1862 - Congress establishes the rank of Rear Admiral, with David G. Farragut named as the first Rear Admiral.
1863 - The screw sloop of war USS Wyoming, commanded by Capt. D. McDougal, is fired on by shore batteries and Japanese ships of the Prince of Nagoya. During this action, Wyoming became the first foreign warship to take the offensive to uphold treaty rights in Japan.
1943 - TBFs (VC 13) based on board USS Core (CVE 13) sink German submarine (U 67) in the mid-Atlantic.
1945 - The first atomic bomb test, Trinity, is detonated at Alamogordo, N.M.
1957 - An F8U 1P Crusader (Bu#144608), piloted by Maj. John H. Glenn, Jr., USMC, breaks the transcontinental speed record by crossing the country from Los Alamitos, Calif., to Floyd Bennett Field, N.Y., in three hours and 22 min., 50.5 sec. for an average speed of 723.517 mph. This is the first upper atmosphere supersonic flight from the West Coast to the East Coast.
1987 - Republic of Korea Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Choe Sang-Hwa gives a model of the Korean Turtle "Kobuksan" to Secretary of the Navy James Webb Jr. as a symbol of the partnership between the two nations.
