1st
1919. Dive bombing is demonstrated at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.

1939. Gen. George C. Marshall becomes Army Chief of Staff, the first one commissioned from the pre-ROTC college training program.

2nd
1775. Chartering of schooner Hannah starts the Continental Navy.

1910. Blanche Scott becomes the first American woman pilot to solo.

1945. Japan formally surrenders aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay ending WW-2.

3rd
1908. First test flight of an Army flying machine is made by Orville Wright at Fort Myer, VA.

1919. Congress appoints John J. Pershing General of the U.S Army, the first person ever to hold that rank.

1926. Marines serve in Shanghai during Yangtze Service Campaign.

4th
1922. Lt. James H. Doolittle makes the first air transcontinental crossing in a single day, flying 2,163 miles in 21 hours, 20 minutes.

1923. Airship Shenandoah (ZR-1) makes first flight at NAF Lakehurst, N.J.

1941. German U-boat 652 attacks destroyer USS Greer

5th
1776. First Navy and Marine uniforms prescribed.

1918. U.S. Marines parade with Royal Marines in Rosyth, Scotland.

6th
1918. U.S. Navy Railway Battery goes into WW1 action in France

1961. Task Force Amity II complete visit to 17 African ports.

7th
1776. Continental Army Sgt. Ezra Lee takes the one-man submarine Turtle to attack a British ship off Staten Island NY. The mission fails when the ship's copper bottom prevents the attachment of a mine.

1903. Marines from USS Brooklyn land at Beirut to protect American lives.

1918. First U.S. demonstration of troop transport by air, Champaign, Ill.

8th
1863. Marines join in unsuccessful attack on Fort Sumpter, SC.

1944. German V-2, world's first ballistic missile, is first used in combat.

1945. Army X Corps troops arrive at Inchon, Korea to begin occupation duty. U.S. Military government of Korea will last until the Republic of Korea forms in 1948.

1954. Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) established.

9th
1908. Army Signal Corps LT Frank P. Lahm becomes the first military passenger in an airplane, with a 6.5 minutes flight at Ft. Myer VA.

1942. Japanese submarine-based seaplane bombs continental U.S.

1959. Atlas missile fired for the first time by a SAC crew from Vandenberg AFB, CA. The shot travels about 4,300 miles at 16,000 mph.

10th
1813. Battle of Lake Erie.

1961. Navy commissions its first nuclear cruiser, USS Long Beach.

11th
1814. Battle of Lake Champlain.

1990. Marines arrive in Gulf of Oman in support of Desert Shield.

2001. Terrorists fly hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center in New York City, and the Pentagon in Arlington VA in the most devastating single attack against the United States in its history, killing upwards of 5000 innocent and unsuspecting people. Courageous passengers aboard another highjacked airliner foil terrorists' attempt to crash into the White House, causing it to crash in Pennsylvania, killing all on board.

12th
1917. Gen. Pershing selects the 7th Marine Company to guard his HQ in France.

1959. Soviet Union launches Luna 2, first man-made object to reach moon.

13th
1985. The first test of the LTV-Boeing ASM-135A air-launched anti-satellite weapon against a target is successful.

14th
1814. Francis Scott Key writes the words to what will become our national anthem.

1942. Marines shred Japanese Forces on Guadalcanal's Bloody Ridge.

2002. President Bush declares a National Emergency and activates 50,000 National Guard and Reserve members to help with recovery and security. He also declares a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance

15th
1944. The 1st Marine Division lands against heavy opposition at Peleliu in the Pacific.

1950. The 1st Marine Division lands at Inchon, Korea, and moves to capture Seoul.

16th
1863. The Medal of Honor is presented to 12-year-old 3rd Vermont Infantry drummer boy Willie Johnson - the youngest ever to receive it.

1918. The Coast Guard Cutter Seneca loses 11 crewmen trying to bring the British collier Wellington to Brest, France during a gale.

1942. The 3rd Marine Division is organized at Camp Elliott, CA.

17th
1908. Army LT Thomas Selfridge is the first military airplane fatality when a plane piloted by Orville Wright crashes at Ft. Myer VA.

1944. 1,546 Allied aircraft and 478 gliders carry parachute and glider troops in an airborne assault to secure a Rhine crossing at Arnhem.

18th
1924. Marines depart Dominican Republic after seven years occupation.

1945. National Security Act 47 unifies services into Department of Defense.

1947. Congress establishes the U.S. Air Force as a separate service.

19th
1912. Marines participate in Battle of Masaya, during Nicaraguan Campaign.

20th
1814. Marines protect Congress in a hotel after British destroy U.S. Capitol.

1975. Navy commissions first Spruance gas turbine-powered destroyer.

21st
1791. The Coast Guard gives its officers a nine-cent allowance for each undrawn ration.

1987. Navy SEALS seize Iranian landing craft in the Persian Gulf.

22nd
1945. The 5th Marine Division lands at Sasebo, Japan for occupation duty.

1950. USAF Col. David Schilling makes the first nonstop transatlantic jet flight in a Republic F-84E, from Manston, England, to Limestone AFB, ME, in 10 hours, 1 minute. The trip requires three in-flight refuelings.

23rd
1776. Continental Marines reinforce Gen. George Washington at New York.

1779. The Continental frigate Bon Homme Richard battles the British frigate Serapis.

1949. President Truman announces that the Soviet Union has successfully exploded an atomic bomb.

24th
1861. The Union Army in Virginia uses a hot air balloon for the first time to observe a battle, and adjusts artillery fire by telegraph to the ground.

1918. LT David Ingalls becomes the Navy's first and only Ace in WW-1.

1929. LT James H. Doolittle makes the first blind, all-instrument flight at Mitchell Field, N.Y.

25th
1942. President Franklin Roosevelt dedicates Camp Pendleton Marine Base, CA.

26th
1915. Horse Marines engage Haitian bandits near Petite Reviere.

1931. Keel of the Ranger, first designed aircraft carrier, laid at Newport News, VA.

27th
1941. First Liberty Ship, Patrick Henry, launched.

1942. Coast Guard SM1C Douglas Munroe rescues Marines on Guadalcanal and becomes the only Coast Guard recipient of the Medal of Honor in WW-2.

1991. Strategic bomber crews stand down from their decades-long, round-the-clock readiness for nuclear war.

28th
1900. U.S. Marines withdraw from Peking, China after the Boxer Rebellion.

29th
1988. Launching of the space shuttle Discovery ends the long stand-down of the U.S. manned space program after the Challenger disaster.

30th
1949. The Berlin Airlift that began May 12, 1949 officially ends.

1954. Navy commissions its first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus.

1992. Naval and Marine facilities close at Subic Bay, Philippines.