Portal:United States Navy/Selected anniversaries/January

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Selected anniversaries in January

January 1

• 1962 - US Navy SEAL teams established

2 January

• 1969 - Operation Barrier Reef began in Mekong Delta, Vietnam

3 January

• 1945 - Admiral Chester W Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Japan itself.

4 January

• 1989 - Second Gulf of Sidra incident: a pair of Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are shot down by a pair of US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation.

5 January

• 1968 - First Male Nurse Corps officer in Regular Navy, Lt. Clarence W. Cote.

6 January

• 1967 - United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.

7 January

• 1960 - Launch of first fully-guided flight of Polaris missile at Cape Canaveral (flew 900 miles)

8 January

• 1847 - Battle of San Gabriel (Navy, Marines, Army defeat Mexicans in CA)

9 January

• 1945 - Carrier aircraft begin 2-day attack on Japanese forces, Luzon, Philippines

10 January

1956 - Establishment of first Navy nuclear power school at Submarine Base, New London, CT

11 January

• 1863 - CSS Alabama sinks USS Hatteras off Galveston

12 January

• 1953 - Landings tested on board USS Antietam, first angled deck carrier

13 January

• 1964 - USS Manley evacuates 54 American and 36 allied nationals after Zanzibar government is overthrown

14 January

• 1863 - Navy General Order 4, Emancipation Proclamation

15 January

• 1865 - In largest amphibious operation of war, Union forces capture Ft. Fisher, Wilmington, NC, by joint amphibious force.

16 January

• 1991 - Operation Desert Storm, liberation of Kuwait from Iraq, begins

17 January

• 1955 - USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the first nuclear-powered submarine, casts off lines at 1100 and sends message "underway on nuclear power"

18 January

• 1911 - First aircraft landing on board a ship, USS Pennsylvania by Eugene Ely.

19 January

• 1840 - LT Charles Wilkes, USN is first American to discover Antarctic coast.

20 January

• 1903 - Theodore Roosevelt issues Executive Order placing Midway Islands under jurisdiction of the Navy Department.

21 January

• 1961 - USS George Washington completes first operational voyage of fleet ballistic missile submarine, staying submerged 66 days

22 January

• 1944 - Operation Shingle, Allied landing at Anzio, Italy

23 January

• 1968 - USS Pueblo seized by North Korean forces in Sea of Japan

24 January

• 1991 - Helos from USS Leftwich and USS Nicholas recapture first Kuwaiti territory from Iraqis.

25 January

• 1963 - 1st Seabee Technical Assistance Team arrives in Vietnam

26 January

• 1913 - The body of John Paul Jones is laid in its final resting place in the Chapel of Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

27 January

• 1945 - Commissioning of USS Higbee (DD-806), first U.S. Navy ship named after female member of the U.S. Navy.

28 January

• 1986 - Space shuttle Challenger explodes killing CDR Michael Smith, USN, and 6 other astronauts.

29 January

• 1943 - Beginning of 2 day Battle of Rennell Island after which U.S. transports reached Guadalcanal.

30 January

• 1968 - Tet Offensive begins in Vietnam.

31 January

• 1961 - Lieutenant Commander Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr. becomes first African-American to command a combat ship, USS Falgout.