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Kajioka Sadamichi, commander of the convoy

The Take Ichi convoy was a Imperial Japanese Navy convoy of World War II. Under the command of Rear Admiral Sadamichi Kajioka (pictured), the convoy left Shanghai on 17 April 1944, carrying two infantry divisions to reinforce Japan's defensive positions in the Philippines and western New Guinea. United States Navy submarines attacked the convoy on 26 April and 6 May, sinking four transports and killing more than 4,000 soldiers. These losses caused the convoy to be diverted to Halmahera, where the surviving soldiers and their equipment were unloaded. The failure to bring the two divisions to their destination without loss contributed to the Imperial General Headquarters' decision to move Japan's defensive perimeter back by 1,000 km (600 mi). The divisions' combat power was also blunted by their losses, and while they both saw action against United States Army forces, they contributed little to Japan's attempt to defend its empire. (Full article...)

Spoonful and jar of mad honey

• ... that hallucinogenic honey (pictured) was used as a biological weapon more than 2000 years ago?
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• ... that Lewis W. Green was one of the two members of the first graduating class of Centre College and later became its president?
• ... that "Toy Town" was said to have "almost destroyed" the happy hardcore scene?
• ... that William F. Fiedler was the only American fighter pilot to become a flying ace in the P-39 Airacobra?
• ... that nearly a thousand elections for local executives were held in Indonesia between 2005 and 2013, averaging around once every three days?
• ... that although Agnes Kimball was a popular recording artist of opera and musical theatre, she never appeared as a singing actress on the stage?
• ... that 287 Broadway was once called "the most succulent cast-iron street-show in all New York"?

Jeremiah Manele

• Following the Solomon Islands general election, Jeremiah Manele (pictured) becomes the prime minister.
• Acting prime minister of Haiti Ariel Henry resigns, and the Transitional Presidential Council is sworn in.
• NASA announces that the Voyager 1 space probe is sending readable data for the first time in five months.
• The HDZ-led coalition wins the most seats in the Croatian parliamentary election but falls short of a majority.
• Ich­thy­o­titan, the largest known marine reptile, is formally described.

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The Grand Palace in the 1860s

• 1536 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Sapa Inca emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui's army began a ten-month siege of Cusco against a garrison of Spanish conquistadors and Indian auxiliaries led by Hernando Pizarro.
• 1782 – Construction began on the Grand Palace (pictured) in Bangkok, the official residence of the king of Thailand.
• 1915 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: SY Aurora, anchored in McMurdo Sound, broke loose during a gale, beginning a 312-day ordeal in the Ross Sea and Southern Ocean for her 18-man crew.
• 2004 – The final episode of the television sitcom Friends was aired.
• 2013 – Amanda Berry escaped from the Cleveland, Ohio, home of her captor, Ariel Castro, having been held there with two other women for ten years.