during World War II, the largest one built up to that time. Laid down in
May 1940 as the third of the Yamato-class battleships, the ship's
partially complete hull was ordered to be converted to a carrier
following Japan's disastrous loss of four fleet carriers at the Battle
of Midway in mid-1942. Her conversion was still incomplete in November
1944 when she was ordered to sail from the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal to
Kure Naval Base to complete her fitting out and to transfer a load of 50
Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka rocket-propelled kamikaze flying bombs. Hastily
dispatched with an inexperienced crew and serious design and
construction flaws, the ship had inadequate pumps, no fire-control
systems, and no carrier aircraft. She was sunk en route, just 10 days
after commissioning, on 29 November 1944, by four torpedoes from the US
Navy submarine Archerfish. Over a thousand sailors and civilians were
rescued, but some 1,435 were lost, including her captain. She remains
the largest warship ever sunk by a submarine.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Shinano>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1200:
Isabella of Angoulême was crowned queen consort of England at
the age of twelve, after having married King John two weeks earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_of_Angoul%C3%AAme>
1871:
Four large fires broke out in the United States, including the
Great Chicago Fire and the Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin, the latter being
the deadliest fire in U.S. history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshtigo_Fire>
1897:
Composer Gustav Mahler was appointed the director of the Vienna
Court Opera.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler>
1932:
The Indian Air Force was founded as an auxiliary air force of
the Indian Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Air_Force>
1962:
Newsmagazine Der Spiegel revealed the unpreparedness of the
West German armed forces against the communist threat from the east, and
was accused of treason shortly afterwards.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel_scandal>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
memoriter:
1. That is or has been recited from memory; that has been learned by heart.
2. Of, pertaining to, or involved with the practice of recitation or
learning by heart.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/memoriter>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence
derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence
with limitless skepticism.
--John Cowper Powys
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Cowper_Powys>
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