Portal:United States Navy/Selected anniversaries/February

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Selected anniversaries in February

1 February

• 1942 - USS Enterprise and USS Yorktown make first WWII air strike, Japanese Marshall Islands.

2 February

• 1862 - USS Hartford, Capt David G. Farragut, departs Hampton Roads for Mississippi River campaign.

February 3

• 1917 - US severs diplomatic relations with Germany.

4 February

• 1779 - John Paul Jones takes command of the USS Bonhomme Richard

5 February

• 1854 - Dedication of first chapel built on Navy property, Annapolis, MD

6 February

• 1922 - World powers sign the Washington Naval Treaty providing for limitation of naval armament.

7 February

• 1800 - USS Essex becomes first U.S. Navy vessel to cross the Equator.

8 February

• 1862 - Joint amphibious force capture Roanoke Island, key to Albemarle Sound

9 February

• 1943 - Organized Japanese resistance on Guadalcanal ends.

10 February

• 1960 - USS Sargo (SSN-583) surfaces at North Pole.

11 February

• 1971 - U.S. and USSR sign a treaty prohibiting the deployment of nuclear weapons on the ocean floor.

12 February

• 1945 - USS Batfish (SS-310) sinks second Japanese submarine within three days.

13 February

• 1913 - Naval Radio Station, Arlington, VA begins operations.

14 February

• 1778 - John Paul Jones in USS Ranger receives first official salute to U.S. Stars and Strips flag by European country, at Quiberon, France

15 February

• 1804 - The battleship USS Maine blows up in Havana Harbor.

16 February

• 1804 - Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, with volunteers from the frigate Constitution and schooner Enterprise, enters Tripoli harbor by night in the ketch Intrepid to burn the captured frigate Philadelphia. Decatur's raid succeeds without American losses. England's Lord Nelson calls this "the most daring act of the age."

17 February

• 1944 - Carrier aircraft strike Japanese fleet at Truk, sinking ships and destroying aircraft.

18 February

• 1846 - General order on Port and Starboard is issued stating: Due to confusion arising from use of the words Larboard and Starboard the word Port is hereafter to be substituted for Larboard.

19 February

• 1945 - Marines with naval gunfire support land on Iwo Jima.

20 February

• 1815 - USS Constitution, under Captain Charles Stewart, captures the HMS Cyane and sloop-of-war HMS Levant.

21 February

• 1945 - The USS Saratoga (CV-3) is struck by 5 kamikazes but survived with loss of 123. The Bismark Sea was the last carrier lost in combat during World War II.

22 February

• 1974 - Lieutenant Junior Grade Barbara Ann Allen becomes first Navy designated female aviator.

23 February

• 1945 - Five Marines and a Navy Corpsman raise the U.S. Flag on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima.

24 February

• 1813 - The brig-rigged sloop USS Hornet under the command of Captain James Lawrence, captures the HMS Peacock.

25 February

• 1933 - Commissioning of USS Ranger the first ship of the United States Navy to be designed and built from the keel up as an aircraft carrier.

26 February

• 1811 - The United States Congress authorizes the first naval hospital.

27 February

• 1942 - Battle of the Java Sea, Allied Naval Force attacks a Japanese invasion convoy.

28 February

• 1893 - Launching of USS Indiana (BB-1), the first true battleship in U.S. Navy.

29 February