1948:	The list of nominations for appointments and promotions of Coast Guard officers transmitted to Congress by the President on this date represented the first permanent advancements of US Coast Guard regular officers since the summer of 1942.
1988:	Coast Guard units responded to a report of a murder on board the container vessel Boxer Captain Cook.  The ship's first officer apparently murdered the captain and threw his body overboard.  A boarding party from the cutter Northland, offloaded onto the cutter Cape York, boarded the vessel on the high seas and captured the suspected murderer and collected evidence of the crime.
1990:	The CGC Mellon fires a Harpoon missile, the first cutter to do so.