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2004 Yemeni judge sentences two Islamists death for the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, that killed 17 sailors
2000 USS Cole bombed in the port of Aden, Yemen, killing 17 sailors 1992 Battleship USS Missouri, on which, Japan surrendered, decommissioned 1989 Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors 1988 USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned 1987 USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die 1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan 1981 Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14 1968 Spy ship USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea 1967 Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134 1967 Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 U.S. crewmen 1962 Samuel Gravely assumes command of destroyer escort "USS Falgout" 1961 Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona 1960 Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Brooklyn (50 die) 1960 USS George Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched 1960 USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launches 1960 USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water 1960 U.S. nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip 1958 U.S. 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 USS Nautilus begins 1st crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap 1958 U.S. atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole 1957 U.S. launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton, Connecticut 1955 Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga launched 1955 Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga at Brooklyn launched 1955 1st atomic sub, USS Nautilus, launched at Groton Conn 1954 USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va 1954 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned 1945 V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends) 1945 After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine 1945 USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue 1945 Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st U.S. ship to bombard Japan 1945 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan 1943 1st warship named for a Black person, USS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched 1943 USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean 1942 Battle of Santa Cruz: USS SD shoots down a record 32 enemy planes 1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island 1941 USS Swordfish becomes 1st U.S. submarine to sink a Japanese ship 1941 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a U.S. ship (USS Ward) 1941 USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though U.S. is not in war 1941 USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from SF 1935 Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean 1933 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger 1930 USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine 1930 1st streamlined submarine of U.S. navy, USS Nautilus, launched 1922 USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's 1st aircraft Carrier 1911 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania) 1898 1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship 1898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown, 258 sailors die 1864 Naval Engagement at Bahia Harbor Brazil-CSS Florida vs USS Wachusett 1864 CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France 1864 U.S. Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg 1864 Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, FR: USS Kearsage vs. CSS Alabama 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 CSS Arkansas vs USS Cardondelet and Queen of the West engage at Yazoo R 1862 Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia CSS Virginia, Jamestown and Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress and Monitor 1862 Naval Engagement at Tennessee River - USS Conestago vs CSS Appleton Belle 1862 BBT Ft. Henry, Tennessee by USS Lexington 1861 Naval Engagement at Charleston, South Carolina USS Flag vs BR Alert 1861 Naval Engagement at Wilmington North Carolina - USS Daylight establishes blockade 1861 CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade 1844 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes 1844 Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton 1844 Thommas W. Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton 1826 USS Vincennes leaves New York to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe 1807 British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812 1799 USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I |
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