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1993 Henri van Soede, sub commandant (WW II), dies at about 83

1989 Cleveland loses and drop to 21-22, this is the latest a sub .500 team is in 1st place (AL East)

1989 Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths

1988 USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned

1986 Russian nuclear sub sinks in Atlantic Ocean

1986 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die

1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan

1980 Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die

1977 Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole

1973 1st sub 17-min 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s)

1969 U.S. nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off San Francisco

1968 Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores

1966 1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution launched

1960 USS George Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched

1960 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched

1960 U.S. and Britain sign accord for nuclear sub bases

1960 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)

1959 George Washington, 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned

1959 1st ballistic missile sub launched, George Washington

1958 US nuclear sub USS Seawolfe remains record 60 days under pole

1958 U.S. nuclear sub USS Skate remains 31 days under Pole (record)

1958 Atomic sub USS Nautilus completes 1st trip under North Pole

1958 U.S. atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole

1958 U.S. Navy forms atomic sub division

1955 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched-Seawolf

1955 1st atomic sub, USS Nautilus, launched at Groton Conn

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

1952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub Nautilus

1946 Harry Truman becomes 1st U.S. president to travel in a submerged sub

1945 USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue

1944 Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan

1943 New Zealand's Kiwi cruiser collides with Jap sub I-1 at Guadalcanal

1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off New York's Long Island

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

1942 Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, California

1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python

1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Atlantis

1939 British sub "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard

1936 Don Bowden, U.S., 1st American to run a sub 4 min mile

1934 Jim Beatty, track runner, 1st sub 4 minute indoor mile

1925 Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead

1924 Canon A. D. Caesar, Sub Dean, HM Chapels Royal

1917 US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub and diplomatic relations severed

1874 Eugene Baie, Belgian author, Sub rosa et sub umbra

1864 Confederate sub "HL Hunley" sinks Union ship "Housatonic"

1863 Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides



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