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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 On this day... 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

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