From the Navy News Service
1850 - Washington Navy Yard begins work
on first castings for the Dahlgren guns.
1917 - USS Ericsson fires first torpedo
of war.
1944 - Accidental explosion on board an
LST unloading ammunition in West Loch, Pearl Harbor, and the resulting fire and
other explosions sink five LSTs.
1964 - The initiation of the standing
carrier presence at Yankee Station in the South China Sea.
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