| 1862: | Union gunboat squadron captures Fort Henry, Tennessee River |
| 1922: | World powers sign the Washington Naval Treaty providing for limitation of naval armament |
| 1973: | In accordance with the agreement at the Paris Peace Talks, Navy Task Force 78 begins Operation End Sweep, the mine clearance of North Vietnamese waters of mines laid in 1972 |
| 1973: | Operation End Sweep, a mine-clearing operation, begins off North Vietnam |
| 1979: | Six U.S. vessels evacuate 200 American citizens and 240 other persons from the ports of Bandar Abbas and Char Bahar in revolution-wracked Iran |
| 1991: | Within two hours of relieving her sister battleship during the Gulf War, USS Wisconsin (BB 64) conducts her first naval gunfire support mission since the Korean War, destroying an Iraqi artillery battery in Southern Kuwait |