Calendar of Events
Jan 1 - New Years Day
Jan 17th - Ben Franklin - 1706
Jan 16th - Board Meeting
Jan 19th - Robert E. Lee - 1807
- Martin L. King birthday observed
Jan 29th - 1944 - As part of Adm R. Spruance's TF58, Intrepid supports the Invasion of the Marshall Islands.
Feb 2 - Ground Hog Day
Feb 8th - Boy Scouts Founded - 1910
Feb 12th - Abraham Lincoln - 1809
Feb 14th - Valentine's Day
Feb 16th - 1944 - Intrepid participates in massive air strikes against Truk - the main Japanese base in the
central Pacific.
- President's Day
Feb 17th - Intrepid is torpedoed off Truk, 11 killed, rudder jammed hard to port. With the aid of a makeshift
sail and two destroyers, Intrepid returns to Pearl Harbor.
Feb 20th - Board Meeting
Feb 22nd - George Washington - 1732
Feb 25th - Ash Wednesday
Mar 8th - Daylight Savings Time Begins
Mar 12th - GirlScouts Founded - 1912
Mar 16th - 1974 -Intrepid is decommissioned and mothballed in the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
Mar 17th - St. Patrick's Day
Mar 18th - 1945 - Off Japan, Intrepid has a lucky escape...a kamikaze crashes 50ft off the star-board bow.
Mar 20th - First Day of Spring
- Board Meeting
Mar 22th - 1947 - Intrepid is decommissioned into the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
Mar 23rd - 1965 - Intrepid recovers Gemini astronauts Grissom and Young
Apr 1st - All Fool's Day
Apr 4th - Palm Sunday
Apr 6th - 1945 -Intrepid's planes help sink the Japanese super battleship Yamato off Okinawa.
Apr 8th - Passover
Apr 9th - Good Friday
Apr 11th - Easter Sunday
Apr 13th - Thomas Jefferson - 1743
Apr 15th - TAX DAY
Apr 17th - Board Meeting
Apr 19th - 1775 - Revolutionary War Began
Apr 25th - 1943 - U.S.S. Intrepid (CV-11) is launched.
May 1st - Loyalty Day
May 5th - Cinco De Mayo
May 8th - 1945 - V-E Day
May 9th - Mother's Day
May 15th - Board Meeting
May 16th - Armed Forces Day
May 21st - Ascension Day
- American Red Cross - 1881
May 24th - 1962 - Intrepid picks up Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter.
May 25th - Memorial Day
May 29th - Shauvot
May 31 - Pentecost
June 4th - 1942 - Battle of Midway
June 6th - 1944 - D-Day
June 14th - Flag Day
June 18th - 1954 - Fitted with new steam catapults, Intrepid is recommissioned to enter the jet age.
June 19th - Board Meeting
June 21st - Father's Day
- Summer Solstice
June 28th - 1914 - WWI Began
July 1st - Canada Day (Canada)
July 4th - INDEPENDENCE DAY
July 17th - Board Meeting
July 20th - 1969 - First Manned Moon Landing
July 24th - Simon Bolivar - 1783
Aug 6th - 1945 - Intrepid launches her last air-strike of the war against Wake Island.
Aug 15th - 1914 - Panama Canal Opened
Aug 16th - 1943 - U.S.S. Intrepid Commissioned
Aug 21st - Board Meeting
Aug 26th - 1920 - Woman Suffrage
Aug - Sept - As part of Admiral "Bull" Halsey's Task Group 38.2, Intrepid launches air strikes against the Palau's
and the Philippines - 1944
- Saved from the scrap yard by Manhattan Patriot Zachary Fisher, Intrepid is moved to New York
City and opens as the Intrepid Sea Air & Space Museum - 1982
Sept 11th Anniversary - Patriot Day - World Trade Center - We Will Never Forget
Sept 18th - Board Meeting
Sept 19th Rosh Hashanah
Sept 28th Yom Kippur
Sept-Oct Anniversary - Intrepid supports U.S. Marines in the battle for Peleliu - 1944
Anniversary - Intrepid serves as temporary field headquarters for the FBI as it begins its
investigation of the 9-11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center - 2001
Anniversary - Intrepid fitted with an angled flight deck and hurrican bow at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard - 1956
Oct 9th Anniversary - Vietnam - 1966 - USS Intrepid begins her first tour off Vietnam. Her piston-engine
A-1 Skyraider fighters shoot down one Mig jet and damage another
Oct 11th Anniversary - Intrepid is1st carrier in history to launch A/C with American-built steam catapults, '54
Oct 12th Anniversary - Columbus Day
Oct 16th - Board Meeting
Oct 19th Anniversary - Revolutionary War ended - 1781
Oct 24th Anniversary - Intrepid's A/C sight and help sink the Japanese super battleship Musashi during the
Battle for Leyte Gulf - the largest naval battle in history - 1944
Oct 29th Anniversary - Kamikaze crashes into gun tub #10, killing ten, mostly steward's mate
volunteers - 1944
Oct 31 Halloween
Nov 1st Daylight Savings Time Ends
Nov 3rd Election Day
Nov 11th Veteran's Day
Nov 19th Anniversary - Gettysburg Address - 1863
Nov 20th - Board Meeting
Nov 25th Anniversary - Intrepid hit by 2 kamikazes within minutes of each other,
killing 69 men & wounding 85 - 1944
Nov 26th Thanksgiving Day
Nov-Dec Anniversary - Intrepid is deployed on her last cruise to the Mediterranean -1972
- Intrepid continues air strikes against the Philippines - 1944
Dec 1st Anniversary - The keel is laid for CV-11 USS Intrepid - December 1, 1941
Dec 7th Anniversary - A Day of Infamy - Pearl Harbor Attacked by the Japanese - 1941
Dec 12th 1st Day of Chanukah
Dec 18th - Board Meeting
Dec 21st Anniversary - Pilgrims Landed - 1620
Dec 25th Christmas Day
Dec 31st New Years Eve
Jan 1, 2011 New Years Day
Calendar of Events