SMS Kronprinz (Crown Prince) was the last battleship of the four-ship König class of the Imperial German Navy, laid down in 1911 and launched on 21 February 1914. The ship was armed with ten 30.5-centimeter (12.0 in) guns in five twin turrets and could steam at a top speed of 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph). Along with her three sister ships, König, Grosser Kurfürst and Markgraf, Kronprinz took part in most of the World War I fleet actions, including the 1916 Battle of Jutland. She was torpedoed by the British submarine HMS J1 in November 1916 during an operation off the Danish coast. Following repairs, she participated in Operation Albion, an amphibious assault in the Baltic, in October 1917. After Germany's defeat in the war and the signing of the Armistice in November 1918, Kronprinz and most of the capital ships of the High Seas Fleet were interned by the Royal Navy in Scapa Flow, and later scuttled by their German crews.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1828:

The inaugural issue of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first newspaper in a Native American language, was published. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_Phoenix

1919:

Bavarian socialist Kurt Eisner, who had organized the German Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy and established Bavaria as a republic, was assassinated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Eisner

1929:

In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlord_Rebellion_in_northeastern_Shandong

1973:

After accidentally having strayed into Israeli-occupied airspace, Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by two Israeli fighter aircraft, killing 108. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Arab_Airlines_Flight_114

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

analphabet: A person who does not know the letters of the alphabet; a partly or wholly illiterate person. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/analphabet

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed. But paradoxically, we create fiction out of human concern for the victims of the revelations. This concern is at the root of literature.   --Anaïs Nin https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin