** USS Abingdon ( PC-1237 )

** USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701 ), the main setting of the original Star Trek television series and several Star Trek films

** USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-A ), the main setting of the fifth and sixth Star Trek films

** USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-B ), launched at the start of Star Trek: Generations

** USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-C ), appears in the Star Trek: Next Generation episode " Yesterday's Enterprise "

** USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-D ), the main setting of Star Trek: The Next Generation

** USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-E ), the main setting for the films Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek Nemesis

** USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-J ), appears in the episode of Star Trek: Enterprise " Azati Prime " in the 26th century

** USS Harpers Ferry ( LSD-49 ), a Harpers Ferry class dock landing ship of the United States Navy, commissioned in 1995

** In the Star Trek: Voyager episode " One Small Step ", USS Voyager discovers the fate of Ares IV, one of the first manned expeditions to Mars in 2032.

** USS Sacramento ( 1862 ) was a sloop, launched in 1862 and wrecked in 1867.

** USS Sacramento ( PG-19 ) was a gunboat, commissioned in 1914 and decommissioned in 1946.

** USS Sacramento ( AOE-1 ) was the lead ship of Sacramento-class fast combat support ships, commissioned in 1964 and decommissioned in 2004.

** Vietnam War: United States destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy are attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin.

** Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow – Aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U. S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.

** The keel is laid for the U. S. nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.

** WWI: Action of 17 November 1917: United States Navy destroyers USS Fanning and USS Nicholson capture Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-58 off the south-west coast of Ireland, the first combat action in which U. S. ships take a submarine ( which is then scuttled ).

** An explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314.

** Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.

** The USS Tarawa and USS Kearsarge are laid down.

** Japanese attack the USS Harder

** NASCAR postponed the September 16 Winston Cup New Hampshire 300 race at Loudon until November 23.

** Winston Churchill scraps UK compulsory national Identity Cards.

** Yalta Conference, wartime meeting from 4 February 1945 to 11 February 1945 among the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union — President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively — for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization, intended to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.

** WWII: War in the Pacific: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and ROC leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet at the Cairo Conference to discuss ways to defeat Japan.

** WWII: Winston Churchill promises all possible British assistance to the Soviet Union in a worldwide broadcast: " Any man or state who fights against Nazidom will have our aid.

** Randolph Churchill, British politician, son of Winston Churchill ( b. 1911 )

** With the resignation of Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

** Winston Churchill, in his first address as Prime Minister, tells the House of Commons, " I have nothing to offer you but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

** Winston Churchill warns the House of Commons to " prepare itself for hard and heavy tidings.

** WWII: Winston Churchill tells the British House of Commons, " We shall not flag or fail.

** WWII: Winston Churchill says to the House of Commons: " The Battle of France is over.

** WWII: Winston Churchill pays tribute in the House of Commons to the Royal Air Force: " Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

** Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill ( born 1854 )

** Winston Churchill, Twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature ( d. 1965 )

** Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

** Vernon, Winston County, Mississippi

** John Lennon officially changes his name from John Winston Lennon to John Winston Ono-Lennon.

** NASCAR Winston Cup Championship – Cale Yarborough

** Conversations With the Enemy by Winston Groom and Duncan Spencer

** Winston Cup Championship-Dale Earnhardt

** Rance McDaniel won Top Fuel at the NHRA Winston Finals

** Darrell Gwynn won Top Fuel at the NHRA Winston Finals

** Darrell Gwynn won Top Fuel at the NHRA Winston Finals