Jadran is a sailing ship for basic naval training built in Germany for the Royal Yugoslav Navy and currently in Montenegrin service. Commissioned in 1933, she completed seven long training cruises before World War II. During the war, she continued as a training ship, first by the Yugoslavians, but later by the Italians and then the Germans. Looted and dilapidated, she was returned to the new Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1946 and was rebuilt. Between 1949 and 1991, training was mainly conducted in the Adriatic, and she undertook only five long-distance cruises. When the Yugoslav Wars commenced in 1991, Jadran was homeported at Split but was undergoing a refit at Tivat in the Bay of Kotor and came under the control of rump Yugoslavia. In 2006, Montenegro became independent, and Jadran became a ship of the Montenegrin Navy. Her ownership remains disputed between Montenegro and Croatia; in December 2021, the two countries agreed to form a commission to settle the dispute.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1885:
Perceiving that the Canadian government was failing to protect their rights, the Métis people led by Louis Riel began the North-West Rebellion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-West_Rebellion
1913:
First Balkan War: After a five-month siege, Bulgarian and Serbian forces (artillery pictured) captured the Ottoman city of Adrianople. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Adrianople_%281912%E2%80%931913%29
1975:
The Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of an entire category of weapons, entered into force. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_Weapons_Convention
1997:
Police in Rancho Santa Fe, California, discovered the bodies of 39 members of the religious group Heaven's Gate who had died in an apparent cult suicide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_%28religious_group%29
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
felicitous: 1. Characterized by felicity. 2. Appropriate, apt, fitting. 3. Auspicious, fortunate, lucky. 4. Causing happiness or pleasure. 5. (linguistics) Of a sentence or utterance: semantically and pragmatically coherent; fitting in the context. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/felicitous
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