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The RCMP St. Roch is a sailing ship, which was the second vessel to transit the Northwest Passage.

She was especially designed for work in the Canadian Arctic, and was launched in 1928. For most of her first twenty years afloat she was commanded by Henry Larsen.

Did you know ...

... that Emperor Yingzong of Ming abolished the practice of concubines committing suicide following an emperor's death?
... that FlexiRide bus services have no fixed route, operating only when passengers book a trip?
... that Sri Jumahaliah Hanifa was the first woman to be the dean of the University of Indonesia's law school?
... that two-thirds of the six-week budget allocated to the filming of Doctor Who was used up in only three days?
... that despite being rivals since the 1920s, the 2010 NFC Championship Game was only the second time the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers had ever met in the playoffs?
... that the then–prime minister of New Zealand said that the greatest impact of the December 2011 Christchurch earthquakes was on mental health?
... that sprinter Ng Ka Yee set four Hong Kong records in 1988 ahead of competing in that year's Olympics?
... that Fromage was described as "the cheesiest board game of all time"?

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On this day

1525 – Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, beginning the practice of clerical marriage in Protestantism.
1881 – The Jeannette expedition to reach the North Pole from the Pacific Ocean via the Bering Strait came to an end when the USS Jeannette was finally crushed and sank after having been trapped in ice for almost two years.
1952 – Soviet aircraft Catalina affair carrying out signals-intelligence gathering operations, followed three days later by the shootdown of a second plane searching for the first one.
1969 – Preston Smith, Governor of Texas, signed a law converting a research arm of Texas Instruments into the University of Texas at Dallas.
2013 – Some of the closest advisors and collaborators of Czech prime minister Petr Nečas 2013 Czech political corruption scandal.