2001 Carrie Donovan, editor/Old Navy icon, Vogue, dies at 73
1994 U.S. Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship
1994 "Iron" Adriaan van Es, Dutch Undersecretary of Navy (1963-72), dies at 80
1991 27 lost at sea when 2 U.S. Navy anti-submarine planes collide
1988 U.S. Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290
1987 1st military use of trained dolphins by the U.S. Navy
1986 U.S. Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
1986 San Francisco Federal jury convicts Navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage
1984 Billy Sands, actor (Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy), dies at 73
1984 U.S. Navy exhibits Piasecki helistat-4 helicopters and a blimp able to lift 26 tons-Lakehurst, NJ
1982 U.S. submarine Thomas Edison collides with U.S. Navy destroyer in So China Sea
1981 2 U.S. Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22
1979 "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3
1978 CIA director, Admiral Stansfield Turner retires from the Navy
1974 Joe Flynn, actor (McHale's Navy), dies at 49
1973 Claire Dodd, actress (Ex-Lady, In the Navy), dies after illness at 64
1971 Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die
1971 Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr. becomes 1st black Admiral in U.S. Navy
1963 29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (QB)
1962 Dutch and Indonesian Navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea
1960 26th Heisman Trophy Award: Joe Bellino, Navy (HB)
1958 Israeli Navy inaugrates it's 1st submarine
1958 U.S. Navy forms atomic sub division
1958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd U.S.), measures Earth shape
1956 Kent V. Rominger, born in Del Norte, Colorado, U.S. Navy /astronaut, STS 73, 80, 85
1954 Mike Ratledge, author, 2DAY and NEWDAY, /ratledgm@spawar.navy.mil
1954 Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (sub), commissioned by the Navy
1952 Henri G Winkelman, Dutch supreme commander army/navy 1940, dies at 76
1950 North Koreans troop reach Seoul, United Nations asks members to aid South Korea, Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict
1948 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular U.S. Navy
1947 U.S. Air Force, Navy and War Department form U.S. Department of Defense
1947 1st (U.S. Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, Rhode Island
1947 John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in U.S. Navy
1946 French Navy fire in Haiphong Vietnam, kills 6,000
1945 Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from Navy and strike out 12
1945 Lt-adm Marc Mitscher named chief of U.S. Navy staff
1945 Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 U.S. Navy ships bomb Okinawa
1945 Phyllis M. Daley is 1st black nurse sworn-in as U.S. Navy ensign
1944 Navy says black women can join WAVES
1944 1st female U.S. Navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed
1944 Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl," Oran, North Africa
1942 French Navy at Toulon scuttles ships and subs so Nazis don't take them
1942 U.S. Navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance
1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
1942 Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a Navy aviator
1942 Dorie Miller, awarded Navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor
1942 U.S. Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve
1942 1st twilight game in 24 years, the Dodgers top Giants 7-6 raising $60,000 for Navy Relief Fund
1942 WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"
1942 Bob Feller, enlists in Navy and reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia
1941 U.S. president Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act
1941 1st Navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
1941 Navy takes over Treasure Island, in San Francisco Bay
1940 British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in North Africa
1939 Henry Lawrence Garett III, born in Miami, Florida, Sect of Navy, 1989-92
1939 Cornelis J Cutters, supreme commander of Navy (1910-18), dies
1938 Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy
1934 Adolph Hitler expands German army and Navy and creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles
1934 Kenneth Eaton, Controller, British Navy
1933 Tim Conway, born in Willoughby, Ohio, comic, McHale's Navy, Carol Burnett Show
1930 1st streamlined submarine of U.S. navy, USS Nautilus, launched
1926 110,000 watch Army and Navy play a 21-all tie
1925 Bob Hastings, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, McHale's Navy, All in the Family
1924 Joe Flynn, Youngstown Ohio, actor, McHale's Navy
1924 Allies stop checking on German navy
1922 1st commemoration of Navy Day
1922 Carl Ballantine, actor, McHale's Navy
1922 USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's 1st aircraft Carrier
1922 Pamela Mason, born in London, actress, Navy vs. Night Monsters
1921 Virginia O'Brien, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Francis in the Navy
1919 1st transatlantic flight ends; U.S. Navy flying boat takes 11 days
1919 1st transatlantic flight take-off by a Navy seaplane
1917 1st female U.S. Navy Petty Officer is Loretta Walsh
1917 German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships
1915 Ann Nagel, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Don Winslow of the Navy
1915 Dutch merchant Navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo
1915 1st U.S. Navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned
1914 Minister of Navy W Churchill routes British fleet to Scapa Flow
1914 British Min of Navy Winston Churchill orders British fleet to remain
1912 World's 1st cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy
1910 Stephen Jurika, Jr., U.S. pilot/capt, WW II, Santa Cruz, Navy Cross
1910 Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy
1909 Construction of Navy base at Pearl Harbor begins
1908 Claire Dodd, AR, actress, Ex-Lady, In the Navy
1908 Dutch capture Venezuelan navy
1907 Eugene H Farrar is 1st to sing on radio (Brooklyn Navy Yard New York)
1906 Walter Sande, born in Denver, Colorado, actor, Navy vs Night Monsters
1905 Fitzhugh Lee, U.S. pilot/vice-admiral, WW II, Navy Cross
1901 Arleigh A Burke, Colo, Admiral, WW II, Solomon Islands, Navy Cross
1900 German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power
1900 U.S. Navy's 1st submarine made its debut
1900 Hyman G Rickover, U.S. Admiral, father of modern nuclear navy
1899 George Dewey becomes 1st in U.S. with rank of Admiral of the Navy
1898 U.S. Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba
1898 Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay to Navy
1892 James Forrestal, U.S., banker/minister of Navy
1890 1st Army-Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point
1883 Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in U.S. navy
1876 Henri G Winkelman, Dutch general/supreme commander/navy 1940
1869 Margarine is patents by Hippolye Mega-Mouries for use by French Navy
1866 David Faragut appointed as 1st Admiral of U.S. Navy
1862 1st U.S. Navy hospital ship enters service
1862 David G Farragut is 1st rear Admiral in U.S. Navy
1862 U.S. Navy's 1st ironclad warship, the Monitor, launched
1861 Secretary of U.S. Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves
1861 At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel Navy is cast
1861 Department of Navy of Confederacy forms
1857 William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to U.S. Navy
1853 Adm Perry and U.S. Navy visit Japan
1852 Cornelis J Snijders, supreme commander of Dutch Navy, 1910-18
1850 U.S. Navy abolishes flogging as punishment
1844 Thommas W. Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
1842 William Barker Cushing, Lt Cmdr Union Navy, died in 1874
1841 Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance/Navy/Colonies, dies at 74
1840 Sanuel Dana Greene, Lt Cmdr Union Navy, died in 1884
1826 Mercer Brooke John, Confederate Navy, died in 1906
1823 James Dunwody Bulloch, Capt, Confederate Navy, died in 1901
1821 Navy Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary, Union, died in 1883
1820 Antarctica discovered by U.S. Navy Capt Nathaniel B. Palmer
1819 Daniel Ammen, Capt Union Navy, died in 1898
1818 John Lorimar Worden, Capt Union Navy, died in 1897
1814 Battle of Lake Champlain, New York; American Navy defeats British
1813 David Dixon Porter, Rear Admiral Union Navy, died in 1891
1813 Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship"
1812 Percival Drayton, Capt Union Navy, died in 1865
1812 John Rodgers II, Commander Union Navy, died in 1882
1812 Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander Union Navy, died in 1883
1812 John Randolph Tucker, Capt, Confederate Navy, died in 1883
1811 John Ancrum Winslow, Commander Union Navy, died in 1873
1811 Joseph Lanman, Commander Union Navy, died in 1874
1810 James Shedden Palmer, Commander Union Navy, died in 1867
1809 Raphael Semmes, Rear Admiral, Confederate Navy, died in 1877
1809 William Radford, Commander Union Navy, died in 1890
1809 Sylvanus William Godon, Commander Union Navy, died in 1879
1809 William David Porter, Commander Union Navy, died in 1864
1808 Stephen Cleeg Rowan, Commander Union Navy, died in 1890
1808 Thomas Turner, Commander Union Navy, died in 1883
1808 Thomas Tinsley Craven, Commander Union Navy, died in 1887
1808 Henry Haywood Bell, Commander Union Navy, died in 1868
1808 Charles Henry Poor, Commander Union Navy, died in 1882
1807 James Findlay Schenck, Commander Union Navy, died in 1882
1807 Charles Henry Davis, Rear Admiral Union Navy, died in 1877
1806 Andrew Hull Foote, Rear Admiral Union Navy, died in 1863
1806 Henry Knox Thatcher, Commander Union Navy, died in 1880
1805 Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral Union Navy
1804 John William, Turk, Livingston, Commander Union Navy, died in 1885
1804 Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Commander Union Navy
1804 Lt. Stephen Decatur raids Tripoli Harbor and burns Navy frigate "Philadelphia" after pirates seized it
1803 Samuel Francis DuPont, Rear Admiral Union Navy, died in 1865
1803 Levin Minnesota Powell, Commander Union Navy, died in 1885
1802 James Lawrence Lardner, Commander Union Navy, died in 1881
1802 Cadwalader Ringgold, Commander Union Navy, died in 1867
1802 Gideon Welles, Secretary Navy, Union, died in 1878
1801 John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Commander Union Navy, died in 1867
1801 David Glasgow Farragut, Tennessee, Vice Admiral Union Navy, died in 1870
1801 Henry Eagle, Commander Union Navy, died in 1882
1800 William Wister McKean, Commander Union Navy, died in 1865
1800 Franklin Buchanan, Admiral, Confederate Navy, died in 1874
1800 Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Commander Union Navy, died in 1874
1798 Gershom Jaques Van Brunt, Commander Union Navy, died in 1863
1798 Charles H Bell, Commander Union Navy, died in 1875
1798 Department of Navy forms
1798 Charles D. Wilkes, Commander Union Navy, died in 1877
1798 Dr. George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the U.S. navy
1797 Hiram Paulding, Rear Admiral Union Navy, died in 1878
1797 Silas Horton Stringham, Rear Admiral Union Navy, died in 1876
1797 U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston
1797 1st Navy ship, the "United States," is launched
1796 Ret Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling, Commander Union Navy, died in 1880
1796 English beat Bataafs Navy in Saldanha Bay
1795 John Marston, Jr., Commander Union Navy, died in 1885
1795 Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander Union Navy, died in 1883
1794 John Barrien Montgomery, Commander Union Navy, died in 1873
1794 U.S. Navy forms
1790 Joseph Smith, Rear Admiral Union Navy, died in 1877
1789 Francis Hoyt Gregory, Rear Admiral Union Navy, died in 1866
1778 Charles Stewart, Rear Admiral Union Navy, died in 1869
1775 Continental Navy organized with 7 ships
1775 2nd Continental Congress formally establishes U.S. Navy
1775 U.S. Navy forms
1775 U.S. Navy forms
1764 Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French vice-admiral/minister of Navy
1718 Esek Hopkins, U.S., 1st commander-in-chief, U.S. Navy
1703 Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships
1683 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French Minister of Navy, dies at 64
1633 Samuel Pepys, born in London, England, Navy expert/composer, Diary, Memoirs
1595 John Hawkins, English navigator/treasurer of the Navy, dies at 63
1573 Battle of South Seas - Dutch rebels beat Spanish navy
1345 Ferdinand I, the wise one, king of Portugal, built navy
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