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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Kronprinz>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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