during the Falklands War, killing its four occupants. In the early hours
of 6 June 1982, the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff was looking for
aircraft supplying the Argentine forces on the Falkland Islands. An Army
Air Corps Gazelle helicopter (example pictured) was making a routine
delivery to British troops on East Falkland. Cardiff's crew assumed it
was hostile, given its speed and course, and fired two missiles,
destroying it. When the wreckage was found, the loss was attributed to
enemy fire. Although Cardiff was suspected, scientific tests on the
wreckage were inconclusive. No formal inquiry was held until four years
later. Defending their claim that the helicopter had been lost in
action, the UK Ministry of Defence stated that they had not wanted to
upset relatives while they were still trying to ascertain how the
Gazelle had been shot down. The board of inquiry did not blame any
individuals but identified factors including a lack of communication
between the army and the navy and the army's decision to turn off
helicopters' identification friend or foe transmitters.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_British_Army_Gazelle_friendly_fire_incident>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1724:
Philip V, the first Bourbon ruler of Spain, abdicated the
throne to his eldest son Louis.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_V_of_Spain>
1814:
Sweden and Denmark–Norway signed the Treaty of Kiel, whereby
Frederick VI of Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden in return for the
Swedish holdings in Pomerania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Kiel>
1907:
A 6.5 Mw earthquake struck Kingston, Jamaica, resulting in at
least 800 deaths, which was at the time considered one of the world's
deadliest earthquakes recorded in history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907_Kingston_earthquake>
1954:
Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson Motor Car Company merged to become
American Motors in an effort to create one multibrand company capable of
challenging the "Big Three" as an equal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Motors>
1978:
Austrian logician Kurt Gödel (pictured), who suffered from an
obsessive fear of being poisoned, died of starvation after his wife was
hospitalized and unable to cook for him.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
orgulous:
Proud; haughty; disdainful.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orgulous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they
believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to
man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the
world and all life that comes within his reach. A man is ethical only
when life, as such, is sacred to him, and that of plants and animals as
that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all
life that is in need of help. Only the universal ethic of the feeling of
responsibility in an ever-widening sphere for all that lives — only
that ethic can be founded in thought. ... The ethic of Reverence for
Life, therefore, comprehends within itself everything that can be
described as love, devotion, and sympathy whether in suffering, joy, or
effort.  
--Albert Schweitzer
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer>
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