The Moltke-class battlecruisers were a class of two "all-big-gun" battlecruisers of the Imperial German Navy built between 1909 and 1911. Named SMS Moltke and SMS Goeben, they were similar to the previous battlecruiser Von der Tann, but the Moltke class was slightly larger, faster, and better armored, and had an additional pair of 28 cm (11 in) guns. Both ships served during World War I. Moltke participated in several major battles with the rest of the High Seas Fleet, including the battles of Dogger Bank and Jutland in the North Sea, and the Battle of the Gulf of Riga and Operation Albion in the Baltic Sea. At the end of the war, Moltke was interned with the majority of the High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow while the ships' fate was being discussed during peace treaty negotiations. The ships were scuttled on 21 June 1919 by the Germans crewing them to prevent seizure of the ships by the Allies. (This article is part of two featured topics: Battlecruisers of the world and Battlecruisers of Germany.).
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1612:
Galileo Galilei became the first person to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune
1908:
An earthquake registering 7.1 Mw struck near Messina, which, along with the subsequent tsunami, killed at least 75,000 people in southern Italy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_Messina_earthquake
1925:
The Tokyo Grand Sumo Association became the All Japan Sumo Association at the instigation of Prince-Regent Hirohito, laying the foundations for the world's sole professional sumo association. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Sumo_Association
2014:
Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashed into the Java Sea after the pilots mishandled a non-critical error in the cockpit, which resulted in all 162 people on board being killed in the crash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia_AirAsia_Flight_8501
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preantepenultimate: 1. (chiefly biology, phonetics) Three before the end; fourth to last. 2. (phonetics, obsolete, rare) Synonym of preantepenult (“the last syllable but three of a word or other utterance; the fourth-to-last syllable”). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/preantepenultimate
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