1899:	First Navy wireless message sent via Lighthouse Service Station at Highlands of Navesink, New Jersey.
1943:	CGC E.M. Wilcox foundered off Nags Head, NC.  There was 1 lost.
1949:	The rank of Commodore, established in 1943 as a wartime measure, was terminated by the President under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved 24 July 1941.
1997:	Omega Navigation Station Hawaii ceases operation, coinciding with the end of worldwide Omega transmissions.