1833 - Honorable Edmund Roberts, transported by USS Peacock and accompanied by USS Boxer, signs the Treaty of Amity, with the King of Siam (now Thailand), which is the first treaty between the United States and an Asian power.
1922 - USS Jupiter (Fuel Ship #3) is recommissioned as USS Langley (CV 1), the Navy's first aircraft carrier.
1952 - During the Korean War, USS Wiltsie (DD 716) and USS Brinkley Bass (DD 887) engage shore batteries at Wonsan, Korea. Bass scores seven direct hits on one of the batteries located near the city of Wonsan.
1959 - USS Staten Island (AGB 5) delivers six tons of food and clothing to New Zealand territorial island south of Samoa after storm devastates the area.
1999 - USS Porter (DDG 78) is commissioned at Port Canaveral, Fla. The guided-missile destroyer is the 28th of the Arleigh Burke-class and the fifth U.S. Navy ship to be named after Commodore David Porter and his son, Adm. David Dixon Porter.
2003 - Operation Iraqi Freedom begins after USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) is among the first to launch tomahawk missiles on Iraq, along with other Navy ships in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf.
2009 - USS Gettysburg (CG 64) apprehends six pirates in the Gulf of Aden after a distress call from two nearby merchant vessels.
