From the Navy News Service
1807 - HMS Leopard attacks USS Chesapeake.
1865 - Confederate raider Shenandoah fires last shot of Civil War in Bering Strait.
1884 - Navy relief expedition under Cmdr. Winfield S. Schley rescues Lt. A.W. Greely, USA, and six others from Ellesmere Island, where they were marooned for three years on Arctic island.
1898 - Adm. Sampson begins amphibious landing near Santiago, Cuba.
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