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Today in U.S. Naval History: January 16

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January 16, 2014

USS Lexington (Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.)

USS Lexington (Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.)

Today in U.S. Naval History - January 16

1930 - USS Lexington provides power to Tacoma, Wash., when floods knocked out city power plants

1991 - Operation Desert Storm, liberation of Kuwait from Iraq, begins

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