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Today's featured article SMS Helgoland was a dreadnought battleship of the Imperial German Navy. Her design improved from the Nassau class, including an increase in the bore diameter of the main guns. Her keel was laid down at the Howaldtswerke shipyards in Kiel; she was launched on 25 September 1909, and commissioned on 23 August 1911. During World War I the ship participated in several sweeps into the North Sea as the covering force for the battlecruisers of the I Scouting Group. She saw limited duty in the Baltic Sea against the Russian Navy, including serving as part of a support force during the Battle of the Gulf of Riga in August 1915. Helgoland was present at the Battle of Jutland from 31 May to 1 June 1916, though she was located in the center of the German line of battle and not as heavily engaged as the ships in the lead. She was ceded to Great Britain after the war and broken up for scrap in the early 1920s. Her coat of arms is preserved in the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden. (Full article...) Recently featured: Pinkerton (album) Arthur O. Austin Qalaherriaq Selected anniversaries September 25 Kaweah Gap, Sequoia National Park 844 – Viking expansion: A Viking fleet arrived near Seville, then part of the Emirate of Córdoba, and began a raid of the city that was eventually repelled by Muslim defenders. 1790 – Peking opera was born with the introduction of Hui opera to Beijing by the "Four Great Anhui Troupes" in honour of the Qianlong Emperor's 80th birthday. 1890 – Sequoia National Park (pictured) was established to conserve giant sequoia trees in an area affected by logging in the southern Sierra Nevada in California. 1983 – In one of the largest prison escapes in British history, 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners hijacked a meals lorry and broke out of HM Prison Maze in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Harald Hardrada (d. 1066) John Lymburn (b. 1880) Marian Breland Bailey (d. 2001) Wang Bingzhang (d. 2005) More anniversaries: September 24 September 25 September 26	In the news Anura Kumara Dissanayake In Lebanon, Israeli airstrikes against Hezbollah kill at least 558 people and injure more than 1,835 others. The Chess Olympiad concludes with India winning both the open and women's events. Anura Kumara Dissanayake (pictured) is elected President of Sri Lanka. At least 77 people are killed and more than 255 others are injured in an Islamist militant attack on Mali's capital, Bamako. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war timeline Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Salvatore Schillaci Peter Jay Dusko Doder Sehat Sutardja Richard Dyer Freddie Eugene Owens Did you know... Saint Ludger healing Bernlef ... that according to tradition Saint Ludger healed the Frisian bard Bernlef of his blindness (pictured) and taught him to play psalms on his harp? ... that as of 1.06 billion years ago, three supermassive black holes from a trio of galaxies in the constellation of Cancer were colliding? ... that Nicholas Carlini showed that ChatGPT could leak personal information? ... that Takara's Treasure was created because its artist wanted to draw a story about a boy who speaks a local dialect? ... that in addition to having been a centre for local involvement in Chinese politics, the Kuomintang Building in Vancouver has hosted social events including a wedding reception? ... that Ron Tiavaasue was born in Samoa, grew up in New Zealand, played college football in the United States, and now plays professional football in Canada? ... that the concept of genocide was introduced in the 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe? ... that Michael Kettle received an award at the age of 80 for his work as a cricket groundskeeper? ... that Madonna once operated an elevator at Terrace on the Park?
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