THE UNITED STATES NAVY
1775
- October 13:
Birthday of the U.S. Navy.
- November 01:
U.S. Marine Corp. founded.
1778
- April 24:
Capt. John Paul Jones in RANGER defeats HMS DRAKE.
1790
- August 04:
Congress establishes the U.S. Coast Guard.
1804
- February 16:
Lt. Stephen Decatur attacks Barbary Pirates at Tripoli.
1812
- August 19:
USS CONSTITUTION defeats British Frigate Guerriere.
1813
- September 10:
COMO Oliver Hazard Perry defeats British on Lake Erie.
1814
- October 29:
World's first fully steam powered Warship USS ROBERT FULTON.
1845
- October 10:
US Naval Academy begins classes in Annapolis, MD.
1854
- March 31:
COMO Matthew C. Perry signs treaty with Japan opening their ports in American trade.
1862
- March 09:
First ironclad battle between USS MONITOR and CSS VIRGINIA (Ex - USS MERRIMACK).
1864
- August 05:
ADM David G. Farragut's victory at Mobile Bay.
1898
- February 16:
USS MAINE sunk in Havana Harbor.
- May 01:
COMO George Dewey defeats Spanish forces in Manila Bay.
- July 01:
Naval forces at Cuba demolish Spanish Atlantic Squadron at Santiago.
1900
- April 12:
Navy accepts first operational Submarine USS HOLLAND.
1907
- December 16:
The Great White Fleet begins round the World Cruise.
1909
- April 06:
CDR Robert E. Perry & Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
1911
- January 18:
Eugene Ely. First Aircraft landing on a Ship (USS PENNA).
1919
- May 27:
Navy flying Boat NC-4 completes first Transatlantic flight..
1926
- May 09:
LCDR Richard E. Byrd & Chief aviation Pilot Floyd Bennett make first flight over the North Pole.
1941
- October 31:
German U Boat sinks USS REUBEN JAMES DD-245.
- December 07:
Japanese attack PEARL HARBOR.
- December 08:
U.S. Declares War on Japan.
1942
- January 24:
Battle of Makassar Strait.
- February 27:
Battle of the Java Sea.
- March 05:
Seabees officially established.
- April 18:
USS HORNETlaunches LCOL Jimmy Doolittles B-25 Bombers for attack on Tokyo.
- May 08:
Battle of the Coral Sea.
- June 02/06:
Battle of Midway.
- July 30:
Navy establishes WAVES.
- August 07:
Navy/Marine Corp Amphibious invasion of Guadalcanal.
- August 09:
Battle of SAVO Island.
- October 26/27:
Battle of Santa Cruz Island.
- November 08/10:
Amphibious invasion of North Africa.
- November 12/15:
Navy Battle of Guadalcanal.
1943
- July 10:
Invasion of Sicily.
- September 09:
Invasion of Salerno, Italy.
- November 20:
Amphibious assault on TARAWA begins.
- November 25:
Battle of Cape St. George. Capt. Arleigh A. Burke's Destroyer Squadron 23 sinks five Japanese Destroyers.
1944
- January 19:
Amphibious landing at ANZIO, Italy.
- January 31 - Feb 02:
Marshall operation. Kwajalein secured.
- February 17:
ADM Spruance, strkes Japanese Fleet at TRUK.
- March 20:
USS MASON DE529first Navy ship commissioned with Black Crew.
- May 31:
USS ENGLAND DE-635sinks 6 Japanese Subs in 12 days.
- June 04:
German Sub U-505 captured at sea.
- June 06:
Allies invade Normandy.
- June 19:
Battle of Philippine Sea.
- July 12:
Invasion of SAIPAN.
- July 21:
Invasion & recapture of GUAM.
- August 15:
Invasion of South France.
- September 15:
Invasion of PELELIU.
- October 20:
Invasion of Philippines.
- October 24/25:
Battle of LEYTE GULF, SIBUYAN SEA, SURIGAO STRAIT, SAMAR & CAPE ENGANO.
- December 02:
Battle of ORMOC Bay begins.
1945
- January 09:
Invasion of Luzon.
- February 03:
Liberation of Manila.
- February 19:
Battle of Iwo Jima begins.
- June 21:
Invasion of Okinawa.
- May 08:
V.E. Day.
- July 01:
U.S. and Australian forces land at Balikpapan.
- July 29:
USS INDIANAPOLISsunk. Only 316 survivors were rescued on August 02.
- August 06:
First combat Atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima, Japan.
- August 09:
Second Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
- August 15:
V.J. Day.
- September 02:
Formal surrender of Japan on board Battleship MISSOURI in Tokyo bay.
1950
- June 25:
Beginning of Korean War.
- September 15:
Amphibious landing at Inchon, Korea.
1953
- July 27:
Korean war Armistice signed.
1955
- January 17:
USS NAUTILUS Navy's first Nuclear Sub departs on her maiden voyage.
1959
- July 14:
USS LONG BEACH launched, first Nuclear powered surface Warship.
1960
- May 10:
Nuclear Submarine USS TRITON circles the globe submerged.
1961
- May 05:
CDR Alan B. Shepard, Jr., makes first U.S. manned space flight.
1964
- August 05:
First Navy Air strike against North Vietnam.
1965
- March 11:
Operation Market Time begins coastal Patrols of South Vietnam.
1967
- April 08:
U.S. Coast Guard transferred to the Department of transportation.
- June 08:
Israel aircraft and Torpedo boats attack USS LIBERTY.
1969
- July 20:
Former Navy Pilot Neil Armstrong becomes the first man on the Moon.
1972
- August 08:
Navy authorizes Women to serve at Sea.
1975
- April 30:
Saigon falls to North Vietnamese forces.
1976
- July 06:
First Women enters US Naval Academy.
1980
- March 05:
Congress authorizes US Navy Memorial.
1987
- September 12:
First meeting of Sampson WWII Navy Veterans, Inc. (48 members) . . conducted by William Russell at VFW Club, Waterloo, NY.
- October 13:
Navy Memorial dedicated.
1991
- January 16:
Operation Desert Storm begins.
- April 11:
U.N. cease fire ends Persian Gulf War. Israel.
- September 06:
Dedication of Sampson Sailor Statue.
1994
- November 21:
Foreign Ministry officially apologized for the first time for the delayed delivery of a virtual declaration of war before Japan's 1941 attack on pearl Harbor. The attack killed 2400 people, destroyed 120 US Planes and 19 ships.
1995
- September 15:
Official dedication of the Sampson Brig Museum.
