| 1830: | Sloop-of-war Vincennes becomes first U.S. warship to circle the globe |
| 1853: | Commodore Matthew Perry arrives at Uraga, Japan to begin negotiations for a treaty with Japan |
| 1880: | Congress authorizes the Office of Judge Advocate General |
| 1937: | Observation of total eclipse of the sun by U.S. Navy detachment commanded by CAPT J. F. Hellweg, USN, participating in the National Geographic Society/United States Navy Eclipse Expedition at Canton Island in the Phoenix Islands, Pacific Ocean. USS Avocet was assigned to this expediton. |
| 1958: | Navy and Post Office deliver first official missile mail when USS Barbero (SS-317) fired Regulus II missile with 3000 letters 100 miles east of Jacksonville, FL to Mayport, FL. |
| 1960: | Helicopters from USS Yorktown (CVS-10) rescue 54 crewmen of British SS Shunlee, grounded on Pratus Reef in South China Sea. |
| 1962: | Medical team from Naval Hospital, Bethesda, MD; Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, MD; and Naval Preventative Medicine Unit No. 2 Norfolk, VA sent to San Pedro Sula, Honduras to fight epidemic of infectious gastroenteritis. |
| 1967: | USS Liberty (AGTR-5) attacked by Israeli forces in Mediterranean |
| 1990: | CDR Rosemary Mariner becomes first Navy women to command fleet jet aircraft squadron. |