SM U-66 was the
lead ship of the
Type U-66U-boats (
submarines) for the
German Imperial Navy during
World War I. The submarine had been
laid down in November 1913 by
Germaniawerft of
Kiel for the
Austro-Hungarian Navy, who then sold the entire class to the German Imperial Navy after the outbreak of war appeared to make delivery to the
Adriatic impossible. Redesigned and reconstructed to German specifications, U-66 was
launched in April 1915 and
commissioned in July. The boat was 228 feet (69 m) long and was armed with five torpedo tubes and a
deck gun. As a part of the Baltic and 4th Flotillas, U-66 sank 24 ships with a combined
gross register tonnage of 69,967 in six war patrols. After reporting her position in the
North Sea on 3 September 1917, neither the U-boat nor any of her 40-man crew were ever heard from again. A postwar German study offered no explanation for her loss, although British records suggest that she may have struck a
mine in the
Dogger Bank area. (
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1930 – France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States signed the London Naval Treaty, regulating
submarine warfare and limiting military ship building.
1983 – The West German news magazine Stern published excerpts from what purported to be the diaries of Adolf Hitler, which were subsequently revealed to be forgeries.
A
baseball team composed mostly of child laborers from an Indiana glassmaking factory, as photographed by Lewis Hine in August 1908. Hine (1874–1940) was an
Americansociologist who promoted the use of
photography as an educational medium and means for social change. Beginning in 1908, he spent ten years photographing
child labor for the
National Child Labor Committee. The project was a dangerous one, and Hine had to disguise himself – at times as a fire inspector, postcard vendor, Bible salesman, or industrial photographer – to avoid the factory police and foremen.
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SM U-66 was the
lead ship of the
Type U-66U-boats (
submarines) for the
German Imperial Navy during
World War I. The submarine had been
laid down in November 1913 by
Germaniawerft of
Kiel for the
Austro-Hungarian Navy, who then sold the entire class to the German Imperial Navy after the outbreak of war appeared to make delivery to the
Adriatic impossible. Redesigned and reconstructed to German specifications, U-66 was
launched in April 1915 and
commissioned in July. The boat was 228 feet (69 m) long and was armed with five torpedo tubes and a
deck gun. As a part of the Baltic and 4th Flotillas, U-66 sank 24 ships with a combined
gross register tonnage of 69,967 in six war patrols. After reporting her position in the
North Sea on 3 September 1917, neither the U-boat nor any of her 40-man crew were ever heard from again. A postwar German study offered no explanation for her loss, although British records suggest that she may have struck a
mine in the
Dogger Bank area. (
Full article...)
1930 – France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States signed the London Naval Treaty, regulating
submarine warfare and limiting military ship building.
1983 – The West German news magazine Stern published excerpts from what purported to be the diaries of Adolf Hitler, which were subsequently revealed to be forgeries.
A
baseball team composed mostly of child laborers from an Indiana glassmaking factory, as photographed by Lewis Hine in August 1908. Hine (1874–1940) was an
Americansociologist who promoted the use of
photography as an educational medium and means for social change. Beginning in 1908, he spent ten years photographing
child labor for the
National Child Labor Committee. The project was a dangerous one, and Hine had to disguise himself – at times as a fire inspector, postcard vendor, Bible salesman, or industrial photographer – to avoid the factory police and foremen.
This Wikipedia is written in
English. Started in 2001 (2001), it currently contains
4,856,550 articles.
Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.