1885:	CAPT Alfred Thayer Mahan, USN, becomes Superintendent of the Naval War College
1891:	Baltimore Incident, Valparaiso, Chile.
1940:	5th group of 10 destroyers from the Destroyers for Bases Deal turned over to British at Halifax, Canada.
1942:	Carrier aircraft from USS Hornet (CV-8) conduct attacks on Japanese troops on Guadalcanal.
1943:	Navy accepts its first helicopter, a Sikorsky YR-4B (HNS-1) at Bridgeport, Connecticut.