served in the German Imperial Navy during World War I. The battleship
was launched on 4 June 1913 and commissioned into the Imperial Navy on 1
October 1914, just over two months after the outbreak of war in Europe.
Armed with ten 30.5-centimeter (12.0 in) guns in five twin turrets, she
could steam at a top speed of 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph). Markgraf was
named in honor of the royal family of Baden; the name Markgraf is a rank
of German nobility. She took part in most of the fleet actions during
the war, including the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and Operation Albion,
the conquest of the Gulf of Riga, in late 1917. After Germany's defeat,
Markgraf was one of the ships interned by the Royal Navy in Scapa Flow
while the Allied powers negotiated the final version of the Treaty of
Versailles. On 21 June 1919, days before the treaty was signed, the
commander of the interned fleet ordered the fleet to be scuttled to
ensure that the British would not be able to seize the ships. Unlike
most of the scuttled ships, Markgraf was never raised for scrapping; the
wreck is still sitting on the bottom of the bay.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Markgraf>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1855:
Major Henry C. Wayne departed New York aboard the USS Supply
to procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Camel_Corps>
1913:
Emily Davison, an activist for women's suffrage in the United
Kingdom, was fatally injured when she was trampled by King George V's
horse at the Epsom Derby.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Davison>
1920:
The Kingdom of Hungary lost 72% of its territory and 64% of its
population with the signing of the Treaty of Trianon in Paris.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Trianon>
1944:
A United States Navy task group captured German submarine U-505
(pictured), which survives today as a museum ship at the Museum of
Science and Industry in Chicago.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-505>
1996:
The maiden flight of the Ariane 5 failed, with the rocket self-
destructing 37 seconds after launch because of a malfunction in the
control software—one of the most expensive computer bugs in history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_(spacecraft)>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sexton:
A church official who looks after a church and its graveyard and may act
as a gravedigger and bell-ringer.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sexton>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Love the battle between chaos and imagination.
--Robert Fulghum
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Fulghum>
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