Albatros was the fourth of six Type 23 torpedo boats (schematic shown)
built for the German Navy. Launched in July 1926 and commissioned in May
1927, she often served as a flagship of various torpedo boat units. The
ship made multiple non-intervention patrols during the Spanish Civil War
in the late 1930s. After an attack by aircraft of the Spanish Republican
Air Force that killed German sailors in 1937, Albatros participated in
the retaliatory bombardment of Almería. At the beginning of World
War II in 1939, she helped to lay minefields and made anti-shipping
patrols before participating in Operation Weserübung, the German
invasion of Norway in April 1940. Albatros fired the first shots of the
campaign when she encountered and crippled a Norwegian patrol boat. She
was lightly damaged during the Battle of Horten Harbor. Albatros then
ran aground and was wrecked while maneuvering in an attempt to avoid
Norwegian coastal artillery.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_torpedo_boat_Albatros>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1865:
Uruguayan War: Brazilian and Colorado Party forces captured the
city of Paysandú from its Uruguayan defenders.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Paysand%C3%BA>
1920:
Under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer,
U.S. Department of Justice agents launched a series of raids against
radical leftists and anarchists in more than 30 cities and towns across
23 states.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Raids>
1959:
The Soviet spacecraft Luna 1 (replica pictured), the first
spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon, was launched by a Vostok
rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_1>
1976:
An extratropical cyclone began affecting parts of western
Europe, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern portions of
the North Sea and leading to at least 82 deaths over the next few days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_of_January_1976>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tumultuous:
1. Characterized by loud, confused noise.
2. Causing or characterized by tumult; chaotic, disorderly, turbulent.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tumultuous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will
understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves... You
show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you
someone who has built up a false image of himself.
--Isaac Asimov
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov>