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of battleship Kaga"><img alt="Model of battleship Kaga" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150321072328im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Model_of_battleship_Kaga_port_view_-_cleaned_up.jpg/133px-Model_of_battleship_Kaga_port_view_-_cleaned_up.jpg" width="133" height="47" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150321072328im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Model_of_battleship_Kaga_port_view_-_cleaned_up.jpg/200px-Model_of_battleship_Kaga_port_view_-_cleaned_up.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150321072328im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Model_of_battleship_Kaga_port_view_-_cleaned_up.jpg/266px-Model_of_battleship_Kaga_port_view_-_cleaned_up.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1025" data-file-height="362"/></a></div> <p>The <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosa-class_battleship" title="Tosa-class battleship"><b><i>Tosa</i>-class battleships</b></a> were two <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnought" title="Dreadnought">dreadnoughts</a> ordered by the <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy" title="Imperial Japanese Navy">Imperial Japanese Navy</a> during the early 1920s. The ships were larger versions of the preceding <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagato-class_battleship" title="Nagato-class battleship"><i>Nagato</i> class</a>, and carried an additional 41-centimeter (16.1 in) twin-gun <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_turret" title="Gun turret">turret</a>; their design served as a basis for the <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagi-class_battlecruiser" title="Amagi-class battlecruiser"><i>Amagi</i>-class</a> battlecruisers. The first ship, <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Tosa" title="Japanese battleship Tosa"><i>Tosa</i></a>, was canceled according to the terms of the <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Treaty" title="Washington Naval Treaty">Washington Naval Treaty</a> before it could be completed, and was used in experiments testing the effectiveness of its armor scheme before being <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttled" title="Scuttled" class="mw-redirect">scuttled</a> in the <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungo_Channel" title="Bungo Channel">Bungo Channel</a>. The hull of the second ship, <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Kaga" title="Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga"><i>Kaga</i></a> <i>(model pictured)</i>, was converted into an <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_carrier" title="Aircraft carrier">aircraft carrier</a> of the same name. The carrier supported Japanese troops in China during the <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War" title="Second Sino-Japanese War">Second Sino-Japanese War</a> of the late 1930s, and took part in the <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor" title="Attack on Pearl Harbor">attack on Pearl Harbor</a> on 7 December 1941 and the <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rabaul_(1942)" title="Battle of Rabaul (1942)">invasion of Rabaul</a> in the Southwest Pacific in January 1942. The following month her aircraft participated in a <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Darwin" title="Bombing of Darwin">combined carrier airstrike</a> on <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin,_Northern_Territory" title="Darwin, Northern Territory">Darwin</a>, Australia, during the <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_Indies_campaign" title="Dutch East Indies campaign">Dutch East Indies campaign</a>. She was sunk during the <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway" title="Battle of Midway">Battle of Midway</a> in 1942. 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<b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becky_Birtha" title="Becky Birtha">Becky Birtha</a></b> self-identifies as an African-American with Cherokee, Catawba, African, and Irish heritage?</li> <li>... that the <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctenophora" title="Ctenophora">comb jelly</a> <i><b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beroe_ovata" title="Beroe ovata">Beroe ovata</a></b></i> can consume four times its body weight in a day?</li> </ul> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint"><b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions">Archive</a></b> – <b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article" title="Wikipedia:Your first article">Start a new article</a></b> – <b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Did_you_know" title="Template talk:Did you know">Nominate an 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src="//web.archive.org/web/20150321072328im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/March_20th_Eclipse_-_Ireland_cropped.jpg/100px-March_20th_Eclipse_-_Ireland_cropped.jpg" width="100" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150321072328im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/March_20th_Eclipse_-_Ireland_cropped.jpg/150px-March_20th_Eclipse_-_Ireland_cropped.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150321072328im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/March_20th_Eclipse_-_Ireland_cropped.jpg/200px-March_20th_Eclipse_-_Ireland_cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="904" data-file-height="904"/></a></div> <ul> <li><b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_March_20,_2015" title="Solar eclipse of March 20, 2015">A solar eclipse</a></b> <i>(pictured)</i> is visible across much of Europe, with <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse#Terminology_for_central_eclipse" title="Solar eclipse">totality</a> over the <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_Islands" title="Faroe Islands">Faroe Islands</a> and <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard" title="Svalbard">Svalbard</a>.</li> <li><b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Sana%27a_mosque_bombings" title="2015 Sana'a mosque bombings">Suicide bombings</a></b> at two <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosque" title="Mosque">mosques</a> in <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sana%27a" title="Sana'a">Sana'a</a>, <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a>, kill more than 130 people.</li> <li>The ruling party <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likud" title="Likud">Likud</a>, led by incumbent <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Israel" title="Prime Minister of Israel">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu" title="Benjamin Netanyahu">Benjamin Netanyahu</a>, <b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_legislative_election,_2015" title="Israeli legislative election, 2015">wins</a></b> a <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality_(voting)" title="Plurality (voting)">plurality</a> in the Israeli <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knesset" title="Knesset">Knesset</a>.</li> <li>Gunmen kill 21 people during <b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo_National_Museum_attack" title="Bardo National Museum attack">an attack</a></b> at the <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo_National_Museum" title="Bardo National Museum">Bardo National Museum</a> in <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunis" title="Tunis">Tunis</a>.</li> <li>Former <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_Maldives" title="President of the Maldives">Maldivian President</a> <b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Nasheed" title="Mohamed Nasheed">Mohamed Nasheed</a></b> is convicted of terrorism charges and sentenced to thirteen years in prison.</li> <li>In the <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">South Pacific</a>, <b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Pam" title="Cyclone Pam">Cyclone Pam</a></b> causes at least 12 deaths, with dozens more reported but unconfirmed.</li> <li>The first successful human <b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_transplantation" title="Penis transplantation">penis transplant</a></b> is announced by <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellenbosch_University" title="Stellenbosch University">Stellenbosch University</a> in South Africa.</li> </ul> <p><b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events" title="Portal:Current events">Ongoing</a></b>: <span class="nowrap"><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant#Timeline_of_recent_events" title="Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant">Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant</a></span><br/> <b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2015" title="Deaths in 2015">Recent deaths</a></b>: <span class="nowrap"><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Fraser" title="Malcolm Fraser">Malcolm Fraser</a> –</span> <span class="nowrap"><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Caihou" title="Xu Caihou">Xu Caihou</a> –</span> <span class="nowrap"><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Rasputin" title="Valentin Rasputin">Valentin Rasputin</a></span></p> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding:2px;"> 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href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_independence_days" title="List of national independence days">Independence Day</a> in <b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namibia" title="Namibia">Namibia</a></b> (<a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990" title="1990">1990</a>)</p> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <p><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas-Cranmer-ez_cropped.jpg" class="image" title="Archbishop Thomas Cranmer"><img alt="Archbishop Thomas Cranmer" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150321072328im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Thomas-Cranmer-ez_cropped.jpg/100px-Thomas-Cranmer-ez_cropped.jpg" width="100" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150321072328im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Thomas-Cranmer-ez_cropped.jpg/150px-Thomas-Cranmer-ez_cropped.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150321072328im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Thomas-Cranmer-ez_cropped.jpg/200px-Thomas-Cranmer-ez_cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="288" data-file-height="288"/></a></p> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/630" title="630">630</a> – <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> emperor <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclius" title="Heraclius">Heraclius</a> restored the <b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross" title="True Cross">True Cross</a></b> to <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1556" title="1556">1556</a> – <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Archbishop of Canterbury</a> <b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cranmer" title="Thomas Cranmer">Thomas Cranmer</a></b> <i>(pictured)</i>, one of the founders of <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglicanism</a>, was <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_by_burning" title="Execution by burning" class="mw-redirect">burnt at the stake</a> in <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>, England, for <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_heresy" title="Christian heresy" class="mw-redirect">heresy</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1871" title="1871">1871</a> – Founder of the <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Empire" title="German Empire">German Empire</a> <b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck" title="Otto von Bismarck">Otto von Bismarck</a></b> was proclaimed as its first <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_German_Empire" title="Chancellor of the German Empire" class="mw-redirect">Chancellor</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a> – <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully defended the north bank of the <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drava_River" title="Drava River" class="mw-redirect">Drava River</a> as the <b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Transdanubian_Hills" title="Battle of the Transdanubian Hills">Battle of the Transdanubian Hills</a></b> concluded.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002" title="2002">2002</a> – British schoolgirl <b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Milly_Dowler" title="Murder of Milly Dowler">Amanda Dowler</a></b> was abducted on her way home from <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathside_School" title="Heathside School">Heathside School</a> in <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton-on-Thames" title="Walton-on-Thames">Walton-on-Thames</a>, <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a>.</li> </ul> <p>More anniversaries: <span class="nowrap"><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_20" title="March 20">March 20</a> –</span> <span class="nowrap"><b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_21" title="March 21">March 21</a></b> –</span> <span class="nowrap"><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_22" title="March 22">March 22</a></span></p> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint"><span class="nowrap"><b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March">Archive</a></b> –</span> <span class="nowrap"><b><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150321072328/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a></b> –</span> <span class="nowrap"><b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></b></span></div> <div style="text-align: right;"><small>It is now <span class="nowrap">March 21, 2015</span> (<a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>) – <span class="plainlinks" id="purgelink"><span class="nowrap"><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=purge">Reload this page</a></span></span></small></div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <table id="mp-lower" style="margin:4px 0 0 0; width:100%; background:none; border-spacing: 0px;"> <tr> <td class="MainPageBG" style="width:100%; border:1px solid #ddcef2; background:#faf5ff; vertical-align:top; color:#000;"> <table id="mp-bottom" style="width:100%; vertical-align:top; background:#faf5ff; color:#000;"> <tr> <td style="padding:2px;"> <h2 id="mp-tfp-h2" style="margin:3px; background:#ddcef2; font-family:inherit; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #afa3bf; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em"><span class="mw-headline" id="Today.27s_featured_picture">Today's featured picture</span></h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="color:#000; padding:2px;"> <div id="mp-tfp"> <table style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0;"><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Charadrius_ruficapillus_Breeding_Plumage.jpg" class="image" title="Red-capped plover"><img alt="Red-capped plover" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150321072328im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Charadrius_ruficapillus_Breeding_Plumage.jpg/360px-Charadrius_ruficapillus_Breeding_Plumage.jpg" width="360" height="240" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150321072328im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Charadrius_ruficapillus_Breeding_Plumage.jpg/540px-Charadrius_ruficapillus_Breeding_Plumage.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150321072328im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Charadrius_ruficapillus_Breeding_Plumage.jpg/720px-Charadrius_ruficapillus_Breeding_Plumage.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2300" data-file-height="1533"/></a></td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0"> <p>A male <b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-capped_plover" title="Red-capped plover">red-capped plover</a></b> (<i>Charadrius ruficapillus</i>) in breeding plumage, photographed at <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%27s_Bay" title="Ralph's Bay" class="mw-redirect">Ralph's Bay</a> in <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmania" title="Tasmania">Tasmania</a>, Australia. These birds are seasonal breeders along the coast, but inland they will breed in response to unpredictable rains. The nests are found on the ground, in vicinity of wetlands, and may hold a <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutch_(eggs)" title="Clutch (eggs)">clutch</a> of two eggs.</p> <small>Photograph: <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JJ_Harrison" title="User:JJ Harrison">JJ Harrison</a></small> <div style="text-align:right;"> <p>Recently featured: <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2015-03-20" title="Template:POTD/2015-03-20">Red telephone box</a> – <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2015-03-19" title="Template:POTD/2015-03-19">Tornado damage</a> – <a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2015-03-18" title="Template:POTD/2015-03-18"><i>The Railway</i></a><br/></p> <div class="noprint"><b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2015">Archive</a></b> – <b><a href="/web/20150321072328/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures...</a></b></div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <div id="mp-other" style="padding-top:4px; 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