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German reconnaissance picture of Sovetsky Soyuz

The Sovetsky Soyuz class was a class of battleships begun by the Soviet Union but never brought into service. They were designed in response to the German Bismarck-class battleships, and would have rivaled the Imperial Japanese Yamato class and America's planned Montana class in size, although with significantly weaker firepower. Only four hulls of the fifteen originally planned had been laid down by 1940, when the decision was made to cut the program to only three ships to divert resources to an army-rearmament program. Construction of the first four ships was plagued with difficulties as the Soviet shipbuilding and related industries were not prepared to build such large ships. One battleship, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, was cancelled after serious construction flaws were found. Construction of the other three ships was suspended shortly after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. All three of the surviving hulls were scrapped in the late 1940s. (Full article...)

Residents of Pomuch cleaning bones

• ... that residents of Pomuch, in southeastern Mexico, clean the bones of deceased family members (example pictured) as part of Day of the Dead?
• ... that Mexico City's annual Day of the Dead Parade was inspired by a fictional Day of the Dead parade in the 2015 film Spectre?
• ... that David Chalmers argued against the idea that consciousness is an illusion by stating that people can obviously feel pain?
• ... that actor Oscar Curtis was bitten by a monkey while taking a break from his role in Hollyoaks?
• ... that Swiss filmmaker Claude Goretta had no formal film training before directing the Oscar-nominated The Invitation?
• ... that a manuscript held by Gonville and Caius College has "Man, why are you proud?" written in Latin on a flyleaf?
• ... that Concetta Brincat is the first known female Maltese-language novelist?
• ... that in 2026, the Kandy Royals cricket team was acquired by a US-based investor and selected most of its roster through a player draft rather than a traditional auction?
• ... that Albert Camus and Jean-Louis Barrault settled on the title of The State of Siege by taking turns completing the phrase "Get dressed, darling, we're going to see [...]"?

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas in 1999

• US$6.3 billion is stolen from cryptocurrency exchange Binance.
• Mexican politician Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (pictured) dies at the age of 92.
• British actor Patrick Stewart dies at the age of 86.
• In baseball, the Milwaukee Brewers defeat the Tampa Bay Rays to win the World Series.
• At least 69 people are killed in a collision between two high-speed trains in Toledo province, Spain.

November 2

Ngô Đình Diệm

• 1943 – World War II: A U.S. Navy task force turned away an Imperial Japanese Navy formation at the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, thus protecting the landings at Cape Torokina.
• 1963 – South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm (pictured) was arrested and assassinated in Saigon, marking the culmination of a coup d'état led by Dương Văn Minh.
• 1984 – Velma Barfield, a convicted serial killer, became the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1962.
• 2008 – Lewis Hamilton overtook Timo Glock in the final corners of the Brazilian Grand Prix to become the Formula One World Drivers' Champion by one point.