1941 - Chief of Naval Operations sends "war warning" to commanders of Pacific and Asiatic Fleets.
1961 - Navy reports first use of its cyclotron at Harvard University to treat a human brain tumor. After three treatments, the tumor of the 2-year-old patient shrank by 80 percent.
From the Navy News Service
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