1907: Congress appropriated $30,000 for installing wireless telegraph on not more than 12 Revenue Cutters.
1915: Secretary of Treasury authorized to detail cutters to enforce anchorage regulations in all harbors, rivers, bays and other navigable waters of United States.
1925: An Act of Congress (43 Stat. L., 1261), for the first time, provided for disability retirement within the Lighthouse Service.
1929: Congress appropriates $144,000 for seaplanes and equipment for Coast Guard.
1977: Ensign Janna Lambine, USCG, became the Coast Guard's first female pilot when she graduated from naval aviation training at NAS Whiting Field, Milton, Florida.