Japanese Navy in the late 1890s. As flagship of the Standing Fleet,
Asahi was in every major naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War of
1904–05. The ship saw no combat during World War I, but participated
in the Siberian Intervention in 1918. Reclassified as a coastal defence
ship in 1921, Asahi was disarmed two years later to meet the terms of
the Washington Naval Treaty, then served as a training and submarine
depot ship. The ship was modified for marine salvage and rescue before
being placed in reserve in 1928. Asahi was recommissioned in late 1937,
after the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, and used to transport
Japanese troops. In 1938 the ship was converted into a repair ship and
based first at Japanese-occupied Shanghai, China, and then Camranh Bay,
French Indochina, from late 1938 to 1941. The ship was transferred to
occupied Singapore in early 1942 to help repair a damaged light cruiser
and ordered to return home in May. Asahi was sunk en route by the
American submarine USS Salmon, but most of the crew survived.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Asahi>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
624:
Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeated the Quraysh of
Mecca in Badr, present-day Saudi Arabia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Badr>
1781:
German-born astronomer and composer William Herschel discovered
the planet Uranus while in the garden of his house in Bath, Somerset,
thinking it was a comet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus>
1845:
German composer Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, one of the
most popular and most frequently performed violin concertos of all time,
was first played in Leipzig.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Mendelssohn)>
1943:
The Holocaust: Nazi German troops began liquidating the Jewish
Ghetto in Kraków, Poland, sending about 8,000 Jews deemed able to work
to the Plaszow labor camp, with the rest either killed or sent to
Auschwitz.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w_Ghetto>
1986:
Claiming the right of innocent passage, American warships USS
Yorktown and USS Caron entered the Soviet territorial waters in the
Black Sea, inciting Soviet combat readiness.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Black_Sea_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
aposiopesis:
(rhetoric) An abrupt breaking-off in speech, often indicated in print
using an ellipsis (…) or an em dash (—).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aposiopesis>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Whereas "false stories" can be told anywhere and at any time,
myths must not be recited except during a period of sacred time.
--Mircea Eliade
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mircea_Eliade>
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