History Hop Tags - Navy

1565-06-23

Turgut Reis (Dragut), commander of the Ottoman Navy, dies during the Siege of Malta.

1573-10-11

Battle of South Seas - Dutch rebels beat Spanish navy

1592-05-29

Battle of Sacheon: Korean navy led by Admiral Yi Sun Shin repels a Japanese fleet - first use of Korean Turtle ship

1703-11-26

Great storm of 1703 hits Southern England (NS 7 Dec) - thousands killed, Royal Navy losses 13 ships and around 1,500 seamen

1714-08-07

The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy during the Great Northern War against Sweden

1720-07-27

The second important victory of the Russian Navy - the Battle of Grengam.

1775-10-12

US Navy forms

1775-10-27

US Navy forms

1775-11-28

2nd Continental Congress formally establishes US Navy

1775-12-22

Continental navy organized with 7 ships

1790-07-09

Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund - in the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.

1794-03-27

The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.

1796-08-17

British beat Batavian navy in Saldanha Bay South Africa

1797-05-10

1st US Navy ship, the "United States," is launched

1797-10-11

Battle of Camperdown (Kamperduin): English navy defeats Dutch fleet

1798-03-09

Dr George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the US navy

1798-04-30

US Dept of Navy forms

1804-02-16

Lt Stephen Decatur raids Tripoli Harbor & burns Navy frigate "Philadelphia" after pirates seized it

1807-09-02

The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.

1810-02-04

Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe.

1812-09-03

World's first cannery ( Donkin, Hall and Gamble) opens in London, England to supply food to the Royal Navy

1813-06-01

Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship"

1814-09-11

Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; American Navy defeats British

1820-11-18

Antarctica sighted by US Navy Capt Nathaniel B Palmer

1821-10-08

The government of General José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy.

1826-11-25

The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.

1850-09-28

US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment

1853-07-09

Adm Perry & US Navy visit Japan

1857-05-01

William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to US Navy

1861-02-20

Department of Navy of Confederacy forms (US Civil War)

1861-05-04

At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel navy is cast

1861-08-29

American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.

1861-09-25

Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves

1862-01-30

USS Monitor, the US Navy's 1st ironclad warship launched

1862-07-16

David Farragut is 1st Rear Admiral in US Navy

1862-12-26

1st US navy hospital ship enters service

1865-11-26

Battle of Papudo: The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile.

1866-03-31

The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile.

1866-07-25

David Faragut appointed as 1st admiral in US Navy

1869-07-15

Margarine is patented by Hippolye Méga-Mouriès for use by French Navy

1879-10-08

War of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter.

1883-03-03

Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in US navy

1890-11-29

1st US Army - US Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point

1898-04-12

Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in SF Bay to Navy

1898-06-17

The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.

1898-07-03

US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba

1899-03-03

George Dewey becomes 1st in US to hold the rank of Admiral of the Navy

1900-04-11

US Navy's 1st submarine made its debut

1900-04-11

The first modern submarine designed and built by John Philip Holland is purchased by the U.S. Navy

1900-06-12

In Germany, the Reichstag pass the second Navy Bill, which calls for doubling the German Navy within 20 years

1900-06-14

The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.

1900-10-12

The first modern submarine is commissioned by the U.S.Navy as the USS Holland, named for its designer John Philip Holland

1906-06-05

Determined to keep pace with Britain as a major naval power, the German Reichstag passes new navy legislation, increasing the total tonnage in Germany's fleet

1907-12-16

Eugene H Farrar is 1st to sing on radio (Bkln Navy Yard NY)

1908-06-14

Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing the building of another four major warships.

1908-08-11

King Edward VII of Britain meets with Kaiser Wilhelm of Friedrichshof, Germany; the main point of contention is the increasing size of Germany's navy

1908-11-07

Dutch capture Venezuelan navy

1909-11-11

Construction of US navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, begins

1910-05-04

Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy

1910-05-04

Wilfrid Laurier passes the Naval Service Act, which creates the Royal Canadian Navy

1910-11-10

The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.

1914-07-26

First Lord of the Admiralty (British Minister of Navy) Winston Churchill orders British fleet to remain

1914-09-05

US President Wilson orders the US Navy to make its wireless stations accessible for any transatlantic communications - even to German diplomats sending coded messages; this will lead to the interception of the Zimmermann telegram, helping to bring the US into the war

1915-03-08

1st US navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned

1915-03-14

German cruiser Dresden scuttled off Más a Tierra, Chile, having been pursued by the Royal Navy after the Battle of the Falkland Islands, with her engines worn out and virtually no coal.

1915-04-14

Dutch merchant navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo

1916-04-21

The Aud, carrying a cargo of 20,000 rifles to assist Irish republicans in staging what would become the 1916 Rising, is captured by the British Navy and forced to sail towards Cork Harbour

1917-02-22

German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships

1917-03-21

Loretta Walsh becomes US Navy's 1st female Petty Officer

1918-01-31

A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.

1919-05-08

1st transatlantic flight take-off by a navy seaplane

1919-05-27

1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days

1922-03-20

USS Langley is commissioned, US Navy's 1st aircraft carrier

1922-10-27

1st commemoration of Navy Day

1923-09-08

Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost.

1924-09-30

Allies stop checking on German navy

1925-03-09

Pink's War, the first RAF operation conducted independently of the Army or Navy, begins.

1926-11-27

110,000 watch US Army & Navy play a 21-all tie

1930-03-15

1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched

1934-10-01

Adolf Hitler expands German army & navy & creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles

1938-05-17

US Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy

1939-09-20

British navy captures German U-27 boat

1940-05-14

Admiral Johannes Furstner, Royal Dutch Navy, departs to England

1940-07-03

British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, to prevent Germany seizing it.

1941-04-01

Navy takes over Treasure Island (SF Bay)

1941-06-06

1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched

1941-06-19

US President Franklin Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act

1941-08-16

HMS Mercury, Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.

1941-09-11

World War II: The U.S. Navy is ordered to attack German U-boats.

1942-01-02

The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey.

1942-01-06

Bob Feller, enlists in Navy & reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia

1942-02-26

WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"

1942-05-08

1st twilight game in 24 years, the Dodgers top Giants 7-6 raising $60,000 for Navy Relief Fund

1942-05-20

US Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve

1942-05-27

Dorie Miller awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor

1942-06-02

Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a US Navy aviator

1942-06-18

Bernard W Robinson, becomes 1st black ensign in US Navy

1942-07-30

FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)

1942-08-23

Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for NY-Wash game (raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief

1942-08-24

Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands between United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy

1942-10-12

US navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance

1942-11-27

French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & subs so Nazis cannot seize them

1943-01-21

Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Royal Navy, promoted to Admiral of the Fleet

1943-03-03

Battle of the Bismarck Sea during WWII: Australian and American airforces devastate Japanese navy convoy

1943-08-12

Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge.

1943-08-29

Danish Navy scuttles its warships so as not to be taken by Germany

1944-01-01

Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl," Oran, North Africa

1944-01-29

USS Missouri, the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy, is launched.

1944-02-26

1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed

1944-10-06

Royal Ducth Navy submarine Zwaardvis (Swordfish) sinks U168 at Java

1944-10-19

US Navy says black women can join WAVES

1945-03-08

Phyllis M Daley is 1st black nurse sworn-in as US Navy ensign

1945-03-23

Largest operation in Pacific War (WWII), 1,500 US Navy ships bomb Japanese island of Okinawa

1945-07-10

Adm Marc Mitscher named chief of US Navy staff

1945-08-24

Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from Navy & strike out 12

1946-11-23

French Navy fire in Haiphong Vietnam, kills 6,000

1947-03-15

John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy

1947-07-23

1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, RI

1947-07-25

US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Department of Defense

1948-07-07

6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular US Navy

1950-06-27

North Koreans troop reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict

1954-09-30

USS Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (sub), commissioned by the US Navy

1958-03-17

Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape

1958-03-31

US Navy forms atomic sub division

1958-10-09

Israeli navy inaugrates its first submarine

1960-11-29

26th Heisman Trophy Award: Joe Bellino, Navy (HB)

1962-01-01

United States Navy SEALs established.

1962-01-15

Dutch & Indonesian navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea

1963-11-26

29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (QB)

1963-12-07

Instant replay is used for the first time in a Army-Navy game.

1970-07-31

Black Tot Day: the last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.

1971-04-28

Samuel Lee Gravely Jr becomes 1st black admiral in US Navy

1971-06-06

Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die

1971-12-04

The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi.

1974-08-01

China's People's Liberation Army Navy, put into service ChangZheng 1, their first nuclear-powered submarine

1978-12-31

CIA director, Admiral Stansfield Turner retires from the Navy

1979-05-19

"In The Navy" by Village People hits #3

1981-08-19

2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22

1982-11-30

US sub Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in So China Sea

1984-01-26

US navy exhibits Piasecki helistat-4 helicopters & a blimp able to lift 26 tons-Lakehurst, NJ

1986-07-24

SF Federal jury convicts navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage

1986-08-28

US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying

1987-10-13

1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)

1988-07-04

US Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290

1991-03-21

27 lost at sea when 2 US Navy anti-submarine planes collide

1993-08-31

HMS Mercury, the Royal Navy's communications training establishment, closes after 52 years in commission.

1994-03-07

US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship

1999-07-06

U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by fellow soldiers for his relationship with transgendered showgirl and former Navy combat medic, Calpernia Addams.

2000-08-12

The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.

2005-05-14

The former USS America (CV-66), a decommissioned supercarrier of the United States Navy, is deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. She is the largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.

2006-09-22

The F-14 Tomcat retires from the United States Navy.

2007-03-23

Iranian Navy seize Royal Navy personnel in Iraqi waters.

2007-04-04

15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.

2009-02-05

The United States Navy guided missile cruiser Port Royal runs aground off Oahu, Hawaii, damaging the ship as well as a coral reef.

2009-04-12

U.S. Navy rescues captain Richard Phillips, killing three pirates and capturing a fourth.

2011-08-06

A helicopter containing members of Navy SEAL 6 is shot down in Afghanistan killing 38.

2011-10-27

The Royal Australian Navy announces that they discovered the wreck of a World War II submarine in Simpson Harbour, Papua New Guinea during Operation RENDER SAFE - it is likely to be Japanese.

2015-11-01

US Navy finds wreckage believed to be missing cargo ship El Faro

2016-01-30

US Navy sends ship near disputed island in South China Sea

2016-03-01

Navy SEAL who rescued American hostage awarded Medal of Honor

2016-04-14

US Navy video captures "aggressive" Russian flyby

2016-05-28

Italy navy recovered 45 bodies near half-sunken migrant boat

2016-10-13

US military strikes Yemen after missile attacks on US Navy ship

2016-12-11

Army beats Navy 21-17 to end 14-year losing streak in series

2017-06-17

7 sailors missing, 2 injured after Navy destroyer collides with container ship off coast of Japan

2017-08-22

USS McCain the 4th Navy warship to crash in Asia this year

2017-08-23

US Navy to relieve Seventh Fleet commander after collisions in Asia

1345-10-31

Ferdinand I, the wise one, king of Portugal (built navy)

1633-02-23

Samuel Pepys, London England, navy expert/composer (Diary, Memoirs)

1718-04-26

Esek Hopkins, US, 1st commander-in-chief (US Navy)

1762-10-16

Paul Hamilton, Governor of South Carolina (1804-06) and U.S. Secretary of Navy (1809-12) (d. 1816)

1764-02-04

Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French vice-admiral/minister of Navy

1778-07-28

Charles Stewart, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1869

1789-10-03

Francis Hoyt Gregory, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1866

1790-03-30

Joseph Smith, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1877

1794-11-17

John Barrien Montgomery, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1873

1795-05-13

Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883

1795-06-12

John Marston Jr, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1885

1796-09-22

Ret Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1880

1797-11-07

Silas Horton Stringham, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1876

1797-12-11

Hiram Paulding, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1878

1798-04-03

Charles D Wilkes, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1877

1798-07-15

Charles H Bell, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1875

1798-08-28

Gershom Jaques Van Brunt, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1863

1800-05-01

Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1874

1800-09-17

Franklin Buchanan, Admiral (Confederate Navy), died in 1874

1800-09-19

William Wister McKean, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1865

1801-04-07

Henry Eagle, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882

1801-07-26

John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Comm (Union Navy), died in 1867

1802-07-01

Gideon Welles, Secy Navy (Union), died in 1878

1802-08-20

Cadwalader Ringgold, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1867

1802-11-20

James Lawrence Lardner, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1881

1803-04-21

Levin Minn Powell, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1885

1803-09-27

Samuel Francis DuPont, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1865

1804-04-24

Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy)

1804-05-22

John William (Turk) Livingston, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1885

1805-02-18

Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral (Union Navy)

1806-05-26

Henry Knox Thatcher, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1880

1806-09-12

Andrew Hull Foote, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1863

1807-01-16

Charles Henry Davis, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1877

1807-06-11

James Findlay Schenck, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882

1808-06-11

Charles Henry Poor, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882

1808-10-13

Henry Haywood Bell, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1868

1808-12-20

Thomas Tinsley Craven, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1887

1808-12-23

Thomas Turner, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883

1808-12-25

Stephen Cleeg Rowan, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1890

1809-03-10

William David Porter, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1864

1809-06-18

Sylvanus William Godon, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1879

1809-09-09

William Radford, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1890

1809-09-27

Raphael Semmes, Rear Admiral (Confederate Navy), died in 1877

1810-10-13

James Shedden Palmer, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1867

1811-07-11

Joseph Lanman, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1874

1811-08-11

Judah P Benjamin, US lawyer/minister of Confederacy navy [or Aug 6]

1811-11-19

John Ancrum Winslow, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1873

1812-01-31

John Randolph Tucker, Capt (Confederate Navy), died in 1883

1812-02-11

Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883

1812-08-08

John Rodgers II, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882

1812-08-25

Percival Drayton, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1865

1813-06-08

David Dixon Porter, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1891

1818-03-12

John Lorimar Worden, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1897

1819-05-16

Daniel Ammen, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1898

1821-06-13

Navy Gustavus Vasa Fox, Asst Secy (Union), died in 1883

1823-06-25

James Dunwody Bulloch, Capt (Confederate Navy), died in 1901

1826-12-18

Mercer Brooke John, (Confederate Navy), died in 1906

1840-02-11

Sanuel Dana Greene, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), died in 1884

1842-11-04

William Barker Cushing, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), died in 1874

1845-02-15

Elihu Root, President Roosevelt at the Army-Navy Game

1852-09-25

Cornelis J Snijders, supreme commander of Dutch Navy (1910-18)

1853-12-23

William H. Moody, Review of U.S. Marine Band by Sec'y Moody, U.S. Navy

1864-03-04

David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect (d. 1940)

1874-01-01

Frank Knox, American Secretary of the Navy (d. 1944)

1876-08-17

Henri G Winkelman, Dutch general/supreme commander/navy 1940

1880-08-29

Fred Leslie, Trust the Navy

1882-07-25

George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain, Navy Cross (d. 1942)

1883-05-16

Max Scheck, Sweetheart of the Navy

1884-07-29

Ralph A. Bard, U.S. Navy Undersecretary (d. 1975)

1890-07-20

Hans Christian Adamson, Hellcats of the Navy

1892-02-15

James Forrestal, US, banker/minister of Navy

1900-01-27

Hyman G Rickover, US Admiral (father of modern nuclear navy)

1901-10-19

Arleigh A Burke, Colo, admiral (WW II, Solomon Islands, Navy Cross)

1904-01-03

Roy Brickner, Eyes of the Navy

1905-03-18

Benny Friedman, The Navy Way

1905-08-10

Wandra Ramsey, The Navy vs. the Night Monsters

1905-08-19

Fitzhugh Lee, US pilot/vice-admiral (WW II, Navy Cross)

1906-07-09

Walter Sande, Denver CO, actor (Navy vs Night Monsters)

1907-07-26

Sven Arvor, Cavalliers of the Navy

1908-12-08

Chris Sheen, Skimpy in the Navy

1908-12-29

Claire Dodd, AR, actress (Ex-Lady, In the Navy)

1910-02-11

Eric Wild, Meet the Navy

1910-12-09

Stephen Jurika Jr, US pilot/capt (WW II, Santa Cruz, Navy Cross)

1910-12-11

George H. Sauer, 1948 Army-Navy Game

1913-07-27

George L. Street III American Navy Submariner (d. 2000)

1913-10-05

Eugene Bennett Fluckey American Navy Submariner (d. 2007)

1913-11-30

David Lang, Hellcats of the Navy

1915-09-29

Ann Nagel, Boston MA, actress (Don Winslow of the Navy)

1915-9-08

Duffy Daugherty, 1975 Army-Navy Game

1916-07-19

Margaret Hurst, Meet the Navy

1917-05-02

Roy Kight, Navy Log

1918-11-24

Lee Bonnell, The Navy Comes Through

1920-07-07

Shûe Matsubayashi, The Imperial Navy

1921-04-11

Virginia O'Brien, Los Angeles California, actress (Francis in the Navy)

1922-03-10

Pamela Mason, London, actress (Navy vs Night Monsters)

1922-09-27

Carl Ballantine, actor (McHale's Navy)

1922-11-26

Terry Ryan, Dobie's Navy Blues

1923-07-10

John Bradley, United States Navy corpsman, one of six who raised flag on top of Mt. Suribachi(see Iwo Jima) (d. 1994)

1924-11-08

Joe Flynn, Youngstown Ohio, actor (McHale's Navy)

1924-11-24

Dick Scott, The Army-Navy Football Game of November 30, 1946

1924-9-19

Marianne Schüler, Cavalliers of the Navy

1925-01-04

Johnny Lujack, 1970 Army-Navy Game

1925-04-18

Bob Hastings, Brooklyn New York, American actor (McHale's Navy, All in the Family)

1926-07-30

Richard Everhart, Bilko Joins the Navy

1926-9-03

Bill Flemming, 1975 Army-Navy Game

1931-01-22

Connie Bulmer, The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell

1931-05-03

John Winton, We Joined the Navy

1932-03-29

William Charette, Ludington, Michigan, United States Navy Hospital Corpsman and Medal of Honour recipient, (d. 2012)

1932-10-14

James Pryor, Francis in the Navy

1933-02-06

Mamie Van Doren, Rowena SD, actress (Navy vs Night Monsters) [or 2/2]

1933-12-15

Tim Conway, Willoughby Oh, comic (McHale's Navy, Carol Burnett Show)

1934-03-31

Yoshio Yoda, McHale's Navy

1934-08-12

Kenneth Eaton, Controller (British Navy)

1934-12-06

William Knight, Navy Seals

1934-9-08

Michael A. Hoey, The Navy vs. the Night Monsters

1939-06-24

Henry Lawrence Garett III, Miami Fla, Sect of Navy (1989-92)

1941-12-08

Randall "Duke" Cunningham, US Navy fighter pilot and Congressman

1942-03-29

Madelynn Broder, The Navy vs. the Night Monsters

1942-03-30

John Wright, McHale's Navy

1942-9-04

Langhorn Scruggs, The Navy Reunion

1944-12-30

William J. Fallon, U.S. Navy Admiral, former U.S. Central Command commander

1947-07-23

Dorrie Thomson, Chesty Anderson U.S. Navy

1948-04-13

Nam Hae-il, Chief of Naval Operations of Republic of Korea Navy

1954-12-04

Gus Wing, Navy Seals

1954-12-15

Mike Ratledge, author (2DAY & NEWDAY)/ratledgm@spawar.navy.mil

1956-08-07

Kent V Rominger, Del Norte Colo, US Navy /astronaut (STS 73, 80, 85)

1956-11-22

Gowan, Navy Seals

1961-11-17

Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (d. 1985)

1974-04-08

Chris Kyle, Odessa, Texas, Navy SEAL sniper (160 kills), (d. 2013)

1975-11-07

Marcus Luttrell, Houston Texas, United States Navy SEAL ("Lone Survivor")

1978-05-30

Cyrus King, Navy Seal vs. Israeli Commando

1980-03-20

Ryan Fedje, SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy SEALs

1981-04-05

Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

1982-10-19

Blaine Higdon, SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy SEALs

1984-9-07

Anthony Jesse Cruz, McHale's Navy

1824-09-02

US Navy flag officer David Farragut (23) weds Susan Caroline Marchant

1843-12-26

US Navy flag officer David Farragut (42) weds Virginia Loyall

1943-04-17

Actress Claire Trevor (34) weds Navy lieutenant Cyclos William Dunsmoore in Tijuana, Mexico

2010-11-27

US Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell (25) weds Melanie Juneau in Texas

1546-07-04

Hayreddin Barbarossa, Admiral of the Ottoman Navy (b. 1478)

1595-11-12

John Hawkins, English navigator/treasurer of the Navy, dies at 63

1683-09-05

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French Minister of Navy, dies at 64

1782-08-29

Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral drowns (b. 1718)

1841-05-03

Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance/Navy/Colonies, dies at 74

1844-02-28

Thommas W Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton

1845-04-02

Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (b. 1763)

1917-07-02

William H. Moody, Review of U.S. Marine Band by Sec'y Moody, U.S. Navy

1918-03-13

William Courtleigh Jr., Neal of the Navy

1931-05-26

Adele Windsor, True to the Navy

1937-02-07

Elihu Root, President Roosevelt at the Army-Navy Game

1939-05-26

Cornelis J Cutters, supreme commander of Navy (1910-18), dies

1941-12-07

Mervyn S. Bennion, United States Navy Captain, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (b. 1887)

1941-12-07

Herbert C. Jones, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (b. 1918)

1941-12-07

Thomas J. Reeves, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (b. 1895)

1941-12-07

Franklin Van Valkenburgh, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (b. 1888)

1942-03-01

George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain (b. 1882)

1943-11-24

Doris Miller, American navy cook (b. 1919)

1945-08-01

Fred Leslie, Trust the Navy

1952-12-27

Henri G Winkelman, Dutch supreme commander army/navy 1940, dies at 76

1953-04-26

Bob Moak, In the Navy

1968-11-06

Charles B. McVay III, Ex-U.S. Navy Captain (b. 1898)

1973-11-23

Claire Dodd, actress (Ex-Lady, In the Navy), dies after illness at 64

1974-07-19

Joe Flynn, actor (McHale's Navy), dies at 59

1977-07-16

Marianne Schüler, Cavalliers of the Navy

1981-05-30

Langhorn Scruggs, The Navy Reunion

1982-11-23

Benny Friedman, The Navy Way

1984-01-13

Roy Brickner, Eyes of the Navy

1984-08-27

Billy Sands, actor (Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy), dies at 73

1985-06-15

Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (b. 1961)

1986-05-12

Lee Bonnell, The Navy Comes Through

1987-09-25

Duffy Daugherty, 1975 Army-Navy Game

1988-01-28

Roy Kight, Navy Log

1988-10-06

Don Terry, Don Winslow of the Navy

1989-04-29

Eric Wild, Meet the Navy

1989-09-24

Theron Triplett, Sweetheart of the Navy

1990-04-13

Connie Bulmer, The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell

1990-06-16

Richard Everhart, Bilko Joins the Navy

1993-03-29

Wandra Ramsey, The Navy vs. the Night Monsters

1994-01-06

"Iron" Adriaan van Es, Dutch undersec of Navy (1963-72), dies at 80

1994-02-05

George H. Sauer, 1948 Army-Navy Game

1994-04-03

Tom Hamilton, The Army-Navy Football Game of November 30, 1946

1994-11-11

Margaret Hurst, Meet the Navy

1999-04-19

David Sanes, US Navy employee

2000-02-26

George L. Street III American Navy Submariner and Medal of Honor recipient.(b. 1913)

2001-04-27

John Winton, We Joined the Navy

2001-05-05

Terry Ryan, Dobie's Navy Blues

2001-11-16

Sven Arvor, Cavalliers of the Navy

2004-01-28

Lloyd M. Bucher, U.S. Navy officer (b. 1927)

2005-04-24

Gus Wing, Navy Seals

2005-07-05

James Stockdale, U.S. Navy vice admiral (b. 1923)

2006-07-25

Carl Brashear, first African-American U.S Navy Master Diver (b. 1931)

2006-09-29

Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

2007-05-11

David Lang, Hellcats of the Navy

2007-06-28

Eugene Bennett Fluckey, American Navy Submariner (b. 1913)

2007-07-20

Bill Flemming, 1975 Army-Navy Game

2008-10-03

Karam ud Din, Pakistani Navy officer (b. 1941)

2009-08-15

Shûe Matsubayashi, The Imperial Navy

2012-03-19

William Charette, American navy hospital corpsman and Medal of Honour recipient, dies at 79

2014-08-17

Michael A. Hoey, The Navy vs. the Night Monsters

2015-01-15

Dorrie Thomson, Chesty Anderson U.S. Navy