This date in history

[Platapus]

17 September 1947 The National Defense Act of 1947 was signed into law. Among other things, this act created the US Air Force and the CIA


Almost interesting trivia: The position of DCI is older than the CIA.

[Arlo]

1860
The sloop of war, USS Levant, sails from Hawaii for Panama. She is never seen again. In June 1861 a mast and a part of a lower yardarm believed to be from USS Levant are found near Hilo. Spikes had been driven into the mast as if to a form a raft. Some rumors had her running aground on an uncharted reef off California; others had her defecting to the Confederacy.

1906
A Marine battalion from USS Dixie lands at Cienfuegos, Cuba to reinforce a party guarding American owned plantations, where tensions are still high from the stalled revolution attempt from Sept. 13.

1936
Squadron 40-T, based in the Mediterranean, is established to protect U.S. interests and evacuate U.S. citizens around the Iberian Peninsula throughout the Spanish Civil War.

1943
U.S. Navy aircraft perform aerial raids on the Tarawa Makin Islands, where the aerial photography taken proves to be fruitful for the oncoming invasion of the islands.

1947
Pursuant to provisions of the National Security Act of 1947 of the previous July 26, the Department of the Air Force is established.

1993
USS Gladiator (MCM 11) is commissioned at Naval Station Newport, R.I. The 11th Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship is the third U.S. ship named Gladiator.

1993
USS Vella Gulf (CG 72) is commissioned at her homeport of Naval Station Norfolk. The guided-missile cruiser is the 26th in the Ticonderoga-class and the second Navy ship to be named after the famed Battle of Vella Gulf from the Solomons campaign of World War II.

2004
USS Chung Hoon (DDG 93) is commissioned. USS Chung Hoon is named in honor of Rear Adm. Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon, first Asian-American Naval Academy graduate and first Asian-American flag officer. During World War II, he was in command of USS Sigsbee (DD 502) when a kamikaze crashed into her in Apr. 1945.

2008
USNS Carl Brashear (T-AKE 7) is christened and launched at San Diego, Calif. The dry cargo ship provides ammunition, food, repair, parts, stores and small quantities of fuel for the U.S. Marine Corps. The ship is named for Master Chief Carl Brashear, the first African American Master Diver in the U.S. Navy and the first amputee to be recertified as a diver after amputation.

2017
Hurricane Maria makes landfall with the Caribbean island of Dominica. Joint Task Force-Leeward Islands (JTF-LI) was established to support relief efforts in St. Martin and Dominica as requested by the U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA). JTF-LI with the USS Wasp (LHD 1) assisted with the evacuation of 2,073 American Citizens (AMCITs) from St. Martin and at least 178 AMCITs from Dominica. Additionally, the JTF-LI provided 83,020 gallons of potable water to St. Martin and assisted with distributing relief supplies to Dominica.

[Jimbuna]

1812 Great Fire of Moscow burns out after 5 days, 75% of the city destroyed and 12,000 killed.

1947 The Central Intelligence Agency officially comes into existence after being established by President Truman in July.

1914 General Paul von Hindenburg named commander of German armies on the Eastern Front.

1939 William Joyce's first Nazi propaganda broadcast.

1944 British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed, including 1,377 allied POWs and 4,200 Javanese slave labourers.

[Jimbuna]

1939 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) becomes radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin.

1940 Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.

1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-341

1945 Kim Il-sung arrives in harbour of Wonsan, Korea.

1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London.

1950 UN reject membership of China's People Republic.

[Arlo]

1777
During the American Revolution, the British cutter HMS Alert captures the brig Lexington.

1862
The side-wheel ram Queen of the West exchanges sharp fire with Confederate infantry and artillery above Bolivar, Miss., while escorting two troop transports.

1864
Confederates seize steamer Philo Parsons, in an attempt to bribe USS Michigan officers and crew for the release of Confederate prisoners. The plot is foiled and the mission aborted.

1942
USS Hughes (DD 410), while serving in Task Force Seventeen (TF 17), rescues the surviving crewmen of a USAAF (B 17) that makes a forced landing in the Coral Sea one week before.

1944
USS Shad (SS 235) torpedoes and sinks Japanese coast defense ship, Ioshima. (ex-Chinese cruiser, Ning Hai) 85 miles off Hachij, Jima.

1952
USS Alfred A. Cunningham (DD 752) takes fire from three guns, estimated 105 to 155 mm in the Wonsan area of Korea. Thirteen personnel casualties, none fatal, were suffered. She expended 75 rounds of 5 inch and 84 of 3 inch in return counter battery fire. After emergency repairs, USS Alfred A. Cunningham was able to continue her combat operations.

1957
Bathyscaphe Trieste, in a dive sponsored by the Office of Naval Research in the Mediterranean, reaches a record depth of two miles. Three years later, Trieste would set a new record of seven miles on Jan. 23, 1960.

1992
USNS Loyal (T-AGOS 22) is christened and launched at McDermott Shipyards, Morgan City, Louisiana. The Military Sealift Command ship conducts surveillance towed array sensory system operations.

[Jimbuna]

1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland.

1939 British navy captures German U-27

1943 Liberator bomber sinks U-338

1945 German rocket engineers begin work in US

1946 Churchill argues for a 'United States of Europe'

1967 British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank Scotland.

1990 Both East and West Germany ratify reunification.

2001 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, US President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror"

[Arlo]

1942
During World War II, the U.S. Naval Operating Base at Auckland, New Zealand, is established.

1943
USS S-28 (SS 133) sinks Japanese gunboat No. 2 Katsura Maru, 165 miles southwest of Paramushir, Kuril Islands.

1943
While conducting daylight reconnaissance of the Bay of Naples to investigate German shore battery activity on the Sorrento Peninsula, Motor Torpedo Boats PT 204 and PT 209 are showered with water from near-hits but escape damage. They chart the location of the battery before leaving the area.

1951
During Operation Summit, the first helicopter-borne landing of a combat unit is performed when Marines are landed by Marine helicopter squadron (HMR 161) in dense fog in Korea.

1981
Philippine Navy frigate, Datu Kalantia, previously, USS Booth (DE 170), is forced aground by Typhoon Clara while at anchor near Clayan Island, 340 miles north of Manila. USS Mount Hood (AE 29), with a special medical team embarks and joins in on rescue operations on Sept. 21. Only 18 members of the crew survive.

1986
USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) is commissioned at Charlestown Naval Shipyard in Boston, near the American Revolutionary War battleground for which the ship is named.

1997
USS Bataan (LHD 5) is commissioned at Pascagoula, Miss. It is the second US Navy ship named in remembrance of the valiant resistance of American and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula in the dawning days of World War II.

2017
Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm with deadly flooding. The Navy responds by sending USS Wasp (LHD 1), USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), USS Oak Hill (LSD 51), USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) and 17 aircraft to provide humanitarian assistance that lasts until Nov. 20.

[mapuc]

Got an idea.

Arlo has posted some interesting stuff in this thread.
What if we made a thread of it own -This date in Naval history- ?
Then we can let Arlo posted his interesting stuff in this thread.

Only an idea.

Markus

[Aktungbby]

We could name it the "Contemplate Yer Naval Thread"

[Arlo]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

We could name it the "Contemplate Yer Naval Thread"

Yar!

[Jimbuna]

1913 First aerobatic maneuver, sustained inverted flight, performed in France.

1915 Cecil Chubb buys English prehistoric monument Stonehenge for £6,600

1938 Winston Churchill condemns Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia.

1939 Reinhard Heydrich meets in Berlin to discuss final solution of Jews.

1944 Operation Market Garden: Last British paratroopers at Arnhem Bridge surrender after several days of fighting.

1944 Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel after a delay due to bad weather and a shortage of planes.

1955 Last allied occupying troops leave Austria.

1957 German sail training ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean.

1964 The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.

1978 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes bombs at the RAF airfield near Eglinton, County Londonderry; the terminal building, two aircraft hangars and four planes are destroyed.

1979 Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. Both pilots eject safely, but three people killed and several injured when one of the aircraft destroys 3 dwellings.

[Jimbuna]

1896 Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the (then) longest reigning monarch in British history.

1914 German submarine U-9 sinks 3 British ironclads HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue, and HMS Cressy, 1,459 die.

1943 British midget submarines attack German battleship Tirpitz.

1943 Destroyer HMS Itchen torpedoed and sinks.

1943 Destroyer HMS Keppel sinks U-229

1958 US nuclear submarine USS Skate remains 31 days under the Pole (record)

1975 Second assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore fails in San Francisco.

1985 French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius appears on TV to confess "Agents of the DGSE sank this boat [Rainbow Warrior]. They acted on orders.”

1995 E-3B AWACS crash outside of Elmendorf AFB, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board killed.

[Jimbuna]

1779 John Paul Jones aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard defeats the British frigate HMS Serepis and becomes the United States first well-known naval hero.

1938 British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich.

1941 German air raid on Soviet naval base at Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks)

1941 The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz. concentration camp.

1942 Soviet counter offensive at Stalingrad.

1949 US President Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR's first nuclear device detonation.

1950 US Air Force Mustangs accidentally bomb British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed.

1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower orders US troops to support integration of nine black students at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas.

2018 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches "Modicare", free heathcare for 500 million, world's biggest healthcare programme.

[Jimbuna]

1885 Five German warships depart to Zanzibar.

1929 Lt James Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in first all-instrument flight.

1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton.

1960 USS Enterprise, first nuclear power aircraft carrier, launched.

1990 East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact.

[Jimbuna]

1066 Battle of Stamford Bridge: English army under King Harold II defeat invading Norwegians led by King Harald Hardrada and Harold's brother Tostig, who were both killed.

1939 Andorra and Germany sign a treaty ending World War I, as Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra.

1944 Operation Market Garden ends in Allied failure as the last British and Polish paratroopers are evacuated from Oosterbeek, near the town of Arnhem.