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Today's featured article The Albona class were mine-warfare ships used by the Italian Regia Marina and the Royal Yugoslav Navy (KM). Fourteen ships were originally laid down between 1917 and 1918 for the Austro-Hungarian Navy. The end of World War I and the dissolution of Austria-Hungary left them incomplete until 1920, when three ships were finished for the Regia Marina. An additional five ships were completed for the KM in 1931. All the completed ships could carry 24 to 39 naval mines. The five ships in KM service were captured by Italian forces during the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia and commissioned in the Regia Marina. Three of the ships were returned to the KM-in-exile in late 1943 until they were transferred to the Yugoslav Navy in August 1945. The three surviving ships were stricken in 1962 and 1963. (This article is part of a featured topic: Ships of the Royal Yugoslav Navy.) Recently featured: Benjamin Jackson (sailor) 1 Wall Street Minneapolis Selected anniversaries January 3 Painting of the Battle of Princeton 250 – Decius ordered all people in the Roman Empire (except Jews) to perform a sacrifice to the Roman gods, resulting in widespread persecution of Christians. 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces commanded by George Washington defeated British troops at the Battle of Princeton (depicted). 1990 – United States invasion of Panama: Manuel Noriega, the deposed strongman of Panama, surrendered to American forces outside the apostolic nunciature in Panama City. 2002 – Second Intifada: Israeli forces seized MV Karine A, which was carrying 50 tons of smuggled weapons on behalf of the Palestinian Authority. George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (d. 1670) Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (b. 1810) Savitribai Phule (b. 1831) Frenchy Bordagaray (b. 1910) More anniversaries: January 2 January 3 January 4	In the news Jimmy Carter Romania and Bulgaria both become full members of the Schengen Area. In New Orleans, an attacker rams a truck into a crowd and opens fire, killing at least 14 people and injuring 35 others. Former president of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter (pictured) dies at the age of 100. Jeju Air Flight 2216 crashes at Muan International Airport, South Korea, killing 179 people. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Richard Parsons Paul Abine Ayah Bill Bergey M. T. Vasudevan Nair Helmut Schlesinger Michael Burkard Did you know... White chocolate ... that white chocolate (pictured) has been used as a coating for vitamin products? ... that baritone Ettore Verna twice "sang himself out of his pants" during a performance at the Boston Opera House, according to Billboard? ... that the members of an abortive conspiracy to restore the Fatimid Caliphate were said to have asked the Order of Assassins for assistance in eliminating Saladin? ... that the Lithuanian duke Jonas Vaidutis was elected as the second rector of the oldest Polish university after its restoration in 1400? ... that a Talmudic passage, "The Heart Knows Its Own Bitterness", has been used in Jewish medical ethics to justify patient autonomy? ... that Kurt Burris was the first American football lineman to finish among the top two in Heisman Trophy voting? ... that The King of Comedy Visits Shanghai depicted Charlie Chaplin in China fourteen years before it happened? ... that Frederick Warren Freer switched from studying medicine to art after becoming partially deaf? ... that the Japanese band Gohobi describes themselves as having a "tofu mentality"?
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