SMS Wörth was one of four German pre-dreadnought battleships of the Brandenburg class, the first ocean-going battleships built by the Imperial German Navy. Laid down at the Germaniawerft dockyard in Kiel, the ship was launched on 6 August 1892 and commissioned into the fleet in October 1893. Like her sister ships, Wörth carried six heavy guns rather than the standard four. She was named for the Battle of Wörth fought in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War. Wörth participated in the normal peacetime routine of training cruises and exercises. She took part in the German naval expedition to China in 1900 to suppress the Boxer Rebellion but saw little direct action, since the siege of Peking had already been lifted by the time the fleet arrived. Obsolete by the start of World War I, the battleship served as a coastal defense ship for the first two years of the war, but saw no action. Wörth was reduced to a barracks ship by 1916, and was scrapped in the port of Danzig in 1919.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1964:
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, outlawing literacy tests and other discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for widespread disfranchisement of African Americans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965
1997:
On approach to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport in Guam, Korean Air Flight 801 crashed into a hill, killing 228 of the 254 people aboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_801
2008:
Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was ousted from power by a group of high-ranking generals that he had dismissed from office several hours earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mauritanian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
2011:
Following the death of a Tottenham man by the Metropolitan Police of London, thousands of mostly young males rioted in several London boroughs and in cities and towns across England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_England_riots
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klaxon: A loud electric alarm or horn. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/klaxon
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