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This TFA STATS page is an attempt to recognise Wikipedia'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 Wikipedia'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.
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- 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.
- 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.
- Include only a TFA that has had at least a hundred thousand views on the day it appeared on the main page.
300k+ hits
Article (TFA date) | Image | TFA views | TFA blurb | FA nominator(s) |
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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 |
200k+ hits
Article (TFA date) | Image | TFA views | TFA blurb | FA nominator(s) |
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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. |
100k+ hits
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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 (30 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 | |
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 |