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 * 1779 - The Continental Navy sloop Providence, captures the British brig Diligent off Sandy Hook and is later acquired for service in the Continental Navy.
 * 1934 - The frigate Constitution completes her 3-year tour of 76 port cities along the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts and then returns to Boston, Mass. Prior to her journey that began July 1931, the 137-year-old frigate undergoes a refit and overhaul. Congress authorized the restoration of Constitution in March 1925.
 * 1942 - The Battle of the Coral Sea resumes as Task Force Seventeen (TF-17) intercepts the Japanese intending to invade Port Moresby, New Guinea marking the first naval battle where aircraft carriers engage each other out of sight from one another.
 * 1945 - Marine Pfc. Albert E. Schwab scales a cliff, alone and under fire, to the enemy position skillfully uses his flame thrower to destroy two hostile gun emplacements. He is mortally wounded and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
 * 1945 - Gen. Afred Jodl, Chief of the German General Staff, signs the unconditional surrender of the Third Reich at Reims, France at Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF).

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