| 1795: | U.S. Navy Office of Purveyor of Supplies is established. This is the Navy Supply Corps Birthday. |
| 1919: | Launching of Osmond Ingram (DD-255), first Navy ship named for an enlisted man |
| 1944: | Carrier groups under Spruance attack Saipan, Tinian and Rota in the Marianas |
| 1945: | Marines and a Navy corpsman raise flag on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima |