1998 Diane Zamora, 20, Naval Academy cadet convicted of capital murder
1996 Peter Winter, naval commander, dies at 78
1996 Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer, dies at 101
1995 George Chesterman Phillips, naval Officer, dies at 90
1995 James Pack, naval officer museum curator, dies at 81
1995 Richard Pool, naval Officer, dies at 75
1995 Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist, dies at 82
1994 U.S. reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees
1990 U.S. announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions
1987 Francis C Denebrink, U.S. Naval officer (WW I, WW II, Korea) dies at 90
1986 Doctors at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon
1985 Naval exercises canceled when U.S. refuses to tell NZ of nuclear weapons
1972 40,000 pilots strike against naval officer
1964 U.S. naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam
1962 John F. Kennedy imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis
1961 U.S. nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from South Carolina in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hrs
1956 Ernest J King, U.S. fleet admiral/Chief of Naval Operations, dies at 77
1950 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters)
1947 Naval torpedo and mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300
1945 Betram Home Ramsay, Engl adm/Cmdr Naval Forces (Normandy), dies at 61
1943 Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station
1942 Battle of Midway ends: Adm Nimitz wins 1st WW II naval defeat of Japan
1942 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St. Nazaire
1942 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, U.S. suffers a major naval defeat
1941 Naval Intelligence ceases bugging Japanese consul
1941 German air raid on Russ naval base Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks)
1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force
1940 Rear Adm Joseph Taussig testifies before U.S. Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable (He was right)
1938 Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy
1934 Japan renounces Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and London Treaty of 1930
1931 British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts
1930 U.S., Britain and Japan sign London Naval Treaty
1928 U.S. Congress accept Jones-White Merchant Naval Act
1922 Naval Reserve #3, "Teapot Dome," leased to Harry F Sinclair
1922 J F Coates, naval architect
1922 U.S., U.K., France, Italy and Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation
1919 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
1919 Richard Pool, naval Officer
1918 U.S. naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle
1917 Peter Winter, naval commander
1917 Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD)
1916 Congress creates U.S. Naval reserve
1914 James Pack, naval officer museum curator
1913 Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist
1912 Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B. A. Fiske
1906 Belgian naval education ship Comte The Stain de Naeyer sets sail
1904 George Chesterman Phillips, naval officer
1903 U.S. signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay Cuba
1901 1st Royal Naval submarine launched at Barrow
1896 Francis C Denebrink, U.S. Naval officer, WW I, WW II, Korea
1895 Lewis B. Combs, naval commander and civil engineer
1890 1st U.S. state naval militia organized (Massachusetts)
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Naval Treaty"
1887 U.S. Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor
1886 William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed Liberty ships
1885 John Henry Towers, aviator/naval hero
1884 Naval War College forms in Newport RI
1883 Betram Home Ramsay, English admiral/Commander Allied Naval Forces
1880 Desire-mile Inghelbrecht, French composer and conductor, Naval
1878 Ernest J King, U.S. fleet admiral/Chief of Naval Operations, WW II
1864 Naval Engagement at Reynoldsburg Island
1864 Naval Engagement at Bahia Harbor Brazil-CSS Florida vs USS Wachusett
1864 U.S., British, French and Dutch naval officer sails Staits of Simonoseki
1864 Land and naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas
1864 Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, FR: USS Kearsage vs. CSS Alabama
1863 Federal naval expedition arrives off Sabine Pass
1863 Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA-USS Weehawken vs CSS Atlanta
1863 Naval Engagement at Havana Cuba-USS Henrick Hudson vs BR Wild Pigeon
1863 Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama and USS Hatteras
1862 Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed)
1862 Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River MS: USS Potomac Expedition
1862 U.S. Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis Maryland to Newport, Rhode Island
1862 Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia CSS Virginia, Jamestown and Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress and Monitor
1862 Naval Engagement at Tenn River-USS Conestago vs CSS Appleton Belle
1861 Naval Engagement at Charleston, South Carolina USS Flag vs BR Alert
1861 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla
1861 Naval Engagement at Fernandina, FL-USS Vincennes ends rebel blockade
1861 Naval Engagement at Wilmington North Carolina - USS Daylight establishes blockade
1845 Naval School (now called U.S. Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis
1842 Philip Spencer, 1st U.S. naval officer condemned for mutiny, hanged
1842 U.S. Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress
1841 George Melville, polar explorer, naval engineer
1840 Alfred Thayer Mahan, U.S., naval officer, Influence of Sea Power
1837 Adm George Dewey, American naval hero of Manila
1819 Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero, dies on 34th birthday
1818 Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes and Lake Champlain
1817 William Bligh, British naval officer of "Bounty" fame, dies at 63
1815 U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur ends attacks by Algerian pirates
1811 James Melville Gilliss, founder, Naval Observatory in Washington
1810 William Froude, England, engineer/naval architect
1810 Donald McKay, U.S. naval architect, built fastest clipper ships
1806 Matthew Fontaine Maury, Naval Commander, Confederacy
1802 Jan C J van Speijk, Dutch naval hero
1798 Dr. George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the U.S. navy
1797 British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, Netherlands
1792 John Montague 4th Earl of Sandwich, English Naval minister, dies at 73
1786 August Keppel, 1st viscount/naval commander/politican, dies
1785 Oliver Hazard Perry, U.S. Naval hero, "We have met the enemy"
1781 James Lawrence, naval hero, War of 1812-"Don't give up the ship!"
1781 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va
1779 Stephen Decatur, U.S., naval hero, War of 1812
1775 1st official U.S. flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred)
1775 Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet
1775 1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (U.S.) captures Margaretta (Br)
1772 1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, RI
1758 Horatio Nelson, Burnham Thorpe Britain, naval hero, Trafalgar
1747 John Paul Jones, naval hero, "I have not yet begun to fight"
1746 Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer and naval chaplain
1738 Alexander Voznitsyn, Rus Naval officer converted to Judaism, executed
1738 Baruch Leibov, converted Russian Naval officer to Judaism, executed
1689 Battle of Bantry Bay, French and English naval battle
1619 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron
1598 Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, naval commander
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