1871:	Using his administrative authority, Secretary of the Treasury George S. Boutwell re-established a Revenue Marine Bureau and assigned Sumner I. Kimball as the civilian Chief with the duty of administering both the revenue cutters and the life-saving stations.
1938:	The Lighthouse Service Radio Laboratory was moved from the shops of the lighthouse depot in Detroit, MI, "to the Lazaretto Lighthouse Depot in Baltimore, Md., where a building had been constructed providing more adequately for this Important branch of the work of the Service."
1942:	Enlistees after this date were restricted to enlistment in the USCG Reserve.  This was done to prevent having too many enlistees in the service at war’s end.
1944:	Namur Island, Kwajalein Atoll Invasion.