The US Navy abolished rum rationing in 1862 and gradually restricted the types of alcohol that sailors could drink on board, but General Order No. 99 even prohibited the serving of alcohol in ...

Lincoln Depot Museum In March of 1863, amidst the American Civil War, Frederick Douglass announced, “The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate […] ...

Generations three, four and five in 1929 at the Soon family house in Bukit Mertajam. Tet Leong’s uncle, Boon Leong and father ...

J. E. B. Stuart wrote from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, to his cousin Bettie Hairston, “A few ...

1792: Kentucky is admitted as 15th US state. 1796: The last British troops withdraw from the US. On the same day, Tennessee is admitted as the 16th US state. 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte swears fidelity ...

U.S. Navy is renaming a ship named for gay rights leader Harvey Milk and considering new names for others named for prominent ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a review of ship names honoring Mr. Milk, a gay rights pioneer, and other leaders. In ...

Milk, who served in the Navy during the Korean War, became one of the country’s first openly gay elected officials, winning a ...

The Navy may rename the USNS Harvey Milk, named for the 1970s gay civil rights activist, at the direction of Defense ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename an oil ship named after gay rights activist Harvey Milk, a move that pointedly comes at the start of Pride Month. Military.com ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the ship that honors Harvey Milk, a former sailor who later ...

In 1949, the U.S. Navy called for a tail-sitting interceptor to protect its convoys—capable of launching vertically and flying at near supersonic speeds. The Martin 262 answered with three unique ...