São Paulo was a dreadnought battleship in the Brazilian Navy, the
second of two ships in the Minas Geraes class. Launched in 1909 and
commissioned a year later, São Paulo was soon involved in the Revolt of
the Lash, in which crews on four Brazilian warships mutinied over poor
pay and harsh punishments for even minor offenses. In 1922 the ship
fired its guns in anger for the first time, attacking a fort that had
been taken during the Tenente revolts. Two years later, mutineers took
control of the ship and sailed to Montevideo where they obtained asylum.
In the 1930s, São Paulo was passed over for modernization. When Brazil
entered the Second World War, the ship sailed to the port of Recife and
remained there as the port's main defense for the duration of the war.
Stricken from the naval register in 1947, the dreadnought remained as a
training vessel until 1951, when it was taken under tow to be scrapped
in the United Kingdom. The tow lines broke during a strong gale in
November when the ships were 150 nmi (280 km; 170 mi) north of the
Azores, and São Paulo was lost.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_battleship_S%C3%A3o_Paulo>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1521:
Three men of the Radical Reformation arrived in Wittenberg,
Saxony, and caused an unrest that required the release of Martin Luther
from custody to quell.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwickau_prophets>
1831:
Aboard HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin left Plymouth, England, on
what became a historic expedition to South America that made his name as
a naturalist.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_voyage_of_HMS_Beagle>
1922:
The Imperial Japanese Navy commissioned Hōshō, the world's
first purpose-built aircraft carrier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_H%C5%8Dsh%C5%8D>
1997:
Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Billy Wright was assassinated
in the HM Prison Maze by members of the Irish National Liberation Army.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Wright_(loyalist)>
2007:
Riots erupted in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki was declared
the winner of the presidential election—the first event in a
political, economic, and humanitarian crisis.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%9308_Kenyan_crisis>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dragline excavator:
Any of several very large vehicles used for lifting, especially in the
process of mining: basically an excavator which drags its bucket to fill
it.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dragline_excavator>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
He who proclaims the existence of the Infinite, and none can avoid
it — accumulates in that affirmation more of the supernatural than is
to be found in all the miracles of all the religions; for the notion of
the Infinite presents that double character that forces itself upon us
and yet is incomprehensible. When this notion seizes upon our
understanding we can but kneel ... I see everywhere the inevitable
expression of the Infinite in the world; through it the supernatural is
at the bottom of every heart. The idea of God is a form of the idea of
the Infinite. As long as the mystery of the infinite weighs on human
thought, temples will be erected for the worship of the Infinite,
whether God is called Brahma, Allah, Jehovah, or Jesus; and on the
pavement of these temples, men will be seen kneeling, prostrated,
annihilated by the thought of the Infinite.
--Louis Pasteur
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur>