SMS Kaiser Barbarossa (His Majesty's Ship Emperor Barbarossa) was a German pre-dreadnought battleship of the Kaiser Friedrich III class. Built at Schichau in Danzig under Kaiser Wilhelm II's program of naval expansion, the battleship was laid down in 1898, launched on 21 April 1900, and commissioned the next year at a cost of 20,301,000 Marks. Armed with a main battery of four 24-centimeter (9.4 in) guns in two twin gun turrets, the ship had an active career in the Imperial Navy, apart from two lengthy stays in dry dock, until being decommissioned in 1909. Following the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, she and her sister ships were mobilized as coastal defense ships and assigned to the North and Baltic seas, but saw no combat during the war. They were withdrawn from active duty the next year and relegated to secondary duties. Kaiser Barbarossa was decommissioned after the war and broken up in 1919 and 1920.

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900:

A debt was pardoned by the Datu of Tondo on the island of Luzon, as inscribed on the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, the earliest known written document found in the Philippines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_Copperplate_Inscription

1802:

Twelve thousand Wahhabis from the first Saudi State invaded the city of Karbala, killed several thousand inhabitants, and sacked the city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabi_sack_of_Karbala

1863:

After the Ottoman Empire exiled him from Baghdad, Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, began his twelve-day stay in the Garden of Ridván where he declared his mission as "He whom God shall make manifest". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27u%27ll%C3%A1h

1918:

Manfred von Richthofen, known as the "Red Baron", was shot down and killed near Vaux-sur-Somme in France, after a career as the most successful fighter pilot of First World War with 80 confirmed air combat victories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_von_Richthofen

1962:

The Century 21 Exposition, the first world's fair in the United States since World War II, opened in Seattle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_21_Exposition

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

oont: (India (Anglo-Indian), Australia, colloquial) A camel. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oont

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

It is not violence that best overcomes hate — nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury. … Read the New Testament, and observe what Christ says, and how he acts — make his word your rule, and his conduct your example. … Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you and despitefully use you.   --Charlotte Brontë https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB