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Today in Naval History
January 4
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Year at a Glance
1910 - USS Michigan, the first U.S. dreadnought battleship, is commissioned.
On This Day (#OTD)

1910

USS Michigan, the first U.S. dreadnought battleship, is commissioned.

1943

USS Shad (SS-235) sinks German minesweeper M 4242 (ex-French trawler Odet II) in the Bay of Biscay.

1944

USS Bluefish (SS-222) and USS Rasher (SS-269) attack a Japanese convoy off French Indochina; Bluefish sinks a merchant tanker while Rasher damages another tanker. Also on this date USS Cabrilla (SS-288) sinks a Japanese freighter off Cape Padran, French Indochina while USS Tautog (SS-199) sinks a Japanese freighter off southern Honshu.

1945

During attacks against the U.S. Navy force bound for the Lingayen Gulf, a kamikaze crashes into escort carrier USS Ommaney Bay (CVE-79) in the Sulu Sea and damages her beyond repair. USS Burns (DD-588) scuttles the carrier escort.

1972

Secretary of the Navy John Chaffee approved the establishment of the Legalman (LN) rating.

1989

VF-32 F-14 Tomcats from USS John F. Kennedy shoot down two hostile Libyan MiGs with AIM-7 [Sparrow] and AIM-9 [Sidewinder] missiles in the central Med north of Tobruk in international waters.