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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadran_%28training_ship%29>
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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>
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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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Wikiquote quote of the day:
What you’re engaged in is much more than just whether or not
you can alleviate the pain and suffering of the people of Ukraine.
We’re in a new phase — your generation. We’re at an inflection
point. About every four or five generations, there comes along a change
— a fundamental change takes place. The world ain’t going to be the
same — not because of Ukraine, but — not going to be the same 10, 15
years from now in terms of our organizational structures. So the
question is: Who is going to prevail? Are democracies going to prevail
... and the values we share? Or are autocracies going to prevail? And
that’s really what’s at stake. So what you’re doing is
consequential — really consequential.
--Joe Biden
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joe_Biden>