| 1853: | USS Constitution seizes suspected slaver H. N. Gambrill. |
| 1931: | Dirigible USS Los Angeles makes 10 hour flight out of NAS Lakehurst, NJ, carrying 207 persons, establishing a new record for the number of passengers carried into the air by a single craft. |
| 1943: | Battleship Oklahoma, sunk at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, is refloated. |
| 1956: | USS Cambria (APA-36) removes 24 members of United Nations Truce Commission team from the Gaza Strip. |
| 1956: | USS Chilton (APA-38), USS Thuban (AKA-19), and USS Fort Snelling (LSD-30) evacuate more than 1,500 U.S. and foreign nationals from Egypt and Israel because of the fighting. |
| 1961: | After Hurricane Hattie, helicopters from USS Antietam begin relief operations at British Honduras providing medical personnel, medical supplies, general supplies, and water. |