| 1778: | John Paul Jones in Ranger receives first official salute to U.S. Stars and Strips flag by European country, at Quiberon, France |
| 1813: | Essex becomes first U.S. warship to round Cape Horn and enter the Pacific Ocean |
| 1814: | USS Constitution captures British Lovely Ann and Pictou |
| 1840: | Officers from USS Vincennes make first landing in Antarctica on floating ice |