The 1st Cavalry Division was a horsed cavalry formation of the Royal Yugoslav Army that formed part of the Yugoslav 1st Army Group during the German-led Axis invasion of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in April 1941. Along with the rest of the Yugoslav Army, the 1st Cavalry Division began mobilising on 3 April 1941. Three days later the Germans commenced operations against the Yugoslav frontiers (map of operations pictured). By the end of the following day, the division's cavalry brigade headquarters and all of the division's cavalry regiments had been detached for duty with other formations. The divisional-level units remained in the vicinity of Zagreb until 10 April, when they were ordered to establish a defensive line southeast of Zagreb along the Sava river, with infantry and artillery support. The division had only begun to deploy for this task when the German 14th Panzer Division captured Zagreb. The divisional headquarters and all attached units surrendered. Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Cavalry_Division_%28Kingdom_of_Yugoslavia%29> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1240: After days of bombardment, Mongol invaders under Batu Khan breached the walls of Kiev and proceeded to plunder the city and slaughter its inhabitants. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Kiev_%281240%29> 1904: President Theodore Roosevelt announced the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, justifying the exercise of "international police power" by the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Corollary> 1975: Four members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army took two people hostage in a house on Balcombe Street in London, surrendering six days later. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcombe_Street_siege> 1990: An Italian Air Force military jet, abandoned by its pilot after an on-board fire, crashed into a high school near Bologna, killing 12 students and injuring 88 other people. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Italian_Air_Force_MB-326_crash> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: picaresque: 1. Of or pertaining to adventurers or rogues. 2. (literature) Characteristic of a genre of Spanish satiric novel dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero. <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/picaresque> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:   The Science of Language has taught us that there is order and wisdom in all languages, and even the most degraded jargons contain the ruins of former greatness and beauty. The Science of Religion, I hope, will produce a similar change in our views of barbarous forms of faith and worship; and missionaries, instead of looking only for points of difference, will look out more anxiously for any common ground, any spark of the true light that may still be revived, any altar that may be dedicated afresh to the true God.   --Max Müller <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_M%C3%BCller>