U.S. Navy History for August includes:
1804:
American Squadron, including USS Constitution, attacks Tripoli.
1845:
U.S. Naval Academy established at Annapolis, MD on former site of Fort Severn.
1861:
Construction of USS Monitor authorized.
1865:
Return of Naval Academy to Annapolis after 4 years at Newport, RI.
1877:
Professor Asaph Hall of Naval Observatory discovers first of two satellites of Mars. He found the second within one week.
1883:
Installation of the first electric lighting on a US Navy Ship completed on USS Trenton.
1908:
First Navy post offices established in Navy ships.
1912:
22 August, birthday of Dental Corps.
1918:
SECNAV approves acceptance of women as yeoman (F) in U.S. Navy.
1921:
General Order establishes the Bureau of Aeronautics under RADM William Moffett.
Carrier arresting gear first tested at Hampton Roads
1943:
PT-109, under command of LTJG John F. Kennedy cut in half by Japanese cruiser Amagiri.
1943:
Commissioning of USS Harmon (DE-678), first Navy ship named for an African American Sailor.
1945:
Atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima, Japan. Navy weaponeer, Captain W.S. Parsons, USN, armed the atomic bomb on the B-29 bomber, Enola Gay.
1947:
4 August, birthdate of the Medical Service Corps.
1953:
First naval officer appointed Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. Admiral William Radford served from 15 August 1953 until 15 August 1957.
1957:
First test of Automatic Carrier Landing System. LCDR Don Walker is landed on USS Antietam.
1958:
USS Nautilus (SSN-571) is first ship to reach the geographic North Pole submerged.
1959:
ADM Arleigh Burke reappointed CNO for third two-year term, serving longest term as CNO.
1962:
Last flight of Navy airship made at NAS Lakehurst, NJ.
1964:
Three North Vietnamese PT boats attack USS Maddox (DD-731) in international waters in Gulf of Tonkin. Maddox sinks one.
1970:
USS James Madison (SSBN-627) conducts first submerged launching of Poseidon nuclear missile off Cape Kennedy.
1972:
Women authorized for sea duty as regular ship's company.
1981:
Two VF-41 aircraft from USS Nimitz shoot down two Libyan aircraft which fired on them over international waters.
1990:
President George Bush orders Operation Desert Shield, the largest overseas deployment since Vietnam.
1997:
Naval Forces on Guam help rescue and provide medical care for survivors of KoreanAirlines Flight 801 that crashed on Guam.
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