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  1. 1942 - USS Wasp in Mediterranean launches 47 Spitfire aircraft to help defend Malta

    1956 - A British naval diver ( Commander Lionel "Buster" Crabb ) goes missing ( Later Found Dead ) during a Goodwill Visit by a Soviet cruiser carrying Soviet leaders Nikita Khruschev and Marshal Nikolai Bulganin. At the time no one would admit that he was spying on the Russian Cruiser on a spying mission for MI6 and had dived under the cruiser to check out the hull and any other information he could find. And it still remains a mystery on how he died.  
     

  2. 1911 - U.S. Navy ordered its first airplane, Curtiss A-1, Birthday of Naval Aviation
    1942 - B The Battle of Coral Sea, between the Japanese Navy and the United States and Australian Navies ends with the loss of the carrier USS Lexington and the Japanese carrier Shōhō.     
    1963 - U.S. Navy ships evacuate 2,279 civilians from Haiti during crisis.
    1972 - U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aircraft mine Haiphong Harbor in North Vietnam.

  3. 1909 - Great White Fleet anchors in San Francisco
    1916 - First ship-to-shore radio telephone voice conversation from USS New Hampshire off Virginia Capes to SECNAV Josephus Daniels in Washington, DC
    1942 - CAPT Milton Miles arrives in Chungking, China, to begin building an intelligence and guerilla training organization, Naval Group China
    1945 - Naval landing force evacuates 500 Marshallese from Jaluit Atoll, Marshall Islands

    1924 - Japanese warships entered Chinese waters and Chinese troops are rushed to coastal areas to fend off possible attacks.

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