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2012 Event - Sarah West, a British naval officer Commander is appointed commander of HMS Portland, the Royal Navy frigate; she is the first female officer to take command of a major British warship

2012 Event - In the U.S. city of Virginia Beach, Virginia, a U.S. Navy FA-18 Superhornet crashes into an apartment complex

2012 Event - Treasure from Spain's Navy frigate Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes is returned to Spain after it was recovered by Odyssey Marine Exploration in 2007

2011 Event - At least 20 Navy SEALs and 17 others die when a NATO Chinook helicopter crashes after being shot down by the Taliban in Afghanistan

2011 Event - For the first time since 1979 Iranian Revolution, two ships from the Iran Navy are sent through the Suez Canal

2010 Event - 35 suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia are captured by the French Navy, the European Union's most successful mission

2010 Event - United States Navy troops land near the Haitian presidential palace, bringing food, water, and equipment to aid victims of the earthquake

2009 Event - An Australian navy ship intercepts a boat carrying 60 suspected asylum seekers

2008 Event - U.S. Navy destroys a U.S. spy satellite with a missile

2001 Death - Carrie Donovan, editor/Old Navy icon, Vogue, dies at 73

1996 Death - Jeremy Boorda, admiral, U.S. Navy, 25th Chief of Naval Operations, dies of suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, in Washington, D.C.

1996 Death - Arleigh Burke, admiral, U.S. Navy, Chief of Naval Operations during President Eisenhower administration, served admirably in World War II and the Korean War, dies at 94

1994 Event - U.S. Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship

1994 Death - "Iron" Adriaan van Es, Dutch Undersecretary of Navy (1963-72), dies at 80

1991 Event - 27 lost at sea when 2 U.S. Navy anti-submarine planes collide

1988 Event - U.S. Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290

1987 Event - 1st military use of trained dolphins by the U.S. Navy

1986 Event - U.S. Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying

1986 Event - San Francisco Federal jury convicts Navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage

1984 Death - Billy Sands, actor (Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy), dies at 73

1984 Event - U.S. Navy exhibits Piasecki helistat-4 helicopters and a blimp able to lift 26 tons-Lakehurst, New Jersey

1982 Event - U.S. submarine Thomas Edison collides with U.S. Navy destroyer in So China Sea

1981 Event - 2 U.S. Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22

1979 Event - "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3

1978 Event - CIA director, Admiral Stansfield Turner retires from the Navy

1974 Death - Joe Flynn, actor (McHale's Navy), dies at 49

1973 Death - Claire Dodd, actress (Ex-Lady, In the Navy), dies after illness at 64

1971 Event - Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die

1971 Event - Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr. becomes 1st black Admiral in U.S. Navy

1970 Birthday - Matt Blunt, born in Springfield, Missouri, politician, Republican, 54th Governor of Missouri, formerly an officer in the U.S. Navy

1963 Event - 29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (quarterback)

1962 Event - Dutch and Indonesian Navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea

1960 Event - 26th Heisman Trophy Award: Joe Bellino, Navy (HB)

1958 Event - Israeli Navy inaugrates it's 1st submarine

1958 Event - U.S. Navy forms atomic sub division

1958 Event - Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd U.S.), measures Earth shape

1956 Birthday - Kent V. Rominger, born in Del Norte, Colorado, U.S. Navy /astronaut, STS-73, 80, 85

1954 Event - Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (sub), commissioned by the Navy

1952 Death - Henri G Winkelman, Dutch supreme commander army/navy 1940, dies at 76

1950 Event - North Koreans troop reach Seoul, United Nations asks members to aid South Korea, Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict

1948 Event - 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular U.S. Navy

1947 Event - U.S. Air Force, Navy and War Department form U.S. Department of Defense

1947 Event - 1st (U.S. Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, Rhode Island

1947 Event - John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in U.S. Navy

1946 Event - French Navy fire in Haiphong Vietnam, kills 6,000

1945 Event - Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from Navy and strike out 12

1945 Event - Lieutenant Admiral Marc Mitscher named chief of U.S. Navy staff

1945 Event - Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 U.S. Navy ships bomb Okinawa

1945 Event - Phyllis M. Daley is 1st black nurse sworn-in as U.S. Navy ensign

1944 Event - Navy says black women can join WAVES

1944 Event - 1st female U.S. Navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed

1944 Event - Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl," Oran, North Africa

1942 Event - French Navy at Toulon scuttles ships and subs so Nazis don't take them

1942 Event - U.S. Navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance

1942 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)

1942 Event - Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a Navy aviator

1942 Event - Dorie Miller, awarded Navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor

1942 Event - U.S. Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve

1942 Event - 1st twilight game in 24 years, the Dodgers top Giants 7-6 raising $60,000 for Navy Relief Fund

1942 Event - WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"

1942 Event - Bob Feller, enlists in Navy and reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia

1941 Event - U.S. president Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act

1941 Event - 1st Navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched

1941 Event - Navy takes over Treasure Island, in San Francisco Bay

1940 Event - British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in North Africa

1939 Birthday - Henry Lawrence Garett III, born in Miami, Florida, Sect of Navy, 1989 - 1992

1939 Death - Cornelis J Cutters, supreme commander of Navy (1910-18), dies

1938 Birthday - Jeremy Boorda, born in South Bend, Indiana, admiral, U.S. Navy, 25th Chief of Naval Operations

1938 Event - Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy

1938 Birthday - Jock Slater, born in the United Kingdom, admiral, Royal Navy, served 1958 - 1998, Equerry to Her Majesty The Queen, 1968 1971

1934 Event - Adolph Hitler expands German army and Navy and creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles

1934 Birthday - Kenneth Eaton, Controller, British Navy

1933 Birthday - Tim Conway, born in Willoughby, Ohio, comic, McHale's Navy, Carol Burnett Show

1930 Event - 1st streamlined submarine of U.S. navy, USS Nautilus, launched

1926 Event - 110,000 watch Army and Navy play a 21-all tie

1925 Birthday - Bob Hastings, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, McHale's Navy, All in the Family

1925 Birthday - Peter Lane, born in England, Baron Lane of Horsell, Lord Land of Horsell, politician, businessman, Conservative Party, served in Royal Navy, life peer, House of Lords

1924 Birthday - Joe Flynn, Youngstown Ohio, actor, McHale's Navy

1924 Event - Allies stop checking on German navy

1922 Event - 1st commemoration of Navy Day

1922 Birthday - Carl Ballantine, actor, McHale's Navy

1922 Birthday - John Farr, born in Nottingham, England, Sir John Arnold Farr, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Harborough 1959 - 1992, served with Royal Navy during World War II

1922 Event - USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's 1st aircraft Carrier

1922 Birthday - Pamela Mason, born in London, actress, Navy vs. Night Monsters

1921 Birthday - Virginia O'Brien, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Francis in the Navy

1920 Birthday - Harri Webb, Swansea, Wales, journalist, nationalist, poet, volunteered for the Royal Navy, published The Green Desert, a collection of poetry in 1969, Poems and Points in 1983

1920 Birthday - Antony Duff, born in England, served Royal Navy during World War II, Deputy Governor of Southern Rhodesia, diplomat, Director-General of Military Intelligence, section 5, 1985 - 1988, the United Kingdom's internal security service

1919 Event - 1st transatlantic flight ends; U.S. Navy flying boat takes 11 days

1919 Event - 1st transatlantic flight take-off by a Navy seaplane

1917 Event - 1st female U.S. Navy Petty Officer is Loretta Walsh

1917 Event - German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships

1915 Birthday - Ann Nagel, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Don Winslow of the Navy

1915 Event - Dutch merchant Navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo

1915 Event - 1st U.S. Navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned

1914 Event - Minister of Navy W Churchill routes British fleet to Scapa Flow

1912 Event - World's 1st cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy

1910 Birthday - Stephen Jurika, Jr., U.S. pilot/captain, WW II, Santa Cruz, Navy Cross

1910 Event - Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy

1909 Event - Construction of Navy base at Pearl Harbor begins

1908 Birthday - Claire Dodd, AR, actress, Ex-Lady, In the Navy

1908 Event - Dutch capture Venezuelan navy

1907 Event - Eugene H Farrar is 1st to sing on radio (Brooklyn Navy Yard New York)

1906 Birthday - Walter Sande, born in Denver, Colorado, actor, Navy vs Night Monsters

1905 Birthday - Fitzhugh Lee, U.S. pilot/Vice-Admiral, WW II, Navy Cross

1901 Birthday - Arleigh Burke, born in Boulder, Colorado, admiral, U.S. Navy, Chief of Naval Operations during President Eisenhower administration, served admirably in World War II and the Korean War

1900 Event - German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power

1900 Event - U.S. Navy's 1st submarine made its debut

1900 Birthday - Hyman G Rickover, U.S. Admiral, father of modern nuclear navy

1899 Event - George Dewey becomes 1st in U.S. with rank of Admiral of the Navy

1898 Event - U.S. Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba

1898 Event - Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay to Navy

1892 Birthday - James Forrestal, U.S., banker/minister of Navy

1890 Event - 1st Army-Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point

1883 Event - Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in U.S. navy

1876 Birthday - Henri G Winkelman, Dutch general/supreme commander/navy 1940

1869 Event - Margarine is patents by Hippolye Mega-Mouries for use by French Navy

1866 Event - David Faragut appointed as 1st Admiral of U.S. Navy

1862 Event - 1st U.S. Navy hospital ship enters service

1862 Event - David G Farragut is 1st rear Admiral in U.S. Navy

1862 Event - U.S. Navy's 1st ironclad warship, the Monitor, launched

1861 Event - Secretary of U.S. Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves

1861 Event - At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel Navy is cast

1861 Event - Department of Navy of Confederacy forms

1857 Event - William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to U.S. Navy

1853 Event - Admiral Perry and U.S. Navy visit Japan

1852 Birthday - Cornelis J Snijders, supreme commander of Dutch Navy, 1910-18

1850 Event - U.S. Navy abolishes flogging as punishment

1844 Death - Thommas W. Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton

1842 Birthday - William Barker Cushing, Lieutenant Commander Union Navy

1841 Death - Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance/Navy/Colonies, dies at 74

1840 Birthday - Sanuel Dana Greene, Lieutenant Commander Union Navy

1826 Birthday - Mercer Brooke John, Confederate Navy

1823 Birthday - James Dunwody Bulloch, Captain, Confederate Navy

1821 Birthday - Navy Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary, Union

1819 Birthday - Daniel Ammen, Captain Union Navy

1814 Event - Battle of Lake Champlain, New York; American Navy defeats British

1813 Birthday - David Dixon Porter, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1813 Event - Captain John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship"

1812 Birthday - Percival Drayton, Captain Union Navy

1812 Birthday - John Rodgers II, Commander Union Navy

1812 Birthday - Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander Union Navy

1812 Birthday - John Randolph Tucker, Captain, Confederate Navy

1811 Birthday - John Ancrum Winslow, Commander Union Navy

1811 Birthday - Joseph Lanman, Commander Union Navy

1810 Birthday - James Shedden Palmer, Commander Union Navy

1809 Birthday - Raphael Semmes, Rear Admiral, Confederate Navy

1809 Birthday - William Radford, Commander Union Navy

1809 Birthday - Sylvanus William Godon, Commander Union Navy

1809 Birthday - William David Porter, Commander Union Navy

1808 Birthday - Stephen Cleeg Rowan, Commander Union Navy

1808 Birthday - Thomas Turner, Commander Union Navy

1808 Birthday - Thomas Tinsley Craven, Commander Union Navy

1808 Birthday - Henry Haywood Bell, Commander Union Navy

1808 Birthday - Charles Henry Poor, Commander Union Navy

1807 Birthday - James Findlay Schenck, Commander Union Navy

1807 Birthday - Charles Henry Davis, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1806 Birthday - Andrew Hull Foote, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1806 Birthday - Henry Knox Thatcher, Commander Union Navy

1805 Birthday - Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1804 Birthday - John William, Turk, Livingston, Commander Union Navy

1804 Birthday - Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Commander Union Navy

1804 Event - Lt. Stephen Decatur raids Tripoli Harbor and burns Navy frigate "Philadelphia" after pirates seized it

1803 Birthday - Samuel Francis DuPont, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1803 Birthday - Levin Minnesota Powell, Commander Union Navy

1802 Birthday - James Lawrence Lardner, Commander Union Navy

1802 Birthday - Cadwalader Ringgold, Commander Union Navy

1802 Birthday - Gideon Welles, Secretary Navy, Union

1801 Birthday - John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Commander Union Navy

1801 Birthday - David Glasgow Farragut, Tennessee, Vice Admiral Union Navy

1801 Birthday - Henry Eagle, Commander Union Navy

1800 Birthday - William Wister McKean, Commander Union Navy

1800 Birthday - Franklin Buchanan, Admiral, Confederate Navy

1800 Birthday - Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Commander Union Navy

1798 Birthday - Gershom Jaques Van Brunt, Commander Union Navy

1798 Birthday - Charles H Bell, Commander Union Navy

1798 Event - Department of Navy forms

1798 Birthday - Charles D. Wilkes, Commander Union Navy

1798 Event - Dr. George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the U.S. navy

1797 Birthday - Hiram Paulding, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1797 Birthday - Silas Horton Stringham, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1797 Event - U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston

1797 Event - 1st Navy ship, the "United States," is launched

1796 Birthday - Ret Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling, Commander Union Navy

1796 Event - English beat Bataafs Navy in Saldanha Bay

1795 Birthday - John Marston, Jr., Commander Union Navy

1795 Birthday - Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander Union Navy

1794 Birthday - John Barrien Montgomery, Commander Union Navy

1794 Event - U.S. Navy forms

1790 Birthday - Joseph Smith, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1789 Birthday - Francis Hoyt Gregory, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1778 Birthday - Charles Stewart, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1775 Event - Continental Navy organized with 7 ships

1775 Event - 2nd Continental Congress formally establishes U.S. Navy

1775 Event - U.S. Navy forms

1775 Event - U.S. Navy forms

1764 Birthday - Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French Vice-Admiral/minister of Navy

1718 Birthday - Esek Hopkins, U.S., 1st commander-in-chief, U.S. Navy

1703 Event - Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships

1683 Death - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French Minister of Navy, dies at 64

1633 Birthday - Samuel Pepys, born in London, England, Navy expert/composer, Diary, Memoirs

1595 Death - John Hawkins, English navigator/treasurer of the Navy, dies at 63

1573 Event - Battle of South Seas - Dutch rebels beat Spanish navy

1345 Birthday - Ferdinand I, the wise one, king of Portugal, built navy

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