(IJN) to enter service, and the first large or "fleet" carrier. She was
converted to an aircraft carrier while still under construction to
comply with the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, and figured prominently
in the development of the IJN's revolutionary doctrine that grouped
carriers together, concentrating their air power. The ship and her
aircraft first saw combat during the Second Sino-Japanese War in the
late 1930s. During the Pacific War, she took part in the Attack on Pearl
Harbor on 7 December 1941 and the invasion of Rabaul in the Southwest
Pacific in January 1942 as flagship of the First Air Fleet. Over the
next several months her aircraft bombed Darwin, Australia, assisted in
the conquest of the Dutch East Indies, and helped sink a British heavy
cruiser and an Australian destroyer in the Indian Ocean Raid. After
bombarding American forces on Midway Atoll during the Battle of Midway
in June, Akagi and the other carriers were attacked by aircraft from
Midway and three American carriers. Akagi was severely damaged, and she
was scuttled by Japanese destroyers to prevent her from falling into
enemy hands.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Akagi>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
43 BC:
Cicero, widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and
prose stylists, was killed after having been proscribed as an enemy of
the state.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero>
1869:
American outlaw Jesse James committed his first confirmed bank
robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_James>
1936:
Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton became the first player to
score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Fingleton>
1949:
Chinese Civil War: The government of the Republic of China
relocated from Mainland China to Taipei (Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall
pictured) on the island of Taiwan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei>
1988:
A 6.9 Mw earthquake struck the Spitak region of Armenia,
killing at least 25,000 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Spitak_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
blunderbuss:
An old style of muzzleloading firearm and early form of shotgun with a
distinctive short, large caliber barrel that is flared at the muzzle,
therefore able to fire scattered quantities of nails, stones, shot, etc.
at short range: Timothy was excited to find a toy blunderbuss waiting
under the Christmas tree.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blunderbuss>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In a three-minute stretch between commercials, or in seven
hundred words, it is impossible to present unfamiliar thoughts or
surprising conclusions with the argument and evidence required to afford
them credibility. Regurgitation of welcome pieties faces no such
problem.
--Noam Chomsky
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky>
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