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** On the Gulf of Mexico Coast, the Tampa Bay Area, consisting of Tampa, Clearwater, and St. Petersburg
** 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.
** Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to its invasion of Kuwait.
** 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 Mexico
** Vicente Fox is elected President of Mexico, as candidate of the rightist PAN ( National Action Party ), ending 71 years of PRI ( Institutional Revolutionary Party ) rule.
** In the TV series Quantum Leap ( 1988 – 1993 ), the Quantum Leap project is said to be launched in New Mexico, in 1999.
** In Mexico City, black American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their arms in a black power salute after winning, respectively, the gold and bronze medals in the Olympic men's 200 metres.
** Establishment of the National Revolutionary Party ( Partido Nacional Revolucionario ) in Mexico by ex-President Plutarco Elías Calles.
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