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Day Trip Festival 2026

Day Trip Festival 2026 was the sixth edition of Insomniac's house, disco, and techno festival, held June 27–28, 2026 at the Queen Mary Waterfront in Long Beach, California.

Day Tripper

Day Tripper: 1965 Beatles double A-side single (with We Can Work It Out), riff-driven rock song written by Lennon-McCartney at Kenwood, recorded 16 October 1965, UK number one and US number five.

Day Watch (Дневной Дозор)

Day Watch (Дневной Дозор) is a 2006 Russian urban fantasy film directed by Timur Bekmambetov, a sequel to Night Watch set in a Moscow divided between forces of Light and Darkness.

Day-care sex-abuse hysteria

Day-care sex-abuse hysteria was a wave of U.S. prosecutions in the 1980s and early 1990s involving day-care workers accused of sexual abuse, often in satanic or ritualized ceremonies.

Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)

Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) is a Jamaican call-and-response dock work song, rooted in mento, made world-famous by Harry Belafonte's 1956 recording on the million-selling album Calypso.

Day/night cricket

Day/night cricket plays afternoon-to-evening under floodlights with a pink (Test) or white (limited-overs) ball; first day/night ODI Sydney 1979, first day–night Test Adelaide Oval, Australia v New Zealand, 27 November 2015.

Day6 (데이식스)

Day6 (데이식스) is a South Korean pop rock band under JYP Entertainment that debuted September 7, 2015; current members Sungjin, Young K, Wonpil, and Dowoon write and play their own music, known for the Every DAY6 project, The Book of Us series, and Fourever.

DAY6-Even of Day-

DAY6 (Even of Day) is the first sub-unit of the South Korean band DAY6, a JYP Entertainment trio of Young K, Wonpil, and Dowoon that debuted in 2020.

Daya (singer)

Daya (Grace Martine Tandon), American pop singer from Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania; Hindi translation of her name Grace. Broke out with "Hide Away" (2015), won a 2017 Grammy for "Don't Let Me Down" with the Chainsmokers, and released the album Til Every Petal Drops in 2025.

Dayā Bāī

Dayā Bāī was an Indian saint poet and disciple of Sant Charandas in the Charandasi tradition, known for her Hindi devotional works Dayabodh and Vinay Malika.

Dayā Bāl

Dayā Bāl (दया बाल) is an unattested name for a supposed 18th-century bhakti poet; no manuscript, sectarian record, or scholarly publication confirms that such a figure existed.

Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant

The Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant (大亚湾核电站) is a two-reactor station in Guangdong, China, and China's first large-scale commercial nuclear power plant, supplying much of its power to Hong Kong.

Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment

The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment was a neutrino-oscillation experiment in Guangdong, China, that made the world's first conclusive measurement of the mixing angle θ₁₃ in 2012.

Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment (大亚湾反应堆中微子实验)

The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment (大亚湾反应堆中微子实验) was a neutrino-oscillation experiment in Guangdong, China, that made the first nonzero measurement of the mixing angle θ13 in 2012.

Daya Jethalal Gada

Daya Jethalal Gada, or Dayaben, is the Gujarati homemaker character in the sitcom Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah (2008), played by Disha Vakani; wife of Jethalal, Garba-loving, catchphrase "Hey Ma! Mataji!", absent from the show since 2020.

Daya Nayak

Daya Nayak (दया नायक), Mumbai Police encounter specialist who joined in 1995, credited with about 83 gangster killings; suspended over a 2006 disproportionate-assets case, reinstated 2012 and 2016, retired as ACP on 31 July 2025; basis of the film Ab Tak Chhappan.

Daya Pawar

Daya Pawar (दया पवार), born Dagdu Maruti Pawar, was a Marathi writer, poet, and critic, a leading figure of Dalit literature in Maharashtra known for the autobiography Baluta.

Daya Ram Sahni

Daya Ram Sahni was an Indian archaeologist who directed the first excavations at Harappa in 1921, leading to the identification of the Indus Valley Civilisation.

Daya Ram Thapar

Daya Ram Thapar (1894–1965) was an Indian military physician who served in the Indian Medical Service and retired as Director General of the Armed Forces Medical Services of India.

Daya Shankar Naseem

Daya Shankar Naseem (دیا شنکر نسیم, 1811–1843) was an Urdu poet of the Lucknow school and a Kashmiri Pandit, best known for the allegorical masnavi Gulzar-i Naseem.

Dayaa

Dayaa (2023) is a Telugu-language crime thriller web series directed by Pavan Sadineni, a Disney+ Hotstar adaptation of the Bangladeshi show Taqdeer, starring J. D. Chakravarthy as a freezer van driver who finds a journalist's body in his van; 8 episodes, IMDb 6.2.

Dāyabhāga (दायभाग)

Dāyabhāga (दायभाग) is Jīmūtavāhana's 12th-century Sanskrit digest founding the Bengal school of Hindu law, governing Bengal and Assam, with inheritance by religious efficacy and ownership arising only at the owner's death, unlike the Mitākṣarā.

Dayak people

Dayak: umbrella exonym for the indigenous, largely non-Muslim peoples of Borneo, covering 200+ ethnic groups (Iban, Ngaju, Maanyan, Modang, Basap and others) with often mutually unintelligible languages, Christian or Kaharingan religion, longhouse society, and contested customary land rights.

Dayak Unity Party

The Dayak Unity Party, Partai Persatuan Dayak, was an ethnic-based regional political party in Indonesia representing the non-Islamic Dayaks of West Kalimantan from 1946 until its dissolution around 1961.

Dayaldas Baghel

Dayaldas Baghel, born in 1954, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician and minister in the Chhattisgarh government, representing the Nawagarh constituency in the state legislative assembly.

Dayaldas ri Khyat

Dayaldas ri Khyat (दयालदास री ख्यात), also known as Bikaner Rai Rathodan Ri Khyat, is a Rajasthani chronicle of the Rathore dynasty by Dayaldas Sindhayach.

Dayan Calendar

The Dayan Calendar (大衍历), or Kaiyuan Dayan Calendar, was the official Tang dynasty calendar composed by the monk Yi Xing under Emperor Xuanzong, promulgated in 728.

Dayan Khan

Dayan Khan (达延汗), born Batu Möngke, was a Mongol khan of the Borjigin lineage who acceded in 1479, reunified the eastern Mongols, and reorganized them into six hereditary tumens.

Dayan Khan's reunification of Mongolia

Dayan Khan's reunification of Mongolia was Dayan Khan's restoration of centralized khaghan authority over the eastern Mongols from 1479, ending a century of fragmentation and creating the Six Tümens.

Dayana Mendoza

Dayana Mendoza, full name Dayana Sabrina Mendoza Moncada, is a Venezuelan model who won Miss Venezuela 2007 and Miss Universe 2008, the fifth Venezuelan to hold the title.