History
1778 - Continental Navy frigate Randolph (32 guns) engages HMS Yarmouth (64). Randolph explodes and sinks with the loss of all but four men.
1958 - Commissioning of USS Grayback (SS 574),
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1822 - USS Enterprise captures four pirate ships in the Gulf of Mexico.
1862 - USS Monitor departs New York for Hampton Roads, Va.
1822 - USS Enterprise captures four pirate ships in the Gulf of Mexico.
1862 - USS Monitor departs New York for Hampton Roads, Va.
1942 - U.S. cruisers and destroyers bombard Vila and Munda,
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1942 - The name "Seabees" is officially authorized.
1943 - USS Bogue (CVE 9) begins the first anti-submarine operations by an escort carrier.
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1942 - Patrol Wing (VP) 82 aircraft sinks German submarine, U-656. It is the Navy's first submarine kill of World War II.
1954
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1844 - The Peacemaker, an experimental 14-inch gun, explodes aboard USS Princeton.
1893 - USS Indiana (BB 1), the first true battleship in the U.
1844 - The Peacemaker, an experimental 14-inch gun, explodes aboard USS Princeton.
1893 - USS Indiana (BB 1), the first true battleship in the U.S. Navy, is launched.
1861 - Congress approves the construction of seven steam sloops.
1942 - During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied naval force attacks a Japanese invasion convoy.
1811 - Congress authorizes the first naval hospital.
1944 - Sue Sophia Dauser, superintendent of the Navy's Nurse Corps, is the first woman in the Navy promoted to the rank of captain.
1856 - USS Supply, commanded by Lt. David Dixon Porter, sails from Smyrna, Syria, bound for Indianola, Texas, with a load of 21 camels intended for experimental
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1778 - John Paul Jones, while commanding the American vessel Ranger, receives the first official salute to the U.S. Stars and Stripes flag by a European country,
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1854 - Adm. Matthew Calbraith Perry anchors off Yokosuka, Japan, to receive the Japanese Emperor’s reply to a treaty proposal.
1913 - Naval Radio Station,
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1945 - USS Batfish (SS 310) sinks its second Japanese submarine within three days.
1947 - USS Cusk (SS 348) sets a a milestone, launching
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1799 - USS Constellation, commanded by Capt. Thomas Truxtun, captures the French warship l'Insurgente.
1943 - The organized Japanese resistance on Guadalcanal ends.
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1862 - A Union joint amphibious force captures Roanoke Island, N.C., opening the entire North Carolina coast to the Federals.
1890
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1800 - USS Essex becomes the first U.S. Navy vessel to cross the equator.
1815 - The Board of Naval Commissioners, a group of senior officers,
1854 - The first chapel built on Navy property is dedicated in Annapolis, Md.
1971 - Capt. Alan B. Shepherd Jr., commander of Apollo 14, and Cmdr. Edgar D. Mitchell,
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1944 - A U.S. amphibious landing takes place on Kwajalein, Marshall Islands.
1961 - Lt. Cmdr. Samuel Lee Gravely Jr.
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1862 - Launching of the first turreted warship, USS Monitor.
1863 - The gunboat Isaac Smith is captured by Confederate land forces
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1911 - The first hydroaeroplane flight is witnessed by a naval aviator.
1913 - The body of John Paul Jones is laid in its final resting place in the chapel of the U.