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 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 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 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 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 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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