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Adele in 2016

"Easy on Me" is a song by English singer Adele from her fourth studio album, 30 (2021). Adele wrote the song with its producer, Greg Kurstin. Columbia Records released it as the album's lead single on 15 October 2021. A torch ballad, "Easy on Me" places emphasis on Adele's vocals over piano instrumentation. In the song, she addresses her divorce and pleads for forgiveness and understanding. It received positive reviews from music critics, who praised her vocals and the lyrics. "Easy on Me" won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance and the Brit Award for Song of the Year. The song reached number one on the charts in several countries. Xavier Dolan directed the music video, which references previous Adele videos and depicts her moving out of the house featured in the "Hello" music video. She performed it at the NRJ Music Awards, on her television specials, and at the concert residency Weekends with Adele. Many artists sang cover versions of it. (This article is part of a featured topic: 30 (album).)

Tomato soup cake

• ... that tomato soup cake (pictured) became popular during the Great Depression?
• ... that Australian Laura Davoli was one of two UT Arlington players at the 2026 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships?
• ... that a 14-year-old from Aberystwyth shaved his head to raise money for Latch Wales in support of a friend with kidney cancer?
• ... that Estanis Condori began taking part in peasant leadership while in intermediate school, and led his town's trade union before the age of 20?
• ... that in 2023, the Indian Space Research Organisation became the first national space agency to land a spacecraft successfully near the lunar south pole?
• ... that a book edited by Laurence Stapleton was compared to "bittersweet European chocolate"?
• ... that an Indonesian artist collective hired a gravestone maker to help teach sculpture?
• ... that award-winning film director Ross McDonnell was temporarily jailed by the Taliban?
• ... that Seven Bridges Trail has ten bridges?

King Khalid International Airport

• The Houthis launch a series of attacks on Saudi Arabian airports, including King Khalid International Airport (satellite image shown), killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 370 others.
• South African jurist Navi Pillay is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• Canadian poet Anne Carson is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• American software engineer Margaret Hamilton dies at the age of 90.

October 15

Air India Boeing 747

• 1815 – Napoleon began his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, which would encompass his final six years.
• 1932 – Air India (modern aircraft pictured), the flag carrier airline of India, began operations under the name Tata Airlines.
• 1954 – Hurricane Hazel made landfall in the Carolinas in the United States before moving north to Toronto in Canada later the same day, killing 176 people in the two countries.
• 1996 – The Irish Criminal Assets Bureau was established following the gangland murders of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe and investigative journalist Veronica Guerin.
• 2006 – An earthquake registering 6.7 M_w occurred off the northwestern coast of the island of Hawaiʻi.