the Imperial Japanese Navy and U.S. Navy in the Pacific campaign of
World War II. The second major surface engagement of the Guadalcanal
Campaign, it took place at the entrance to the strait between Savo
Island and Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese sent a major
supply and reinforcement convoy to their forces on Guadalcanal. At the
same time, five warships (under the command of Rear Admiral Aritomo
Gotō) were to bombard the Allied airfield on Guadalcanal. Shortly
before midnight on 11 October, the Americans surprised Gotō's force,
sinking two warships and heavily damaging another (Japanese cruiser
Aoba, pictured). Gotō was mortally wounded and his other warships were
forced to retreat. Meanwhile, the Japanese supply convoy unloaded and
began its return journey without being discovered; four of its
destroyers turned back to assist Gotō's retreating warships, but U.S.
aircraft sank two of them. The battle did not give either navy
operational control of the waters around Guadalcanal, but it provided a
significant morale boost to the U.S. Navy after its heavy losses at the
earlier Battle of Savo Island.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Esperance>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1142:
The Treaty of Shaoxing, ending the Jurchen campaigns against
the Song Dynasty, was formally ratified when a Jin envoy visited the
Southern Song court.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin%E2%80%93Song_Wars>
1634:
A storm tide on the coast of North Frisia caused a massive
flood that killed at least 8,000 people and split the island of Strand
into three smaller islands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burchardi_flood>
1797:
French Revolutionary Wars: The Royal Navy captured eleven Dutch
Navy ships without any losses in the Battle of Camperdown.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Camperdown>
1941:
Armed insurgents from the People's Liberation Army of Macedonia
attacked Axis-occupied zones in the city of Prilep, beginning the
National Liberation War of Macedonia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_in_Yugoslav_Macedonia>
1962:
Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council, the first
Roman Catholic ecumenical council in 92 years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Vatican_Council>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
microcosm:
1. A smaller system which is representative of or analogous to a larger
one.
2. A small natural ecosystem; an artificial ecosystem set up as an
experimental model.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/microcosm>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in
which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to
yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing
that comes along." ... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt>
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