| 1776: | Adoption of first uniforms for Navy officers |
| 1813: | USS Enterprise captures HM brig Boxer off Portland, ME |
| 1918: | USS Mount Vernon torpedoed by German submarine off France |
| 1923: | U.S. Asiatic Fleet arrives at Yokohama, Japan, to provide medical assistance and supplies after Kondo Plain earthquake. |
| 1939: | President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders Navy to form a Neutrality Patrol to report the presence of foreign warships within 300 miles of eastern United States. |
| 1946: | USS Franklin Delano Roosevelt (CVB-42) and 4 escorts visit Greece to underscore U.S. support for the Greek Government which faced a Communist insurgency. |
| 1990: | USS Acadia (AD-42) departs San Diego for first war-time deployment of male-female crew on combat vessel |