CCH CALENDAR
The Center for Cryptologic History (CCH) publishes a calendar each year which highlights cryptologic events from the past. The calendar and events for the current month are provided below:
JULY
1st
1921 William Freedman joined War Department
1931 At the urging of Elizabeth Friedman, US Coast Guard established a seven-man cryptanalytic section
1942 Central Bureau moved to Brisbane
1995 CIA public ceremony for VENONA declassification
2nd
1946 Army-Navy Cryptoequipment Coordinating Committee established
3rd
1945 Cryptographic Security Board established
5th
1917 General Order 8 issued by AEF in France, establishing headquarters organization that included a cryptographic and cryptanalytic branch.
1979 VADM B. R. Inman, USN, became DIRNSA
8th
1942 President Roosevelt limited COMINT activities to the Army, Navy, and FBI.
9th
1943 Project BEECHNUT set up, special US/UK cryptanalytic activity
11th
1865 First US patent granted for a cipher device to Edward Hawley, for multiple alphabetic device
13th
1993 National Cryptologic Museum opened to NSA/CSS personnel
15th
1949 AFSA formally activated
1949 RADM Earl E. Stone, USN, became first Director of AFSA
1951 MG Ralph J. Canine, USA, named director, AFSA
1951 State Department established liaison unit at Arlington Hall
1928 ENIGMA introduced into German Army
22nd
1806 Aaron Burr’s “cipher letter” to General Wilkinson, leading to charges of treason against Burr
1919 Patent issued to Gilbert Vernam for concept of machine encipherment
24th
1889 Agnes Meyer Driscoll born
1939 French, British, Poles met to discuss Enigma
25th
1939 Meeting of Pyry, outside Warsaw, where Poland shared its successes against the ENIGMA WITH Britain and France
26th
1947 National Security Act passed
28th
1866 First use of transatlantic telegraph cable, generating upsurge in commercial cryptography
1916 U.S. Navy Code & Signal Section established
1917 Capt Frank Moorman detailed to form U.S. Army Radio intercept
29th
1924 William Freedman received a patent for a device to transmit telegraphic messages quickly, the first of his eventual 30 patents
30th
1942 WAVES established
