On 17 May 1987 USS Stark (FFG-31), while on patrol in the Persian Gulf, was struck by two Iraqi launched Exocet air-to-ground missiles, which killed 37 crewmembers and wounded another 21.
1775 - Col. Benedict Arnold captures a British sloop at St. Johns in Quebec, Canada and renames her <i>Enterprise</i>, the first of many famous ships with that name.