1775:	Congress adopts first rules for regulation of the "Navy of the United Colonies."
1941:	USS Enterprise (CV-6) sails from Pearl Harbor for Wake Island to ferry Marine aircraft to island.
1942:	Ensigns George W. Carlson and Mac A. Cason, SC, USNR organize rescue parties to help rescue people from the fire at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston, MA . They are credited "the cause of saving more lives than any other single agency."