1775 US Navy forms as the Continental Navy.
1864 Confederate ship Albemarle torpedoed and sunk by a spar torpedo mounted on a steam launch.
1914 British battleship Audacious sunk by mine.
1941 Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan.
1942 US aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz.
1981 The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
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