1813 - The sloop of war Hornet, commanded by Capt. James Lawrence, encounters HMS Peacock off British Guyana and easily wins the engagement.
1942 - Task Force 16, commanded by Vice Adm. William F. Halsey Jr., leads the Wake Island Raid in an attempt to destroy the Japanese installations on the island.
1944 - PBY-5As (VP 63) employing Magnetic Anomaly Detection (MAD) gear, bomb and sink German submarine U-761 as she attempts to transit the Straits of Gibraltar.
1945 - USS Lagarto (SS 371) sinks Japanese submarine I 371 and freighter Tatsumomo Maru off Bungo Strait, Kyushu.
1959 - USS Galveston (CLG 3) fired the first Talos surface-to-air missile.
1995 - Fast Attack Submarine USS Toledo (SSN 769) is commissioned.
NAZI U-boat U-761 is sunk with the aid of PBY-5As employing magnetic anomaly gear.