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 * 1825 - USS Grampus, commanded by Lt. Francis H. Gregory, captures a pirate sloop off the southern coast of Puerto Rico.
 * 1862 - USS Santiago de Cuba, commanded by Cmdr. Daniel B. Ridgely, reports the capture of CSS O.K. off Cedar Keys.
 * 1925 - Congress authorizes the restoration of USS Constitution, which had launched in 1797.
 * 1945 - USS Baya sinks merchant tanker Palembang Maru off Cape Varella, French Indochina, and USS Tilefish and sinks Japanese fishing vessel Shiko Maru.
 * 1963 - Navy C-130 Hercules aircraft complete a 12-day rescue operation of a critically-ill Danish seaman from a Danish freighter off the coast of Antarctic.
 * 1991 - Iraq releases 10 Desert Storm prisoners of war (six Americans, three of whom were designated MIA), including Navy Lt. Jeffrey Zaun, Lt. Robert Wetzel, and Lt. Lawrence Slade.

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