- 1910 - USS Michigan, the first US dreadnought, is commissioned.
- 1943 - USS Shad (SS 235) sinks German minesweeper M 4242 (ex-French trawler Odet II) in the Bay of Biscay.
- 1944 - USS Bluefish (SS 222) and USS Rasher (SS 269) attack a Japanese convoy off French Indochina; Bluefish sinks a merchant tanker while Rasher damages another tanker.
- 1944 - USS Cabrilla (SS 288) sinks a Japanese freighter off Cape Padran, French Indochina while USS Tautog (SS 109) sinks a Japanese freighter off southern Honshu.
- 1945 - During attacks against the Navy force bound for the Lingayen Gulf, a kamikaze crashes into escort carrier USS Ommaney Bay in the Sulu Sea and damages her beyond repair. USS Burns (DD 588) scuttles the carrier escort.
- 1972 - Secretary of the Navy John Chaffee approved the establishment of the Legalman (LN) rating.
- 1989 - VF-32 F-14 Tomcats from USS John F. Kennedy shoot down two hostile Libyan MiGs with Sparrow and Sidewinder missiles in the central Med north of Tobruk in international waters.
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USS Ommaney Bay is attacked by a kamikaze pilot and is damaged beyond repair.
