Hyūga was the second of two Ise-class battleships built for the
Imperial Japanese Navy during the 1910s. The battleship supported
Japanese forces in the early 1920s during the Siberian intervention in
the Russian Civil War, and assisted survivors of the Great Kantō
earthquake in 1923. The ship was partially modernised between 1927 and
1932 and rebuilt in the pagoda mast style, with further improvements in
1934–1936. Hyūga played a minor role in the Second Sino-Japanese War,
but was considered obsolete by the eve of the Pacific War. Following the
loss of most of the navy's large aircraft carriers during the Battle of
Midway in mid-1942, the battleship was rebuilt with a flight deck, but
lacked aircraft and qualified pilots throughout the war. In late 1944
the ship helped to decoy an American carrier fleet away from the landing
beaches at Leyte. Hyūga was sunk during American airstrikes in July
1945. (This article is part of a featured topic: Battleships of
Japan.).
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1820:
A Russian expedition led by naval officers Fabian Gottlieb von
Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev became the first explorers to sight
the coast of Antarctica.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica>
1945:
The Soviet Red Army liberated about 7,000 prisoners left behind
by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp (entrance pictured), in
present-day Oświęcim, Poland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp>
1980:
Assisted by Canadian government officials, six American
diplomats who had avoided capture in the Iran hostage crisis escaped to
Zürich, Switzerland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Caper>
2010:
Porfirio Lobo Sosa became the new President of Honduras, ending
the constitutional crisis that had begun in 2009 when Manuel Zelaya was
forcibly removed from office.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Honduran_constitutional_crisis>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
looking glass:
1. A piece of glass with a reflective surface that one may look into to
see an image of oneself; a mirror.
2. A way into a bizarre world.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/looking_glass>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When I was young, my mindset was image, image, image. I took that
approach with the media. As I became more experienced I realized: No
matter what, people are going to like you or not like you. So be
authentic, and let them like you or not for who you actually are. At
that point, I started keeping all of my answers blunt and
straightforward. I would mix in some humor and sarcasm, too. I think
fans and reporters came to appreciate that, came to appreciate the real
me.
--Kobe Bryant
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kobe_Bryant>