SMS Friedrich der Grosse was the second vessel of the Kaiser class of battleships of the German Imperial Navy. She was commissioned into the fleet on 15 October 1912. Assigned to the III Squadron of the High Seas Fleet for the majority of World War I, she served as fleet flagship from her commissioning until 1917. The ship participated in all the major fleet operations of World War I, including the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916, from which she emerged unscathed. After Germany's defeat and the signing of the armistice in November 1918, Friedrich der Grosse and most of the capital ships of the High Seas Fleet were interned by the British Royal Navy in Scapa Flow. On 21 June 1919, days before the Treaty of Versailles was signed, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter ordered the fleet to be scuttled to ensure that the British could not seize the ships. Friedrich der Grosse was raised in 1936 and broken up for scrap metal.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1582:

Spain, Portugal, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and most of the Italian states became the first countries to replace the Julian calendar with the Gregorian calendar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

1764:

English historian Edward Gibbon observed friars singing Vespers at Capitoline Hill in Rome, inspiring him to write The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon

1932:

Air India, the flag carrier airline of India, began operations as Tata Airlines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India

1945:

Pierre Laval, twice head of government of Vichy France, was executed for high treason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Laval

1965:

Vietnam War protests: The Catholic Worker Movement staged an anti-war rally in Manhattan, including the burning of draft cards, the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft-card_burning

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

allomother: A human or other animal that provides some maternal care for the young born by another. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/allomother

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

There are no facts, only interpretations. --Friedrich Nietzsche https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche