| 1804: | USS Intrepid (LT Richard Somers) blew up in failed attack on Tripoli |
| 1941: | German submarine, U-652, attacks USS Greer, which was tracking the submarine southeast of Iceland. Greer is not damaged, but drops depth charges, damaging U-652. |
| 1954: | Icebreakers, USS Burton Island (AGB-1) and USCG Northwind, complete first transit of Northwest passage through McClure Strait. |
| 1954: | P2V from VP-19 shot down by Soviet aircraft near Swatow, China |
| 1960: | USS Bushnell and Penguin begin relief operations in Marathon, FL, after Hurricane Donna. |