The ship that became the Yugoslav monitor Sava began as SMS Bodrog, a river monitor built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy. She and two other monitors fired the first shots of World War I on the night of 28 July 1914, when they shelled Serbian defences near Belgrade. She fought the Serbian and Romanian armies during the war, and was captured in its closing stages. She was transferred to the newly created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia), and renamed Sava. During the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, she fought off several air attacks, but was scuttled on 11 April. Sava was later raised by the Independent State of Croatia, an Axis puppet state, and continued to serve under that name until 1944 when she was again scuttled. Following World War II, Sava was raised again, and was refurbished to serve in the Yugoslav Navy from 1952 to 1962. After that she became a commercial gravel barge. In 2005, the government of Serbia granted her limited heritage protection after citizens demanded that she be preserved as a floating museum.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1794:
French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, architects of the Reign of Terror, were executed after having been arrested the previous day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Antoine_de_Saint-Just
1821:
Peruvian War of Independence: Argentine general José de San Martín declared the independence of Peru from Spain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_de_San_Mart%C3%ADn
1939:
During an excavation of a ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England, archæologists discovered a helmet likely belonging to King Rædwald of East Anglia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo_helmet
1995:
Two followers of Rajneesh were convicted for the attempted assassination of the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Rajneeshee_assassination_plot
2010:
In the deadliest air accident in Pakistan's history, Airblue Flight 202 crashed into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, killing all 152 aboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airblue_Flight_202
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
in silico: (computing, sciences) In computer simulation or in virtual reality. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_silico
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne’er hung there. Nor does long our small Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep, Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all Life death does end and each day dies with sleep. --Gerard Manley Hopkins https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gerard_Manley_Hopkins