| 1911: | First aircraft landing on board a ship, USS Pennsylvania by Eugene Ely |
| 1962: | After a flash fire in the Persian Gulf on Danish tanker, Prima Maersk, burned a crewman, USS Duxbury Bay transfers a Navy doctor to help the Danish crewman and USS Soley took him to the nearest hospital at Bahrain Island |
| 1968: | Operation Coronado X begins in Mekong Delta, Vietnam |
| 1977: | The Trident (C-4) missile development flight test program commenced when C4X-1 was launched from a flight pad at Cape Canaveral, FL |
| 1991: | USS Nicholas attacks and captures Iraqi oil platforms |