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This Day in Naval History – Oct. 2
1939 - Foreign ministers of countries of the Western Hemisphere agree to establish a neutrality zone around the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North and South America to be enforced by the U.
This Day in Naval History – Oct. 1
1800 - U.S. Schooner Experiment captures French Schooner Diana. 1844 - Naval Observatory headed by LT Matthew Fontaine Maury occupies first permanent quarters. 1874 - Supply Corps purser, LT J.
This Day in Naval History – Oct. 31
1943 - LT Hugh D. O'Neill of VF(N)-75 destroys a Japanese aircraft during night attack off Vella Lavella in first kill by a radar-equipped night fighter of the Pacific Fleet.
This Day in Naval History – Oct. 30
1799 - William Balch becomes Navy's first commissioned Chaplain. (Source: Navy News Service)
This Day in Naval History – Oct 29
1980 - USS Parsons (DDG-33) rescues 110 Vietnamese refugees 330 miles south of . (Source: Navy News Service)
This Day in Naval History – Oct. 28
This Day in Naval History – Oct. 24
1958 - USS Kleinsmith (APD-134) evacuates nationals from . 1962 - Atlantic Fleet begins quarantine operations to force Soviet Union to agree to remove ballistic missiles and long range bombers from .
This Day in Naval History – Oct. 23
1983 - A suicide truck bomber attacks the Marine barracks at airport, killing 241 (220 Marines, 18 Sailors, and 3 soldiers). 1983 - Operation Urgent Fury (, ) begins.
This Day in Naval History – Oct 22
1951 - First of seven detonations, Operation Buster-Jangle nuclear test. 1962 - President John F. Kennedy orders surface blockade (quarantine) of to prevent Soviet…
This Day in Naval History - Oct 21
1797 - Launching of USS Constitution at the Navy Yard, . The ship is now the oldest commissioned ship in the U.S. Navy. 1942 - British submarine lands CAPT Jerauld Wright…
This Day in Naval History – Oct. 18
1859 - U.S. Marines reach Harper's Ferry, VA and assault the arsenal seized by John Brown and his followers. 1867 - USS Ossippee and USS Resaca participate in formal…
This Day in Naval History – Oct. 17
1941 - U-568 torpedoes and damages USS Kearny (DD-432) near , resulting in 11 killed and 22 injured. 1944 - Naval Forces land Army rangers on islands at the entrance to in preparation for landings.
This Day in Naval History – Oct. 16
(Source: Navy News Service)
This Day in Naval History – Oct. 15
(Source: www.navy.mil)
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 14
1918 - Naval aviators of Marine Day Squadron 9 make the first raid-in-force for the Northern Bombing Group in World War I, when they bombed a German railroad at Thielt Rivy, Belgium.
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 10
1845 - The , later the , opens in , with 50 midshipmen and seven faculty. 1923 - First American-built rigid airship, Shenandoah, is christened. It used helium gas instead of hydrogen.
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 09
1873 - Lt. Charles Belknap calls a meeting at the to establish the U.S. Naval Institute for the purpose of disseminating scientific and professional knowledge throughout the Navy.
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 08
1812 - A boat party under Lt. Jesse D. Elliott captures HMS Detroit and Caledonia in the . 1842 - Commodore Lawrence Kearny of USS Constitution addresses a letter to the Viceroy of China…
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 07
1864 - USS Washusett captures Confederate raider CSS Florida in of , . 1924 - Rigid airship Shenandoah commences transcontinental flight. 1975 - President Gerald…
This Day in Naval History - Oct. 06
1940 - The fourth group of eight destroyers involved in the Destroyers for Bases Deal are turned over to British authorities in . 1943 - In the Battle of Vella Lavella…