1800 – United States concludes Treaty of Peace with France, ending Quasi War with France.
1944 – USS Nautilus (SS 168) lands supplies and evacuates people from Panay, Philipppine Islands.
1946 – U.S. government announces Navy units would be permanently stationed in the Mediterranean to carry out American policy and diplomacy.
1954 – Commissioning at Groton,! Conn., of USS Nautilus (SSN 571), the world‘s first nuclear–powered ship.
1958 – Marines leave Lebanon.
1959 – Last flight of airships assigned to the Naval Air Reserve at Lakehurst, N.J., takes place.
1968 – USS New Jersey (BB 62) arrives off Vietnam.
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1944 – USS Narwhal (SS 167) evacuates 81 Allied prisoners of war that survived the sinking of Japanese Shinyo Maru from Sindangan Bay, Mindanao.
1946 –Lockheed P2V Neptune, Truculent Turtle, leaves Perth, Australia, on a long-distance non-stop, non–refueling flight that ends October 1.
! 1959 – USS Kearsarge (CVS 33), with Helicopter Squadron 6 and other 7th Fleet units, begins six days of disaster relief to Nagoya, Japan, after Typhoon Vera.
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1822 – Sloop-of-war Peacock captures five pirate vessels.
1850 – Congress outlaws flogging on Navy ships.
1923 – Navy aircraft take first and second places in internat ional Schneider Cup Race.
1944 – Marines occupy islands in Palaus under cover of naval aircraft and gunfire support.
1964 – First deployment of Polaris A-3 missile on USS Daniel Webster (SSBN 626) from Charleston, S.C.
1922 – Report on observations of experiments with short wave radio at Anacostia in the District of Columbia starts Navy development of radar.
1941 – Launch of first Liberty ship, SS Pat rick Henry, in Baltimore.
1942 – Armed Guard on SS Stephen Hopkins engages German auxiliary cruiser Stier and supply ship Tannenfels. Stephen Hopkins and Stier both sink.
1944 – Special Air Task For ce (STAG–1) commences operations with drones, controlled by TBM Avanger aircraft, against Japanese in Southwestern Pacific.
1950 – First Marine Division captures Seoul, South Korea.
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1776 – John Paul Jones sails into Canso Bay, Nova Scotia, and attacks British fishing fleet.
1943 – U.S. destroyers and landing craft land Australian troops at Finschhafen, New Guinea.
1989 – After Hurricane Hugo, Sailors and Marines provide assistance to Charleston, S.C., through October 10.
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1779 – Captain John Paul Jones, in Continental Navy frigate Bonhomme Richard, captures HMS Serapis.
1931 – Lt. Alfred Pride pilots Navy‘s first rotary wing aircraft, XOP–1 autogiro, in landings and takeoffs aboard USS Langley (CV 1) while underway.
1944 – Naval Task Group lands Army troops on Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands.
1944 – USS West Virginia (BB 48) reaches Pearl Harbor and rejoins the Pacific Fleet, marking the end of the salvage and reconstruction of 18 ships damaged Dec. 7, 1941.
1947 – James Forrestal, former Secretary of the Navy, takes office as the first Secretary of Defense.
1990 – Two hospital ships
1918 – Ensign David S. Ingalls, in a Sopwith Camel, shoots down his fifth enemy aircraft, becoming the first U.S. Navy ace while flying with the British Royal Air Force.
1944 – Fifth Fleet carrier aircraft attack Japanese in Visayas, Philippines.
1960 – First nuclear–powered aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise (< a href=’http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVN_65‘>CVN 65), launched at Newport News, Va.
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1912 – Battleship Wyoming (BB 32) commissioned.
1925 – Submarine S–51 (SS 162) sinks after collision with SS City of Rome off Block Island, Rhode Island.
1941 – In first successful U.S. Navy escort of convoys during World War II, Navy escorts turn over HX–150 to British escorts at the mid–ocean meeting point. All ships reach port safely.
1957 – In project Stratoscope, Office of Naval Research obtains sharp photographs of sun’s < a href=’http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/corona‘>corona from first balloon–borne telescope camera.
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1781 – French fleet defeats British at Yorktown, Va.
1910 – First recorded reference to provision for aviation in Navy Department organization.
1918 – USS Tampa lost with 118.
1931 – Keel laying at Newport News, Va., of USS Ranger (CV 4), first ship designed and constructed as an aircraft carrier.
1963 – First steam-eject launch of Polaris missile at sea off Cape Canaveral, Fla., (now Cape Kennedy) from USS Observation Island (EAG 154).
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1915 – Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels organizes the Naval Consulting Board to mobilize the scientific resources of the United States for national defense.
1957 – Bathyscaph Trieste, in a dive sponsored by the Office of Naval Research in the Mediterranean, reaches record depth of two miles.
1992 – Joint Task Force Marianas stands down after providing assistance to Guam after Typhoon Omar.
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