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1822 - USS Enterprise captures four pirate ships in the Gulf of Mexico. During her time in the Gulf, Enterprise takes 13 vessels while suppressing pirates, smugglers, and slaves.
1943 - Task Force 68, commanded by Rear Adm. Aaron S. Merrill, bombards Vila and Munda and sinks Japanese destroyers Minegumo and Murasame in the Kula Gulf. For his leadership, Adm. Merrill earned both the Legion of Merit and the Navy Cross.
1944 - USS Nautilus attacks a Japanese convoy approximately 240 miles north-north west of Saipan and sinks transport America Maru.
1960 - USS Kearsarge rescues four Russian soldiers from their landing craft 1,000 miles from Midway Island, which had been drifting several weeks after their engine failed off Kamchatka Peninsula.
1986 - USNS 1st Lt Jack Lummus is acquired by the Navy and placed into service under Military Sealift Command, becoming one of MSCs 17 container and roll-on/roll-off ships in its prepositioning program.
1991 - President George H. W. Bush addresses a joint session of Congress and states, "I can report to the nation: Aggression is defeated. The war is over."
2010 - USS Dewey is commissioned at Seal Beach. The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer is named after former Adm. of the Navy George Dewey, hero of the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.

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