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Post by Stan on Jan 13, 2008 11:33:27 GMT -5
www.navy.mil/search/display_history.aspThis Day in Naval History - Jan. 10 Story Number: NNS011213-06 Release Date: 12/11/2001 4:21:00 PM From the Navy News Service 1847 - U.S. Naval forces occupy Los Angeles during the Mexican-American War for the first time. 1917 - The Navy places the first production order for aerial photographic equipment. 1934 - Patrol Squadron 10F flies the first non-stop formation flight from San Francisco to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, arriving Jan. 11. 1946 - The first Navy nuclear power school is established at Submarine Base New London, Conn.
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Post by Stan on Jan 13, 2008 11:58:27 GMT -5
This Day in Naval History - Jan. 11 Story Number: NNS011213-07 Release Date: 12/11/2001 4:24:00 PM
From the Navy News Service
1863 - CSS Alabama sinks USS Hatteras off Galveston. 1900 - The gunboat Princeton takes possession of the Batan Islands in the northern Philippines. 1944 - Aircraft from USS Block Island (CVE 21) lead the first aircraft rocket attack on a German submarine.
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Post by Stan on Jan 13, 2008 11:58:51 GMT -5
This Day In Naval History - Jan. 12 Story Number: NNS011214-04 Release Date: 12/11/2001 4:27:00 PM
From the Navy News Service
1813 - U.S. frigate Chesapeake captures the British warship Volunteer. 1848 - Sloop Lexington attacked in San Blas, Mexico. 1953 - Aircraft landings are tested aboard USS Antietam (CVS 36), the first angled-deck carrier.
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Post by Stan on Jan 13, 2008 11:59:25 GMT -5
This Day in Naval History - Jan. 13 Story Number: NNS020108-02 Release Date: 1/8/2002 12:33:00 PM
From Navy News Service
1865 - Amphibious attack on Fort Fisher, N.C. 1917 - The cruiser Milwaukee (CL 21) strands off Eureka, Calif., while attempting to refloat the submarine H-3 (SS 30). 1964 - USS Manley (DD 940) evacuates 54 American and 36 allied nationals after Zanzibar government is overthrown.
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Post by Stan on Jan 14, 2008 8:28:23 GMT -5
This Day in Naval History - Jan. 14 Story Number: NNS020108-03 Release Date: 1/8/2002 12:34:00 PM
From Navy News Service
1813 - U.S. Frigate Chesapeake captures British brig Hero. 1815 - HMS Endymion, Tenedos and Pomone capture USS President. 1863 - Navy General Order 4, Emancipation Proclamation issued. 1943 - In the first submarine resupply mission, USS Gudgeon lands 6 men, 2,000 pounds of equipment and supplies on Negros Island, the Philippines.
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Post by Stan on Jan 15, 2008 8:21:19 GMT -5
This Day in Naval History - Jan. 15 Story Number: NNS020114-07 Release Date: 1/14/2002 4:43:00 PM
From the Navy News Service
1865 - Capture of Fort Fisher, Wilmington, N.C., by joint amphibious force. 1973 - President Nixon suspends all offensive operations against Narth Vietnam. 1997 - Navy physician Capt. Jerry Lineger joined the crew of the MIR space station after being launched aboard the space shuttle Atlantis during space Shuttle Mission STS-81. Prior to the mission, he was trained at the Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, for more than a year.
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Post by Stan on Jan 16, 2008 13:53:56 GMT -5
This Day in Naval History - Jan. 16 Story Number: NNS020108-05 Release Date: 1/8/2002 12:35:00 PM
From the Navy News Service
1815 - Benjamin Crowninshield becomes fifth Secretary of the Navy. 1930 - USS Lexington (CV 2) provides power to Tacoma, Wash., when floods knocked out city power plants. 1991 - Operation Desert Storm, the liberation of Kuwait from Iraq, begins.
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Post by Stan on Jan 22, 2008 8:25:19 GMT -5
This Day in Naval History - Jan. 22 Story Number: NNS020108-11 Release Date: 1/8/2002 12:40:00 PM
From the Navy News Service
1800 - Capt. Thomas Tingey is ordered to duty as the first superintendent of the Washington Navy Yard. 1870 - Cmdr. Thomas Selfridge sails the gunboat Nipsic on an expedition to ascertain the best location for an interoceaniccanal across the Isthmus of Darien. 1944 - During Operation Shingle, Amphibious Task Force 81, under the command of Rear Adm. F.J. Lowry, lands the Army's VI Corps at Anzio, Italy.
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Post by Stan on Jan 23, 2008 8:38:11 GMT -5
This Day in Naval History - Jan. 23 Story Number: NNS020108-15 Release Date: 1/8/2002 12:47:00 PM
From the Navy News Service
1960 - The Bathyscaph Trieste descends to the deepest part of the ocean -- the Marianas Trench. 1968 - USS Pueblo (AGER 2) is seized by North Korean forces in the Sea of Japan. 1991 - Navy A-6 Intruders sink an Iraqi tanker and accompanying hovercraft that were monitoring allied air activity over the northern Persian Gulf.
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Post by Stan on Jan 24, 2008 12:07:34 GMT -5
This Day in Naval History - Jan. 24 Story Number: NNS020108-13 Release Date: 1/8/2002 12:44:00 PM
From the Navy News Service
1942 - During the World War II Battle of Makassar Strait, U.S. destroyers attack a Japanese convoy in the first naval surface action in the Pacific. 1986 - The Coral Sea (CV 43) and Saratoga (CV 60) carrier battle groups conduct freedom of navigation exercises in and near the Gulf of Sidra, demonstrating the long-standing United States' refusal to recognize Colonel Khadafi's attampt to include the gulf in Libyan territorial waters, 1991 - Helicopters from USS Leftwich (DD 984) and USS Nicholas (FFG 47) recapture the first Kuwaiti territory from Iraqi forces.
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Post by Stan on Jan 28, 2008 9:20:47 GMT -5
This Day in Naval History - Jan. 25 Story Number: NNS020108-14 Release Date: 1/8/2002 12:47:00 PM
From the Navy News Service
1922 - Cruiser USS Galveston (CL 19) lands her Marine Corps detachment at Corinto, Nicaragua, to reinforce the Managua legation guard during a period of political tension. 1945 - Navy surface forces bombard Japanese positions at Iwo Jima. 1963 - The 1st Seabee Technical Assistance Team arrives in Vietnam.
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Post by Stan on Jan 28, 2008 9:21:18 GMT -5
This Day in Naval History - Jan. 26 Story Number: NNS020108-12 Release Date: 1/8/2002 12:41:00 PM
From the Navy News Service
1911 - The first hydroaeroplane flight is witnessed by a naval aviator. 1913 - The body of John Paul Jones is laid in its final resting place in the chapel of the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. 1949 - USS Norton Sound (AV 11), the first guided-missile ship, launches first guided missile, Loon. 1960 - USS John S. McCain (DL 3/DDG 36) rescues the entire 41-man crew of the sinking Japanese freighter, Shinwa Maru, in the East China Sea.
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Post by Stan on Jan 28, 2008 9:21:39 GMT -5
This Day in Naval History - Jan. 27 Story Number: NNS020108-16 Release Date: 1/8/2002 12:48:00 PM
From the Navy News Service
1942 - USS Gudgeon is the first U.S. sub to sink an enemy submarine in action, Japanese I-173. 1945 - Commissioning of USS Higbee (DD 806), the first U.S. Navy ship named after a women member of the U.S. Navy. 1967 - Fire in a command module at Cape Kennedy during simulation countdown. Lunar module pilot Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee and two other crew members died. 1973 - Paris Peace Accords signed, ending U.S. participation in the Vietnam War.
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Post by Stan on Jan 28, 2008 9:22:01 GMT -5
This Day in Naval History - Jan. 28 Story Number: NNS020108-17 Release Date: 1/8/2002 12:49:00 PM
From the Navy News Service
1960 - The Navy demonstrates the value of moon communication relay, which is used in fleet broadcasts. 1962 - USS Cook (APD 130) rescues 25 survivors after a section of the Panamanian tanker SS Stanvac Sumatra broke in two in the South China Sea. 1986 - The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes, killing Cmdr. Michael Smith and six other astronauts.
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Post by Stan on Jan 29, 2008 8:52:18 GMT -5
This Day in Naval History - Jan. 29 Story Number: NNS020108-18 Release Date: 1/8/2002 12:50:00 PM
From the Navy News Service
1914 - U.S. Marines land in Haiti to protect the U.S. consulate. 1943 - Beginning of two-day battle of Rennell Island in the South Pacific, after which U.S. transports reached Guadalcanal.
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