1799:	Secretary of Treasury describes the ensign and pennant authorized to be flown by revenue cutters as "consisting of 16 perpendicular stripes (one for each state in the Union at that time) alternate red and the Union of the Ensign to be the Arms of the United States in dark blue on a white field."
1910:	Alaska was designated as a separate lighthouse district, with a district office and depot established at Ketchikan for directing operations.
1952:	The US Coast Guard released a photograph of unidentified aerial phenomena, taken by a 21-year old USCG photographer on 16 July at the Salem Coast Guard Air Station.
1985:	The 49-year old cutter Ingham gains the distinction of being the oldest commissioned cutter in service when her sister, the Duane, was decommissioned.