The Yugoslav torpedo boat T5 was a sea-going torpedo boat operated by
the Royal Yugoslav Navy between 1921 and 1941. Originally 87 F, a 250t-
class torpedo boat of the Austro-Hungarian Navy commissioned on 25
October 1915 during World War I, she was armed with two 66 mm
(2.6 in) guns and four 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes. Following
Austria-Hungary's defeat in 1918, 87 F was allocated to what became the
Royal Yugoslav Navy, and was renamed T5. The ship was captured by the
Italians during the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April
1941. After her main armament was modernised, she served with the Royal
Italian Navy under the Yugoslav designation, conducting coastal and
second-line escort duties in the Adriatic Sea. Following the Italian
capitulation in September 1943, the ship was returned to the Royal
Yugoslav Navy-in-exile and served as T5. At the end of the war she was
transferred to the new Yugoslav Navy and served as Cer, and in 1962 was
broken up.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_torpedo_boat_T5>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1854:
Crimean War: Lord Cardigan led his cavalry on a disastrous
assault in the Battle of Balaclava.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Balaclava>
1924:
The Daily Mail published the Zinoviev letter, purportedly a
directive from Moscow to increase communist agitation, pushing the
Conservative Party to a landslide victory in the UK general election
four days later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinoviev_letter>
1950:
Korean War: The People's Volunteer Army ambushed the South
Korean II Corps and elsewhere engaged the 1st Infantry Division, marking
China's entry into the war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Unsan>
2001:
Windows XP, one of the most popular and widely used versions of
the Microsoft Windows operating system, was released for retail sale.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
patronize:
1. (transitive) To make a patron.
2. (transitive) To act as a patron; to defend, protect, or support.
3. (transitive) To assume a tone of unjustified superiority; to talk
down to, to treat condescendingly.
4. (transitive) To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a
regular customer.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To blame, to reproach.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/patronize>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If government, or those in positions of power and authority, can
silence criticism by the argument that such criticism might be
misunderstood somewhere, there is an end to all criticism, and perhaps
an end to our kind of political system. For men in authority will always
think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always
equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
--Henry Steele Commager
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Steele_Commager>