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Record 29092026 · captured 2026-09-30

Tuesday, 29 September 2026

The world looked up Pac (wrestler). 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. 806,988views

    Pac (wrestler)

    Benjamin Satterley, better known by his ring name Pac, was an English professional wrestler. He was best known for his time in All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he was a member of the Death Riders and Death Triangle, and WWE, where he previously performed under

  2. 326,311views

    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.

  3. 287,676views

    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. Kaczynski mu

  4. 221,798views

    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

  5. 204,445views

    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

  6. 191,395views

    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

  7. 190,062views

    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

  8. 168,628views

    Justin Verlander

    Justin Brooks Verlander is an 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

  9. 165,246views

    2026 MTV Video Music Awards

    The 2026 MTV Video Music Awards were held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, California, on September 27, 2026. It was broadcast live on CBS, simulcast on MTV, and streamed on Paramount+'s premium tier. The show was hosted by rapper Snoop Dogg.

  10. 164,566views

    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

  11. 151,742views

    Madonna

    Madonna Louise Ciccone is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Dubbed the "Queen of Pop", she is known for her continual reinvention and versatility in music production, songwriting, and visual presentation. Her works, which concern so

  12. 145,719views

    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

  13. 142,341views

    Lanterns (TV series)

    Lanterns is an American superhero television series created by Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Tom King for HBO, based on the DC Comics Green Lantern characters Hal Jordan and John Stewart. It is the third television series in the DC Universe (DCU). It featur

  14. 123,346views

    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

  15. 113,113views

    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

  16. 111,489views

    Hunger stone

    A hunger stone is a type of hydrological landmark common in Central Europe. Hunger stones serve as famine memorials and warnings and were erected in Germany and in ethnic German settlements throughout Europe in the 15th through 19th centuries.

  17. 110,276views

    George Michael

    George Michael was an English singer-songwriter and record producer. Regarded as a pop culture icon, he is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. Michael has been widely recognised as a creative force in songwriting, vocal performance, and visu

  18. 108,027views

    Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali

    Hasmah binti Mohamad Ali, better known as Siti Hasmah, was a Malaysian physician and civil servant. As the wife of Mahathir Mohamad, the fourth and seventh prime minister of Malaysia, she served as the spouse of the prime minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003

  19. 106,438views

    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

  20. 104,397views

    J. J. McCarthy

    Jonathan James McCarthy is an American professional football quarterback for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines, earning Big Ten Quarterback of the Year honors after leading the Wol

  21. 93,633views

    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

  22. 92,167views

    Starship flight 14

    Starship flight 14 was the fourteenth launch and the first operational flight of the SpaceX Starship launch system. Building on the preceding flight-test campaign, the mission marked a significant expansion of Starship's objectives, successfully entering a sus

  23. 90,218views

    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 sectarianism and Ulster Protestants. Due to the spread and outreach of Orangeism, there are

  24. 89,338views

    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

  25. 88,024views

    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

  26. 79,154views

    Lisa (rapper)

    Lalisa Manobal, known mononymously as Lisa, is a Thai rapper, singer, dancer, and actress. She rose to prominence as a member of the South Korean girl group Blackpink, which debuted under YG Entertainment in August 2016 and became one of the best-selling girl

  27. 78,994views

    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

  28. 78,711views

    Nirvana (band)

    Nirvana was an American rock band formed in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987. Founded by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic, the band went through a succession of drummers, most notably Chad Channing, before recruiting Dave Grohl in

  29. 76,413views

    .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. 73,464views

    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'.

Frontier 25

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

  1. 952points

    GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

    837 comments

  2. 785points

    Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over

    697 comments

  3. 642points

    Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

    256 comments

  4. 630points

    Dots: Always-on agents

    488 comments

  5. 569points

    America.gov

    480 comments

  6. 544points

    DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers

    401 comments

  7. 527points

    How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

    294 comments

  8. 488points

    500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive

    295 comments

  9. 457points

    macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

    334 comments

  10. 417points

    A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]

    133 comments

  11. 379points

    US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

    379 comments

  12. 312points

    PS5 Relapse Exploit

    190 comments

  13. 289points

    Ask HN: What are you reading?

    573 comments

  14. 279points

    Tcl/Tk 9.1

    121 comments

  15. 261points

    1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds

    135 comments

  16. 258points

    Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites

    62 comments

  17. 235points

    Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

    91 comments

  18. 234points

    U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels

    137 comments

  19. 225points

    GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

    216 comments

  20. 208points

    Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries

    162 comments

  21. 205points

    ChatGPT Pro 500

    237 comments

  22. 204points

    AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom

    300 comments

  23. 202points

    Google ending ChromeOS support two years early

    135 comments

  24. 199points

    Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026

    59 comments

  25. 184points

    Tank Body Problem

    53 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv2609.38178

    Skill-Space Shooting for Autonomous Robot Policy Improvement

    Robots deployed in the physical world must be able to improve beyond their initial training as they encounter new situations and failures. For this improvement to scale across tasks, it must make effective use of experience without requiring human demonstration of each correction. Recent agentic systems offer a way to reduce this reliance on human effort by using foundation models to autonomously compose learned beha

    Zihang Rui, Renhao Wang, Haoxu Huang, Yang Gao

  2. arXiv2609.38169

    STEPQuant: When and Where Errors Matter in Delta-Rule Recurrent State Quantization

    Linear attention replaces growing KV caches with fixed-size recurrent states, yet these persistent states can become a substantial memory bottleneck under concurrent serving. Directly quantizing recurrent states to low precision often leads to severe accuracy degradation, as quantization errors propagate through successive state updates. We discover that the impact of these errors depends on two complementary dimensi

    Bingchen Yao, Haobo Xu, Haokun Lin, Yichen Wu et al.

  3. arXiv2609.38166

    LeapQuant: Efficient Linear Attention with Accurate Recurrent State Quantization

    Recent LLMs increasingly adopt hybrid designs that replace standard attention with linear attention, such as Gated DeltaNet (GDN) and Kimi Delta Attention (KDA). Although they compress the context into a fixed-size recurrent state and substantially reduce the cost of long-context processing, repeatedly reading and updating that state remains a major inference bottleneck. Quantization offers a natural way to reduce th

    Yi Pan, Haocheng Xi, Kan Zhu, Xingyang Li et al.

  4. arXiv2609.38155

    Beyond the Timeline: Augmenting Long-Video Memory with Grounded Entity Biographies

    Answering questions about long videos often requires connecting events involving the same objects across hours or days. Chronological descriptions and text-derived entities can leave physical identity unresolved: different objects may share a description, while observations of the same object remain disconnected across events. Retrieving relevant events therefore does not necessarily recover the "biography" of the pa

    Hui Ren, Lei Fan, Henry Pao, Han Guo et al.

  5. arXiv2609.38147

    Thinking Before Thinking: Scaling Agentic Inference Through Meta-Reasoning

    As agents take on longer and more complex problems, controlling the execution becomes a task in its own right. Each step in the run brings new control choices, like which partial work to build on, whether to start fresh, or when to stop. We introduce agentic meta-reasoning, an inference-time harness that makes these choices an explicit and structured reasoning process. Workers carry out the task-level computation, wh

    Paras Dahal, Anton Bakhtin, Taco Cohen, Zhengxing Chen et al.

  6. arXiv2609.38143

    Learning Meta-Skills for Agent Harness Design in Test-Time AI4AI

    Agent performance depends on both reasoning ability and the environment in which it acts. We study test-time AI-for-AI, asking how a Builder can learn to construct better execution environments for a Target while both models' weights remain fixed. To make the Builder's experience reusable, we introduce Meta-Skill: principles specifying when support is needed and what resources to provide. The Builder learns these pri

    Cheng Qian, Kunlun Zhu, Beibin Li, Zhenhailong Wang et al.

  7. arXiv2609.38142

    AdviSD: Learning to Advise Frontier LLMs via Targeted Multi-Turn Self-Distillation

    A small trainable advisor can steer a frozen language-model executor using natural-language advice. In addition to learning from task rewards, the advisor can use feedback from completed interactions to improve its advice. However, a plausible correction need not change execution, yet learning from such corrections can still affect the advisor's future decisions in other contexts. In a shared-parameter model, we prov

    Rishabh Agrawal, Hejie Cui, Shasha Li, Shanchan Wu et al.

  8. arXiv2609.38140

    Breaking the Uniformity Trap: Scaling Video Diffusion Model via SplitMoE

    Mixture-of-Experts (MoE), popularized by large language models, is a promising paradigm for scaling visual generative models. However, conventional token-wise MoE routes tokens independently within a homogeneous expert pool and regularizes expert usage toward uniformity, making it poorly matched to video data that is spatiotemporally redundant and semantically long-tailed. We show that existing visual MoEs fall into

    Yu Xu, Yuxin Zhang, Xiao Yang, Haotian Yang et al.

  9. arXiv2609.38120

    Stochastic World Models for Verifying Vision-Based Neural Feedback Systems

    Verifying a vision-based neural feedback system requires a model of the observations its controller acts upon. Such a model must capture the variation the sensor produces, while remaining tractable for closed-loop analysis. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have served as perception surrogates, but they are large, reproduce complex scenes poorly, and are hard to verify. We explore stochastic world models as a ri

    I. Samuel Akinwande, Mykel J. Kochenderfer, Clark Barrett

  10. arXiv2609.38109

    How Local Mixing Encodes Relative Position in Global NoPE Attention

    The attention operation is naively position invariant. However, positional information is fundamental to natural language, and therefore a variety of explicit position encodings have been developed in transformer-based models, such as rotary position encoding (RoPE). Although explicit position encodings have long been assumed to be required, recent methods that interleave local mixing layers, such as sliding window a

    Cutter Dawes, Nick Alonso, Tom Figliolia, Beren Millidge

  11. arXiv2609.38108

    Do LLM Agents Execute the Plans They Declare? From Planning-Mode Declaration to Pattern-Specific Execution

    Large language models (LLMs) enable agents to solve long-horizon tasks by generating a plan and then executing it in an environment. However, successful planning requires two distinct capabilities: selecting an appropriate plan for the task and executing it faithfully. Existing planner--executor systems can fail at either stage, while final task success alone cannot distinguish selection from execution failures. We t

    Subba Reddy Oota, Francisco Herrera, Jordi Cabot Sagrera, Marcos López de Prado et al.

  12. arXiv2609.38107

    Correct Answers, Invalid Traces: What Verifiable Grade-School Math Reveals About Chain-of-Thought Traces

    Chain-of-thought traces are widely read as records of how models reach their answers, informing debugging, agent auditing, and claims about reasoning. Testing this interpretation is difficult because natural-language thinking traces are rarely mechanically verifiable. We revisit it in iGSM, a synthetic grade-school mathematics benchmark designed to study thinking traces and used to support claims of learned reasoning

    Ratish Puduppully, Pranabendu Misra, Paarth Iyer, Durgesh Kalwar et al.

  13. arXiv2609.38098

    NeuronEye: Query-Guided Visual Concept Activation for Vision-Language Reasoning

    Current vision-language models (VLMs) encode visual information in dense hidden states where object identity, spatial layout, and local attributes are implicitly entangled rather than explicitly disentangled, limiting their ability to isolate and modulate the specific visual evidence required by a given language query. Inspired by sparse population coding and top-down modulation in biological vision, we introduce Neu

    Ruiyu Yan, Bowen Chen, Shaowen Wan, Lin Zhao

  14. arXiv2609.38093

    Character Training for Risk-Averse Agents

    Risk aversion in resources could prevent misaligned AI agents from causing catastrophic harm. Misaligned but risk-averse agents would tend to favor safer strategies like making deals with humans over riskier strategies like rebelling. We train agents to be risk averse through character training, finding that persona traits provide a robust mechanism for instilling risk preferences. To do this, we construct a model co

    Arav Dhoot, Punya Syon Pandey, Jamie Johnson, Daniel Tan et al.

  15. arXiv2609.38089

    Neural topology optimization of ship structures under propulsion machinery vibrations

    Ship structural vibrations contribute to noise, fatigue, and equipment damage, while dynamic-compliance topology optimization can produce pathological designs near resonance. This study extends neural-reparameterized topology optimization using a convolutional Kolmogorov-Arnold network (KATO) to forced-vibration design with active input power (AIP) as the objective. Applications include a 100 Hz engine-supporting dec

    Shengyu Yan, Muhammad Muztahidul Hakim Zareer, Jasmin Jelovica

  16. arXiv2609.38070

    Probability is Not Enough: Exploring and Counting Divergent Tokens for Reasoning Uncertainty Quantification in LLMs

    As the chain-of-thought reasoning capabilities of large language models improve, evaluating and calibrating their reasoning confidence is becoming increasingly important for quantifying the uncertainty of their answers. Current methods for estimating the confidence of large language models are generally based on probabilities of selected key tokens, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Our pilot study finds

    Feiyang Li, Shengjing Liu, Qi Zhan, Sijie Cheng et al.

  17. arXiv2609.38065

    Jaxolotl: A Unified High-Performance Benchmark Suite for LTL-Based Multi-Task RL

    Training agents to follow arbitrary instructions is an important goal of multi-task reinforcement learning (RL). Linear temporal logic (LTL) provides a precise and structured formalism for specifying instructions to agents, and has been successfully adopted for training generalist multi-task policies. However, differences in implementations, task distributions, and evaluation protocols make existing methods difficult

    Mathias Jackermeier, Jacques Cloete, Alessandro Abate

  18. arXiv2609.38043

    UserProxyBench: Evaluating LLM User Simulators for Agent Benchmarks and Training

    Interactive agent benchmarks and multi-turn reinforcement learning increasingly place a second language model in the role of the user. This simulated user controls what information the agent receives and when, yet current benchmarks score only the agent and do not directly measure whether the user correctly executed its assigned role. We introduce UserProxyBench, an evaluation layer over the tau-bench family, and the

    Ashish Jain, Armaan Sandhu

  19. arXiv2609.38036

    Gender bias across LLMs is common and highly heterogenous

    Understanding gender biases in large language models (LLMs) is increasingly important as these systems become embedded in decision-support tools with real consequences. Prior research has focused only on a small set of models, leaving open the extent to which gender biases are common and heterogeneous across LLMs. We address this gap across ten models released between April 2025 and June 2026, spanning nine vendors,

    Edoardo Bolzoni, Valerio Capraro

  20. arXiv2609.38028

    doPlan: A Variable-Horizon Dataset for Multi-Stage Language-Conditioned Planning in Autonomous Driving

    Autonomous vehicles interacting with passengers through natural language must reason beyond immediate commands. Passenger intent may span multiple stages of behavior, depend on future events, refer to surrounding agents or landmarks, and remain relevant as driving conditions evolve. Existing language-enabled driving datasets largely focus on short, localized interactions, leaving these longer-horizon forms of passeng

    Parthib Roy, Yash Tandon, Marcus Blennemann, Giovanni Tapia Lopez et al.

  21. arXiv2609.38025

    Dr. OPD: Learning What to Follow for Optimal On-Policy Distillation of Large Language Models

    On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own generated responses using dense, token-level supervision from a stronger teacher. Vanilla OPD treats all teacher signals equally, assuming that the teacher's supervision is equally important for every token. However, teacher signals at different tokens may have very different effects on the student's performance: some correct important reasoning errors, while o

    Zhenyu Wang, Tianze Wang, Linjun Zhang, Yifan Hu

  22. arXiv2609.38024

    Retrieval-Augmented Skill Optimization via Cross-Harness Adaptation

    An agent skill is a reusable, actionable natural-language artifact that guides an agent to perform a task effectively under a given harness. Recent studies have explored the optimization of agent skills, contributing to a growing collection of publicly available skills spanning diverse tasks, domains, and harnesses. Despite millions of publicly shared skills, existing skill optimization methods largely overlook this

    Jaewon Chu, Ji Soo Lee, Jihwan Park, Dohwan Ko et al.

  23. arXiv2609.38023

    PE-EK-PINN: Physics Embedding with Evolving Kernel for Scalable Physics-Informed Neural Networks

    Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) embed governing equations into deep learning, but enforce them only through loss residuals, leaving highly oscillatory wave behavior to be discovered by optimization. As a result, methods that achieve relative $L_2$ errors below $10^{-3}$ on standard manufactured Helmholtz benchmarks can fail on practical radiation problems involving singular excitations, absorbing boundaries,

    Huiwen Zhang, Feng Ye, Chu Ma

  24. arXiv2609.38021

    Auditable Long-Term Memory: A Deterministic Retrieval Chain Measured at 479/475 of 500 on LongMemEval-S

    We evaluate an auditable long-term memory system on LongMemEval-S. Its retrieval chain uses hybrid candidate retrieval, cross-encoder reranking, coverage-first packet compilation, and deterministic reasoning scaffolds; an LLM is used only as a replaceable final reader. The chain places all gold sessions in the candidate pool for 468/470 answerable questions and produces gold-complete packets for 462/470. With a Claud

    Christopher J. Chanhnourack

  25. arXiv2609.38016

    Brain-SAD: A Brain-Inspired Safe Autonomous Driving Control Framework with Dynamic Fear-Oriented Constraint on Dual-Policy

    Constrained Reinforcement Learning has recently gained increasing attention in the field of Safe Autonomous Driving, where the general mechanism is to maximize the expected reward while keeping the overall action risk bounded. In this way, the safety issues arising in AD can be mitigated through constrained actions. However, existing Constrained RL methods still lack dynamics on the imposed constraints. For instance,

    Huan Rong, Chao Yin, Anouar Imel, Yijie Xia 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 12.1% (121)5.2% (52)74.55% (82)
llms.txt (apex domain) 9.9% (99)4.4% (44)60% (66)
llms.txt (docs subdomain) 4.1% (41)1% (10)46.36% (51)
.well-known/mcp.json 0.6% (6)0.3% (3)8.18% (9)
.well-known/agents.txt 0.3% (3)0.2% (2)0% (0)
ai.txt 0.2% (2)0.1% (1)0% (0)
ai-plugin.json (deprecated) 0.6% (6)0.1% (1)0.91% (1)

On this calendar day 18

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

  1. 2006year

    Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collided in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Brazil, killing 154 people and triggering a national aviation crisis.

  2. 2005year

    John Roberts became the 17th Chief Justice of the United States; he would be the first Chief Justice to serve for twenty years since Melville Fuller in 1908.

  3. 2004year

    Archaeologists and volunteers began excavation of the remains of Fort Tanjong Katong in Singapore.

  4. 1991year

    The award-winning Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast premiered while unfinished at the New York Film Festival.

  5. 1990year

    The Lockheed YF-22, the prototype for the F-22 Raptor, made its first flight.

  6. 1964year

    Mafalda, a popular comic strip by Quino, was first published in newspapers in Argentina.

  7. 1963year

    The University of East Anglia (coat of arms featured) was founded in Norwich, England, after talk of establishing a university in the city began as early as the 19th century.

  8. 1957year

    An explosion at the Soviet nuclear reprocessing plant Mayak released 74 to 1,850 PBq of radioactive material.

  9. 1955year

    The first Indonesian legislative election resulted in an unexpectedly poor result for the Masyumi Party of incumbent prime minister Burhanuddin Harahap (pictured).

  10. 1954year

    Willie Mays (pictured) of the New York Giants made The Catch, one of the most famous defensive plays in the history of Major League Baseball.

  11. 1941year

    The Holocaust: Nazi forces, aided by Ukrainian collaborators, began a massacre of Jews in a ravine in Kyiv, killing more than 30,000 civilians in two days and thousands more in the following months.

  12. 1940year

    During a Royal Australian Air Force training exercise over Brocklesby, two planes collided and interlocked in mid-air (pictured); the pilot of the upper plane was able to land safely using the lower plane's engines.

  13. 1923year

    The Mandate for Palestine came into effect, officially creating the protectorates of Mandatory Palestine under British administration and Transjordan as a separate emirate under King Abdullah I.

  14. 1918year

    World War I: The Battle of St Quentin Canal took place, which led to the British Fourth Army making the first breach of the German defensive Hindenburg Line.

  15. 1833year

    The Spanish American wars of independence ended with the death of King Ferdinand VII, with what had once been the Spanish Empire disintegrating into independent Latin American states.

  16. 1760year

    The Williamsburg Bray School, the oldest-surviving school building in the U.S. dedicated to educating Black children, opened at Benjamin Franklin's suggestion.

  17. 1726year

    Johann Sebastian Bach led the first performance of Es erhub sich ein Streit, a cantata for Michaelmas.

  18. 1724year

    J. S. Bach led the first performance of Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130, based on Paul Eber's hymn in twelve stanzas, for the feast of archangel Michael.