmarks rely on fixed, per-item rubrics, which are costly to extend and cannot encode each institution's own standard. In FinAutoRubric, experts specify reusable evaluation guidance, while agents and code carry out query-specific rubric generation, review

    Hoyoung Lee, Suyeol Yun, Jack Haverty, Yunju Cho et al.

  9. arXiv2609.35741

    Shockingly Simple Self-retrospection Improves Agentic Models Without RL

    People learn not only by repeating successful actions, but also by recounting and explaining their experiences, revising their understanding to guide future behavior. Can a language-model agent improve its future actions by training only on explanations of its own experience? We investigate this question by studying Retrospection-Only Fine-Tuning (ROFT), a minimal online procedure designed to isolate the effect of ex

    Jonathan Light, Christopher Zhang Cui, Jeonghye Kim, Roger Creus Castanyer et al.

  10. arXiv2609.35732

    Failure-Transparent Agents: Benchmarking Post-Failure Reporting in Tool-Using Language Models

    Tool-using agents can fail twice: a required tool can fail, and the agent can then report success without the evidence needed to justify it. Existing benchmarks often entangle this reporting failure with tool selection, recovery, and environment dynamics. We introduce Failure-Transparent Agents (FTA), a controlled benchmark that fixes the failed observation and required evidence state before generation, making post-f

    Junru Zhu, Shiming Xie, Aime Lu Fan Chen, Xiaoqing Ding et al.

  11. arXiv2609.35715

    X-Reset: Scaling Object-Centric Reinforcement Learning via Cross-Embodiment Resets

    Reinforcement learning (RL) in simulation can train dexterous manipulation policies without robot demonstrations, but training a single generalist policy with task-agnostic rewards faces a severe exploration problem: approaching, grasping, and reorienting diverse objects with many degrees of freedom is difficult to discover from scratch. Prior works make exploration tractable with high-quality robot demonstrations, p

    Prithwish Dan, Chenyang Ma, Wei Zhan

  12. arXiv2609.35706

    Reinforcing Agentic Creativity in Scientific Ideation with Night Science

    Large language models (LLMs) excel at structured, verifiable tasks, but their low-entropy bias can produce homogeneous and predictable outputs, limiting their utility for open-ended scientific ideation. Effective discovery, however, spans a broader creative spectrum: from structured day science to loosely structured, serendipitous night science that reaches ideas beyond those typically considered. We introduce AI Nig

    Priyanka Kargupta, Silviu Cucerzan, Shweti Mahajan, Allen Herring et al.

  13. arXiv2609.35703

    A Unified Uncertainty Representation for Graph Neural Networks via Doubly-Spectral Stochastic Expansion

    Reliable deployment of graph neural networks requires calibration, out-of-distribution (OOD) detection, and robustness to distribution shift, yet existing methods address these needs with separate models and objectives. We model uncertain node embeddings as random graph signals: graph Fourier filters capture structural variation, and a scalar orthogonal-polynomial chaos coordinate captures latent stochastic variation

    Fred Xu, Thomas Markovich, Florence Regol, Yizhou Sun

  14. arXiv2609.35699

    Distillation Defenses Easily Break After Reinforcement Learning

    Distillation attacks copy the reasoning capabilities of closed-source large language models, allowing bad actors to replicate state-of-the-art performance at low cost. Attackers systematically collect a large volume of frontier model reasoning traces and then train (i.e., "distill") their own models on these traces. Existing defenses against distillation attacks are typically evaluated immediately after distillation,

    Shidan Javaheri, Alexander Panfilov, Oliver Britton, Yarin Gal et al.

  15. arXiv2609.35694

    Reasoning with Continuous Latent Diffusion

    Continuous diffusion generates complete reasoning solutions through iterative refinement in latent space. We introduce Latent Flow Reasoning Models (LFRMs), an ELF-based training and inference recipe. Our experiments show that accurate decoding alone does not ensure strong reasoning performance. We therefore learn compact representations from multiple layers of a strong autoregressive teacher. Their decomposition als

    Xiang Cheng

  16. arXiv2609.35692

    Report: Progressive Disclosure of Agent Skills

    Users of Workday's deployed LLM-based agents often request features which can be addressed by defining named procedures, also known as skills, in the LLM context, effectively augmenting agents' capabilities. However, as an agent's skills library grows in size, so does the agent's operational cost. Progressive disclosure (lazy-loading) of skills as needed may reduce operational costs, but its impact on overall latency

    Guilin Zhang, Kai Zhao, Priyanka Mudgal, Waleed Ammar et al.

  17. arXiv2609.35686

    Rethinking Circuit Evaluation: Do Circuits Explain Model Errors?

    Mechanistic interpretability (MI) aims to explain a model's behaviour through analyzing its internal computations; circuit-based explanations aim to isolate these computations with compact subnetworks validated by ablating the rest of the model. We show that circuits validated this way may fail to recover the underlying mechanism of the model's behaviour by closely reproducing its successful decisions while failing t

    Li Zhang, Chuqin Geng, Mark Zhang, Chen Yang et al.

  18. arXiv2609.35677

    Verifier Errors in RLVR: Reward Hacking, Limits of Feedback, and Selective Control

    In reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), imperfect verifiers can reward incorrect responses, creating opportunities for reward hacking. Using gradient flow with a fixed verifier, we characterize the conditions under which reward rises while correctness falls. We then show that the observations available during RLVR are, in general, insufficient to detect or identify accepted errors, or to guarantee t

    Christian Moya, Elliott Thornley, Guang Lin

  19. arXiv2609.35671

    PhoneCLI: From App Interfaces to Callable Commands for Mobile Agents

    Mobile GUI agents operate through a perception--action loop: at each step they screenshot the device, invoke a vision--language model (VLM), and emit an action. It is slow, costly, and brittle, yet most of what it does is navigation---and everyday navigation is static, ordered, and endlessly repeated. We present PhoneCLI, which compiles an app's GUI navigation into callable commands, without any app-internal API, run

    Yangqin Jiang, Lingrui Xu, Chao Huang

  20. arXiv2609.35664

    MS-GLA: Multi-Scale Gated Linear Attention for Addressing Representational Bottlenecks via Multi-Temporal Resolution

    Gated Linear Attention (GLA) Transformers advance linear recurrent models through data-dependent gating, but face a core limitation: the fixed-capacity memory matrices across all heads operate at a single temporal resolution, where each token is processed individually, forcing them to simultaneously encode local syntactic patterns and long-range semantic structure, creating a representational bottleneck that gating a

    Prasoon Dev, Anirudh Sankar, Vasudeva Varma

  21. arXiv2609.35657

    CMDO: A Cognitive Memory-Driven Optimization Algorithm for Adaptive Population-Based Search

    Population-based optimization methods often use previous search information through successful solutions, parameter adaptation, or operator performance, but they rarely retain the context in which a search behavior succeeded or failed. We introduce Cognitive Memory-Driven Optimization (CMDO), a derivative-free population-based optimizer that represents experience as the relationship between search context, search beh

    Mohammed Yusuf Mujawar, Shahram Rahimi, Noorbakhsh Amiri Golilarz

  22. arXiv2609.35643

    Not All Thinking is Created Equal: Latent Reasoning Discovers a Recurrent Search Algorithm for Depth Generalization

    Large Language Models can perform multi-step reasoning and improve task performance through different forms of intermediate computation, from token-based traces to computation carried out in latent space. However, a question remains open: do these different forms of thinking rely on the same underlying mechanism? To address this, we train and compare five variants of the same GPTNeoX backbone from scratch on an exten

    Huzi Cheng, Zhewei Zhang

  23. arXiv2609.35641

    Verifiable Visual Rewards Transfer from Synthetic Scenes to Natural Prompts

    Precise instruction following in image generation, such as satisfying object counts and spatial relations, remains an open challenge at least in part because it is learned using unreliable reward models such as object detectors and vision-language models. We introduce Verifiable Visual Rewards (VVR), the first framework for programmatically verifiable image rewards, and show that training on it generalizes to natural

    Shuyue Stella Li, Xiaochuang Han, Yulia Tsvetkov, Luke Zettlemoyer

  24. arXiv2609.35639

    GPUPhysBench: Benchmarking Coding Agents for Correct and Efficient GPU Physics Simulation

    Writing fast GPU code for physical simulation is difficult: implementations must preserve numerical accuracy while handling irregular data access, synchronization, and iterative solvers. We introduce GPUPhysBench, a benchmark of 50 tasks testing whether coding agents can meet these demands. Tasks cover fluids, deformable solids, and granular materials, from individual simulation operators to complete simulators. Agen

    Yuchen Sun, Jinjin He, Sinan Wang, Bo Zhu

  25. arXiv2609.35634

    DR-net-Mamba: Selective State-Space Modeling for Long-Range ECG Time-Series Denoising

    Electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings are corrupted by non-stationary noise sources that degrade diagnostic reliability, particularly in ambulatory and long-duration recordings. Deep learning denoisers exist, but convolutional architectures are limited by their receptive field, transformer-based models scale quadratically with sequence length, and diffusion-based approaches incur prohibitive inference cost. We propose a

    Basile Morel, Samuel Ruiperez-Campillo, Andreas P. Streich, Julia E. Vogt 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 11.4% (114)4.9% (49)74.55% (82)
llms.txt (apex domain) 9.2% (92)3.8% (38)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)0.2% (2)0.91% (1)

On this calendar day 18

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

  1. 2023year

    The Sycamore Gap tree (pictured) in Northumberland, England, was illegally felled.

  2. 2012year

    War in Somalia: Somali National Army forces and their AMISOM and Raskamboni allies launched an offensive against Al-Shabaab in the latter's last major stronghold of Kismayo.

  3. 2009year

    A protest held by 50,000 people in Conakry, Guinea, was forcefully disrupted by the military junta, resulting in at least 157 deaths and over 1,200 injuries.

  4. 2006year

    Typhoon Xangsane passed Manila on its way to causing more than 300 deaths, mostly in the Phillippines and Vietnam.

  5. 1978year

    Pope John Paul I died only 33 days after his papal election due to an apparent myocardial infarction, resulting in the first year of three popes since 1605.

  6. 1975year

    An attempted robbery of Spaghetti House, a restaurant in Knightsbridge, London, turned into a six-day hostage situation.

  7. 1972year

    Against the backdrop of the Cold War, the Canadian ice hockey team defeated the Soviet team in the Summit Series.

  8. 1963year

    Whaam!, now considered one of Roy Lichtenstein's most important works, debuted at an exhibition held at the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City.

  9. 1958year

    Fernando Rios, a Mexican tour guide in New Orleans, was killed in an instance of gay bashing.

  10. 1928year

    Scottish biologist and pharmacologist Alexander Fleming (pictured) discovered penicillin when he noticed a bacteria-killing mould growing in his laboratory.

  11. 1924year

    A team of U.S. Army Air Service aviators landed in Seattle, Washington, to complete the first aerial circumnavigation of the world.

  12. 1901year

    Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas killed more than forty American soldiers in a surprise attack on the town of Balangiga on the island of Samar.

  13. 1821year

    The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire from Spain was drafted in the National Palace in Mexico City.

  14. 1106year

    In the Battle of Tinchebray in Normandy, the invading King Henry I of England captured his brother Robert Curthose.

  15. 1066year

    William the Conqueror and his fleet of around 600 ships landed at Pevensey, Sussex, beginning the Norman conquest of England.

  16. 351year

    The Eastern Roman armies under Constantius II defeated those of the usurper Magnentius at the Battle of Mursa Major.

  17. 235year

    Pope Pontian resigned after being exiled to Sardinia, becoming the first pope to relinquish the position.

  18. -48year

    Pompey was killed by Lucius Septimius at Pelusium in Egypt.