From the Navy News Service
1854 - Commodore Matthew Perry opens treaty negotiations with Japan
1862 - Ironclad ram CSS Virginia destroys USS Cumberland and USS Congress.
1945 - Phyllis Daley, assigned to the Navy Nurse Corps, becomes the first African-American ensign.
1958 - Battleship USS Wisconsin (BB 64) is decommissioned, leaving the Navy without an active battleship for the first time since 1895.
1965 - The 7th Fleet lands the first major Marine Corps units in South Vietnam
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