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This Day in Naval History – Oct. 2

1939 - Foreign ministers of countries of the Western Hemisphere agree to establish a neutrality zone around the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North and South America to be enforced by the U.

This Day in Naval History – Oct. 1

1800 - U.S. Schooner Experiment captures French Schooner Diana. 1844 - Naval Observatory headed by LT Matthew Fontaine Maury occupies first permanent quarters. 1874 - Supply Corps purser, LT J.

This Day in Naval History – Oct. 31

1943 - LT Hugh D. O'Neill of VF(N)-75 destroys a Japanese aircraft during night attack off Vella Lavella in first kill by a radar-equipped night fighter of the Pacific Fleet.

This Day in Naval History – Oct. 30

1799 - William Balch becomes Navy's first commissioned Chaplain. (Source: Navy News Service)

This Day in Naval History – Oct 29

1980 - USS Parsons (DDG-33) rescues 110 Vietnamese refugees 330 miles south of . (Source: Navy News Service)

This Day in Naval History – Oct. 28

This Day in Naval History – Oct. 24

1958 - USS Kleinsmith (APD-134) evacuates nationals from . 1962 - Atlantic Fleet begins quarantine operations to force Soviet Union to agree to remove ballistic missiles and long range bombers from .

This Day in Naval History – Oct. 23

1983 - A suicide truck bomber attacks the Marine barracks at airport, killing 241 (220 Marines, 18 Sailors, and 3 soldiers). 1983 - Operation Urgent Fury (, ) begins.

This Day in Naval History – Oct 22

1951 - First of seven detonations, Operation Buster-Jangle nuclear test. 1962 - President John F. Kennedy orders surface blockade (quarantine) of to prevent Soviet…

This Day in Naval History - Oct 21

1797 - Launching of USS Constitution at the Navy Yard, . The ship is now the oldest commissioned ship in the U.S. Navy. 1942 - British submarine lands CAPT Jerauld Wright…

This Day in Naval History – Oct. 18

1859 - U.S. Marines reach Harper's Ferry, VA and assault the arsenal seized by John Brown and his followers. 1867 - USS Ossippee and USS Resaca participate in formal…

This Day in Naval History – Oct. 17

1941 - U-568 torpedoes and damages USS Kearny (DD-432) near , resulting in 11 killed and 22 injured. 1944 - Naval Forces land Army rangers on islands at the entrance to in preparation for landings.

This Day in Naval History – Oct. 16

(Source: Navy News Service)

This Day in Naval History – Oct. 15

(Source: www.navy.mil)

This Day in Naval History - Oct. 14

1918 - Naval aviators of Marine Day Squadron 9 make the first raid-in-force for the Northern Bombing Group in World War I, when they bombed a German railroad at Thielt Rivy, Belgium.

This Day in Naval History - Oct. 10

1845 - The , later the , opens in , with 50 midshipmen and seven faculty. 1923 - First American-built rigid airship, Shenandoah, is christened. It used helium gas instead of hydrogen.

This Day in Naval History - Oct. 09

1873 - Lt. Charles Belknap calls a meeting at the to establish the U.S. Naval Institute for the purpose of disseminating scientific and professional knowledge throughout the Navy.

This Day in Naval History - Oct. 08

1812 - A boat party under Lt. Jesse D. Elliott captures HMS Detroit and Caledonia in the . 1842 - Commodore Lawrence Kearny of USS Constitution addresses a letter to the Viceroy of China…

This Day in Naval History - Oct. 07

1864 - USS Washusett captures Confederate raider CSS Florida in of , . 1924 - Rigid airship Shenandoah commences transcontinental flight. 1975 - President Gerald…

This Day in Naval History - Oct. 06

1940 - The fourth group of eight destroyers involved in the Destroyers for Bases Deal are turned over to British authorities in . 1943 - In the Battle of Vella Lavella…