during World War II. Born into a naval family, he graduated from the
U.S. Naval Academy in 1908. He saw action during the 1916 occupation of
the Dominican Republic, and in World War I, when he was attached to the
Royal Navy. During World War II, his cruisers defended the aircraft
carriers USS Lexington during the Battle of the Coral Sea and
USS Hornet during the Battle of Midway. He then took command of Task
Force 16, built around the carrier USS Enterprise, during the long and
difficult Solomon Islands campaign. He commanded the North Pacific Force
during operations that regained control of the Aleutian Islands. In
November 1943, he became Commander Allied Naval Forces in the Southwest
Pacific Area, and Commander of the Seventh Fleet, directing U.S. and
Australian forces supporting the New Guinea and the Philippine
campaigns, during which he conducted numerous amphibious operations. He
commanded an Allied fleet during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the last
naval battle between battleships. He continued in service after the war
until his retirement in 1950.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_C._Kinkaid>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1888:
The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed
in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of
London, occurred.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel_murders>
1936:
Richard Hauptmann was executed in the electric chair for the
kidnapping and murder of the "Lindbergh baby".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hauptmann>
1948:
An uprising began on Jeju Island, eventually leading to the
deaths of between 14,000 and 30,000 individuals due to fighting between
its various factions, and the violent suppression of the rebellion by
the South Korean army.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju_Uprising>
1973:
On a New York City street, Motorola researcher Martin Cooper
made the first public call on a handheld mobile phone.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Cooper_(inventor)>
1981:
The Osborne 1 (pictured), the first successful portable
computer, was unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San
Francisco.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
snail mail:
(retronym) Postal mail, especially as compared to email.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snail_mail>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at
least survive and go on trying.
--Dora Russell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dora_Russell>
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