1862:	CSS Arkansas destroyed by her commanding officer to prevent capture by USS Essex.
1943:	Battle of Vella Gulf begins. US destroyers sink 3 of 4 Japanese destroyers.
1945:	Atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima, Japan. Navy weaponeer, Captain W.S. Parsons, USN, armed the atomic bomb on the B-29 bomber, Enola Gay.
1990:	President George Bush orders Operation Desert Shield, largest overseas deployment since Vietnam, to protect Saudi Arabia after Iraqi's invasion of Kuwait.
1997:	Naval Forces on Guam help rescue and begin providing medical care to survivors of Korean Airlines Flight 801 that crashed on Guam.