Knowledge (XXG)

This TFA STATS page is an attempt to recognise Knowledge (XXG)'s most viewed today's featured articles. Articles are listed below based on page views surpassing 100,000 hits on the day of the article's appearance on the Main Page. Although Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was Knowledge (XXG)'s first Featured Article to be featured on the Main Page, page view statistics were not tracked until December 2007. As a result, the page views listed below do not include TFAs from 2004 to 2007.

Please do not see this list as a competition, but rather a celebration of some of the most popular main page featured articles. The list may be helpful for determining correlations between reader views and topics featured on the main page, in relation to the date selected.

1. Statistics before September 2015 are based on Henrik's page view tool at http://stats.grok.se/, and statistics after October 2015 are based on ErrantX's DYK Stats tool at toollabs:dykstats/. The new tool is based on a Wikimedia API and includes mobile viewers.
2. As time will have passed since the article was TFA, the lead may also have changed. Click the "Today's featured article" link on the article's talk page, and copy the first few sentences of the blurb from there.
3. Include only a TFA that has had at least a hundred thousand views on the day it appeared on the main page.

Article (TFA date)	Image	TFA views	TFA blurb	FA nominator(s)
Elizabeth II (19 September 2022)		1,737,296 (717,992 the following day)	Elizabeth II (1926–2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death. The first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth), she became heir presumptive when the duke became king in 1936 upon the abdication of Edward VIII. During the Second World War, she served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. She married Philip Mountbatten in 1947; they were wed for 73 years until his death in 2021.	Rockhead126 DrKay
Franz Kafka (3 July 2013)		768,586 (103,788 the following day)	Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was a German-language writer of novels and short stories, and is regarded as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. His works, such as "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis"), Der Process (The Trial), and Das Schloss (The Castle), are filled with themes and archetypes of alienation, brutality, parent–child conflict, and mystical transformations.	PumpkinSky Gerda Arendt
2012 phenomenon (20 December 2012)		748,040 (729,097 the following day)	The 2012 phenomenon comprises a range of eschatological beliefs according to which cataclysmic or transformative events will occur on 21 December 2012. This date is regarded as the end-date of a 5,125-year cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. It is suggested that the date marks the end of the world or a similar catastrophe.	Cosmic Latte PL Shii HRIN Top contributor Serendipodous
Barack Obama (4 November 2008)		620,700 (2.3 million the following day)	Barack Obama (born 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2008 United States presidential election.	Meelar Top contributor HailFire
United Airlines Flight 93 (11 September 2021)		564,404	United Airlines Flight 93 was a passenger flight that was hijacked by four al-Qaeda terrorists in 2001 as part of the September 11 attacks. The hijackers stormed the aircraft's cockpit and diverted it in the direction of Washington, D.C.. Passengers and flight attendants learned of the other 9/11 attacks and attempted to retake the plane. During the struggle, the hijackers deliberately crashed the plane near Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania; all 44 people on board were killed.	Veggies
Pluto (14 July 2015)		488,263	Pluto is a dwarf planet orbiting the Sun, with about a sixth of the mass of the Moon and a third of its volume. Like other Kuiper belt objects, which are generally outside Neptune's orbit, Pluto is primarily rock and ice. On 14 July 2015, a spacecraft is visiting the dwarf planet and its moons for the first time: the New Horizons probe is performing a flyby and attempting to take detailed measurements and images.	Watch37264 Top contributor JorisvS
Neil Armstrong (21 July 2019)		469,892	Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) was an astronaut and aeronautical engineer who was the first person to walk on the Moon. He was a United States Naval Aviator who served in the Korean War and later worked as a civilian test pilot for experimental aircraft. Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in the second group, selected in 1962; he made his first spaceflight as command pilot of Gemini 8 in March 1966, becoming NASA's first civilian astronaut to fly in space. During this mission with pilot David Scott, he completed the first docking of two spacecraft. In July 1969, Armstrong and Apollo 11 Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin performed the first crewed Moon landing, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command module.	Kees08 and Hawkeye7 Top contributor DannyS712
John Lennon (8 December 2010)		432,300	John Lennon (1940–1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide fame as a founding member of the Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon had a rebellious nature and acerbic wit.	DC Top contributor Andreasegde
John McCain (4 November 2008)		338,800	John McCain (born 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona and presidential nominee of the Republican Party in the 2008 United States presidential election.	Ferrylodge Top contributors Anythingyouwant and Wasted Time R
Nick Drake (18–19 January 2012)		196,800 + 114,100 = 310,900 (Took place during the website's blackout)	Nick Drake (1948–1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician, best known for his sombre guitar-based songs. He failed to find a wide audience during his lifetime, but now ranks among the most influential English singer-songwriters of the last 50 years.	Ceoil
Wife selling (1 April 2010)		307,600	Wife selling was a traditional English practice for ending an unsatisfactory marriage. Instead of dealing with an expensive and dragged-out divorce, a husband would take his wife to market and parade her with a halter around her neck, arm, or waist, before publicly auctioning her to the highest bidder.	Malleus Fatuorum, Parrot of Doom

Article (TFA date)	Image	TFA views	TFA blurb	FA nominator(s)
Brie Larson (8 March 2019)		299,586	Brie Larson (born 1989) is an American actress and filmmaker who has received many awards and nominations. At age six, she became the youngest student admitted to a training program at the American Conservatory Theater. She began her acting career in 1998 with a comedy sketch in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.	Krimuk2.0
Guy Fawkes (5 November 2019)		279,949	Guy Fawkes (1570–1606) was one of a group of English Catholics who planned the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, the failure of which is commemorated in Britain every 5 November as Guy Fawkes Night.	Malleus Fatuorum Parrot of Doom
Derek Jeter (28 September 2014)		279,020	Derek Jeter (born 1974) is an American baseball shortstop who is playing in his 20th and final season in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees. A five-time World Series champion, Jeter is regarded as a central figure of the Yankees' success of the late 1990s and early 2000s due to his hitting, baserunning, and fielding abilities, and his leadership as team captain since 2003.	Muboshgu
Emma Watson (15 April 2009)		267,000	Emma Watson (born 1990) is a French-born British actress who rose to prominence playing Hermione Granger, one of three starring roles in the Harry Potter film series.	Happy-melon
Lynching of Jesse Washington (25 September 2012)		265,700	The lynching of Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand, in Waco, Texas, in 1916 became a well-known example of racially motivated lynching. After being accused of raping and murdering his employer's wife, he entered a guilty plea and was quickly sentenced to death before being dragged out of the court and lynched.	Mark Arsten
D. B. Cooper (30 May 2008)		239,500	D. B. Cooper is the name commonly used to refer to a hijacker who, on November 24, 1971, after receiving a ransom payout of US$200,000, jumped from the back of a Boeing 727 as it was flying over the Pacific Northwest of the United States possibly over Woodland, Washington.	Nishkid64
Transit of Venus (5 June 2012)		239,300	A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth, becoming visible against the solar disk. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk moving slowly across the face of the Sun.	Anthony DiPierro
Nelson Mandela (18 July 2018)		238,131	Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader. He campaigned against the white-only government's system of apartheid, a form of racial segregation that privileged whites. In 1994, he was elected President of South Africa. His administration stressed racial reconciliation and measures to alleviate poverty. He retired in 1999 to focus on philanthropic causes.	Midnightblueowl
Museum of Bad Art (1 April 2009)		235,900	The Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) is a world-renowned institution dedicated to showcasing the finest art acquired from Boston-area refuse.	Moni3
Guy Fawkes Night (5 November 2017)		225,681	Guy Fawkes Night is an annual commemoration of the events of 5 November 1605, when Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot, was arrested while guarding explosives the plotters had placed beneath the House of Lords. To celebrate the arrest, which put an end to the plot on King James I's life, people lit bonfires around London, and months later the introduction of the Observance of 5th November Act enforced an annual public day of thanksgiving.	Parrot of Doom
Cock Lane ghost (1 April 2011)		222,200	Fanny scratching in 18th-century London's Cock Lane was so notorious that interested bystanders often blocked the street.	Parrot of Doom
? (film) (1 April 2013)		219,554	?	Crisco 1492
Daniel Lambert (7 December 2010)		216,100	Daniel Lambert (1770–1809) was a gaol keeper and animal breeder from Leicester, England, famous for his unusually large size. He was a keen sportsman and extremely strong, on one occasion fighting a bear in the streets of Leicester. He was an expert in sporting animals, widely respected for his expertise on dogs, horses and fighting cocks.	Iridescent
Elizabeth II (2 June 2012)		208,000	Elizabeth II (born 1926) is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms, head of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations, and head of state of the Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories. In 1952, she became Head of the Commonwealth and Queen of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon. Her coronation service in 1953 was the first to be televised.	Rockhead126 DrKay
Gropecunt Lane (9 July 2009)		207,300	Gropecunt Lane was a street name found in English towns and cities during the Middle Ages, believed to be a reference to the prostitution centred on those areas; it was normal practice for a medieval street name to reflect the street's function, or the economic activity taking place within it.	Parrot of Doom
Michael Jackson (25 June 2010)		207,200	Michael Jackson (1958–2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and philanthropist. He debuted on the professional music scene as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group.	Realist2
Olympic Games (12 August 2012)		200,027	The Olympic Games are considered to be the world's foremost sports competition, and more than 200 nations participate. The Games are held biennially, with Summer and Winter Olympic Games alternating, so that each of these is held every four years. Originally, the ancient Olympic Games were held in Olympia, Greece, from the 8th century BC to the 4th century AD. Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894, which is still the governing body of the games.

Article (TFA date)	Image	TFA views	TFA blurb	FA nominator(s)
Battlefield Earth (film) (12 May 2008)		197,500	Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 is a 2000 American film adaptation of the novel Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard. It was a commercial and critical disaster and has been widely criticized as one of the worst films ever made.	ChrisO, Cirt
United Airlines Flight 93 (11 September 2008)		192,000	United Airlines Flight 93 was a scheduled U.S. domestic passenger flight from Newark International Airport, in Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco International Airport.	VegitaU
Taylor Swift (23 August 2019)		191,606 + 226,832 in next 3 days	Taylor Swift (born 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. She has sold more than 50 million albums and 150 million single downloads worldwide.	FrB.TG
Cannibal Holocaust (18 April 2008)		191,300	Cannibal Holocaust is a controversial exploitation film directed by Ruggero Deodato and based on a screenplay written by Gianfranco Clerici. The film was banned in Italy in 1980, the UK, Australia, and several other countries for graphic gore, sexual violence, and for the genuine slayings of six animals featured in the film.	Helltopay27
Thriller (album) (7 July 2009)		186,800	Thriller is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Michael Jackson. The album was released on November 30, 1982, by Epic Records as the follow-up to Jackson's critically and commercially successful 1979 album Off the Wall.	Realist2
The Sirens and Ulysses (2 August 2021)		186,214	The Sirens and Ulysses is a very large oil painting by the English artist William Etty, first exhibited in 1837. It depicts the scene from Homer's Odyssey in which Ulysses (Odysseus) resists the bewitching song of the sirens by having his ship's crew tie him up, while they are ordered to block their own ears to prevent themselves from hearing the song.	Iridescent
Ted Kaczynski (11 May 2021)		184,290	Ted Kaczynski (born 1942), also known as the Unabomber, is an American domestic terrorist, eco-anarchist and former mathematics professor.	AviationFreak
House of Music (30 August 2020)		180,142	House of Music is the fourth and final album by American R&B band Tony! Toni! Toné!, released in 1996 by Mercury Records.	isento
Christopher Nolan (30 July 2023)		178,404	Christopher Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is a British-American filmmaker. Known for his Hollywood blockbusters with complex storytelling, Nolan is considered a leading filmmaker of the 21st century, and has been nominated for five Academy Awards, five British Academy Film Awards and six Golden Globe Awards.	Sammyjankis88, FrB.TG
Sinking of the RMS Titanic (15 April 2012)		177,500	The sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912, with the loss of over 1,500 lives, was one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. Four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, Titanic – at the time the world's largest ship – struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland. Two hours and forty minutes after the collision, Titanic sank with over a thousand people still aboard.	Prioryman, Rumiton
Charles Domery (12 October 2015)		176,412	Charles Domery (c. 1778 – after 1800) was a soldier with an unusually large appetite.	Iridescent
Gunpowder Plot (5 November 2010)		174,500	The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Sir Robert Catesby. The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament on 5 November, as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which James's nine-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state.	Malleus Fatuorum, Parrot of Doom
American Airlines Flight 11 (11 September 2011)		170,300	American Airlines Flight 11 was American Airlines' morning, daily scheduled transcontinental flight from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California. On September 11, 2001, the aircraft flying this route was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists, and deliberately crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, as part of the September 11 attacks.	VegitaU
The Destroying Angel and Daemons of Evil Interrupting the Orgies of the Vicious and Intemperate (23 April 2018)		161,911	The Destroying Angel and Daemons of Evil Interrupting the Orgies of the Vicious and Intemperate is an oil painting by English artist William Etty, first exhibited in 1832. It depicts a classical temple under attack from a destroying angel and a group of daemons.	Iridescent
Murder of Julia Martha Thomas (2 March 2012)		160,300	The murder of Julia Martha Thomas was one of the most notorious crimes in Britain in the late 19th century. Thomas, a widow who lived in Richmond in west London, was killed on 2 March 1879 by Kate Webster, her Irish maid.	Prioryman
Tropical Storm Ileana (2018) (21 August 2020)		158,579	Tropical Storm Ileana was a small tropical cyclone that affected western Mexico in early August 2018. The eleventh tropical cyclone and ninth named storm of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season, Ileana originated from a tropical wave that left the west coast of Africa and traveled across the Atlantic Ocean before crossing into the eastern Pacific Ocean early on August 4.	Hurricane Noah
Halifax Explosion (6 December 2017)		155,344	The Halifax Explosion was a maritime disaster in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on the morning of 6 December 1917. SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship laden with high explosives bound for Bordeaux, France, collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the Narrows, at the north-west tip of Halifax Harbour. When a fire on board the French ship ignited her cargo, around 2,000 people were killed by the blast, debris, fires and collapsed buildings, and an estimated 9,000 others were injured.	Resolute, Nikkimaria
The Million Dollar Homepage (10 May 2009)		153,000	The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by 21-year-old student Alex Tew from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. The home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for $1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks.	Matthewedwards
Oklahoma City bombing (19 April 2010)		152,700	The Oklahoma City bombing occurred on April 19, 1995, when American militia movement sympathizer Timothy McVeigh, with the assistance of Terry Nichols, destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. It was the most significant act of terrorism on American soil until the September 11 attacks in 2001.	Nehrams2020
Assassination of John F. Kennedy (22 November 2023)		152,400	The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 35th U.S. president, occurred on November 22, 1963, while Kennedy was riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.	HAL333
Ima Hogg (1 April 2008)		150,200	Ima Hogg was an enterprising circus emcee who brought culture and class to Houston, Texas. A storied ostrich jockey, she once rode to Hawaii to visit the Queen. Raised in government housing, young Ima frolicked among a backyard menagerie of raccoons, possums and a bear.	Karanacs
Mick Jagger (26 July 2023)		149,256	Mick Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English singer and songwriter. He was born and grew up in Dartford, joining the rock band the Rolling Stones in 1962 as the lead vocalist and a founder member. His songwriting partnership with Keith Richards is one of history's most successful.	TheSandDoctor
Vesna Vulović (28 August 2019)		147,938	Vesna Vulović was a Serbian flight attendant who holds the Guinness world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 metres (33,330 ft). She was the sole survivor after a briefcase bomb tore through the baggage compartment of JAT Flight 367 on 26 January 1972.	23 editor
Phil Hartman (8 June 2011)		144,900	Phil Hartman was a Canadian-born American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and graphic artist. On May 28, 1998, Hartman was shot and killed by his wife Brynn Omdahl while he slept in his Los Angeles home.	Gran2
Virginia Tech massacre (16 April 2008)		142,400	The Virginia Tech massacre was a school shooting consisting of two separate attacks approximately two hours apart on April 16, 2007, which took place on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. The perpetrator, Seung-Hui Cho, killed 32 people and wounded many more before committing suicide, making it the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.	Ronnotel Defeatured October 2009
Walt Disney (16 October 2023)		141,438	Walt Disney (1901 – 1966) was an American animator, film producer and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he holds the individual records for the most Academy Award wins (22) and nominations (59). On October 16, 1923, he founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio with his brother Roy. He created the character Mickey Mouse and, as the studio grew, introduced synchronized sound, full-color three-strip Technicolor and technical developments in cameras.	SchroCat
Badge Man (5 May 2023)		140,019	The badge Man is a figure said to be present within a photograph taken by Mary Moorman of the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, captured a fraction of a second after a bullet struck Kennedy's head. Conspiracy theorists have suggested that this figure is a sniper or a man in police uniform, and believe it to be a second assassin, firing at Kennedy from the grassy knoll.	HAL333
Jack the Ripper (21 June 2010)		138,500	Jack the Ripper is the best known pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The name originated in a letter by someone claiming to be the murderer that was disseminated in the media.	DrKay
Groundhog Day (film) (2 February 2021)		138,095	Groundhog Day is a 1993 American fantasy comedy film directed by Harold Ramis. It stars Bill Murray as Phil Connors, a cynical television weatherman who is sent, much to his disgruntlement, to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Connors becomes trapped in a time loop forcing him to relive February 2 over and over, with not even death an escape.	Darkwarriorblake
Frank Zappa (4 December 2008)		137,800	Frank Zappa (1940–1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète works. Zappa was a highly productive and prolific artist and he gained widespread critical acclaim.	HJensen
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (31 October 2011)		136,500	The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is a 2010 Dutch body horror film written and directed by Tom Six. The film tells the story of a German doctor who kidnaps three tourists and joins them surgically, forming a "human centipede". It stars Dieter Laser as the villain, Dr. Heiter, with Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie, and Akihiro Kitamura as his victims.	Coolug
Cottingley Fairies (3 February 2011)		134,900	The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England. In the early 1980s, both admitted that the photographs were faked using cardboard cutouts of fairies copied from a popular children's book of the time. The photographs and two of the cameras used are on display in the National Media Museum in Bradford.	Malleus Fatuorum
Elvis Presley (8 January 2012)		134,200	Elvis Presley (1935–1977) was an American singer and one of the most important figures of 20th-century popular culture. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King". Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley moved to Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 13. He began his career there in 1954 and became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll with a series of television appearances and chart-topping records during the late 1950s.	PL290
Troy McClure (28 May 2008)		133,200	Troy McClure is a recurring fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons. He was voiced by Phil Hartman, and first appeared in the episode "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment". After Phil Hartman's murder in 1998, the character was retired, making his final appearance in the tenth-season episode "Bart the Mother".	Gran2
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (28 January 2022)		131,443	The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, killing all seven crew members aboard. President Ronald Reagan created the Rogers Commission to investigate the accident; it criticized NASA's organizational culture and decision-making processes that had contributed to the accident.	Balon Greyjoy
4chan (14 January 2009)		131,100	4chan is an English-language imageboard website. Launched on October 1, 2003, its boards are primarily used for the posting of pictures and discussion of manga and anime. Users generally post anonymously and the site has been linked to internet subcultures and activism, including the Anonymous meme and Project Chanology.	Giggy
Sega Saturn (11 May 2020)		130,839	The Sega Saturn is a 32-bit home video game console developed by Sega. Released in 1994 in Japan, and 1995 in North America and Europe, the Saturn is the successor to the Sega Genesis, and Sega's fourth game console. The console is considered a commercial failure, selling just over 9 million units worldwide, blamed in part due to Sega's failure to release a Sonic the Hedgehog video game, known in development as Sonic X-treme, for the system.	TheTimesAreAChanging
The Simpsons (17 December 2007)		130,600	The Simpsons is an animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a soft-satirical parody of the "Middle American" lifestyle epitomized by its titular family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.	Scorpion0422 Gran2
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster (1 February 2023)		130,122	The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster was a fatal accident in the NASA Space Shuttle program on February 1, 2003. During the launch of the STS-107 mission, foam insulation from the Space Shuttle external tank fell and damaged the thermal protection system of the orbiter. During atmospheric reentry at the end of the mission, the damage allowed hot gases to penetrate the heat shield and destroy the internal wing structure. The orbiter broke apart inflight, killing all seven astronauts on board (crew pictured).	Balon Greyjoy
Ismail I of Granada (4 September 2020)		128,647	Ismail I (1279–1325) was the fifth Nasrid ruler of the Emirate of Granada (map pictured) on the Iberian Peninsula, from 1314 to 1325. He claimed the throne during the reign of his uncle, Sultan Nasr, after a rebellion started by his father Abu Said Faraj.	HaEr48
All About That Bass (30 June 2021)		126,778	"All About That Bass" is the debut single of American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor (pictured), released through Epic Records on June 30, 2014. The song was included on Trainor's first extended play (EP) Title (2014) and her studio album of the same name (2015).	MaranoFan Lips Are Movin
Etika (24 June 2024)		125,991	Desmond Daniel Amofah (May 12, 1990 – c. June 19, 2019), known online as Etika, was an American YouTuber and live streamer. Amofah became known online for his enthusiastic reactions to Super Smash Bros. character trailers and Nintendo Direct presentations and for playing and reacting to various games.	PantheonRadiance
Bath School disaster (18 May 2020)		125,301	The Bath School disaster was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe in Bath Township, Michigan. The attacks killed 38 elementary schoolchildren and 6 adults, and injured at least 58 other people.	Shearonink
SS Edmund Fitzgerald (10 November 2010)		125,000	The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was a Great Lakes freighter that made headlines after sinking in Lake Superior in a massive storm on November 10, 1975. Her sinking is one of the most well-known disasters in the history of Great Lakes shipping.	North8000
Jackie Chan (12 September 2008)		124,400	Jackie Chan (born 1954) is a Chinese actor, action choreographer, film director, producer, martial artist, comedian, screenwriter, singer and stunt performer from Hong Kong. Chan is one of the best-known names in kung fu and action films worldwide, known for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons and innovative stunts.	Alasdair
Vladimir Lenin (7 November 2017)		123,619	Vladimir Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of the Soviet Union, which under his administration became a one-party state governed by the Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, he developed political theories known as Leninism. After the 1917 February Revolution ousted the Tsar, he played a leading role in the 7 November 1917 insurrection commonly known as the October Revolution, in which the Bolsheviks overthrew the new regime.	Midnightblueowl
Bharattherium (15 April 2014)		123,500	Bharattherium is a mammal that lived in India during the Maastrichtian (latest Cretaceous). The first fossil of Bharattherium was discovered in 1989 and published in 1997, but the animal was not named until 2007.	Ucucha
Leah LaBelle (31 January 2023)		123,314	Leah LaBelle (September 8, 1986 – January 31, 2018) was an American singer. Born in Toronto, Ontario, and raised in Seattle, Washington, she began pursuing music as a career in her teens, which included performing in the Total Experience Gospel Choir. LaBelle rose to prominence in 2004 as a contestant on the third season of American Idol, placing twelfth in the season finals.	Aoba47
Scarlett Johansson (30 May 2019)		122,255 + 131,148 in next 3 days	Scarlett Johansson (born 1984) is an American actress and singer. She is 2018's highest-paid actress in the world, has made multiple appearances in the Forbes Celebrity 100, and is the recipient of several awards, including a Tony Award and a British Academy Film Award. She was the highest-grossing actress of 2016, and is also the highest-grossing actress of all time in North America in nominal dollar terms.	FrB.TG
Cloud Gate (9 February 2010)		121,715	Cloud Gate, a public sculpture by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor, is the centerpiece of the AT&T Plaza in Millennium Park within the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.	TonyTheTiger
Ayumi Hamasaki (1 October 2010)		120,700	Ayumi Hamasaki (born 1978) is a Japanese singer-songwriter and former actress. She released a string of modestly selling singles that concluded with her 1999 debut album A Song for ××. The album debuted atop the Oricon charts and stayed there for four weeks, establishing her popularity in Japan.	Ink Runner
USS Arizona (BB-39) (7 December 2011)		120,600	USS Arizona was a Pennsylvania-class battleship built for the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Commissioned in 1916, the ship remained stateside during World War I. In 1940, she joined the Pacific Fleet in its new base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, to deter the Japanese Empire. During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Arizona was bombed, exploded and sunk, killing 1,177 officers and crewmen.
Walt Disney (5 Dec 2016)		118,230	Walt Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he holds the record for the most Academy Awards earned by an individual (22), out of 59 nominations. He set up the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio with his brother Roy in the 1920s, and had his first big success with the character Mickey Mouse.	SchroCat
British anti-invasion preparations of World War II (14 January 2008)		117,100	British anti-invasion preparations of World War II entailed a large scale programme of military and civilian mobilisation in response to the threat of invasion by German armed forces in 1940 and 1941. The army needed to recover from the defeat of the British Expeditionary Force in France and one and a half million men were enrolled as part-time soldiers in the Home Guard.	Gaius Cornelius
Shah Rukh Khan (2 November 2015)		116,563	Shah Rukh Khan (born 1965) is an Indian film actor, producer and television personality. Often referred to as the "King of Bollywood", he has appeared in more than 80 Bollywood films.	Bollyjeff
2014 FIFA World Cup Final (18 December 2022)		115,864	The 2014 FIFA World Cup Final was the final match of the 2014 World Cup. The match between Germany and Argentina was played at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 13 July 2014. With the match goalless after 90 minutes, it went to extra time, in the second period of which Germany broke the deadlock.	Amakuru
Eurasian crag martin (5 August 2020)		115,253	The Eurasian crag martin (Ptyonoprogne rupestris) is a small swallow with brown upperparts, paler underparts, and a white-spotted square tail. It breeds in mountains in southern Eurasia and northwestern Africa.	Jimfbleak
Siegfried Lederer's escape from Auschwitz (5 April 2021)		115,040	On 5 April 1944, Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp with the help of an SS man, Viktor Pestek, who opposed the Holocaust and was in love with a Jewish prisoner, Renée Neumann. The two men traveled together to Bohemia and Moravia to obtain false documents for Neumann and her mother.	Buidhe
Jurassic Park (film) (9 June 2008)		114,500	Jurassic Park is a 1993 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. The film centers on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, where scientists have created an amusement park of cloned dinosaurs.	Alientraveller
Amy Adams (20 August 2018)		114,361	Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an American actress. Known for both her comedic and dramatic performances, Adams has featured in listings of the highest-paid actresses in the world. Her accolades include two Golden Globes and nominations for five Academy Awards and for six British Academy Film Awards.	Krimuk2.0
Rosewood massacre (4 August 2009)		114,300	The Rosewood massacre was a violent, racially motivated conflict that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida. Six blacks and two whites were killed, and the town of Rosewood was abandoned and destroyed during what was characterized as a race riot.	Moni3
Lady Gaga (28 March 2018)		114,030	Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her unconventionality and provocative work as well as experimentation with new images.	FrB.TG, IndianBio, SNUGGUMS
Transformers (film) (3 July 2011)		113,900	Transformers is a 2007 American science fiction action film based on the Transformers toy line. The film, which combines computer animation with live action, is directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg. It stars Shia LaBeouf as Sam Witwicky, a teenager involved in a war between the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, two factions of alien robots that can disguise themselves by transforming into everyday machinery.	Healthykid
Ninety-five Theses (31 October 2017)		113,050	The Ninety-five Theses are a list of propositions written by Martin Luther that started the Protestant Reformation, a schism in the Catholic Church. Luther, a professor of moral theology at the University of Wittenberg, Germany, enclosed them in a letter to the Archbishop of Mainz on 31 October 1517, a date now commemorated annually as Reformation Day.	jfhutson
Death of Leelah Alcorn (28 December 2017)		112,986	Leelah Alcorn (November 15, 1997 – December 28, 2014) was an American transgender girl whose suicide attracted international attention. At age 14, she came out as transgender to her parents, and at 16, she asked to undergo transition treatment; instead, they sent her to conversion therapy. After she revealed her attraction toward males to her classmates, her parents removed her from school and revoked her access to social media. She killed herself by walking into highway traffic.	Midnightblueowl
Ben Affleck (17 November 2017)		112,525	Ben Affleck (born 1972) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. His accolades include two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He is a co-founder of the Eastern Congo Initiative and the production company Pearl Street Films.	Popeye191
Bombing of Tokyo (10 March 1945) (10 March 2020)		112,469	The Bombing of Tokyo during the early hours of 10 March 1945 by the U.S. Army Air Forces was a devastating firebombing raid on the Japanese capital city. Bombs dropped from 279 Boeing B-29 Superfortresses burned out much of eastern Tokyo. More than 90,000 Japanese, mostly civilians, were killed and one million left homeless, making it the single most destructive air attack of World War II.	Nick-D
Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret (9 July 2018)		110,518	Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret is an oil painting on canvas by English artist William Etty, first exhibited in 1833. Intended to illustrate the virtues of honour and chastity, it depicts a scene from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene in which the female warrior Britomart slays the evil magician Busirane and frees his captive, the beautiful Amoret.	Iridescent
Sustainable energy (2 November 2021)		110,374 + 270,205 in next 3 days	Energy is sustainable if it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.	Clayoquot, Femkemilene
Moors murders (27 September 2010)		109,800	The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around what is now Greater Manchester, England. The victims were five children aged between 10 and 17, and at least four of them were sexually assaulted. The murders are so named because two of the victims were discovered in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor (pictured).	Malleus Fatuorum, Parrot of Doom
Louis Slotin (30 May 2012)		109,700	Louis Slotin (1910–1946) was a Canadian physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project, the secret U.S. program during World War II that developed the atomic bomb. As part of the Manhattan Project, Slotin performed experiments with uranium and plutonium cores to determine their critical mass values.	Nishkid64
Jennifer Lawrence (15 August 2017)		109,479	Jennifer Lawrence (born August 15, 1990) is an American actress. Lawrence's films have grossed in excess of $5.5 billion globally, and she was the world's highest-paid actress in 2015 and 2016. Her many awards and honors include appearances in Time's 100 most influential people in the world in 2013 and the Forbes Celebrity 100 in 2014 and 2016. She is a vocal advocate of feminism and gender equality.	FrB.TG, Krimuk2.0, SNUGGUMS
Judy Garland (22 June 2008)		109,400	Judy Garland (1922–1969) was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in both musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage.	Otto4711
The Triumph of Cleopatra (22 September 2021)		109,190	The Triumph of Cleopatra is an oil painting by the English artist William Etty, depicting a scene from Plutarch's Life of Antony and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, in which Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, voyages to Tarsus to cement an alliance with the Roman general Mark Antony.	Iridescent
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (18 June 2010)		108,600	The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft developed for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) introduced in the 1930s. Competing against Douglas and Martin for a contract to build 200 bombers, the Boeing entry outperformed both competitors and more than met the Air Corps' expectations.	Trevor MacInnis
Battle of Cape Ecnomus (10 October 2020)		107,401	The Battle of Cape Ecnomus was a naval battle fought off the coast of Sicily in 256 BC between the fleets of Carthage and the Roman Republic during the First Punic War (264–241 BC).	Gog the Mild
Battle of Prokhorovka (12 July 2017)		107,203	The Battle of Prokhorovka (12 July 1943), one of the largest tank battles in history, was fought between Waffen-SS units of Nazi Germany and Red Army units of the Soviet Union during the Second World War on the Eastern Front. The climax of the German offensive Operation Citadel, it resulted when the Soviet 5th Guards Tank Army intercepted the II SS-Panzer Corps of the German Wehrmacht near Prokhorovka.	EyeTruth
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (6 February 2018)		106,740	Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (1882–1960) was the youngest child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and younger sister of Emperor Nicholas II. During the First World War, the Grand Duchess served as an army nurse at the front and was awarded a medal for personal gallantry. At the downfall of the Romanovs in the Russian Revolution of 1917, she fled to the Crimea with her husband and children, where they lived under the threat of assassination.	DrKay, AJ24
Washington, D.C. (20 January 2009)		106,600	Washington, D.C. is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790. The city is located on the north bank of the Potomac River and is bordered by the states of Virginia to the southwest and Maryland to the other sides.	Epicadam
Earth (22 April 2010)		106,400	Earth is the fifth-largest planet of the eight in the Solar System. It is also the largest, most massive, and densest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets.	RJHall
Battle of Neville's Cross (17 October 2019)		105,811 (40,262 the following day)	The Battle of Neville's Cross took place on 17 October 1346 half a mile (800 m) to the west of Durham, England. A Scottish army of 12,000 was defeated by an English army half the size and the Scottish king, David II, captured.	Gog the Mild
Christian Bale (9 July 2022)		105,541	Christian Bale (born 1974) is an English actor. Known for his versatility and recurring physical transformations to play his roles, Bale has been a leading man in films of several genres.	KyleJoan
Anne Hathaway (23 May 2020)		105,174	Anne Hathaway (born 1982) is an American actress. The recipient of multiple awards, she was one of the highest-paid actresses in the world in 2015, and her films have earned more than $6.8 billion worldwide.	FrB.TG
Hoover Dam (30 September 2010)		105,100	Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936, and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin Roosevelt.	NortyNort, Wehwalt
Donner Party (23 May 2019)		104,824	The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers who set out for California in a wagon train. Delayed by a series of mishaps, they were snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range from November 1846 to February 1847.	Karanacs, Malleus Fatuorum, Moni3
Roman temple of Bziza (31 January 2020)		104,799	The Roman temple of Bziza is a well-preserved first-century AD Roman temple in the Lebanese town of Bziza. It is dedicated to Azizos, a personification of the morning star in the Canaanite mythology. The temple's name is a corruption of Beth Azizo, meaning the house or temple of Azizos.	Elie_plus
Baker Street robbery (11 September 2023)		104,656	The Baker Street robbery was the burglary of safe deposit boxes at the Baker Street branch of Lloyds Bank in London, England, on the night of 11 September 1971. A gang tunnelled 40 feet (12 m) from a rented shop two doors away to come up through the floor of the vault. The property stolen was probably worth between £1.25 and £3 million; only £231,000 was recovered by the police.	SchroCat
Battle of Hayes Pond (18 January 2022)		104,656	The Battle of Hayes Pond was an armed confrontation between members of a Ku Klux Klan organization and Native Americans of the Lumbee Tribe at a Klan rally near Maxton, North Carolina, on the night of January 18, 1958.	Indy beetle
Discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun (4 November 2022)		104,569	The tomb of Tutankhamun was uncovered beginning on 4 November 1922 by excavators in the Valley of the Kings led by Howard Carter, an Egyptologist. Whereas the tombs of most pharaohs of ancient Egypt were plundered in ancient times, Tutankhamun's tomb was hidden by debris for most of its existence and not extensively robbed.	A. Parrot
J. K. Rowling (11 April 2008)		104,500	J. K. Rowling is a British writer and author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold nearly 400 million copies.	Serendipodous
Catherine Zeta-Jones (25 September 2017)		104,464	Catherine Zeta-Jones is a Welsh actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award and a Tony Award, and in 2010 she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her film and humanitarian endeavours.	Krimuk2.0, SchroCat
Blackbeard (23 October 2017)		104,245	Blackbeard was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies. Following his death, his image was romanticised, becoming the inspiration for a variety of pirate-themed works of fiction.	Parrot of Doom
Magic Johnson (14 August 2009)		104,000	Magic Johnson (born 1959) is a retired American professional basketball player who played point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Johnson's career achievements include three NBA MVP Awards, nine NBA Finals appearances, twelve All-Star games, and ten All-NBA nominations.	Noble Story
Bradley Cooper (5 January 2019)		103,806 + 242,521 in next 3 days	Bradley Cooper (born January 5, 1975) is an American actor and producer. He has been nominated for a Tony Award, four Academy Awards, and two Grammy Awards. Cooper appeared in Forbes Celebrity 100 on two occasions and Time's list of 100 most influential people in the world in 2015. His films have grossed $7.8 billion worldwide and he was named one of the world's highest-paid actors for three years.	FrB.TG
Treehouse of Horror (series) (31 October 2008)		103,800	The Treehouse of Horror episodes are the annual Halloween specials in the animated series The Simpsons. Each episode consists of three separate, self-contained segments, which usually involve the Simpson family in some horror, science fiction, or supernatural setting.	Scorpion0422
John/Eleanor Rykener (10 January 2019)		103,580	John Rykener, also known as Eleanor (fl. 1394), was a 14th-century transvestite sex worker arrested in December 1394 for performing a sex act with another man, John Britby, in London's Cheapside. Historians of social and gender history are especially interested in Rykener's case because of what it reveals about medieval views on sex and gender.	Serial Number 54129
Fritz the Cat (film) (29 October 2010)		103,549	Fritz the Cat is a 1972 American animated film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi (pictured) as his feature film debut. Based on the comic strip of the same name by Robert Crumb, the film was the first animated feature film to receive an X rating in the United States.	Ibaranoff24
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (17 July 2013)		103,100	Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (1901–18) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna. She was executed with her family in an extrajudicial killing by members of Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police, on 17 July 1918.	Bookworm857158367
New York State Route 175 (31 August 2020)		102,701	New York State Route 175 is a west–east state highway located in Onondaga County, New York, in the United States. The 15.46-mile (24.88 km) route begins at an intersection with U.S. Route 20 east of the village of Skaneateles.	Mitchazenia
Sinking of the RMS Titanic (15 April 2018)		102,184	The sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912, with the loss of over 1,500 lives, was one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. Four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, Titanic – at the time the world's largest ship – struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland. Two hours and forty minutes after the collision, Titanic sank with over a thousand people still aboard.	Prioryman, Rumiton
Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm (29 Feb 2016)		102,221	Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm is an 1832 painting by English artist William Etty, inspired by a metaphor in Thomas Gray's poem The Bard. Some reviewers praised the piece but audiences of the time found it hard to understand, and the use of nudity led some critics to consider the painting tasteless and offensive.	Iridescent
Canada (1 July 2017)		101,807	Canada is a North American country with ten provinces and three territories, bordering three oceans. The world's second-largest country by total area, it is sparsely populated and highly urbanized. The British North America Act of July 1, 1867 (now celebrated as Canada Day) united the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia in the semi-autonomous federal Dominion of Canada, which became largely independent with the Statute of Westminster 1931.	Jeff3000
Yeomanry Cavalry (11 February 2020)		101,526	The Yeomanry Cavalry was the mounted component of the British Volunteer Corps, a military auxiliary established in the late 18th century. When the Volunteer Corps was disbanded after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, the yeomanry – recruited from the middle and upper classes – was retained as a politically reliable institution that could act as a mounted police force.	Factotem
Burke and Hare murders (11 September 2018)		101,224	The Burke and Hare murders were a series of 16 killings committed over a period of about ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were undertaken by William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses to Doctor Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures.	SchroCat, Cassianto
Planet Nine (9 April 2019)		101,181	Planet Nine is a hypothetical planet in the outer region of the Solar System. Its gravitational effects could explain the unlikely clustering of orbits for a group of extreme trans-Neptunian objects, bodies with average distances from the Sun that are more than 250 times that of Earth.	Jehochman, Agmartin
The Shawshank Redemption (23 September 2019)		101,172	The Shawshank Redemption is an American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, first released on September 23, 1994. Based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, it tells the story of banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary (prison pictured) for the murder of his wife and her lover, despite his claims of innocence.	Darkwarriorblake
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (17 July 2018)		101,051	Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (1901–18) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna. She was executed with her family in an extrajudicial killing by members of Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police, on 17 July 1918.	Bookworm857158367
Rosetta Stone (14 September 2010)		100,800	The Rosetta Stone is part of an Ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele with engraved text that provided the key to modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs.	Captmondo
To Kill a Mockingbird (11 July 2008)		100,700	To Kill a Mockingbird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful upon its release and has become a classic of modern American fiction.	Moni3
Brad Pitt (10 January 2012)		100,400	Brad Pitt (born 1963) is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has won one Golden Globe Award and has been nominated on four other occasions, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards.	ThinkBlue
1974 White House helicopter incident (8 May 2020)		100,161	The 1974 White House helicopter incident occurred when U.S. Army private Robert K. Preston stole a Bell UH-1B Iroquois helicopter (a "Huey") from Tipton Field, Maryland, and, in a major breach of security, landed it on the South Lawn of the White House.	L293D

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