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Today's featured article Katy Perry (born October 25, 1984) is an American singer, songwriter, and television personality. She released her debut album in 2001, then signed to Capitol Records in 2007. Perry rose to fame in 2008 with the release of the single "I Kissed a Girl". She has released seven studio albums, most recently 143 in September 2024. Perry has the second-most US diamond certified singles for any female artist (six). She has received various accolades, including a Billboard Spotlight Award, four Guinness World Records, five Billboard Music Awards, five American Music Awards, a Brit Award, and a Juno Award. Perry is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 143 million units worldwide. She made her film debut voicing Smurfette in The Smurfs in 2011, released a documentary film in 2012, and launched her own shoe line, Katy Perry Collections, in 2017. Perry served as a judge on American Idol between 2018 and 2024. (Full article...) Recently featured: Fusō-class battleships Umbriel Wells Cathedral Selected anniversaries October 26 Ida B. Wells 1341 – The Byzantine army proclaimed chief minister John VI Kantakouzenos as emperor, triggering a civil war between his supporters and those of John V Palaiologos, the heir to the throne. 1871 – Liberian president Edward James Roye was overthrown in modern Africa's first coup d'état. 1892 – Ida B. Wells (pictured) began publishing her research on lynching in the United States, for which she was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2020. 1955 – Ngô Đình Diệm proclaimed himself president of the newly created Republic of Vietnam after defeating former emperor Bảo Đại in a fraudulent referendum supervised by his brother Ngô Đình Nhu. 2004 – Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, considered one of the best video games ever made, in North America. Cuthbert of Canterbury (d. 760) Gómez González (d. 1111) Carlo Collodi (d. 1890) Yamashita Yoshitsugu (d. 1935) More anniversaries: October 25 October 26 October 27	In the news Attack perpetrators Tropical Storm Trami kills at least 115 people in the Philippines. An attack by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (perpetrators pictured) on the Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters in Ankara leaves seven people dead. Moldova votes to amend its constitution to include the aim of becoming a European Union member state. Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, is killed in a firefight with Israeli forces in Gaza. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Israel–Hezbollah conflict Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Barbara Kolb Janusz Olejniczak Michel Klein Gustavo Gutiérrez Grizzly 399 Lord Hanningfield Did you know... Wigwam ... that Wigwam (pictured) formed four days before their first concert? ... that a 1920s reviewer considered Hammond's Hard Lines "dangerously experimental ground for boys' fiction"? ... that Eddie Canales set up nearly 200 water stations along an area of the US–Mexico border to save the lives of undocumented immigrants? ... that before his victory at the 1128 Battle of Axspoele, William Clito ordered his knights to cut their hair and remove opulent clothing as a sign of penance? ... that Canadian punk rock musician Talli Osborne had only briefly spoken to the frontman of NOFX before the band wrote a song about her? ... that a red light in the corner bay window of the Ansorge Hotel told rumrunners of revenue men in town? ... that some delegates elected in the Qing dynasty's first provincial elections were secretly affiliated with republican revolutionaries? ... that neurocysticercosis has been referred to as the "great imitator" because it can mimic many other neurological disorders? ... that the only two Venezuelans ever to play for the NFL, Pat Ragusa and Alan Pringle, played a combined total of four games?
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