| 1958: | Commissioning of USS Grayback, first submarine built from keel up with guided missile capability, to fire Regulus II missile |
| 1960: | USS Kearsarge (CVS-33) rescues 4 Russian soldiers from their landing craft 1,000 miles from Midway Island, which was drifting several weeks after their engine failed off Kamchatka Peninsula |
| 1966: | Department of Navy reorganized into present structure under CNO |
| 1967: | PBRs assists Operation Overload II in Rung Sat Zone, Vietnam |
| 1968: | Operation Coronado XII begins in Mekong Delta, Vietnam |
| 1994: | Navy issues first orders to women assigned aboard combat ship, USS Eisenhower |