1862:	USRC Miami landed President Abraham Lincoln on Confederate-held soil day before the fall of Norfolk for reconnaissance.
1939:	President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced Reorganization Plan II transferring the Bureau of Lighthouses to the Treasury Department for consolidation with the Coast Guard.  The plan took effect on 1 July 1939.
1942:	CGC Icarus sank German U-352 off Charleston and took 33 prisoners, the first German prisoners taken in combat by any US forces in World War II.