Nagato was a super-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, completed in 1920 as the lead ship of her class. She carried supplies for the survivors of the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923. The ship briefly participated in the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 and was the flagship of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, but did not participate in the attack itself. Apart from picking up survivors after the Battle of Midway, the ship spent most of the first two years of the Pacific War training in home waters. She was attacked by American aircraft in the Battle of the Philippine Sea, but did not fire her main armament against enemy vessels until the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944. She was lightly damaged during the battle, but the navy was running out of fuel and did not fully repair her. The only Japanese battleship to survive World War II, the ship was sunk in mid-1946 by nuclear weapon tests during Operation Crossroads.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1880:

At an assembly of 10,000 Boers, Paul Kruger announced the fulfilment of the decision to restore the South African Republic government and volksraad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kruger

1963:

After being hit by a lightning strike while in a holding pattern, Pan Am Flight 214 crashed near Elkton, Maryland, U.S., killing all 81 people on board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_214

1998:

The Australian Cricket Board's cover-up of Shane Warne and Mark Waugh's involvement with bookmakers was revealed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_bookmaker_controversy

2013:

After a fatal car accident in the Little India region of Singapore, angry mobs of passers-by attacked the bus involved and emergency vehicles, the first riot in the country in over 40 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Little_India_riot

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

irregardless: (nonstandard, proscribed, sometimes humorous) Irrespective, regardless. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/irregardless

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!   --Horace https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace