USS Oberrender (DE-344) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort
built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was named
for Lieutenant Commander Thomas Olin Oberrender, Jr., the engineering
officer of the light cruiser USS Juneau, killed when that ship was
torpedoed and sunk during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. Laid down in
November 1943, launched in January 1944, and commissioned almost four
months later, Oberrender commenced convoy escort duty in the Pacific in
late 1944, with an interlude protecting escort carriers during the early
stages of the invasion of Leyte. She was heavily damaged by the
explosion of the ammunition ship USS Mount Hood at Manus and was
repaired there during November. Returning to service in December,
Oberrender served on anti-submarine patrol during the Battle of Okinawa,
during which she was irreparably damaged by a kamikaze attack in early
May 1945. She was decommissioned and sunk as a target late that year.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Oberrender>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1915:
World War I: British forces launched the Battle of Aubers
Ridge, an offensive on the Western Front, as part of the larger Second
Battle of Artois.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Artois>
1960:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it would
approve the use of Searle's Enovid, the first combined oral
contraceptive pill (example pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_oral_contraceptive_pill>
2018:
The Barisan Nasional coalition, which had governed Malaysia
since independence in 1957, was voted out of power.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Malaysian_general_election>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
system:
1. A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships
among its members.
2. (derogatory) Preceded by the word the: the mainstream culture,
controlled by the elites or government of a state, or a combination of
them, seen as oppressive to the individual.
3. (computing) A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.
4. (mathematics) A set of equations involving the same variables, which
are to be solved simultaneously.
5. (music) A set of staves linked by a brace that indicate instruments
or sounds that are to be played simultaneously.
6. (physiology) A set of body organs having a particular function.
7. A method or way of organizing or planning.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/system>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
No one knows toward what center human things are going to
gravitate in the near future, and hence the life of the world has become
scandalously provisional. Everything that today is done in public and in
private — even in one's inner conscience — is provisional, the only
exception being certain portions of certain sciences. He will be a wise
man who puts no trust in all that is proclaimed, upheld, essayed, and
lauded at the present day. All that will disappear as quickly as it
came. All of it, from the mania for physical sports (the mania, not the
sports themselves) to political violence; from "new art" to sun-baths at
idiotic fashionable watering-places. Nothing of all that has any roots;
it is all pure invention, in the bad sense of the word, which makes it
equivalent to fickle caprice. It is not a creation based on the solid
substratum of life; it is not a genuine impulse or need. In a word, from
the point of view of life it is false. We are in presence of the
contradiction of a style of living which cultivates sincerity and is at
the same time a fraud. There is truth only in an existence which feels
its acts as irrevocably necessary.
--José Ortega y Gasset
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ortega_y_Gasset>
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