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The four battlecruisers of the Mackensen class were the last to be built by Germany in World War I, but they were never completed, to free up wartime resources for more U-boats. The lead ship was named for Field Marshal August von Mackensen; the others were Graf Spee, Prinz Eitel Friedrich, and Fürst Bismarck. In response to these ships, the British Royal Navy began construction on the Admiral-class battlecruisers, but only one was completed, HMS Hood, after the war. The Mackensen class was an improvement on the preceding Derfflinger class, and was followed by the Ersatz Yorck class. That class was slated for larger guns than the 35 cm (14 in) main-battery guns of Mackensen, after the Battle of Jutland in 1916 demonstrated the need for them, but little progress was made on those ships before they too were cancelled. The four Mackensen-class ships were broken up for scrap metal in the early 1920s. (Full article...)

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1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removed George B. McClellan (pictured) as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time.
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1990 – Ultra-Zionist rabbi Meir Kahane was assassinated in a New York City hotel by an Arab gunman.
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The Kid is a 1921 American silent comedy-drama film starring Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan. This was Chaplin's first full-length film as a director; he also wrote and produced the film, which follows a young boy who is abandoned by his mother and raised by The Tramp. It was the second-highest grossing film in 1921. Innovative in its combination of comedic and dramatic elements, The Kid has been considered one of the greatest films of the silent era.

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