From the Navy News Service
1822 - USS Enterprise captures four pirate ships in the Gulf of Mexico.
1862 - USS Monitor departs New York for Hampton Roads, Va.
1942 - U.S. cruisers and destroyers bombard Vila and Munda, Solomon Islands, sinking two Japanese destroyers.
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