1799- Having existed essentially nameless for 8-1/2 years, Alexander Hamilton's 'system of cutters' was referred to in legislation as 'Revenue Cutters.' Some decades later, the name evolved to Revenue Cutter Service and Revenue Marine.1940…
1963 - 1st Seabee Technical Assistance Team arrives in Vietnam1968 - Operation Windsong I in Mekong Delta, Vietnam(Source: Navy News Service)
1944- Coast Guardsmen participated in the landings at Anzio-Nettuno, Italy.1987- The Coast Guard established the Air Interdiction Facility at Norfolk Naval Air Station. The aircrews flew two loaned Navy E-2C Hawkeye aircraft on narcotics interdiction patrols…
1800 - CAPT Thomas Tingey ordered to duty as first Superintendent of the Washington Navy Yard1944 - Operation Shingle, Allied landing at Anzio, Italy(Source: Navy News Service)
1944- Coast Guardsmen participated in the landings at Anzio-Nettuno, Italy.1987- The Coast Guard established the Air Interdiction Facility at Norfolk Naval Air Station. The aircrews flew two loaned Navy E-2C Hawkeye aircraft on narcotics interdiction patrols…
1800 - CAPT Thomas Tingey ordered to duty as first Superintendent of the Washington Navy Yard1944 - Operation Shingle, Allied landing at Anzio, Italy(Source: Navy News Service)
1914- International Ice Patrol Convention signed. 1961- During his inaugural parade, President John F. Kennedy noticed that there were no African-Americans in the Coast Guard Academy cadet unit marching in the parade. He ordered an aide to correct the problem…
1783 - Hostilities cease between Great Britain and the United States 1903 - Theordore Roosevelt issues Executive Order placing Midway Islands under jurisdiction of the Navy Department. 1914 - School for naval air training opens in Pensacola…
1935- CWO (GUN) and NAP Charles T. Thrun, Coast Guard Aviator Number 3, was killed when his Grumman JF-2 Duck (CGNR V136) crashed at Cape May. CWO Thrun was the first Coast Guard aviator to die in the line of duty.1937- CG units began flood…
1840 - LT Charles Wilkes, USN is first American to discover Antarctic coast(Source: Navy News Service)
1953- A Coast Guard PBM seaplane crashed during takeoff after having rescued 11 survivors from a ditched U .S. Navy aircraft shot down off the coast of mainland China. A total of nine servicemen lost their lives in this crash, including five Coast Guardsmen…
1911 - First aircraft landing on board a ship, USS Pennsylvania by Eugene Ely.1962 - After a flash fire in the Persian Gulf on Danish tanker, Prima Maersk, burned a crewman, USS Duxbury Bay transfers a Navy doctor to help the Danish crewman…
1836- A General Order from the Secretary of the Treasury prescribed that 'Blue cloth be substituted for the uniform dress of the officers of the Revenue Cutter Service, instead of grey. . .' thereby ending a controversy that ad brewed for years regarding the uniforms of the Service…
1942- A Coast Guard aircraft, Hall PH-3 No. V-177, dropped food to a raft with 6 survivors of a torpedoed tanker.1985-Vice President George Bush made an official visit to Base Miami Beach to extend the thanks of the nation to those involved in Operation Hat Trick…
1813 - US Frigate Chesapeake captures British brig Hero1815 - HMS Endymion, Tenedos and Pomone capture USS President1863 - Navy General Order 4, Emancipation Proclamation1943 - In first submarine resupply mission, USS Gudgeon lands 6 men…
