THESE DAYS IN NAVAL HISTORY: -1958 - Commissioning of USS Grayback, first submarine built from keel up with guided missile capability, to fire Regulus II missile. -1960 - USS Kearsarge (CVS-33) rescues 4 Russian soldiers from their landing craft 1,000 miles from Midway Island, which was drifting several weeks after their engine failed off Kamchatka Peninsula. -1966 - Department of Navy reorganized into present structure under CNO -1967 - PBRs assists Operation Overload II in Rung Sat Zone, Vietnam -1968 - Operation Coronado XII begins in Mekong Delta, Vietnam -1994 - Navy issues first orders to women assigned aboard combat ship, USS Eisenhower March 8 -1854 - Commodore Matthew Perry opens treaty negotiations with Japan -1862 - Ironclad ram CSS Virginia destroys USS Cumberland and Congress -1945 - Phyllis Daley becomes first African-American Ensign, Navy Nurse Corps -1958 - Battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is decommissioned, leaving the Navy without an active battleship for the first time since 1895. -1965 - Seventh Fleet lands first major Marine units in South Vietnam at Danang March 9 -1798 - Appointment of first surgeon U.S. Navy, George Balfour -1847 - Commodore David Connor leads successful amphibious assault near Vera Cruz, Mexico -1862 - First battle between ironclads, USS Monitor and CSS Virginia -1914 - Test of wind tunnel at Washington Navy Yard
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