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Today the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association celebrates its 136th birthday! On this day in 1886, then-LCDR Charles Belknap, Class of 1867, founded the U.S. Naval Academy Graduates Association. It was renamed the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association in 1931.
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