Pobeda was the last of the three Peresvet-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century. Launched on 10 May 1900, the ship was assigned to the Pacific Squadron upon completion, and in 1903 was based at Port Arthur. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, she participated in the battles of Port Arthur and the Yellow Sea. Having escaped serious damage in these engagements, Pobeda was sunk by gunfire during the Siege of Port Arthur, and then salvaged by the Japanese and placed into service under the name Suwo. Rearmed and re-boilered by the Japanese, Suwo was classified by the Imperial Japanese Navy as a coastal defense ship in 1908 and served as a training ship for several years. She was the flagship of the Japanese squadron at the Battle of Tsingtao at the beginning of World War I and continued in that role until she became a gunnery training ship in 1917. The ship was disarmed in 1922 to comply with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty and probably scrapped around that time.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

28 BC:

The first precisely dated observation of a sunspot was made by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_of_the_Han_dynasty

1775:

American Revolutionary War: A small force of American Patriots led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captured, without significant injury or incident, the small British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga in New York. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Fort_Ticonderoga

1916:

Ernest Shackleton and five companions completed one of history's greatest small-boat journeys (launch pictured) when they arrived at South Georgia after sailing 800 nautical miles (1,500 km) in a lifeboat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_of_the_James_Caird

1941:

World War II: Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess parachuted into Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Hess

1997:

A 7.3 Mw earthquake struck Iran's Khorasan Province, killing at least 1,567, injuring around 2,300, and damaging or destroying more than 15,000 homes, to leave 50,000 homeless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Qayen_earthquake

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

comminution: 1. (often mining, waste management) The breaking or grinding up of a material to form smaller particles. 2. (traumatology) The fracture of a bone site in multiple pieces (technically, at least three); crumbling. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comminution

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

I know idealism is not playing on the radio right now, you don't see it on TV, irony is on heavy rotation, the knowingness, the smirk, the tired joke. I've tried them all out but I'll tell you this, outside this campus — and even inside it — idealism is under siege — beset by materialism, narcissism and all the other isms of indifference. Baggism, Shaggism. Raggism. Notism, graduationism, chismism, I don't know. Where's John Lennon when you need him?   --Bono https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bono