1943 - USS Shad (SS 235) sinks German minesweeper M 4242 (ex-French trawler Odet II) in the Bay of Biscay.
1944 - USS Bluefish (SS 222) and USS Rasher (SS 269) attack a Japanese convoy off French Indochina; Bluefish sinks a merchant tanker while Rasher damages another tanker.
1944 - USS Cabrilla (SS 288) sinks a Japanese freighter off Cape Padran, French Indochina while USS Tautog (SS 109) sinks a Japanese freighter off southern Honshu.
1945 - During attacks against the Navy force bound for the Lingayen Gulf, a kamikaze crashes into escort carrier USS Ommaney Bay in the Sulu Sea and damages her beyond repair. USS Burns (DD 588) scuttles the carrier escort.
1972 - Secretary of the Navy John Chaffee approved the establishment of the Legalman (LN) rating.
1989 - VF-32 F-14 Tomcats from USS John F. Kennedy shoot down two hostile Libyan MiGs with Sparrow and Sidewinder missiles in the central Med north of Tobruk in international waters.
USS Ommaney Bay is attacked by a kamikaze pilot and is damaged beyond repair.