SMS Wörth was one of four German pre-dreadnought battleships of the
Brandenburg class, the first ocean-going battleships built by the
Imperial German Navy. Laid down at the Germaniawerft dockyard in Kiel,
the ship was launched on 6 August 1892 and commissioned into the fleet
in October 1893. Like her sister ships, Wörth carried six heavy guns
rather than the standard four. She was named for the Battle of Wörth
fought in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War. Wörth participated in
the normal peacetime routine of training cruises and exercises. She took
part in the German naval expedition to China in 1900 to suppress the
Boxer Rebellion but saw little direct action, since the siege of Peking
had already been lifted by the time the fleet arrived. Obsolete by the
start of World War I, the battleship served as a coastal defense ship
for the first two years of the war, but saw no action. Wörth was
reduced to a barracks ship by 1916, and was scrapped in the port of
Danzig in 1919.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_W%C3%B6rth>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1964:
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act
into law, outlawing literacy tests and other discriminatory voting
practices that had been responsible for widespread disfranchisement of
African Americans.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965>
1997:
On approach to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport in
Guam, Korean Air Flight 801 crashed into a hill, killing 228 of the 254
people aboard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_801>
2008:
Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was
ousted from power by a group of high-ranking generals that he had
dismissed from office several hours earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mauritanian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
2011:
Following the death of a Tottenham man by the Metropolitan
Police of London, thousands of mostly young males rioted in several
London boroughs and in cities and towns across England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_England_riots>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
klaxon:
A loud electric alarm or horn.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/klaxon>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Know ye not then the Riddling of the Bards? Confusion, and
illusion, and relation, Elusion, and occasion, and evasion? I mock
thee not but as thou mockest me, And all that see thee, for thou art
not who Thou seemest, but I know thee who thou art. And now thou goest
up to mock the King, Who cannot brook the shadow of any lie.
--Idylls of the King
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Idylls_of_the_King>
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