JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. –
Oct. 3, 1921 - USS Olympia sails for France to bring home the Unknown Soldier from World War I.
Oct. 4, 1991 - USS Arkansas, USS Sioux, USS Aubrey Fitch and Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron SIX rescue personnel on merchant ships in three different rescue operations in the Arabian Sea
Oct. 5, 1863 - Confederate steamer David seriously damages USS New Ironsides with a spar torpedo off Charleston, S.C.
Oct. 6, 1997 - NASA Astronaut CDR Wendy B. Lawrence, USN, returns from mission of STS-86: Shuttle -Mir 7 when Atlantis docked with Mir Space Station. The mission began on Sept. 25.
Oct. 7, 2001 - Operation Enduring Freedom begins with carrier air strikes, and ship and submarine Tomahawk strikes.
Oct. 8, 1842 - Commodore Lawrence Kearny in USS Constitution addresses a letter to the Viceroy of China, urging that American merchants in China be granted the same treaty privileges as the British. His negotiations are successful.
Oct. 9, 1961 - USS Princeton rescues 74 survivors of two shipwrecks (U.S. lines Pioneer Muse and SS Shiek) from the island of Kita Daito Shima.