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USS Marmora was a sternwheel steamer serving in the Union Navy from 1862 to 1865 in the American Civil War. Built in 1862 as a civilian vessel, she was bought for military service in September, and converted into a tinclad warship. Commissioned on October 21, she served on the Yazoo River and was on the Yazoo during the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou in December. She was assigned in 1863 to a fleet operating against Fort Hindman, but was absent when the fort surrendered on January 11. From February to April, she participated in the Yazoo Pass expedition, and in June burned two Arkansas settlements. In August, she saw action on the White River when the Little Rock campaign was beginning, and patrolled on the Mississippi River late that year. She fought in the Battle of Yazoo City on March 5. She was declared surplus in May 1865 and put in reserve status at Mound City, Illinois. She was decommissioned in July, and sold at auction on August 17, after which nothing is known. (Full article...)
Did you know ...
- ... that the only preface (book cover pictured) Jules Verne ever wrote was likely written by somebody else?
- ... that Edward A. McGurk disbanded the College of the Holy Cross's football team because he did not want it playing outside Worcester?
- ... that Juventus's reserve team, Juventus U23, won their first trophy after only two years in existence?
- ... that to promote the Buffalo Club, Rising Tide Records sent packages of plastic buffalo to music industry executives in Nashville?
- ... that Carlos Alberto Sonnenschein won three terms and spent twelve years in the Bolivian parliament despite barely attending any legislative sessions?
- ... that the Piri Reis map likely contains the only surviving piece of an otherwise lost map of Christopher Columbus?
- ... that to announce the first commercially broadcast Green Bay Packers game in 1929, Russ Winnie sat in a studio and read out telegrams sent from someone who was at the game?
- ... that depending on who you ask, an anomochilid could be a dwarf or a giant?
In the news
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- A business jet (pictured) crashes in Tver Oblast, Russia, killing Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and nine others.
- Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 lands near the lunar south pole, carrying the Pragyan rover.
- Thailand's parliament elects Srettha Thavisin as prime minister following general elections in May.
- Hun Manet is sworn in as Prime Minister of Cambodia, succeeding his father Hun Sen's 38-year term.
On this day
- 1619 – Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia and Hungary, was unanimously elected Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1789 – With the first use of his 1.2-metre (3.9 ft) telescope, then the largest in the world, William Herschel discovered a new moon of Saturn, later named Enceladus.
- 1909 – The 1909 Monterrey hurricane dissipated; one of the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclones on record, it killed an estimated 4,000 people throughout Mexico.
- 1963 – American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the speech "I Have a Dream" during the March on Washington, calling for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
- 1987 – Construction began on the Ryugyong Hotel (pictured) in Pyongyang, the tallest building in North Korea.
- Emperor Go-Reizei (b. 1025)
- Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine (d. 1793)
- C. Doris Hellman (b. 1910)
- Sora Amamiya (b. 1993)
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The first U.S. Women's Open champion was crowned in 1946. Since 1953, the U.S. Women's Open is sanctioned by the United States Golf Association (USGA), the governing body for golf in the United States, and is one of the five women's major championships. Since 1992, the champion has received the Harton S. Semple trophy, named for a former USGA Committeeman and the USGA president from 1973 to 1974. Betsy Rawls and Mickey Wright jointly hold the record for the most victories, with four each. The most consecutive wins at the event is two, achieved by Wright, Susie Berning, Hollis Stacy, Annika Sörenstam (pictured), Donna Caponi, Betsy King and Karrie Webb. The lowest winning score for 72 holes in relation to par is 16-under, achieved by Juli Inkster in 1999. The lowest aggregate winning score for 72 holes is 271, achieved by Minjee Lee in 2022. (Full list...)
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The Treptowers is a complex of buildings with a distinctive high-rise in the district of Alt-Treptow in Berlin, Germany, on the river Spree. Constructed on the site of a former AEG electrical-appliance factory, the complex consists of four buildings and was the result of an architectural competition held in 1993 and won by the architect Gerhard Spangenberg. It was completed in 1998, with a final construction cost of 190 million marks. The 30-metre-tall (98 ft) sculpture Molecule Men by Jonathan Borofsky was installed in 1999 and sits in front of the complex in the Spree, seen on the right of this photograph of the Treptowers in 2017. Photograph credit: Ansgar Koreng
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