September 5

1776 - Adoption of first uniforms for Navy officers.

1813- USS Enterprise captures HM brig Boxer off Portland, Maine.

1918 - USS Mount Vernon (ID-4508) is torpedoed by German submarine off the coast of France.

1923 - U.S. Asiatic Fleet arrives at Yokohama, Japan, to provide medical assistance and supplies after Kondo Plain earthquake.

1939 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders Navy to form a Neutrality Patrol to report the presence of foreign warships within 300 miles of eastern United States.

1946 - USS Franklin Delano Roosevelt (CVB-42) and four escorts visit Greece to underscore U.S. support for the Greek Government which faced a Communist insurgency.

1990 - USS Acadia (AD-42) departs San Diego for first war-time deployment of male-female crew on combat vessel.

September 6

1918 - Sailors fire first of the five railroad batteries at Tergnier, a German rail head in the Comeigne Forest. These 14”-50 caliber guns were originally designed for battleships.

1939 - Navy begins formation of Neutrality Patrol for Atlantic Ocean.

1940 - First destroyers transferred to Great Britain at Halifax, Nova Scotia, under “Destroyers-for-Bases” agreement.

1944 - USS Independence (CVL-22) begins use of specially trained air group for night work. It is the first time that a fully equipped night carrier operates with fast carrier task force.

1945 - U.S. troops begin returning to U.S. when Task Force 11 left Tokyo Bay, Japan, for U.S.

1953 - Exchange of prisoners of war from Korean War, Operations Big Switch, ends.

1997 - USS Hopper (DDG-70), named for Rear Adm. Grace Hopper, commissioned.

September 7

1775 - The first prize, the British supply ship Unity, was captured by the Continental schooner Hannah.

1776 - David Bushnell attempts to destroy a British Ship of the Line, HMS Asia, in New York harbor with his submarine Turtle.

1942 - First air evacuation of casualties to hospital ships off shore occurs at Guadalcanal.

September 8

1923 - In disaster at Point Honda, California, seven destroyers run aground through faulty navigation.

1939 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims limited national emergency and increases enlisted strength in the Navy and Marine Corps; also authorizes the recall to active duty of officer, men and nurses on the retired lists of the Navy and Marine Corps.

1954 - U.S. signs Manila Treaty forming South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).

1958 - Lt. R. H. Tabor, wearing a Navy developed pressure suit, completes 72-hour simulated flight at altitudes as high as 139,000 feet. It was another step in the development of the Navy spacesuit, which NASA accepted in 1959 for use by Mercury astronauts.

September 9

1825 - USS Brandywine sails for France to carry the Marquis de Lafayette home after his year-long visit to America.

1841 - First iron ship authorized by Congress.

1940 - Navy awards contracts for 210 ships, including 12 carriers and seven battleships

1943 - Operation Avalanche, Western Naval Task Force under Vice Adm. Henry Hewitt lands Allied forces at Salerno, Italy.

1944 - Fifth Fleet carrier aircraft begin air strikes on Japanese shipping and facilities at Mindanao, Philippines.

1945 - A “computer bug” is first identified and named by Lt. Grace Murray Hopper while she was on Navy active duty in 1945. It was found in the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator at Harvard University. The operators affixed the moth to the computer log, where it still resides, with the entry: “First actual case of bug being found.” They “debugged” the computer, first introducing the term.

September 10

1813 - In Battle of Lake Erie, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, flying his “Don’t give up the ship” flag, defeats British squadron and says: “We have met the enemy and they are ours...”

1925 - Submarine R-4 rescues crew of PN-9 10 miles from their destination of Hawaii. The PN-9 crew had crash landed at sea Sept. 1, 1925.

September 11

1814 - In Battle of Lake Champlain, Commodore Thomas Macdonough defeats a British Squadron.

1939 - Bear (AG-29) is commissioned by the U.S. Navy for Antarctic operations under command of Rear Adm. Richard Byrd.

1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces order to the Navy to “shoot on sight” vessels threatening U.S. shipping or ships under U.S. escort.

1942 - Pharmacist’s Mate First Class Wheeler B. Lipes, performs emergency appendectomy on Seaman First Class Darrell D. Rector, on board USS Seadragon (SS-194) on patrol in South China Sea.

1943 - Italian Navy surrenders to Allies.

1945 - Operation Magic Carpet, the return of troops to the U.S., begins.

2001 - American Flight 77 hijacked by terrorists struck the Pentagon. Casualties include 33 sailors, six Department of the Navy civilians, and three Navy civilian contractors reported missing, Arlington, Va. Two commercial airliners also struck the World Trade Center in New York City, N.Y., destroying both towers.

2002 - The “Don’t Tread on Me” First Navy Jack is flown by Navy ships marking the first anniversary of the terrorists attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.