Kaga was an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Originally
intended to be one of two Tosa-class battleships, Kaga was converted
under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty into an aircraft carrier
as the replacement for the battlecruiser Amagi, which had been damaged
during the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake. Kaga's aircraft first supported
Japanese troops in China during the Shanghai Incident of 1932 and
participated in the Second Sino-Japanese War in the late 1930s. With
other carriers, she took part in the Pearl Harbor raid in December 1941
and the invasion of Rabaul in the Southwest Pacific in January 1942. The
following month her aircraft participated in a [[combined carrier
airstrike on Darwin, Australia, helping secure the conquest of the Dutch
East Indies by Japanese forces. During the Battle of Midway in June,
Kaga and the other carriers were attacked by American aircraft from
Midway Atoll and the carriers Enterprise, Hornet, and Yorktown. Dive
bombers from Enterprise severely damaged Kaga; when it became obvious
she could not be saved, she was scuttled by Japanese destroyers to
prevent her from falling into enemy hands. In 1999, debris from Kaga was
located on the ocean floor; the main body of the carrier has not yet
been found.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Kaga>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1792:
Royal Navy Captain George Vancouver claimed Puget Sound in the
Pacific Northwest for Great Britain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puget_Sound>
1920:
The Kingdom of Hungary was split into five countries with the
signing of the Treaty of Trianon in Paris.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Trianon>
1939:
The German ocean liner St. Louis, carrying 937 Jewish refugees
seeking political asylum from Nazi persecution, was denied permission to
land in the United States, after already having been turned away from
Cuba.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis>
1987:
American intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard pleaded guilty
to charges of spying for Israel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard>
1989:
The People's Liberation Army violently cracked down on the
Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, leaving at least 241 dead and
7,000 wounded, and causing widespread international condemnation of the
Chinese government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sexton:
A church official who looks after a church and its graveyard and may act
as a gravedigger and bell-ringer.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sexton>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks
and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
--Robert Fulghum
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