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** Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to its invasion of Kuwait.
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** Vietnam War: United States destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy are attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin.
** Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow – Aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U. S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
** U. S. President Bush and Soviet President Gorbachev meet in Helsinki to discuss the Persian Gulf crisis.
** Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes UN Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that nation does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by Tuesday, January 15, 1991.
** The USS Samuel B. Roberts ( FFG-58 ) strikes a naval mine in the Persian Gulf, while deployed on Operation Earnest Will, during the Tanker War phase of the Iran – Iraq War.
** Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Kuwait, thus starting the ground phase of the war.
** An explosion and fire aboard the U. S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead.
** A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600, 000 tons ( 176, 400, 000 gallons ) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date.
** Gulf of Sidra incident ( 1981 ): Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi sends two Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets to intercept two U. S. fighters over the Gulf of Sidra.
** and War
** The Battle of Harpers Ferry ( September 12 – 15, 1862 ), a battle in the American Civil War that took place around what is now Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
** Victory and Peace Day, mark the capture of Shusha in the Karabakh War and the end of World War II.
** Malbork, Poland, site of the Ordensburg Marienburg, formerly Marienburg in Westpreußen and during World War II, Nazi Stalag XX-B ( prisoner-of-war camp ) for enlisted men
** In a 2011 episode of Misfits, an alternate reality where Germany won the Second World War, depicts Britain and the gang under the rule of the Nazi occupation force.
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