1775 - Rhode Island Resolve: Rhode Island delegates to Continental Congress press for creation of Continental Navy to protect the colonies1839 - Brig Washington seizes Spanish slaver, Amistad near Montauk Point, NY1861 - Union amphibious force lands near Hatteras…
1843 - Steam frigate Missouri arrives at Gibralter completing first Trans-Atlantic crossing by U.S. steam powered ship.1942 - Five Navy nurses who became POWs on Guam repatriated .1951 - 23 fighters from USS Essex (CV-9) escort Air Force heavy bombers attacking Najin…
1814 - British invasion of Maryland and Washington, D.C.; Washington Navy Yard and ships burned to prevent capture by the British1912 - Launching of USS Jupiter, first electrically propelled Navy ship 1942 - U.S. carrier aircraft begin…
1912 - Birthday of Dental Corps1945 - First surrender of Japanese garrison at end of World War II; USS Levy receives surrender of Mille Atoll in Marshall Islands1980 - USS Passumpsic rescues 28 Vietnamese refugees(Source: Navy News Service)
