SSN 637 Timeline
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SSN 637 History

Date Event Category
08 MAR 1961 USS PATRICK HENRY (SSBN 599) becomes the first Polaris
submarine to arrive in Holy Loch, Scotland, set a new
underwater duration record of 66 days and 22 hours on patrol		 Cold War Historic Firsts
18 APR 1961 USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (SSBN 600) becomes the first
ballistic missile submarine to transit the Panama Canal		 Cold War Historic Firsts
08 NOV 1961 USS ETHAN ALLEN (SSBN 608) sets a missile firing record by
successfully launching six out of six Polaris A-2 IRBMS, off Cape
Canaveral, Florida		 Cold War Historic Firsts
30 NOV 1961 Sturgeon Contract Awarded SSN-637 Events
06 MAY 1962 USS ETHAN ALLEN (SSBN 608) launches first Polaris missile
with a nuclear warhead at 1845		 Cold War Historic Firsts
02 AUG 1962 USS SKATE (SSN 578) and USS SEADRAGON (SSN 584),
after effecting an historic rendezvous under the ice, surface
together through an opening at the geographic North Pole.		 Cold War Historic Firsts
22 JUN 1963 USS FLASHER (SSN 613), USS TECUMSEH (SSBN 628),
USS DANIEL BOONE (SSBN 629), and
USS JOHN C. CALHOUN (SSBN 630) are launched,
marking the first, and only, time that four nuclear
submarines were christened on the same day		 Cold War Historic Firsts
10 AUG 1963 Sturgeon Keel Laid SSN-637 Events
22 NOV 1963 Assassination of President John F.Kennedy World Events
26 FEB 1966 Sturgeon Launching SSN-637 Events
03 MAR 1967 USS STURGEON (SSN 637) Commissioning SSN-637 Events
03 MAY 1969 USS TRITON (SSN 586) decommissioned, the first
nuclear-powered submarine to be taken out of service.		 Cold War Historic Firsts
20 JUL 1969 US Lands Men on the Moon World Events
09 AUG 1974 President Richard M. Nixon Resigns World Events
17 JUL 1975 Apollo-Soyuz: US-Soviet Handshake in Space World Events
16 AUG 1977 Death of Elvis Presley World Events
28 MAR 1979 Three Mile Island Accident World Events
04 NOV 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis World Events
08 DEC 1980 John Lennon Murdered World Events
20 JAN 1981 Iranian Hostage Crisis Ends World Events
29 MAR 1983 FLEETEX '83 - US NAVY PACFLEET U.S. Naval Exercises
01 SEP 1983 Korean Air Lines Flight 007 Shootdown World Events
25 OCT 1983 Invasion of Grenada World Events
26 APR 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Accident World Events
03 JUL 1988 Iran Air Flight 655 Shootdown World Events
26 DEC 1991 **************** !! COLD WAR ENDS !! **************** World Events
01 AUG 1994 USS STURGEON (SSN 637) Decommissioning SSN-637 Events
11 DEC 1995 Sturgeon Recycling Complete SSN-637 Events
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