The Tosa-class battleships were two dreadnoughts ordered by the Imperial
Japanese Navy during the early 1920s. The ships were larger versions of
the preceding Nagato class, and carried an additional 41-centimeter
(16.1 in) twin-gun turret; their design served as a basis for the
Amagi-class battlecruisers. The first ship, Tosa, was canceled according
to the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty before it could be
completed, and was used in experiments testing the effectiveness of its
armor scheme before being scuttled in the Bungo Channel. The hull of the
second ship, Kaga (model pictured), was converted into an aircraft
carrier of the same name. The carrier supported Japanese troops in China
during the Second Sino-Japanese War of the late 1930s, and took part in
the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and the invasion of Rabaul
in the Southwest Pacific in January 1942. The following month her
aircraft participated in a combined carrier airstrike on Darwin,
Australia, during the Dutch East Indies campaign. She was sunk during
the Battle of Midway in 1942.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosa-class_battleship>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
630:
Byzantine emperor Heraclius restored the True Cross to
Jerusalem.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross>
1556:
Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer (pictured), one of the
founders of Anglicanism, was burnt at the stake in Oxford, England, for
heresy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cranmer>
1871:
Founder of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck was proclaimed
as its first Chancellor.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck>
1945:
World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully
defended the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the
Transdanubian Hills concluded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Transdanubian_Hills>
2002:
British schoolgirl Amanda Dowler was abducted on her way home
from Heathside School in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Milly_Dowler>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
itchy trigger finger:
(idiomatic) A tendency to act in haste or without consideration.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/itchy_trigger_finger>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Is it so small a thing To have enjoy’d the sun, To have lived
light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done; To
have advanc’d true friends, and beat down baffling foes?
--Matthew Arnold
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Matthew_Arnold>