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 * 1862 - The Union iron screw gunboat Memphis, with acting commander Lt. P.G. Watmough, captures blockade running British steamer Ouachita at sea off Cape Roman, S.C. during the Civil War.
 * 1915 - The keel to first electrically-driven battleship USS New Mexico (BB 40) is laid. She is commissioned May 1918, and later provides numerous off-shore bombardments prior to invading Allied forces during World War II in the Pacific.
 * 1935 - Lt. Cmdr. Knefler McGinnis, Lt. j.g. James K. Averil, NAP Thomas P. Wilkerson and a crew of three fly an XP3Y-1 consolidated patrol plane from Cristobal Harbor, Canal Zone to Alameda, Calif. in 34 hours and 45 minutes and establish a new world record for Class C seaplanes of 3,281.383 miles.
 * 1942 - USS Greenling (SS 213) sinks the Japanese army cargo ship Takusei Maru six miles off Todo Saki near the northern coast of Honshu and USS Sculpin (SS 191) sinks the Japanese army cargo ship Sumiyoshi Maru 75 miles southwest of Kavieng, New Ireland.
 * 1995 - USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) is commissioned at Newport, R.I. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer honors Lt. William Charles Fitzgerald, who was mortally wounded when he chose to remain behind to direct artillery fire while his men withdrew from the enemy assault on Coastal Group 16 in South Vietnam on Aug. 7, 1967. For his action, Lt. Fitzgerald received the Navy Cross and Purple Heart, posthumously.
 * 2000 - USS Roosevelt (DDG 80) is commissioned at its homeport of Mayport, Fla. The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer is the first to be named for the presidential team of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.

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