Wikipedia:Today's featured list/September 2024
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September 2
More than 20 video games have been developed since 2008 by Supermassive Games, a British video game developer. Until 2018, they worked almost exclusively with PlayStation, first working on downloadable content for LittleBigPlanet. The studio published their first game, Big Match Striker, in September 2010. Supermassive worked on multiple games that utilised the PlayStation Move motion controller including Start the Party! and Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves, both of which were released in 2010. In 2015, the studio started to focus mostly on interactive-drama, survival-horror video games, starting with their breakout title, Until Dawn, which won the BAFTA Games Award for Original Property in 2016. With the success of Until Dawn, the studio continued to expand the universe, releasing two spin-off titles; Until Dawn: Rush of Blood (2016) and The Inpatient (2018), for the PlayStation VR. In August 2019, Supermassive released Man of Medan, the first game in The Dark Pictures Anthology, and in 2022, they released The Quarry, the spiritual successor to Until Dawn. Supermassive's next game, The Casting of Frank Stone, a game set in the Dead by Daylight universe, is scheduled for release on 3 September 2024. (Full list...)
September 6
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There have been eighteen recipients of the BBC National Short Story Award, an annual short-story contest that is open to residents and nationals of the United Kingdom. It is the richest literary prize in the world for a single short story. Established in 2005 and announced at that year's Edinburgh International Book Festival, the first winner of the award was James Lasdun for An Anxious Man in 2006. At the age of 26, Canadian writer D. W. Wilson became the youngest-ever recipient of the award in 2011. Sarah Hall, who won the award in 2013 and 2020, is the only writer to have won the award twice. In honour of the 2012 Summer Olympics hosted in London, the competition was open to a global audience that year; ten stories were shortlisted instead of five, and Bulgarian writer Miroslav Penkov (pictured) won. The winner of the 2024 award is scheduled to be announced on 12 September. (Full list...)
September 9
There are 37 populated places officially granted city status in Luhansk Oblast, the easternmost region of Ukraine. Settlements with more than 10,000 people are eligible to become cities, although the status is also typically given by the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, to settlements of historical or regional importance. According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, the most populous city in the oblast was the regional capital Luhansk (pictured), with a population of 463,097, while the least populous city was Almazna, with 5,061. Following the Donbas war in 2014, 25 of the oblast's cities were occupied by pro-Russian separatists. After the enactment of decommunization laws across the country, nine cities in separatist-occupied territory were de jure given new names in 2016 which were unrecognized by pro-Russian officials in the cities. Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops have occupied all cities in the oblast since the end of the battle of Lysychansk in 2022. (Full list...)
September 13
In 1961, Billboard magazine launched a chart ranking the top-performing songs in the United States which were considered to be "easy listening". The chart has undergone various name changes and since 1996 has been published under the title Adult Contemporary. Initially, the listing was compiled simply by extracting from the magazine's pop music chart, the Hot 100, those songs which were deemed by the magazine's staff to fit under the Easy Listening banner and ranking them according to their placings on the Hot 100. In 1961, seven different songs topped the Easy Listening chart in 24 issues of the magazine. The number one song on the first Easy Listening chart was "The Boll Weevil Song" by Brook Benton (pictured), which was at number 2 on the Hot 100 that week. The longest-running Easy Listening number one of 1961 was "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean, which spent the final ten weeks of the year in the top spot. It was one of three songs to top the Hot 100 as well as the Easy Listening chart during the year, along with "Wooden Heart" by Joe Dowell and "Michael" by the Highwaymen. (Full list...)
September 16
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Nine people have served as President of Burundi since the country became a republic in 1966. The president of Burundi is the head of state and head of government, as well as the commander-in-chief of the National Defence Force. The office of the presidency was established when Michel Micombero declared Burundi a republic in a coup d'état on 28 November 1966. The first constitution to specify the powers and duties of the president was the constitution of 1974, which was adopted in 1976. The president's stated role is to represent Burundi's national unity and ensure that the laws and functions of the state are created and executed in full compliance with the constitution. Sylvie Kinigi, the first and only woman in the office, served as interim president from 1993 to 1994. Évariste Ndayishimiye (pictured) has served as president since 18 June 2020. (Full list...)
September 20
American actor Gregory Peck had an extensive career in film, television, radio, and on stage. His breakthrough role was as a Catholic priest who attempts to start a mission in China in the 1944 film The Keys of the Kingdom, for which he received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. In the late 1940s, Peck received three more Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, for his roles as a caring father in The Yearling (1946), a journalist who pretends to be Jewish to write an exposé on American antisemitism in Gentleman's Agreement (1947), and a brave airman in Twelve O'Clock High (1949). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Atticus Finch (pictured), a lawyer attempting to exonerate a black man wrongly accused of rape, in the courtroom drama To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). The role topped the AFI's 50 Greatest Screen Heroes. Peck made his television debut in 1982 by appearing as President Abraham Lincoln in the miniseries The Blue and the Gray. (Full list...)
September 23
Emmanuel Adebayor scored 32 international goals during his career as a forward for the Togo national football team, making him the country's all-time top scorer. Born in the capital city of Lomé, Adebayor represented Togo in 87 FIFA-recognised matches between 2000 and 2019. He made his international debut against Zambia in July 2000 and scored his first goal two years later against Mauritania at the Stade de Kégué. Adebayor's only international hat-trick came against Swaziland (now Eswatini) in October 2008, in which he scored four goals during a match in Accra, Ghana. Adebayor represented Togo at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, the country's only appearance in the tournament as of 2024, and he played in several Africa Cup of Nations tournaments. He scored his last goal for Togo during his final appearance in a 2–1 defeat against neighbouring Benin in March 2019. Adebayor is revered as a Togolese sporting legend and is often regarded as one of the best African players of his generation. (Full list...)
September 27
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The 2021 spy film No Time to Die won 24 awards from 64 nominations, with particular recognition for its visual and sound effects, and acting. Based on the Ian Fleming character James Bond, the film received three nominations at the 94th Academy Awards, including Best Visual Effects. "No Time to Die", composed by Billie Eilish (pictured) and Finneas O'Connell, became the third consecutive theme song from a film starring Daniel Craig as Bond to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song. At the 75th British Academy Film Awards, No Time to Die was nominated for Outstanding British Film, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, and Best Special Visual Effects; and won Best Editing. It received two nominations at the 27th Critics' Choice Awards and won Best Song. Eilish and O'Connell won Best Original Song at the 79th Golden Globe Awards. (Full list...)
September 30
The national symbols of Nigeria are symbols used to represent the country, its culture, and its people. These include the Nigerian national flag, coat of arms (pictured), national anthem, and various emblems and celebrations that reflect Nigeria's heritage and identity. The national anthem, initially "Nigeria, We Hail Thee", was replaced with "Arise, O Compatriots" in 1978, and re-adopted in 2024. Independence Day, Armed Forces Remembrance Day, and Democracy Day are among Nigeria's most important national days, each marking notable events in the country's history. The use of these symbols is governed by law and often carries cultural and historical meanings. (Full list...)