This day in military history..
Chukpike
Banned
October 7 US Naval History
1864 - USS Washusett captures Confederate raider CSS Florida in harbor of Bahia, Brazil.
1924 - Rigid airship Shenandoah commences transcontinental flight.
1975 - President Gerald Ford signs law allowing admission of women into service academies (Public Law 94-106).
2001 - Operation Enduring Freedom begins with carrier air strikes, and ship and submarine Tomahamk strikes.
1924 - Rigid airship Shenandoah commences transcontinental flight.
1975 - President Gerald Ford signs law allowing admission of women into service academies (Public Law 94-106).
2001 - Operation Enduring Freedom begins with carrier air strikes, and ship and submarine Tomahamk strikes.
Oct 8
314 Battle of Cibalae
1573 Siege of Alkmaar, Holland ends
1821 Peruvian Navy established
1862 Battle of Perryville, Ky
1864 the soon to be commishoned CSS Shenandoah sails from London
1879 naval Battle of Angamos
1912 Montenegro declares War on Turkey
1918 Sgt Alvin York leads attack that wins him the M.O.H.
1932 Indian Air Force established
1941 Germans capture Mariapol, USSR
1944 Battle of Crucifix Hill, near Aachen
1967 Che Guvarar captured in Bolivia
1968 Vietam War: Operation Sea Lords
314 Battle of Cibalae
1573 Siege of Alkmaar, Holland ends
1821 Peruvian Navy established
1862 Battle of Perryville, Ky
1864 the soon to be commishoned CSS Shenandoah sails from London
1879 naval Battle of Angamos
1912 Montenegro declares War on Turkey
1918 Sgt Alvin York leads attack that wins him the M.O.H.
1932 Indian Air Force established
1941 Germans capture Mariapol, USSR
1944 Battle of Crucifix Hill, near Aachen
1967 Che Guvarar captured in Bolivia
1968 Vietam War: Operation Sea Lords
Chukpike
Banned
October 8 US Naval History
1812 - Boat party under Lt. Jesse D. Elliott captures HMS Detroit and Caledonia in Niagara River.
1842 - Commodore Lawrence Kearny in USS Constitution addresses a letter to the Viceroy of China, urging that American merchants in China be granted the same treaty privileges as the British. His negotiations are successful.
1950 - 1st Marine Division commences embarkion at Inchon for landings at Wonsan, Korea.
1961 - USS Tulare (AKA-112) and USS Princeton (CVS-7) rescue seamen from an American and a Lebanese merchant ship, which were aground on Kita Daita Jima.
1842 - Commodore Lawrence Kearny in USS Constitution addresses a letter to the Viceroy of China, urging that American merchants in China be granted the same treaty privileges as the British. His negotiations are successful.
1950 - 1st Marine Division commences embarkion at Inchon for landings at Wonsan, Korea.
1961 - USS Tulare (AKA-112) and USS Princeton (CVS-7) rescue seamen from an American and a Lebanese merchant ship, which were aground on Kita Daita Jima.
Oct 9
1264 Castile liberates Jerez from the Moors
1595 Spain captures Cambrai
1760 Russians capture Berlin
1806 Prussia declares War on France
1812 naval Battle of Lake Erie. US captures HMS Detroit & Caledonia
1854 Siege of Sevastopol begins
1861 Battle of Santa Rosa Island, Fla.
1864 Battle of Tom's creek, Va
1914 Siege of Antwerp ends with Germans capturing the City
1999 last flight of SR-71
1264 Castile liberates Jerez from the Moors
1595 Spain captures Cambrai
1760 Russians capture Berlin
1806 Prussia declares War on France
1812 naval Battle of Lake Erie. US captures HMS Detroit & Caledonia
1854 Siege of Sevastopol begins
1861 Battle of Santa Rosa Island, Fla.
1864 Battle of Tom's creek, Va
1914 Siege of Antwerp ends with Germans capturing the City
1999 last flight of SR-71
Chukpike
Banned
October 9 US Naval History
1873 - LT Charles Belknap calls a meeting at the Naval Academy to establish the U.S. Naval Institute for the purpose of disseminating scientific and professional knowledge throughout the Navy.
1942 - First three schools for enlisted WAVES open at Stillwater, OK (Yeoman), Bloomington, IN (Storekeepers), and Madison, WI (Radiomen).
1945 - Parade in New York City honors FADM Chester W. Nimitz and 13 other Navy and Marine Corps Medal of Honor awardees.
1945 - Typhoon hits Okinawa, damaging many Navy ships.
1961 - USS Princeton rescues 74 survivors of two shipwrecks (U.S. lines Pioneer Muse and SS Shiek) from the island of Kita Daito Shima.
1942 - First three schools for enlisted WAVES open at Stillwater, OK (Yeoman), Bloomington, IN (Storekeepers), and Madison, WI (Radiomen).
1945 - Parade in New York City honors FADM Chester W. Nimitz and 13 other Navy and Marine Corps Medal of Honor awardees.
1945 - Typhoon hits Okinawa, damaging many Navy ships.
1961 - USS Princeton rescues 74 survivors of two shipwrecks (U.S. lines Pioneer Muse and SS Shiek) from the island of Kita Daito Shima.
Oct 10
680 Battle of Karbala
732 Battle of Tours Moslem expansion in western Europe is stopped
1471 Battle of Brunkeberg, Sweden
1575 Battle of Dormans
1580 Siege of Dun an Oir, Ireland ends after 3 days. English behead 600 Irish & Papal soldiers
1631 Saxons capture Prague
1864 Confederate artillery damages gunboat USS Undine & a number of transports on the Tennessee River
680 Battle of Karbala
732 Battle of Tours Moslem expansion in western Europe is stopped
1471 Battle of Brunkeberg, Sweden
1575 Battle of Dormans
1580 Siege of Dun an Oir, Ireland ends after 3 days. English behead 600 Irish & Papal soldiers
1631 Saxons capture Prague
1864 Confederate artillery damages gunboat USS Undine & a number of transports on the Tennessee River
tomtom22
Chief Engineer
October 11
1776: Ticonderoga, New York - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 inflicts heavy losses on General Benedict Arnold's American fleet at Valcour Island off Crown Point; first naval battle of Lake Champlain a British victory, but it stalls Carleton's plans to invade the rebel colonies from Canada.
1918: Cambrai France - Lt. Wallace Lloyd Algie of the 20th Battalion, 1st Central Ontario Regiment, killed in a battle north east of Cambrai, after taking two machine gun nests, and capturing a German officer and 10 men. He is awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously Jan. 21, 1919.
1944: Romagna Italy - 1st Canadian Infantry Division returned to the line and the 5th Division goes into corps reserve; for three weeks, the Canadians will fight in the watery Romagna area south of the Po Valley.
Source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day
1944: Australians land at Jacquinot Bay, New BritainThe Australians' arrival opened the successful New Britain campaign in which a small Militia force successfully contained the large Japanese garrison holding Rabaul. 1944Australians land at Jacquinot Bay, New BritainThe Australians' arrival opened the successful New Britain campaign in which a small Militia force successfully contained the large Japanese garrison holding Rabaul.
1944: Australians land at Jacquinot Bay, New Britain - The Australians' arrival opened the successful New Britain campaign in which a small Militia force successfully contained the large Japanese garrison holding Rabaul.
Source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1939: The Soviet Union and Finland begin negotiations concerning the establishment of Soviet air bases on Finnish soil.
1941: Rumors of an impending capture of Moscow by the German Army cause thousands of civilians to flee the city.
1944: The red Army captures Klausenburg in Rumania. Hungary and the Soviet Union begin negotiations for a ceasefire between them.
Source: http://www.feldgrau.com/october.html
1942: In the Battle of Cape Esperance, near the Solomon Islands, U.S. cruisers and destroyers decisively defeat a Japanese task force in a night surface encounter.
Source: http://www.historynet.com/today_in_history?tihMonth=10&tihDay=11&tdih=GO
1899: The South African Boer War begins between the British Empire and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
1915: Prime Minister Vasil Radoslavov of Bulgaria issues a statement announcing his country’s entrance into the First World War on the side of the Central Powers.
Source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
1776: Ticonderoga, New York - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 inflicts heavy losses on General Benedict Arnold's American fleet at Valcour Island off Crown Point; first naval battle of Lake Champlain a British victory, but it stalls Carleton's plans to invade the rebel colonies from Canada.
1918: Cambrai France - Lt. Wallace Lloyd Algie of the 20th Battalion, 1st Central Ontario Regiment, killed in a battle north east of Cambrai, after taking two machine gun nests, and capturing a German officer and 10 men. He is awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously Jan. 21, 1919.
1944: Romagna Italy - 1st Canadian Infantry Division returned to the line and the 5th Division goes into corps reserve; for three weeks, the Canadians will fight in the watery Romagna area south of the Po Valley.
Source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day
1944: Australians land at Jacquinot Bay, New BritainThe Australians' arrival opened the successful New Britain campaign in which a small Militia force successfully contained the large Japanese garrison holding Rabaul. 1944Australians land at Jacquinot Bay, New BritainThe Australians' arrival opened the successful New Britain campaign in which a small Militia force successfully contained the large Japanese garrison holding Rabaul.
1944: Australians land at Jacquinot Bay, New Britain - The Australians' arrival opened the successful New Britain campaign in which a small Militia force successfully contained the large Japanese garrison holding Rabaul.
Source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1939: The Soviet Union and Finland begin negotiations concerning the establishment of Soviet air bases on Finnish soil.
1941: Rumors of an impending capture of Moscow by the German Army cause thousands of civilians to flee the city.
1944: The red Army captures Klausenburg in Rumania. Hungary and the Soviet Union begin negotiations for a ceasefire between them.
Source: http://www.feldgrau.com/october.html
1942: In the Battle of Cape Esperance, near the Solomon Islands, U.S. cruisers and destroyers decisively defeat a Japanese task force in a night surface encounter.
Source: http://www.historynet.com/today_in_history?tihMonth=10&tihDay=11&tdih=GO
1899: The South African Boer War begins between the British Empire and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
1915: Prime Minister Vasil Radoslavov of Bulgaria issues a statement announcing his country’s entrance into the First World War on the side of the Central Powers.
Source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
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Chukpike
Banned
October 11 US Naval History
1776 - Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain, New York. Although defeated, the American flotilla delayed the British advance and caused it to fall back into winter quarters.
1824 - Marquis de Lafayette visits the Washington Navy Yard during his year long tour of America. He returned to the yard the next day, October 12, to continue his visit.
1942 - Battle of Cape Esperance begins: In two-day battle, American task force stops Japanese attack on Guadalcanal and sinks two Japanese ships while losing only USS Duncan (DD-485).
1950 - Task Force 77 Aircraft destroy North Korean vessels off Songjin and Wonsan and north of Hungham.
1963 - Navy medical team from Norfolk, VA begins massive inoculation program to safeguard against outbreak of typhoid in the wake of Hurricane Flora.
1967 - Operation Coronado VI began in Rung Sat Zone
1968 - Launch of Apollo 7, the first U.S. 3-man space mission, commanded by CDR Walter Schirra, JR. USN. MAJ Ronnie Cunningham, USMCR served as Lunar Module pilot. The mission lasted 10 days and 20 hours. Recovery was by HS-5 helicopters from USS Essex (CVS-9).
1824 - Marquis de Lafayette visits the Washington Navy Yard during his year long tour of America. He returned to the yard the next day, October 12, to continue his visit.
1942 - Battle of Cape Esperance begins: In two-day battle, American task force stops Japanese attack on Guadalcanal and sinks two Japanese ships while losing only USS Duncan (DD-485).
1950 - Task Force 77 Aircraft destroy North Korean vessels off Songjin and Wonsan and north of Hungham.
1963 - Navy medical team from Norfolk, VA begins massive inoculation program to safeguard against outbreak of typhoid in the wake of Hurricane Flora.
1967 - Operation Coronado VI began in Rung Sat Zone
1968 - Launch of Apollo 7, the first U.S. 3-man space mission, commanded by CDR Walter Schirra, JR. USN. MAJ Ronnie Cunningham, USMCR served as Lunar Module pilot. The mission lasted 10 days and 20 hours. Recovery was by HS-5 helicopters from USS Essex (CVS-9).
Chukpike
Banned
October 12 US Naval History
1914 - USS Jupiter (AC-3) is first Navy ship to complete transit of Panama Canal.
1944 - Aircraft from Carrier Task Force 38 attack Formosa.
1957 - RADM Dufek arrives at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica to command Operation Deep Freeze III during the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58.
1961 - Five men cholera treatment demonstration team from Naval Medican Research Unit, Taipei leaves to assist setting up of facilities to treat an epidemic in Manila.
1965 - End of Project Sealab II where teams of naval divers and scientists spent 15 days in Sealab moored 205 feet below surface near La Jolla, California.
1965 - First group of men commissioned into Navy Nurse Corps report for one month indoctrination to Naval Service; LTJG Jerry McClelland, ENS Charles Franklin, ENS Israel Miller, ENS Richard Gierman and ENS George Silver.
1980 - USS Guadalcanal and other ships of Amphibious Forces, Sixth Fleet begin assistance to earthquake victims in Al Asnam, Algeria.
2000 - Terrorists in a boat make suicide attack on USS Cole (DDG-67) while the ship refuels in the port of Aden, Yemen. Seventeen Sailors are killed.
1944 - Aircraft from Carrier Task Force 38 attack Formosa.
1957 - RADM Dufek arrives at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica to command Operation Deep Freeze III during the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58.
1961 - Five men cholera treatment demonstration team from Naval Medican Research Unit, Taipei leaves to assist setting up of facilities to treat an epidemic in Manila.
1965 - End of Project Sealab II where teams of naval divers and scientists spent 15 days in Sealab moored 205 feet below surface near La Jolla, California.
1965 - First group of men commissioned into Navy Nurse Corps report for one month indoctrination to Naval Service; LTJG Jerry McClelland, ENS Charles Franklin, ENS Israel Miller, ENS Richard Gierman and ENS George Silver.
1980 - USS Guadalcanal and other ships of Amphibious Forces, Sixth Fleet begin assistance to earthquake victims in Al Asnam, Algeria.
2000 - Terrorists in a boat make suicide attack on USS Cole (DDG-67) while the ship refuels in the port of Aden, Yemen. Seventeen Sailors are killed.
Chukpike
Banned
October 13 US Naval History
1775 - Birthday of U.S. Navy. The Continental Congress establishes Continental Navy, later the U.S. Navy.
1954 - USS Saipan begins relief and humanitarian aid to Haitians who were victims of Hurricane Hazel. The operation ended 19 October.
Happy Birthday!
1954 - USS Saipan begins relief and humanitarian aid to Haitians who were victims of Hurricane Hazel. The operation ended 19 October.
Happy Birthday!
Chukpike
Banned
You forgot to sing HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the US Navy!
You had already posted the Birthday, so I skipped it!
Oct 14
1066 Battle of Hastings
1322 Baattle of Byland
1758 Battle of Hochkirk
1805 Battle of Elchingen
1806 Battle of Jena-Auerstadt
1863 Battle of Bristoe Station, Va
1938 1st flight P-40
1939 U-47 sinks Battleship HMS Royal Oak @ Scapa Flow
1943 8th Air Force takes heavy losses on mission to Schienfurt
1944 British troops liberate Athens, greece
1947 Capt. Yeager breaks sound bearier flying Bell X-1
1962 Cuban Missle crisis begins
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tomtom22
Chief Engineer
October 14
1939: U-47 (Kapitanleutnant Prien) enters the British naval base of Scapa Flow and sinks the battleship Royal Oak.
1941: German troops capture Rshev, 100 miles W of Moscow.
1942: In the northern part of Stalingrad, units of 6.Armee (von Paulus) advance in bitter fighting and surround the heavily defended Tractor Factory, following a series of devastating attacks (over 3,000 sorties) by bombers of Luftflotte 7 (von Richthofen).
1943: The US 8th Air Force delivers a heavy attack against the ball bearing plants at Schweinfurt but at a heavy price: of the original force of 291 B-17's, 198 are either shot down or damaged beyond repair, while the Luftwaffe lost about 40 fighter planes. German forces evacuate the Zaporoshe bridgehead on the eastern bank of the Dnepr river.
Source: http://www.feldgrau.com/october.html
1914: Plymouth England - First Canadian Contingent arrives at Plymouth with 33,000 men, 7,000 horses and 144 pieces of artillery travelling in 32 ships; convoy escorted by 10 British warships was the largest armed force ever to cross the Atlantic by that date; troops soon move to camps on Salisbury Plain before seeing action in World War I.
1943: Campobasso Italy - First Canadian Brigade push north to Potenza; occupy Campobasso, turning it into a 'Canada Town' recreation centre.
1944: Duisburg Germany - RCAF's No. 6 Group attacks Duisburg twice in 16 hours; total of 501 bombers.
Source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day
1944: German Gen. Erwin Rommel, nicknamed "the Desert Fox," is given the option of facing a public trial for treason, as a co-conspirator in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, or taking cyanide. He chooses the latter.
Source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-desert-fox-commits-suicide
1939: U-47 (Kapitanleutnant Prien) enters the British naval base of Scapa Flow and sinks the battleship Royal Oak.
1941: German troops capture Rshev, 100 miles W of Moscow.
1942: In the northern part of Stalingrad, units of 6.Armee (von Paulus) advance in bitter fighting and surround the heavily defended Tractor Factory, following a series of devastating attacks (over 3,000 sorties) by bombers of Luftflotte 7 (von Richthofen).
1943: The US 8th Air Force delivers a heavy attack against the ball bearing plants at Schweinfurt but at a heavy price: of the original force of 291 B-17's, 198 are either shot down or damaged beyond repair, while the Luftwaffe lost about 40 fighter planes. German forces evacuate the Zaporoshe bridgehead on the eastern bank of the Dnepr river.
Source: http://www.feldgrau.com/october.html
1914: Plymouth England - First Canadian Contingent arrives at Plymouth with 33,000 men, 7,000 horses and 144 pieces of artillery travelling in 32 ships; convoy escorted by 10 British warships was the largest armed force ever to cross the Atlantic by that date; troops soon move to camps on Salisbury Plain before seeing action in World War I.
1943: Campobasso Italy - First Canadian Brigade push north to Potenza; occupy Campobasso, turning it into a 'Canada Town' recreation centre.
1944: Duisburg Germany - RCAF's No. 6 Group attacks Duisburg twice in 16 hours; total of 501 bombers.
Source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day
1944: German Gen. Erwin Rommel, nicknamed "the Desert Fox," is given the option of facing a public trial for treason, as a co-conspirator in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, or taking cyanide. He chooses the latter.
Source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-desert-fox-commits-suicide
Oct 15
1862 H.L. Hunley sinks during test, killing crew including H.L. Hunley himself. Submarine is raised & repaired.
1864 Confederate troops capture the towns, & garrisons, os Glasgow & Sedalia, Mo
1904 Russo-Japanese war: Russian Baltic Fleet leaves home port to sail to Port Arthur.
1862 H.L. Hunley sinks during test, killing crew including H.L. Hunley himself. Submarine is raised & repaired.
1864 Confederate troops capture the towns, & garrisons, os Glasgow & Sedalia, Mo
1904 Russo-Japanese war: Russian Baltic Fleet leaves home port to sail to Port Arthur.
Chukpike
Banned
October 16 US Naval History
1885 - CAPT Alfred Thayer Mahan, USN, becomes Superintendent of the Naval War College
1891 - Baltimore Incident, Valparaiso, Chile.
1940 - 5th group of 10 destroyers from the Destroyers for Bases Deal turned over to British at Halifax, Canada.
1942 - Carrier aircraft from USS Hornet (CV-8) conduct attacks on Japanese troops on Guadalcanal.
1943 - Navy accepts its first helicopter, a Sikorsky YR-4B (HNS-1) at Bridgeport, Connecticut.
1891 - Baltimore Incident, Valparaiso, Chile.
1940 - 5th group of 10 destroyers from the Destroyers for Bases Deal turned over to British at Halifax, Canada.
1942 - Carrier aircraft from USS Hornet (CV-8) conduct attacks on Japanese troops on Guadalcanal.
1943 - Navy accepts its first helicopter, a Sikorsky YR-4B (HNS-1) at Bridgeport, Connecticut.