This Day in Naval History - Feb. 03

From the Navy News Service

1801 - The U.S. Senate approves a peace treaty with France, ending an undeclared naval war which began in 1798.

1917 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany.

1991 - Battleship USS Missouri (BB 63) fires eight 2,000-pound shells from her 16-inch guns, destroying prefabricated enemy concrete command and control bunkers Iraq is moving into Kuwait.