SMS Friedrich der Grosse was the second vessel of the Kaiser class of
battleships of the German Imperial Navy. She was commissioned into the
fleet on 15 October 1912. Assigned to the III Squadron of the High Seas
Fleet for the majority of World War I, she served as fleet flagship
from her commissioning until 1917. The ship participated in all the
major fleet operations of World War I, including the Battle of Jutland
on 31 May – 1 June 1916, from which she emerged unscathed. After
Germany's defeat and the signing of the armistice in November 1918,
Friedrich der Grosse and most of the capital ships of the High Seas
Fleet were interned by the British Royal Navy in Scapa Flow. On 21 June
1919, days before the Treaty of Versailles was signed, Rear Admiral
Ludwig von Reuter ordered the fleet to be scuttled to ensure that the
British could not seize the ships. Friedrich der Grosse was raised in
1936 and broken up for scrap metal.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1582:
Spain, Portugal, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and most
of the Italian states became the first countries to replace the Julian
calendar with the Gregorian calendar.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar>
1764:
English historian Edward Gibbon observed friars singing Vespers
at Capitoline Hill in Rome, inspiring him to write The History of the
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon>
1932:
Air India, the flag carrier airline of India, began operations
as Tata Airlines.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India>
1945:
Pierre Laval, twice head of government of Vichy France, was
executed for high treason.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Laval>
1965:
Vietnam War protests: The Catholic Worker Movement staged an
anti-war rally in Manhattan, including the burning of draft cards, the
first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the
Selective Service Act.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft-card_burning>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
allomother:
A human or other animal that provides some maternal care for the young
born by another.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/allomother>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There are no facts, only interpretations.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche>