Birdseye view of San Francisco from 1846 showing the
harbor and streets of early San Francisco.

An American naval captain, John Montgomery led a party of
marines and sailors ashore. They met no resistance and
claimed the settlement of Yerba Buena for the United States,
raising the American flag in the central plaza. They occupied
the small settlement that would later be called San Francisco.

John Berrien Montgomery
(1794 – March 25, 1872)

The 1847 Battle of Santa Clara, the only major engagement
to take place in the Bay Area.

President Joe Biden addressed the Class of 2024 at the West Point commencement exercises on May 25 in West Point, New York. The ceremony took place at Michie Stadium and involved around 1,000 cadets who graduated and were commissioned into the Army as second lieutenants.

Biden repeated a story about how he was ‘appointed’ tot he U.S. Naval Academy and wanted to play football —but his path was blocked by future NFL great Roger Staubach.

FACT CHECK: Biden attended the University of Delaware and as an exceptional student who graduated in 1965, reportedly playing football briefly on the 1961 freshman team but did not finish the season.

FOX NEWS

HONOLULU (AP) — Lou Conter, the last living survivor of the
USS Arizona battleship that exploded and sank during the
Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 102
years old.

His daughter, Louann Daley said Conter passed away at his
home Monday in Grass Valley, California following congestive
heart failure.

The ship sank with more than 80 percent of its 1,500-
man crew, including Rear Admiral Issac C. Kidd.

USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii.

The United States Military Academy at West Point, which
has trained generations of American leaders to serve
from the battlefield to the White House, was established
on this day in history, March 16, 1802. 

The academy’s creation was part of the Military Peace
Establishment Act, introduced by Massachusetts
Congressman Joseph Varnum, and signed into law
by President Thomas Jefferson.

President Thomas Jefferson.

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On this day in 1968, the crew and captain of the U.S.
intelligence gathering ship Pueblo were released after
11 months imprisonment by the  government of North
Korea. The ship, and its 83-man crew, was seized by
North Korean warships on January 23, 1968 and
charged with intruding into North Korean waters.

Lt. Cmdr. Lloyd Bucher, commanding officer of the USS
Pueblo, confesses to espionage at a press conference in Pyongyang, North Korea, in 1968, with crew members
looking on.

USS Pueblo today is a Pyongyang, North Korea museum
piece. It was never decommissioned and is the only U.S.
naval vessel in captivity.

    
(September 1, 1927 – January 28, 2004)