From the Navy News Service
1804 - American Squadron, including USS Constitution, attacks Tripoli.
1812 - Frigate Essex capture British brig Brothers.
1861 - Construction of USS Monitor authorized.
1861 - First manned ascent in a balloon from a ship, gunboat USS Fanny, to observe Confederate artillery position at Hampton Roads, Va.
1942 - Mildred McAffee (Horton) becomes the first woman officer commissioned into the Naval Reserve.
1950 - First Marine Corps aviation mission against North Korea by VMF-214, from USS Sicily (CVE 118). Read about this historic event and others from the best Korean War books.
1950 - First helicopter evacuation in Korea by VMO-6.
1958 - USS Nautilus (SSN 571) is first ship to reach the geographic North Pole while submerged.
1970 - USS James Madison (SSBN 627) conducts first submerged launching of Poseidon nuclear missile off Cape Kennedy.
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