1993 Death Henri van Soede, sub commandant (WW II), dies at about 83 1989 Event Cleveland loses and drop to 21-22, this is the latest a sub .500 team is in 1st place (AL East) 1989 Event Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths 1988 Event USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned 1986 Event Russian nuclear sub sinks in Atlantic Ocean 1986 Event Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die 1984 Event Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan 1980 Event Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die 1977 Event Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole 1973 Event 1st sub 17-minute 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s) 1969 Event U.S. nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off San Francisco 1968 Event Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores 1966 Event 1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution launched 1960 Event USS George Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched 1960 Event 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched 1960 Event U.S. and Britain sign accord for nuclear sub bases 1960 Event 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut) 1959 Event George Washington, 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned 1959 Event 1st ballistic missile sub launched, George Washington 1958 Event U.S. nuclear sub USS Seawolfe remains record 60 days under pole 1958 Event U.S. nuclear sub USS Skate remains 31 days under Pole (record) 1958 Event Atomic sub USS Nautilus completes 1st trip under North Pole 1958 Event U.S. atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole 1958 Event U.S. Navy forms atomic sub division 1955 Event 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched-Seawolf 1955 Event 1st atomic sub, USS Nautilus, launched at Groton Conn 1954 Event Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (sub), commissioned by the Navy 1952 Event Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub Nautilus 1946 Event Harry Truman becomes 1st U.S. president to travel in a submerged sub 1945 Event USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue 1944 Event Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan 1943 Event New Zealand's Kiwi cruiser collides with Japanese sub I-1 at Guadalcanal 1942 Event FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off New York's Long Island 1942 Event WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same" 1942 Event Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, California 1941 Event British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python 1941 Event British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Atlantis 1939 Event British sub "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard 1936 Birthday Don Bowden, U.S., 1st American to run a sub 4 minute mile 1934 Birthday Jim Beatty, track runner, 1st sub 4 minute indoor mile 1925 Event Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead 1924 Birthday Canon A. D. Caesar, Sub Dean, HM Chapels Royal 1917 Event U.S. liner Housatonic sunk by German sub and diplomatic relations severed 1874 Birthday Eugene Baie, Belgian author, Sub rosa et sub umbra 1864 Event Confederate sub "HL Hunley" sinks Union ship "Housatonic" 1863 Event Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides
