| 1854: | Commodore Matthew Perry opens treaty negotiations with Japan |
| 1862: | Ironclad ram CSS Virginia destroys USS Cumberland and Congress |
| 1945: | Phyllis Daley becomes first African-American Ensign, Navy Nurse Corps |
| 1958: | Battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is decommissioned, leaving the Navy without an active battleship for the first time since 1895 |
| 1965: | Seventh Fleet lands first major Marine units in South Vietnam at Danang |