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August 16, 1812 - USS Constitution recaptures

American merchant brig Adeline

August 17, 1812 - Frigate President captures British schooner L'Adeline in North Atlantic 1942 - Submarines USS Nautilus and USS Argonaut land 222 Marines on Makin Island, first amphibious attack made from submarines 1959 - ADM Arleigh Burke reappointed CNO for 3rd 2 year term, serving longest term as CNO 1962 - Navy's first hydrofoil patrol craft, USS High

Point (PCH-1) launched at Seattle, WA

August 18, 1838 - Exploring Expedition under LT

Charles Wilkes embarks on world cruise. 1966 - First ship-to-shore satellite radio message sent from USS Annapolis in South China Sea to Pacific Fleet

Headquarters at Pearl Harbor

August 19, 1812 - USS Constitution captures HMS

Guerriere. 1812- Devastating hurricane struck the Navy's New

Orleans station, delaying military preparations in the

War of 1812

August 20, 1952 - In interservice air operation at Chang

Pyong-ni, Korea, U.S. Navy, Marine and Air Force air- craft destroy 80 percent of assigned area.

August 21, 1800 - U.S. Marine Corps Band gave its first concert in Washington, D.C. 1883 - Installation of the first electric lighting on a US

Navy Ship completed on USS Trenton. 1920 - Radio station built by U.S. Navy and French

Government transmits first wireless message heard around the world. At time it was the most powerful radio station in the world. 1951 - First contract for nuclear-powered submarine awarded.

August 22, 1912 - Birthday of Dental Corps 1945 - First surrender of Japanese garrison at end of

World War II; USS Levy receives surrender of Mille

Atoll in Marshall Islands

August 23, 1864 - RADM David Farragut's squadron captures Fort Morgan at Mobile Bay winning control of

Mobile Bay 1958 - Massive concentration of Pacific Fleet in

Quemoy-Matsu area prevents invasion of islands by

China. 1958 - In Taiwan Straits Crisis, Units of 7th Fleet move into Taiwan area to support Taiwan against Chinese

Communists. 1963 - The first satellite communications ship, USNS

Kingsport (T-AG-164) in Lagos, Nigeria, connected

President John F. Kennedy with Nigerian Prime Minister

Balewa who was aboard for the first satellite (Syncom

II) relayed telephone conversation between heads of state.

August 24, 1814 - British invasion of Maryland and

Washington, D.C.; Washington Navy Yard and ships burned to prevent capture by the British 1912 - Launching of USS Jupiter, first electrically propelled Navy ship 1942 - U.S. carrier aircraft begin 2-day Battle of Eastern

Solomons where Japanese task force defeated and one

Japanese carrier sunk. Japanese recall expedition to recapture Guadalcanal. 1960 - USS Bexar (APA-237) deploys to Pangahan

Province in response to emergency request for aid from the Province's governor.

August 25, 1843 - Steam frigate Missouri arrives at

Gibralter completing first Trans-Atlantic crossing by

U.S. steam powered ship.

August 26, 1775 - Rhode Island Resolve: Rhode Island delegates to Continental Congress press for creation of

Continental Navy to protect the colonies 1839 - Brig Washington seizes Spanish slaver, Amistad near Montauk Point, NY 1865 - Civil War ends with Naval strength over 58,500 men and 600 ships

August 27, 1917 - Squadron of minesweepers departs

U.S. for service off France 1944 - USS Stingray (SS-186) lands men and supplies on Luzon, Philippines to support guerilla operations against the Japanese. 1945 - Pacific Fleet ships enter Sagami Bay, near Tokyo,

Japan. 1959 - Off Cape Canaveral, FL, USS Observation Island (EAG-154) makes first shipboard launching of a Polaris missile.

August 28, 1867 - Captain William Reynolds of

Lackawanna raises U.S. flag over Midway Island and took formal possession of these islands for the U.S. 1952 - Units on USS Boxer (CV-21) launch explosive- filled drone which explodes against railroad bridge near

Hungnam, Korea. First guided missile launched from ship during Korean Conflict. 1965 - CDR Scott Carpenter and 9 aquanauts enter

SeaLab II, 205 ft. below Southern California's waters to conduct underwater living and working tests 1991 - A helicopter from USS America (CV-66) rescues 3 civilian sailors who spent 10 days in a lifeboat 80 miles off Capt May, NJ after their sailboat capsized. 1992 - Navy and Marine forces begin providing disaster relief after Typhoon Omar hit Guam 1992 - Marines and Army forces begin providing disas- ter relief in Florida after Hurricane Andrew.

August 29, 1861 - U.S. squadron captures forts at

Hatteras Inlet, NC 1862 - Union gunboat Pittsburgh support Army troops in landing at Eunice, Arkansas 1915 - Navy salvage divers raise F-4, first U.S. subma- rine sunk in accident 1916 - Congress passes act for expansion of Navy but most ships not completed until after World War I. 1964 - USS Boxer and 2 LSDs arrive off coast of

Hispaniola to give medical aid to Haiti and Dominican

Republic which were badly damaged by Hurricane Cleo.

August 30 1913 - Navy tests Sperry gyroscopic stabilizer (automat- ic pilot) 1929 - Near New London, CT, 26 officers and men test

Momsen lung to exit submerged USS S-4 1961 - Two Cuban frigates fire on a Naval Reserve air- craft on a training mission over international waters

August 31, 1842 - Congress replaces the Board of Navy

Commissioners, a group of senior officer who oversaw naval technical affairs, with the five technical Bureaus, ancestors of the Systems Commands. One of the 1842

Bureau, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, continues to serve under its original name. 1943 - Commissioning of USS Harmon (DE-678), first

Navy ship named for an African American Sailor. 1944 - Carrier task group begins 3-day attack on Iwo

Jima and Bonin Islands 1962 - Last flight of Navy airship made at NAS

Lakehurst, NJ

Source: www.history.navy.mil

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