The Hrabri class con­sist­ed of two sub­ma­rines built for the King­dom of Serbs, Croats and Slo­venes. The first sub­ma­rines to serve in the Royal Yugoslav Navy (KM), they arrived in Yugoslavia on 5 April 1928, and participated in cruises to Mediterranean ports prior to World War II. During the April 1941 Axis invasion of Yugoslavia, Hrabri (pictured) was captured by the Italians and later scrapped. Nebojša escaped to Egypt to join the British Royal Navy (RN). She served as an anti-submarine warfare training boat and then as a battery charging station. In May 1942 her crew were removed and placed in a British military camp following a revolt by Yugoslav generals in exile, and she received an almost entirely RN crew. She was briefly utilised for training at Beirut, but was formally handed back to the KM-in-exile in mid-1943. After the war, she was transferred to the new Yugoslav Navy and renamed Tara. She was used in a training role until 1954, then scrapped. (This article is part of a featured topic: Hrabri-class submarines.).

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1614:

Pocahontas, a Native American woman, married English colonist John Rolfe, leading to a period of peace between the Powhatan people and the inhabitants of Jamestown, Virginia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas

1944:

Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, escaped from Auschwitz with the aid of an SS officer who opposed the Holocaust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Lederer%27s_escape_from_Auschwitz

1986:

The Libyan secret service bombed a discotheque in West Berlin, resulting in three deaths and 229 others injured. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Berlin_discotheque_bombing

2009:

The North Korean satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 was launched from the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground and passed over Japan, sparking concerns it may have been a trial run of technology that could be used to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmy%C5%8Fngs%C5%8Fng-2

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

cough: 1. (transitive) 2. Sometimes followed by up: to force (something) out of the lungs or throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth. 3. To cause (oneself or something) to be in a certain condition in the manner described in sense 1.1. 4. To express (words, etc.) in the manner describe in sense 1.1. 5. (figurative) 6. To surrender (information); to confess. 7. (originally US, slang) Chiefly followed by up: to give up or hand over (something); especially, to pay up (money). 8. (intransitive) 9. To push air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound) and out through the mouth, usually to expel something blocking or irritating the airway. 10. To make a noise like a cough. The engine coughed and sputtered. 11. (originally US, slang) To surrender information; to confess, to spill the beans. 12. A sudden, often involuntary expulsion of air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth. 13. A bout of repeated coughing (verb sense 2.1); also, a medical condition that causes one to cough. 14. (figurative) A noise or sound like a cough (sense 1). 15. Used to represent the sound of a cough (noun sense 1), especially when focusing attention on a following utterance, often an attribution of blame or a euphemism: ahem. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cough

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