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1856 in the United States

January 26 – Puget Sound War/Yakima WarBattle of Seattle: Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after an all day battle with settlers.

26th Marine Expeditionary Unit

On March 22, two MV-22 Osprey, containing a payload of twenty five Recon Marines as a TRAP force, and operated by the 26th MEU operating off of the USS Kearsage recovered the pilot of a USAF F-15E Strike Eagle who ejected after an equipment malfunction.

8th millennium BC

In 2268 of Star Trek: The Original Series, the crew of the starship USS Enterprise rush to stop an asteroid from colliding with a Federation world, but discover the asteroid called Yonada is actually an inhabited multi-generation ship of millions of people.

Archerfish

Two submarines of the United States Navy have been named USS Archerfish, the first one holding the distinction of sinking the largest ship ever destroyed by a submarine, the 68,059-ton Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano, on November 29, 1944.

Atka Iceport

It was named by personnel of the USS Atka, under U.S. Navy Commander Glen Jacobsen, which moored here in February 1955 while investigating possible base sites for International Geophysical Year operations.

Benner

USS Benner, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

Brazil Squadron

An expedition to the Falkland Islands was launched in late 1831 when the sloop-of-war USS Lexington was sent to Puerto Soledad to investigate the capture and possible armament of two American whalers.

Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

The springs at Bath, in Bristol Township, were popular among wealthy Philadelphians for a while, but lost popularity to the ones in Saratoga, New York.

Carson McCullers

The novella The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951) depicts loneliness and the pain of unrequited love; at the time of its writing, McCullers was a resident at Yaddo, the artists' colony in Saratoga, New York.

Coronado Islands

In May 1943 the U.S. Navy's USS PC-815, commanded by L. Ron Hubbard, conducted unauthorized gunnery exercises involving the shelling of the Coronado Islands, in the belief they were uninhabited and belonged to the United States.

D'Lo, Mississippi

The aircraft carrier USS Lexington which was sunk in 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea was constructed in some areas with lumber that had been milled in D'Lo.

Dominique Lefèbvre

The US Captain John Percival of the USS Constitution failed in his attempts to have him released, but managed to inform Admiral Jean-Baptiste Cécille who obtained his release.

Evan Peter Aurand

He remained active in civic affairs in Honolulu until his death at 71 on June 7, 1989 and was buried at sea from the USS Benjamin Stoddert off Kawaihoa Point (Koko Head), Oahu.

Gainesway Farm

At the Saratoga Yearling sales in August, Gainesway had a sales topper with a chestnut Mr. Greeley colt that sold for $2.2 million to Team Valor and will be syndicated.

Gyatt

USS Gyatt, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

Halsey

USS Halsey, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

Harold J. Ellison

USS Harold J. Ellison, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

History of papermaking in New York

From Saratoga they drove to Luzerne, at the confluence of the Hudson and Sacandaga Rivers, and learned that spruce was abundantly available in these watersheds.

Holly Graf

Until January 2010 she was commanding officer of the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG-63), a major surface combatant vessel of the fleet.

John Slidell

John Slidell was a brother of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, a naval officer who commanded the USS Somers on which a unique event occurred in 1842 off the coast of Africa during the Blockade of Africa.

Kenneth McPeek

Kenny currently races primarily at Keeneland, Churchill Downs, Gulfstream Park and Saratoga, as well as keeping a division at his Magdalena Farm in Lexington.

Light of Saratoga

The "Light of Saratoga" is a legend located in the Big Thicket of Southeast Texas.

Louis N. Stodder

In 1863 Stodder was commander of the USS Adela, a former blockade runner which was attached to the East Gulf Blockading Squadron.

Manning Kimmel

Asakaze was sunk on August 23, 1944 off Cape Bilinao (Luzon) by USS Haddo (SS-255), and Yūnagi was sunk August 25, 1944 off N.W. Luzon by the USS Picuda (SS-382).

Marine Corps–Law Enforcement Foundation

Other beneficiaries have included the children of those who died as a result of the bombing of the USS Cole, of the Air Force personnel killed at Khobar Towers, and of the passengers on the Space Shuttle Columbia.

Mayne Island

Active Pass is named after the American survey ship USS Active, the first steam vessel to navigate the pass.

Merrimac, Queensland

The community takes its name from two possible sources: the Merrimack River in New England (U.S.) or the USS Merrimac, a Union navy frigate itself named for the river.

Mount Drygalski

The feature appears to have been roughly charted on an 1882 sketch map compiled by Ensign Washington Irving Chambers aboard the USS Marion during the rescue of the shipwrecked crew of the American sealing bark Trinity.

National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame

The National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame, in the Saratoga Spa State Park, Saratoga, New York, was established in 1986 and is the only museum in the nation dedicated entirely to dance.

Navy Electronics Laboratory

World headlines came early in this program from several events—the submerged voyage of USS Nautilus from the Pacific to the Atlantic, via the North Pole, in 1958, and the surfacing at the pole of USS Skate the following year, both with NEL’s Dr. Waldo Lyon aboard as chief scientist and ice pilot.

NYRA

New York Racing Association, The NY State franchisee which runs racing operations at three New York State Thoroughbred racecourses; Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Saratoga Racecourse.

Project HOPE

Its most visible aspect was the SS HOPE, the first peacetime hospital ship (converted from the USS Consolation (AH-15)).

Robert Christopher

Robert Collins Christopher was an American journalist who served in World War II and was in the force that occupied Japan after Douglas MacArthur accepted the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri.

S5G reactor

This nuclear reactor was installed both as a land-based prototype at the Nuclear Power Training Unit, Idaho National Laboratory near Arco, Idaho, and on board the USS Narwhal (SSN-671); both have been decommissioned.

Saratoga County Homestead

The Saratoga County Homestead, or Homestead Sanitarium, was a large Tuberculosis Sanatorium located in Barkersville, in Saratoga County, New York.

Saratoga Springs Public Library

The first library in Saratoga Springs, the Saratoga Athenaeum, was a private subscription library founded in 1885 by a group that included Spencer Trask and Joseph Drexel among others.

Saratoga, New York

It is best known as the location that British General John Burgoyne surrendered to American General Horatio Gates at the end of the Battles of Saratoga on October 17, 1777, often cited as the turning point for the United States during the American Revolutionary War.

Sinking of the Petrel

The surviving rebels were eventually sent to Philadelphia in the steamship USS Flag to be charged for piracy but the accusation was not justified and the sailors were taken to Moyamensing Prison for the duration of the war.

Terrorism in Yemen

A CIA-controlled Predator drone fired a Hellfire missile at an SUV in the Yemeni desert containing Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, a Yemeni suspected senior al-Qaeda lieutenant believed to have been the mastermind behind the October 2000 USS Cole bombing that killed 17 Americans.

The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama

The painting commemorates the Battle of Cherbourg of 1864, a naval engagement between the Union cruiser USS Kearsarge and the rebel privateer CSS Alabama.

Thomas Peter Lee

In 1903 he moved to Saratoga, Texas, where he gained employment with the newly formed Texas Company, which eventually became Texaco, and when he left that organization ten years later, he had attained the rank of general superintendent of production.

USS Whitehead

On 1–2 March 1864, Whitehead and Southfield sailed up the Chowan River and freed USS Bombshell from her encirclement by Confederate shore batteries.

VFA-37

On 29 Sep 1970, VA-37 participated in an air power demonstration for President Richard Nixon during his two day visit to Saratoga while she steamed in the Med.

VFA-81

Their first deployment was with CVG-17 in late 1956 aboard the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Suez Crisis.

VS-41

The squadron history or lineages should not be confused with the VS-41 "Tophatters" that flew the SBD-3 Dauntless torpedo bombers during World War II from the deck of USS Ranger.

Waban

One United States Navy ship, USS Waban, a steamer in commission from 1898 to 1919, has been named for Waban, and kept the name (as SS Waban) while in post-Navy mercantile service from 1919 to 1924.

Weapon System Safety

The United States Navy formed the Weapon System Explosives Safety Review Board (WSESRB) in 1968 as a result of the tragic fire on the USS Forrestal (CV-59).

White Sulphur Spring

Luther operated excursion boats on Saratoga Lake between the hotel and the "Trolley Park", later Kaydeross Park, and Moon's Lake House at the west (that is, north) end of the lake.


see also

Battle of Antón Lizardo

USS Saratoga was commanded by Commodore Thomas Turner of the Home Squadron and was manned on average by 200 officers and men.

Operation Cockpit

The raid was launched at 5.30am on 19 April, with 17 Barracuda bombers and 13 Corsair fighters from HMS Illustrious and 29 Dauntless and Avenger bombers and 24 Hellcat fighters from USS Saratoga.