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.).

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1854:

Crimean War: The ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade was decisively repelled by Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade

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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Unsan

2001:

Windows XP, one of the most popular and widely used versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, was released for retail sale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP

2022:

At 49 days, Liz Truss concluded the shortest tenure as prime minister of the United Kingdom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

embarrassingly parallel: (programming) In parallel computing, of a particular problem: very easy to separate into a number of parallel tasks. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/embarrassingly_parallel

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

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