of pre-dreadnought battleships, built at the Imperial Dockyard in
Wilhelmshaven. She was launched on 14 September 1897 and commissioned
into the fleet in 1902. She was armed with four 24-centimeter (9.4 in)
guns in two twin turrets and powered by triple expansion engines that
delivered a top speed of 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph). Kaiser
Wilhelm II served as the flagship of the German fleet until 1906,
participating in fleet training exercises and visits to foreign ports.
After the new dreadnought battleships began entering service in 1908,
she was decommissioned, then reactivated between 1910 and 1912 for
training ship duties in the Baltic. With the outbreak of World War I in
August 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm II and her sister ships were brought back
into duty as coastal defense ships in the V Battle Squadron. Her age,
coupled with shortages of ship crews, led to her withdrawal from this
role in February 1915; after which she served as a command ship for the
High Seas Fleet, based in Wilhelmshaven. She was sold for scrap in the
early 1920s.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Kaiser_Wilhelm_II>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
81:
Domitian became the last Flavian emperor of Rome, succeeding his
brother Titus.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domitian>
1752:
In adopting the Gregorian calendar under the terms of the
Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, the British Empire skipped eleven days:
(September 2 was followed directly by September 14).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_(New_Style)_Act_1750>
1901:
Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States at age
42, the youngest person ever to do so, eight days after William McKinley
was fatally wounded in Buffalo, New York.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt>
1911:
Prime Minister of Russia Pyotr Stolypin was mortally shot at
the Kiev Opera House.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Stolypin>
2003:
Kumba Ialá, the President of Guinea-Bissau, was deposed in a
bloodless coup.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumba_Ial%C3%A1>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
torrefy:
To subject to intense heat.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/torrefy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Freud's prescription for personal happiness as consisting of
work and love must be taken with the proviso that the work has to be
loved, and the love has to be worked at.
--Sydney J. Harris
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sydney_J._Harris>
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