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Record 30042026 · captured 2026-08-25

Thursday, 30 April 2026

The world looked up Nahui Ollin. 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. 620,773views

    Nahui Ollin

    Nahui Ollin is a 16th-century concept in Aztec/Mexica cosmology with a variety of meanings. Nahui translates to "four," and Ollin translates to "movement" or "motion." Ollin was primarily portrayed in Aztec codices as two interlaced lines, each portrayed with

  2. 283,555views

    2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

    Legislative Assembly elections were held in West Bengal to elect all 294 members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly in two phases on 23 and 29 April 2026, with the votes counted and results for 293 seats released on 4 May 2026. The election saw the defeat

  3. 265,032views

    Michael Jackson

    Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures of the 20th century. His musical achievements broke American racial barrier

  4. 210,652views

    Michael (2026 film)

    Michael is a 2026 biographical film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by John Logan. It follows the early life of the American singer Michael Jackson, from his time with the Jackson 5 in the 1960s to the Bad World Tour in the late 1980s. Jackson is portray

  5. 155,035views

    Jaafar Jackson

    Jaafar Jeremiah Jackson is an American actor and singer. A member of the Jackson family, he released his debut single "Got Me Singing" in 2019 but gained popularity for portraying his uncle Michael Jackson in the record-breaking biographical film Michael (2026

  6. 146,139views

    The Boys season 5

    The fifth and final season of the American satirical superhero television series The Boys, the first series in the franchise based on the comic book series of the same name created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, was developed for television by Eric Kripk

  7. 131,414views

    HMS Trump

    HMS Trump was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. She was built by Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow, and launched on 25 March 1944, the only ship of the Royal Navy (RN) to bear the name Trump. She spent the majority of her life attached to the 4th

  8. 130,145views

    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. 125,975views

    2026 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election

    Elections to appoint the 234 members of the 17th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, the highest body of the Government of Tamil Nadu, were held on 23 April 2026. The results were declared on 4 May 2026 by the Election Commission of India. It recorded the highest

  10. 113,714views

    Blog

    A blog is a website whose basic unit is a "post" or "entry", with posts typically presented in reverse chronological order. Blogging may be carried out by individuals, commercial enterprises, or organizations, and blog content varies widely.

  11. 106,471views

    Apex (2026 film)

    Apex is a 2026 survival thriller film directed by Baltasar Kormákur, written by Jeremy Robbins, and starring Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton. It tells the story of a rock climber and kayaker who finds herself being hunted in the wilds of Australia.

  12. 100,006views

    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").

  13. 97,510views

    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. 96,696views

    Charles III

    Charles III is King of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms.

  15. 94,497views

    Michael Olise

    Michael Akpovie Olise is a professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the France national team. Widely regarded as one of the best players in the world, he is known for his creative playmaking, t

  16. 91,036views

    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

  17. 89,887views

    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

  18. 88,774views

    Jermaine Jackson

    Jermaine LaJuane Jacksun is an American musician. A member of the Jackson family, he was second vocalist after his brother Michael of the Jackson 5 from 1964 to 1975, and played bass guitar. In 1983, he rejoined the group, which had been renamed the Jacksons;

  19. 83,870views

    OPEC

    The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is an intergovernmental cartel enabling the co-operation of leading oil-producing and oil-dependent countries in order to collectively influence the global oil market and maximize profit. It was founded on

  20. 83,398views

    2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

    Legislative Assembly elections were held in West Bengal, to elect all 294 members of West Bengal Legislative Assembly. This electoral process of 292 seats unfolded between 27 March to 29 April 2021, taking place in eight phases. Voting for the two remaining co

  21. 82,217views

    Euphoria (American TV series)

    Euphoria is an American psychological drama television series created and written by Sam Levinson for HBO. Based on the Israeli miniseries of the same name created by Ron Leshem, the series stars Zendaya as drug-addicted teenager Rue Bennett, who also serves a

  22. 80,331views

    The Devil Wears Prada 2

    The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a 2026 American comedy drama film directed by David Frankel and written by Aline Brosh McKenna. A sequel to the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada, it sees Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci reprising their role

  23. 80,239views

    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.

  24. 77,694views

    The Boys (TV series)

    The Boys is an American satirical superhero streaming television series developed by Eric Kripke for Amazon Prime Video. Based on the comic book series of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, it follows the eponymous team of vigilantes as they co

  25. 74,507views

    Southern New England Telephone Company Administration Building

    The Eli, formerly the Southern New England Telephone Company Administration Building, is a skyscraper at 227 Church Street in downtown New Haven, Connecticut. Completed in 1938, it is the city's finest example of Art Deco architecture, and was headquarters to

  26. 65,996views

    Daredevil: Born Again season 2

    The second season of the American television series Daredevil: Born Again is based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Daredevil. It sees blind vigilante Matt Murdock / Daredevil gathering allies to resist Wilson Fisk, who is the mayor of New York City, a

  27. 65,446views

    Katherine Jackson

    Katherine Esther Jackson is the matriarch of the Jackson family of entertainers that includes her children Michael and Janet Jackson. Michael dedicated his sixth studio album Thriller (1982) to her. Janet did the same with her fourth studio album Rhythm Nation

  28. 65,345views

    2026 Thomas & Uber Cup

    The 2026 Thomas & Uber Cup was the 34th edition of the Thomas Cup and the 31st edition of the Uber Cup, hosted by Badminton Denmark and organised by Badminton World Federation (BWF). The tournaments will be held at Horsens, Denmark, from 24 April to 3 May 2026

  29. 64,864views

    Hulk Hogan

    Terry Gene Bollea, better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, was an American professional wrestler and media personality. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most recognized wrestlers of all time, Hogan won multiple championships worldwide, most notably

  30. 64,560views

    86 (term)

    Eighty-six or 86 is American English slang term originating in the hospitality industry, especially food or drinks establishments, meaning that an item is no longer available, or that a person is not welcome on the premises. Its etymology is unknown, but it se

Frontier 25

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

  1. 1,349points

    Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

    720 comments

  2. 1,072points

    Where the goblins came from

    660 comments

  3. 871points

    Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants

    1,061 comments

  4. 760points

    Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?

    350 comments

  5. 710points

    How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]

    254 comments

  6. 683points

    The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy

    462 comments

  7. 663points

    Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API

    231 comments

  8. 601points

    For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions

    548 comments

  9. 541points

    How an oil refinery works

    192 comments

  10. 526points

    Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

    433 comments

  11. 520points

    Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga

    227 comments

  12. 465points

    Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library

    177 comments

  13. 435points

    LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions

    219 comments

  14. 413points

    Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?

    298 comments

  15. 351points

    I built a Game Boy emulator in F#

    77 comments

  16. 342points

    Craig Venter has died

    85 comments

  17. 328points

    Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE

    209 comments

  18. 312points

    U.S. Senators Vote to Ban Themselves from Trading on Prediction Markets

    107 comments

  19. 307points

    GCC 16 has been released

    52 comments

  20. 302points

    I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

    105 comments

  21. 245points

    Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade

    40 comments

  22. 227points

    Honker – Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and cron scheduler in a SQLite file

    59 comments

  23. 216points

    Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell

    33 comments

  24. 209points

    Mike: open-source legal AI

    113 comments

  25. 207points

    Full-Text Search with DuckDB

    33 comments

Research 25

Papers submitted to arXiv cs.AI that day.

  1. arXiv1907.11752

    Choosing with unknown causal information: Action-outcome probabilities for decision making can be grounded in causal models

    Decision-making under uncertainty and causal thinking are fundamental aspects of intelligent reasoning. Decision-making has been well studied when the available information is considered at the associative (probabilistic) level. The classical Theorems of von Neumann-Morgenstern and Savage provide a formal criterion for rational choice using associative information: maximize expected utility. There is an ongoing debat

    Soto, Mauricio Gonzalez, Danks, David, Balderas, Hugo J. Escalante, Sucar, L. Enrique

  2. arXiv2010.06164

    Causal Structure Learning: a Bayesian approach based on random graphs

    A Random Graph is a random object which take its values in the space of graphs. We take advantage of the expressibility of graphs in order to model the uncertainty about the existence of causal relationships within a given set of variables. We adopt a Bayesian point of view in order to capture a causal structure via interaction and learning with a causal environment. We test our method over two different scenarios, a

    Gonzalez-Soto, Mauricio, Feliciano-Avelino, Ivan R., Sucar, L. Enrique, Balderas, Hugo J. Escalante

  3. arXiv2207.06229

    Distribution-Free Stochastic Analysis and Robust Multilevel Vector Field Anomaly Detection

    Massive vector field datasets are common in multi-spectral optical and radar sensors, among many other emerging areas of application. We develop a novel stochastic functional (data) analysis approach for detecting anomalies based on the covariance structure of nominal stochastic behavior across a domain. An optimal vector field Karhunen-Loeve expansion is applied to such random field data. A series of multilevel orth

    Castrillon-Candas, Julio E, Rosenbaum, Michael, Kon, Mark

  4. arXiv2304.13927

    NIMS-OS: An automation software to implement a closed loop between artificial intelligence and robotic experiments in materials science

    NIMS-OS (NIMS Orchestration System) is a Python library created to realize a closed loop of robotic experiments and artificial intelligence (AI) without human intervention for automated materials exploration. It uses various combinations of modules to operate autonomously. Each module acts as an AI for materials exploration or a controller for a robotic experiments. As AI techniques, Bayesian optimization (PHYSBO), b

    Tamura, Ryo, Tsuda, Koji, Matsuda, Shoichi

  5. arXiv2309.09346

    Speech-Gesture GAN: Gesture Generation for Robots and Embodied Agents

    Embodied agents, in the form of virtual agents or social robots, are rapidly becoming more widespread. In human-human interactions, humans use nonverbal behaviours to convey their attitudes, feelings, and intentions. Therefore, this capability is also required for embodied agents in order to enhance the quality and effectiveness of their interactions with humans. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that can g

    Liu, Carson Yu, Mohammadi, Gelareh, Song, Yang, Johal, Wafa

  6. arXiv2309.13722

    Deep neural networks with ReLU, leaky ReLU, and softplus activation provably overcome the curse of dimensionality for Kolmogorov partial differential equations with Lipschitz nonlinearities in the $L^p$-sense

    Recently, several deep learning (DL) methods for approximating high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) have been proposed. The interest that these methods have generated in the literature is in large part due to simulations which appear to demonstrate that such DL methods have the capacity to overcome the curse of dimensionality (COD) for PDEs in the sense that the number of computational operations th

    Ackermann, Julia, Jentzen, Arnulf, Kruse, Thomas, Kuckuck, Benno et al.

  7. arXiv2401.00761

    Identifying the Achilles' Heel: An Iterative Method for Dynamically Uncovering Factual Errors in Large Language Models

    Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are foundational in various applications due to their extensive knowledge from pre-training and fine-tuning. Despite this, they are prone to generating factual and commonsense errors, raising concerns in critical areas like healthcare, journalism, and education to mislead users. Current methods for evaluating LLMs' veracity are limited by the need for extensive human labo

    Wang, Wenxuan, Chan, Yuk-Kit, Ling, Zixuan, Shi, Juluan et al.

  8. arXiv2401.02458

    Data-Centric Foundation Models in Computational Healthcare: A Survey

    The advent of foundation models (FMs) as an emerging suite of AI techniques has struck a wave of opportunities in computational healthcare. The interactive nature of these models, guided by pre-training data and human instructions, has ignited a data-centric AI paradigm that emphasizes better data characterization, quality, and scale. In healthcare AI, obtaining and processing high-quality clinical data records has b

    Zhang, Yunkun, Gao, Jin, Tan, Zheling, Zhou, Lingfeng et al.

  9. arXiv2404.17104

    Don't Look at the Camera: Achieving Perceived Eye Contact

    We consider the question of how to best achieve the perception of eye contact when a person is captured by camera and then rendered on a 2D display. For single subjects photographed by a camera, conventional wisdom tells us that looking directly into the camera achieves eye contact. Through empirical user studies, we show that it is instead preferable to {\em look just below the camera lens}. We quantitatively assess

    Gao, Alice, Jayakumar, Samyukta, Maniglia, Marcello, Curless, Brian et al.

  10. arXiv2405.13729

    ComboStoc: Combinatorial Stochasticity for Diffusion Generative Models

    In this paper, we study an under-explored but important factor of diffusion generative models, i.e., the combinatorial complexity. Data samples are generally high-dimensional, and for various structured generation tasks, additional attributes are combined to associate with data samples. We show that the space spanned by the combination of dimensions and attributes can be insufficiently covered by existing training sc

    Xu, Rui, Wang, Jiepeng, Pan, Hao, Liu, Yang et al.

  11. arXiv2407.01846

    Investigating the Segment Anything Foundation Model for Mapping Smallholder Agriculture Field Boundaries Without Training Labels

    Accurate mapping of agricultural field boundaries is crucial for enhancing outcomes like precision agriculture, crop monitoring, and yield estimation. However, extracting these boundaries from satellite images is challenging, especially for smallholder farms and data-scarce environments. This study explores the Segment Anything Model (SAM) to delineate agricultural field boundaries in Bihar, India, using 2-meter reso

    Tripathy, Pratyush, Baylis, Kathy, Wu, Kyle, Watson, Jyles et al.

  12. arXiv2409.00557

    Learning to Ask: When LLM Agents Meet Unclear Instruction

    Equipped with the capability to call functions, modern large language models (LLMs) can leverage external tools for addressing a range of tasks unattainable through language skills alone. However, the effective execution of these tools relies heavily not just on the advanced capabilities of LLMs but also on precise user instructions, which often cannot be ensured in the real world. To evaluate the performance of LLMs

    Wang, Wenxuan, Shi, Juluan, Ling, Zixuan, Chan, Yuk-Kit et al.

  13. arXiv2409.01115

    Time series classification with random convolution kernels: pooling operators and input representations matter

    This article presents a new approach based on MiniRocket, called SelF-Rocket, for fast time series classification (TSC). Unlike existing approaches based on random convolution kernels, it dynamically selects the best couple of input representations and pooling operator during the training process. SelF-Rocket achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on the University of California Riverside (UCR) TSC benchmark datasets.

    Lo, Mouhamadou Mansour, Morvan, Gildas, Rossi, Mathieu, Morganti, Fabrice et al.

  14. arXiv2409.06624

    A Practice of Post-Training on Llama-3 70B with Optimal Selection of Additional Language Mixture Ratio

    Large Language Models (LLM) often need to be Continual Pre-Trained (CPT) to obtain unfamiliar language skills or adapt to new domains. The huge training cost of CPT often asks for cautious choice of key hyper-parameters such as the mixture ratio of extra language or domain corpus. However, there is no systematic study that bridges the gap between the optimal mixture ratio and the actual model performance, and the gap

    Xi, Ningyuan, Wu, Yetao, Fan, Kun, Chen, Teng et al.

  15. arXiv2409.12059

    MeTHanol: Modularized Thinking Language Models with Intermediate Layer Thinking, Decoding and Bootstrapping Reasoning

    Current research efforts are focused on enhancing the thinking and reasoning capability of large language model (LLM) by prompting, data-driven emergence and inference-time computation. In this study, we consider stimulating language model's thinking and cognitive abilities from a modular perspective, which mimics the human brain architecture. We select a specific intermediate attention layer with newly implement

    Xi, Ningyuan, Wang, Xiaoyu, Wu, Yetao, Chen, Teng et al.

  16. arXiv2411.06498

    Barriers to Complexity-Theoretic Proofs that "AGI" Using Machine Learning is Impossible

    A recent paper (van Rooij et al. 2024) claims to have proved that achieving human-like intelligence using learning from data is intractable in a complexity-theoretic sense. We point out that the proof relies on an unjustified assumption about the distribution of (input, output) tuples in the data. We briefly discuss that assumption in the context of two fundamental barriers to repairing the proof: the need to precise

    Guerzhoy, Michael

  17. arXiv2411.13365

    Explainable Representation of Finite-Memory Policies for POMDPs using Decision Trees

    Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) are a fundamental framework for decision-making under uncertainty and partial observability. Since in general optimal policies may require infinite memory, they are hard to implement and often render most problems undecidable. Consequently, finite-memory policies are mostly considered instead. However, the algorithms for computing them are typically very complex

    Azeem, Muqsit, Chakraborty, Debraj, Kanav, Sudeep, Kretinsky, Jan

  18. arXiv2411.16121

    DP-CDA: An Algorithm for Enhanced Privacy Preservation in Dataset Synthesis Through Randomized Mixing

    In recent years, the growth of data across various sectors, including healthcare, security, finance, and education, has created significant opportunities for analysis and informed decision-making. However, these datasets often contain sensitive and personal information, which raises serious privacy concerns. It has been shown in multiple works that a person's identity is intertwined with their data, even if the d

    Saha, Utsab, Tonoy, Tanvir Muntakim, Imtiaz, Hafiz

  19. arXiv2411.17838

    Rock the KASBA: Blazingly Fast and Accurate Time Series Clustering

    Time series data has become increasingly prevalent across numerous domains, driving a growing demand for time series machine learning techniques. Among these, time series clustering (TSCL) stands out as one of the most popular machine learning tasks. TSCL serves as a powerful exploratory analysis tool and is also employed as a preprocessing step or subroutine for various tasks, including anomaly detection, segmentati

    Holder, Christopher, Bagnall, Anthony

  20. arXiv2412.10679

    U-FaceBP: Uncertainty-aware Bayesian Ensemble Deep Learning for Face Video-based Blood Pressure Estimation

    Blood pressure (BP) measurement is crucial for daily health assessment. Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), which extracts pulse waves from face videos captured by a camera, has the potential to enable convenient BP measurement without specialized medical devices. However, there are various uncertainties in BP estimation using rPPG, leading to limited estimation performance and reliability. In this paper, we propose

    Akamatsu, Yusuke, Ebihara, Akinori F., Umematsu, Terumi

  21. arXiv2412.11399

    Quantifying Climate Change Impacts on Renewable Energy Generation: A Super-Resolution Recurrent Diffusion Model

    Driven by global climate change and the ongoing energy transition, the coupling between power supply capabilities and meteorological factors has become increasingly significant. Over the long term, accurately quantifying the power generation of renewable energy under the influence of climate change is essential for the development of sustainable power systems. However, due to interdisciplinary differences in data req

    Dong, Xiaochong, Dan, Jun, Sun, Yingyun, Liu, Yang et al.

  22. arXiv2412.13682

    ChinaTravel: An Open-Ended Travel Planning Benchmark with Compositional Constraint Validation for Language Agents

    Travel planning stands out among real-world applications of \emph{Language Agents} because it couples significant practical demand with a rigorous constraint-satisfaction challenge. However, existing benchmarks primarily operate on a slot-filling paradigm, restricting agents to synthetic queries with pre-defined constraint menus, which fails to capture the open-ended nature of natural language interaction, where user

    Shao, Jie-Jing, Zhang, Bo-Wen, Yang, Xiao-Wen, Chen, Baizhi et al.

  23. arXiv2412.14736

    Advances in Artificial Intelligence forDiabetes Prediction: Insights from a Systematic Literature Review

    This systematic review explores the use of machine learning (ML) in predicting diabetes, focusing on datasets, algorithms, training methods, and evaluation metrics. It examines datasets like the Singapore National Diabetic Retinopathy Screening program, REPLACE-BG, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, and Pima Indians Diabetes Database. The review assesses the performance of ML algorithms like CNN, SVM,

    Khokhar, Pir Bakhsh, Gravino, Carmine, Palomba, Fabio

  24. arXiv2502.11614

    Is Human-Like Text Liked by Humans? Multilingual Human Detection and Preference Against AI

    Prior studies have shown that distinguishing text generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) from human-written one is highly challenging for humans, and often no better than random guessing. To verify the generalizability of this finding across languages and domains, we perform an extensive case study to identify the upper bound of human detection accuracy. Across 16 datasets covering 9 languages and 9 domains, 19 an

    Wang, Yuxia, Xing, Rui, Mansurov, Jonibek, Puccetti, Giovanni et al.

  25. arXiv2502.14912

    Semantic Embeddings of Chemical Elements for Enhanced Materials Inference and Discovery

    We present a framework for generating universal semantic embeddings of chemical elements to advance materials inference and discovery. This framework leverages ElementBERT, a domain-specific BERT-based natural language processing model trained on 1.29 million abstracts of alloy-related scientific papers, to capture latent knowledge and contextual relationships specific to alloys. These semantic embeddings serve as ro

    Jia, Yunze, Xian, Yuehui, Xu, Yangyang, Dang, Pengfei et al.

On this calendar day 18

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

  1. 2021year

    A crowd crush killed 45 people during the annual pilgrimage to the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Israel.

  2. 2014year

    A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China, killed three people and injured 79 others.

  3. 2009year

    A Dutch man drove his car at high speed into a parade in an attempt to kill the Dutch royal family.

  4. 2004year

    The New Yorker published an online article and photographs detailing accounts of torture and abuse by American military personnel of Iraqi prisoners held at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.

  5. 2000year

    Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun whose apparitions of Jesus inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, was canonized by Pope John Paul II.

  6. 1994year

    Riverdance was performed for the first time, as the interval act for the Eurovision Song Contest.

  7. 1982year

    Sixteen monks and a nun of the Hindu organisation Ananda Marga were beaten to death and set on fire in Calcutta, India.

  8. 1975year

    American forces completed a helicopter evacuation of U.S. citizens, South Vietnamese civilians and others from Saigon, just before North Vietnamese troops captured the city and ended the Vietnam War.

  9. 1963year

    A refusal by the Bristol Omnibus Company and the Transport and General Workers' Union to permit the employment of black bus crews led to a bus boycott in Bristol, England.

  10. 1945year

    World War II: As Allied forces closed in on Berlin, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler committed suicide in the Führerbunker with Eva Braun one day after their marriage.

  11. 1943year

    Second World War: The Royal Navy submarine HMS Seraph began Operation Mincemeat to deceive Germany about the upcoming invasion of Sicily.

  12. 1927year

    The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opened near Alderson, West Virginia, as the first federal prison for women in the United States.

  13. 1927year

    Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford became the first two celebrities to make imprints of their hands and feet in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.

  14. 1897year

    British physicist J. J. Thomson and his team announce the discovery of the electron.

  15. 1894year

    A crowd of workers, unemployed due to the Panic of 1893, concluded the first significant popular protest march on Washington D.C.

  16. 1883year

    New York governor Grover Cleveland signed legislation that led to the creation of Niagara Falls State Park, the United States' first state park.

  17. 1803year

    The United States purchased France's claim to the Louisiana Territory for 80 million francs, or less than US$.03 per acre ($.07/ha).

  18. 1789year

    George Washington (pictured) took the oath of office as the first president of the United States at Federal Hall in New York City.