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Today's featured article Japanese battleship Yamashiro The Fusō-class battleships were a pair of dreadnoughts built for the Imperial Japanese Navy before and during World War I: Fusō was launched in 1914, and Yamashiro (pictured) in 1915. During the 1930s, both ships underwent a series of modernizations and reconstructions. This increased their armor, replaced and upgraded their machinery, and rebuilt their superstructures into a distinctive pagoda-mast style. Despite the expensive reconstructions, both vessels were considered obsolescent by the eve of World War II, and neither saw significant action in the early years of the war. In 1944 both underwent upgrades to their anti-aircraft suite before transferring to Singapore. Fusō and Yamashiro were the only two Japanese battleships at the Battle of Surigao Strait, the southernmost action of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and both were lost in the early hours of 25 October 1944 to torpedoes and naval gunfire. Only ten crewmembers from each ship survived. (This article is part of a featured topic: Battleships of Japan.) Recently featured: Umbriel Wells Cathedral The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes Selected anniversaries October 25 Charge of the Light Brigade 1616 – Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog left a plate on an island in Shark Bay, the oldest-known artefact of European exploration in Australia still in existence. 1854 – Crimean War: The ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade (pictured) was decisively repelled by Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava. 1950 – The People's Volunteer Army ambushed the South Korean II Corps at the Battle of Onjong, and elsewhere engaged the 1st Infantry Division at the Battle of Unsan, marking China's entry into the Korean War. 2001 – Windows XP, one of the most popular and widely used versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, was released for retail sale. 2022 – At 49 days, Liz Truss concluded the shortest tenure as prime minister of the United Kingdom. Catherine of Bosnia (d. 1478) Évariste Galois (b. 1811) Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (b. 1900) Katy Perry (b. 1984) More anniversaries: October 24 October 25 October 26	In the news Yahya Sinwar Moldova votes to amend its constitution to include the aim of becoming a European Union member state. Yahya Sinwar (pictured), the leader of Hamas, is killed in a firefight with Israeli forces in Gaza. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson for their comparative studies of prosperity between nations. The Europa Clipper spacecraft is launched to investigate Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Israel–Hezbollah conflict Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Lord Hanningfield Fernando Valenzuela Rick Nolan Matia Chowdhury Ginés González García Garbis Aprikian Did you know... Anna Haifisch ... that cartoonist Anna Haifisch (pictured) has been "bend[ing] the rules of comics"? ... that MyRadar uses a custom satellite constellation to help forecast the weather? ... that the early woman explorer Adèle de Dombasle travelled to Polynesia in 1847 and worked as an illustrator, drawing people such as Queen Pōmare IV? ... that song lyrics were allowed as evidence in the YSL Records racketeering trial? ... that imprisoned Afghan politician Abdur Rahman Mahmudi wrote poems using onion juice as ink in his prison cell? ... that part of the site of Granville Colliery is now used as a dry ski slope? ... that the parents of Mathias Nkwenti, the second Cameroonian ever to play in the NFL, initially opposed his football career? ... that a small golden bell found at the site of the Mount Gerizim Temple is believed to have been part of the ephod of a high priest, as described in Exodus 28? ... that because the lord chancellor of England did not freeze assets before trial in 1789, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1999 that U.S. courts cannot either?
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