Based on the Coast Guard Historian’s timeline, https://www.history.uscg.mil/research/chronology/
With inspiration from Mike Kelso

May 8

Curtiss NC seaplane. Plane number four of four built, named NC-4, sometime after the translatlantic test flight, 1919. Visible is the fourth pusher engine which was added for that flight. US Navy photo.

1919  First Lieutenant Elmer F. Stone, USCG, piloting the Navy’s flying boat NC-4 in the first successful trans-Atlantic flight, took off from the Naval Air Station at Rockaway, New York, at 1000 hours on May 8, 1919, together with the NC-1 and NC-3.  Although the NC-1 and NC-3 did not complete the journey, the NC-4 successfully crossed the Atlantic and landed in Lisbon, Portugal on May 27, 1919.  Stone was decorated that same day by the Portuguese government with the Order of the Tower and Sword.

NC-4 in Naval Aviation Museum.

1926  Congress standardized the retired pay of Coast Guard officers with that of all the other armed services.

1975 – Overhead view bow-on of CGC Chase (WHEC 718). USCG photo 240220-G-G0000-1002.JPG

1985  CGC Chase was crippled by an engine room fire that put the cutter out of service for almost six months.  One crewman, MK3 Nicholas V. Barei III, was killed during the incident.

USCGC Cape Shoalwater (WPB 95324)

1985  The largest cocaine seizure by the Coast Guard (to date) was made when Coast Guard units seized the Goza Now with 1,909 pounds of cocaine.  The unlit speedboat, or “go-fast,” was first located by the CGC Cape Shoalwater as it raced towards Miami.  An AIRSTA Miami helicopter was dispatched to investigate and then began chasing it as it neared Miami Beach.  As they approached the shoreline, the three-man crew of the go-fast jumped overboard and escaped but a TACLET seized the abandoned Goza Now and her illicit cargo.  District 7 got a “Bravo Zulu” from Attorney General Edwin Meese.

USCGC Ocracoke ships out from Guantanamo Bay Monday, May 12. JTF Guantanamo photo by Army Pfc. Eric Liesse

1987  Coast Guard units, including USCGC Ocracoke (now Ukrainian Navy patrol vessel P192S Sumy), made the largest seizure of cocaine by the Coast Guard (to date).  They discovered 3,771 pounds (1.9 tons) aboard the La Toto off the northwest coast of St. Croix.