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Today's featured article SMS Bodrog in 1914 Sava was a river monitor, originally built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy as SMS Bodrog. She and two other monitors fired the first shots of World War I in the early hours of 29 July 1914, when they shelled Serbian defences near Belgrade. During the war, she fought the Serbian and Romanian armies, and was captured in its closing stages. She was transferred to the newly created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia), and renamed Sava. During the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, she fought off several air attacks, but was scuttled on 11 April. Sava was later raised by the Axis puppet state, the Independent State of Croatia, and continued to serve under that name until 1944 when she was again scuttled. Following World War II, Sava was raised again, and was refurbished to serve in the Yugoslav Navy from 1952 to 1962. She became a gravel barge after that, but was restored and opened as a floating museum in November 2021. (Full article...) Recently featured: Darkness on the Edge of Town Aston Martin DB9 1896 Summer Olympics Selected anniversaries July 29: Torch Festival in China (2024) Cape Cod Canal 1014 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Byzantine forces defeated troops of the Bulgarian Empire at the Battle of Kleidion in the mountains of Belasica near present-day Klyuch. 1693 – Nine Years' War: French troops defeated the forces of the Grand Alliance led by William III of England at the Battle of Landen in present-day Neerwinden, Belgium. 1818 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel submitted a memoir on the diffraction of light to the Royal Academy of Sciences, providing strong support for the wave theory of light. 1914 – The Cape Cod Canal (pictured), connecting Cape Cod Bay and Buzzards Bay in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, opened on a limited basis. 1954 – The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of J. R. R. Tolkien's high-fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings, was published by Allen & Unwin. Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz (b. 1859) Isidor Isaac Rabi (b. 1898) Jaojoby (b. 1955) Virginia S. Baker (d. 1998) More anniversaries: July 28 July 29 July 30	In the news Tadej Pogačar Landslides kill at least 257 people in Geze Gofa, Ethiopia. In cycling, Tadej Pogačar (pictured) wins the Tour de France. Incumbent U.S. president Joe Biden withdraws from the 2024 presidential election. In golf, Xander Schauffele wins the Open Championship. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war timeline Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Summer Olympics timeline Recent deaths: Jerzy Artysz John Mayall Alexander Waugh Kenneth Grange Duke Fakir Leo Burke Did you know... Adam Maraana ... that Adam Maraana (pictured), an Arab-Israeli, is competing in swimming for Israel at the 2024 Summer Olympics? ... that future American presidential candidate George McGovern was a student pastor at a church in Diamond Lake, Illinois? ... that Stefano Manetti was co-consecrated a bishop by the same man who ordained him a priest 30 years earlier? ... that a law was signed so that the Solomon Islands delegation could return home from the 2020 Summer Olympics? ... that Page Ackerman was post librarian at the U.S. Army development site of the atomic bomb? ... that the first lady of the Ivory Coast created an animated kids show in 1989? ... that Olympic fencer Victor Alvares de Oliveira was told at a young age by doctors that he had little chance to compete in the sport due to his severe asthma? ... that the site of the headquarters of the German colonization of Texas was converted into a museum? ... that artifacts of Papua New Guinean art were called "living spirits with fixed abodes"?
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