![]() Navy Day was last officially observed in 1949 when the first Secretary of Defense, Louis A. Truman arrived to review the fleet in New York Harbor. ![]() The 1945 celebration was particularly grand and memorable when sitting President Harry S. ports where public celebrations were held. Navy participated each year by dispatching ships to various U.S. Navy Day was traditionally celebrated with pomp and circumstance between 19. October 27 also happens to be the birthday of one of the Navy’s most ardent supporters, President Theodore Roosevelt, who once served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy and had supported a Navy Day. ![]() At the time, October 27 was considered by many to be the birthday of the United States Navy, based on a document presented to the Continent Congress on this date in 1775 that supported the purchase of a fleet of merchant ships to form an American colonial navy. Navy Day was first celebrated in 1922 by the Navy League of the United States, a civilian nonprofit organization, as a day to pay tribute to the men and women we call sailors. ![]()
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