From the Navy News Service
1815 - Benjamin Crowninshield becomes fifth Secretary of the Navy.
1930 - USS Lexington (CV 2) provides power to Tacoma, Wash., when floods knocked out city power plants.
1991 - Operation Desert Storm, the liberation of Kuwait from Iraq, begins.
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