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2012 Event - In ceremonies held at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, is officially inactivated after a 51-year U.S. Naval career

2004 Event - Yemeni judge sentences two Islamists death for the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, that killed 17 sailors

2000 Event - USS Cole bombed in the port of Aden, Yemen, killing 17 sailors

1992 Event - Battleship USS Missouri, on which, Japan surrendered, decommissioned

1989 Event - Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors

1988 Event - USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned

1987 Event - USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die

1984 Event - Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan

1981 Event - Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14

1968 Event - Spy ship USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea

1967 Event - Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134

1967 Event - Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 U.S. crewmen

1962 Event - Samuel Gravely assumes command of destroyer escort "USS Falgout"

1961 Event - Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona

1960 Event - Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Brooklyn (50 die)

1960 Event - USS George Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched

1960 Event - USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launches

1960 Event - USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water

1960 Event - U.S. nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip

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 - USS Nautilus begins 1st crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap

1958 Event - U.S. atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole

1957 Event - U.S. launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton, Connecticut

1955 Event - Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga launched

1955 Event - Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga at Brooklyn launched

1955 Event - 1st atomic sub, USS Nautilus, launched at Groton Conn

1954 Event - USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va

1954 Event - 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned

1945 Event - V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends)

1945 Event - After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine

1945 Event - USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue

1945 Event - Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st U.S. ship to bombard Japan

1945 Event - 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan

1943 Event - 1st warship named for a Black person, USS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched

1943 Event - USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean

1942 Event - Battle of Santa Cruz: USS SD shoots down a record 32 enemy planes

1942 Event - USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island

1941 Event - USS Swordfish becomes 1st U.S. submarine to sink a Japanese ship

1941 Event - 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a U.S. ship (USS Ward)

1941 Event - USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though U.S. is not in war

1941 Event - USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from SF

1935 Event - Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean

1933 Event - 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger

1930 Event - USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine

1930 Event - 1st streamlined submarine of U.S. navy, USS Nautilus, launched

1922 Event - USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's 1st aircraft Carrier

1911 Event - 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)

1898 Event - 1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship

1898 Event - USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown, 258 sailors die

1864 Event - Naval Engagement at Bahia Harbor Brazil-CSS Florida vs USS Wachusett

1864 Event - CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France

1864 Event - U.S. Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg

1864 Event - Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, FR: USS Kearsage vs. CSS Alabama

1863 Event - Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama and USS Hatteras

1862 Event - Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed)

1862 Event - Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River MS: USS Potomac Expedition

1862 Event - CSS Arkansas vs USS Cardondelet and Queen of the West engage at Yazoo R

1862 Event - Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia CSS Virginia, Jamestown and Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress and Monitor

1862 Event - Naval Engagement at Tennessee River - USS Conestago vs CSS Appleton Belle

1862 Event - BBT Ft. Henry, Tennessee by USS Lexington

1861 Event - Naval Engagement at Charleston, South Carolina USS Flag vs BR Alert

1861 Event - Naval Engagement at Wilmington North Carolina - USS Daylight establishes blockade

1861 Event - CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade

1844 Event - 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes

1844 Death - Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton

1844 Death - Thommas W. Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton

1826 Event - USS Vincennes leaves New York to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe

1807 Event - British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812

1799 Event - USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I













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