FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS

SS Princess Sophia was a steel-built passenger liner in the coastal service fleet of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). Along with SS Princess Adelaide, SS Princess Alice, and SS Princess Mary, Princess Sophia was one of four similar ships built for CPR during 1910-1911.

On 25 October 1918, Princess Sophia sank with the loss of all aboard after grounding on Vanderbilt Reef in Lynn Canal near Juneau, Territory of Alaska. All 364 persons on the ship died, making the wreck of Princess Sophia the worst maritime accident in the history of British Columbia and Alaska.

TODAY’S ALMANAC

1400s

• DIED 1400: GEOFFREY CHAUCER (POET)

1760s

• 1760: GEORGE III BECAME KING OF GREAT BRITAIN

1820s

• BORN 1825: JOHANN STRAUSS, THE YOUNGER (COMPOSER; THE BLUE DANUBE)

1830s

• BORN 1838: GEORGES BIZET (COMPOSER)

1860s

• BORN 1864: JOHN FRANCIS DODGE (MANUFACTURER)

1880s

• BORN 1881: PABLO PICASSO (ARTIST)
• 1881: LESLIE L. CURTIS GRANTED A U.S. PATENT FOR AN AIR BRUSH DEVICE

1910s

• BORN 1912: MINNIE PEARL (COMEDIENNE & SINGER)
• BORN 1914: JOHN BERRYMAN (POET)
• 1918: S.S. PRINCESS SOPHIA SANK NEAR JUNEAU, ALASKA

1920s

• 1923: CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL MONUMENT ESTABLISHED IN NEW MEXICO
• BORN 1928: MARION ROSS (ACTRESS)

1940s

• BORN 1941: ANNE TYLER (AUTHOR)

1960s

• 1960: ARCHIBALD J. TURNER WAS GRANTED A PATENT FOR A FOOTBALL SHOULDER PAD

1970s

• BORN 1970: ED ROBERTSON (MUSICIAN)
• BORN 1971: PEDRO MARTINEZ (BASEBALL PITCHER)

1980s

• DIED 1981: ARIEL DURANT (HISTORIAN)
• BORN 1984: KATY PERRY (SINGER)
• BORN 1985: CIARA (SINGER)

1990s

• DIED 1993: VINCENT PRICE (ACTOR)

2000s

• DIED 2002: SEN. PAUL WELLSTONE (MINNESOTA CONGRESSMAN)
• DIED 2002: RICHARD HARRIS (ACTOR)
• 2004: KEN JENNINGS PASSED THE $2 MILLION MARK ON JEOPARDY!, SHATTERING HIS PREVIOUS $1 MILLION RECORD SET JULY 13, 2004
• 2007: HIDEKI OKAJIMA OF THE BOSTON RED SOX BECAME THE FIRST JAPANESE-BORN PITCHER TO PLAY IN A WORLD SERIES GAME

2010s

• DIED 2013: NIGEL DAVENPORT (ACTOR)

2020s

• 2022: PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN.

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