SMS Lützow was the second Derfflinger-class battlecruiser built by the German Imperial Navy before World War I. Launched on 29 November 1913, the ship was named in honor of the Prussian general Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. Due to engine damage during trials, Lützow did not join the I Scouting Group until March 1916. She missed most of the major actions conducted by the German battlecruiser force, taking part in only one bombardment operation, at Yarmouth and Lowestoft, on 24–25 April 1916. One month after becoming Admiral Franz von Hipper's flagship, Lützow sank the British battlecruiser HMS Invincible during the Battle of Jutland (31 May – 1 June); she is sometimes given credit for sinking the armored cruiser HMS Defence as well. Heavily damaged by around 24 heavy-caliber shell hits that flooded her bow, the ship was unable to make the return voyage to German ports. Her crew was evacuated and she was sunk by torpedoes fired by one of her escorts, the torpedo boat G38.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1549:
After the death of Pope Paul III, a papal conclave with an unprecedented number of cardinal electors convened to determine his successor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_conclave,_1549%E2%80%9350
1899:
FC Barcelona, one of the most successful clubs in Spanish football, was founded by Swiss football pioneer Joan Gamper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Barcelona
1929:
American explorer Richard E. Byrd and three others completed the first flight over the South Pole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_E._Byrd
1963:
Five minutes after takeoff from Montreal, Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashed, killing all 118 people aboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Canada_Air_Lines_Flight_831
2012:
The United Nations General Assembly voted to accord non-member observer state status to Palestine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_resolution_67/19
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
pink-collar: Of or pertaining to employees in predominately female service industries. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pink-collar
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. --C. S. Lewis https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis
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