the lead ship of her class. Named after the Prussian reformer General
Gerhard von Scharnhorst, the ship entered service on 24 October 1907.
After brief service with the High Seas Fleet in Germany in 1908, she was
assigned to the German East Asia Squadron based in Tsingtao, China in
1909, becoming the squadron flagship. Over the next five years, she went
on several tours of Asian ports and was present in Japan for the
coronation of the Taishō Emperor in 1912. After the outbreak of World
War I, Scharnhorst and her sister ship SMS Gneisenau, accompanied by
three light cruisers and several colliers, sailed across the Pacific
Ocean—in the process evading the various Allied naval forces sent to
intercept them—before arriving off the southern coast of South
America. On 1 November 1914, Scharnhorst and the rest of the East Asia
Squadron encountered and overpowered a British squadron at the Battle of
Coronel. The stinging defeat prompted the British Admiralty to dispatch
two battlecruisers to hunt down and destroy Scharnhorst 's
flotilla, which they accomplished at the Battle of the Falkland Islands
on 8 December 1914.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Scharnhorst>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1432:
The first battle of the Lithuanian Civil War between the forces
of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis was fought near the modern
town of Ashmyany.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_Civil_War_(1431%E2%80%9335)>
1854:
In his apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX
proclaimed the dogmatic definition of the Immaculate Conception, which
holds that the Virgin Mary was conceived free of original sin.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_Conception>
1941:
Second World War: Led by Takashi Sakai, the Imperial Japanese
Army invaded Hong Kong and quickly achieved air superiority by bombing
Kai Tak Airport.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hong_Kong>
1980:
Former Beatle John Lennon (pictured with Yoko Ono) was shot and
killed in the entrance of the Dakota apartments in New York City.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_John_Lennon>
1998:
The Australian Cricket Board's cover-up of Shane Warne and Mark
Waugh's involvement with bookmakers was revealed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_bookmaker_controversy>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
menorah:
(Judaism) A candelabrum with nine branches used in Jewish worship on
Hanukkah.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/menorah>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
No one saves us but ourselves, No one can and no one may. We
ourselves must walk the path Buddhas merely teach the way. By ourselves
is evil done, By ourselves we pain endure, By ourselves we cease from
wrong, By ourselves become we pure. as translated by
--Paul Carus
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Carus>
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