1852:	The Lighthouse Board, which would administer the lighthouse system until 1 July 1910, was organized.  "This Board was composed of two officers of the Navy, two officers of the Engineer Corps, and two civilians of high scientific attainments whose services were at the disposal of the President, and an officer of the Navy and of the, Engineers as secretaries.  It was empowered under the Secretary of the Treasury to "discharge all the administrative duties" relative to lighthouses and other aids to navigation.  The Secretary of the Treasury was president of the Board, and it was authorized to elect a chairman and to divide the coast of the United States into twelve lighthouse districts, to each of which the President was to assign an army or navy officer as lighthouse inspector."
1858:	The Secretary of the Treasury appointed a three-man board of US Revenue Marine officers to consider a lifeboat design best adapted for life- saving work.
1945:	PC- 590 (Coast Guard-manned) grounded and sank in typhoon off Okinawa.
1945:	USS PC- 590 (Coast Guard-manned) grounded and sank in typhoon off Okinawa.  All hands were rescued.
1993:	Crews from seven 8th District units and several civilian vessels joined forces in response to an explosion and fire aboard the 660- foot bulk- liquid carrier OMI Charger near the Houston Ship Channel.  She had no fuel aboard when the explosion occurred the night of 9 October.  The CGC Point Spencer served as the command platform and personnel and boats from ATON Team Galveston joined the response effort, which included fire- fighting, SAR, and pollution response assistance.  The fire was extinguished five hours after the initial explosion.  Two of the tanker's crewmen were killed in the blast.  Personnel from the Gulf Strike Team arrive on scene on 10 October and determined that the vessel's fuel was still all aboard.  It was removed prior to the vessel being towed to port where it was declared a total loss.  A joint Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board met to investigate the explosion.