main battle tank in service with the Argentine Army. Lacking the
experience and resources to design a tank, the Argentine Ministry of
Defense contracted German company Thyssen-Henschel. The vehicle was
based on the chassis of the German Marder infantry fighting vehicle. The
TAM met the Argentine Army's requirement for a modern light-weight and
fast tank with a low silhouette and sufficient firepower to defeat
contemporary armored threats. Development began in 1974, and full-scale
production started in 1979. Economic difficulties halted production in
1983, but manufacturing began anew in 1994 until the army's order of 200
tanks was fulfilled. The TAM series includes seven different variants,
such as a 155 mm (6.1 in) self-propelled howitzer and a self-propelled
mortar vehicle. In total, over 280 such vehicles were built, including
armored personnel carriers, artillery and mortar pieces. The TAM has
never seen combat, although 17 VCTP (Infantry Fighting Vehicles based on
the TAM chassis) were deployed to Croatia for the United Nations
UNPROFOR peacekeeping mission.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAM_(tank)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1189:
Richard the Lionheart was crowned King of England in
Westminster.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England>
1777:
American Revolutionary War: The British Army and their Hessian
allies defeated an American militia in the Battle of Cooch's Bridge.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cooch%27s_Bridge>
1838:
Future American abolitionist Frederick Douglass escaped from
slavery.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass>
1942:
The Holocaust: In possibly the first Jewish ghetto uprising,
residents of the Åachwa Ghetto in occupied Poland, informed of the
upcoming "liquidation" of the ghetto, unsuccessfully fought against
their Nazi captors.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81achwa_Ghetto>
2001:
The Troubles: Protestant loyalists began picketing a Catholic
primary school for girls in the Protestant portion of Ardoyne, Belfast,
Northern Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Cross_dispute>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
chirality:
The phenomenon, in chemistry, physics and mathematics, in which an
object differs from its mirror image.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chirality>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The greatest man of action is he who is the greatest, and a
life-long, dreamer. For in him the dreamer is fortified against
destruction by a far-seeing eye, a virile mind, a strong will, a robust
courage. And so has perished the kindly dreamer — on the cross or in
the garret. A democracy should not let its dreamers perish. They are its
life, its guaranty against decay. Thus would I expand the sympathies of
youth.
--Louis Sullivan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Sullivan>
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