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 * 1863 - During the Civil War, the screw steam gunboats Sagamore and Tahoma capture blockade running ships with cargos of salt and cotton in Florida.
 * 1945 - Cmdr. Charles E. Loughlin coordinates a submarine attack against a Japanese convoy off northwest coast of Formosa, sinking two freighters and a tanker and damaging three other ships.
 * 1945 - During the continuing Japanese aerial kamikaze attacks on the Lingayen Gulf invasion force, escort carriers Kitkun Bay (CVE 71) and Kadashan Bay (CVE 76) are damaged, as well as USS Callaway (APA 35).
 * 1963 - Destroyer Benjamin Stoddert (DDG 22) is launched. A veteran of the Vietnam War, she is decommissioned in Dec. 1991.
 * 1983 - Fast attack submarine USS City of Corpus Christi (SSN 705) is commissioned at Naval Base Groton, Conn.
 * 1994 - Fast attack submarine USS Santa Fe (SSN 763) is commissioned at Naval Base Groton, Conn.

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