** Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs

** Vietnam War: Near Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas.

** Near Guam, Typhoon Tip reaches a record intensity of 870 millibars, the lowest pressure recorded at sea level.

** American Old West: Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting cowboy Charles McCarthy ( the cowboys were terrorizing the area's Hispanos and Baca was working against them ).

** The Patriarch of Antioch and the head of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and All the East in the Near East.

** Something Near

** “ A Total Near Death Experience ,” written by Alan Grant, art by Barry Kitson, in 2000 AD # 629 – 630 ( 1989 )

** Near Death Experience ( goth rock band )-a band from Los Angeles that was active during the 1990s.

** Near Death Experience ( punk band )-a band from Lawrence, Kansas formed in 1984

** Crossover thrash band Cro-Mags have an album called Near Death Experience, released in 1993.

** Joe Henderson for So Near, So Far ( Musings for Miles )

** Ancient Near East

** Near Dingwall:

** Near Hill of Fearn:

** Near Tain:

** Near Dornoch:

** Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs

** Fast Stars Near the Galactic Center

** Near Death by Nancy Kilpatrick

** Middle Eastern studies ( or Near Eastern studies )

** Joe Henderson for So Near, So Far ( Musings for Miles )

** Encyclopedia of Chicago entry on Near North Side

** Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs

** 3 ) Bureau of Near East & South Asian Affairs, State Department

** Nigg Rock

** Bay River, a river in this locality

** San Francisco Bay Area, or simply the Bay Area

** The Chesapeake Bay and other locally prominent bays

** Moreton Bay bug

** Hudson's Bay Company's 1825 Fort Vancouver

** Vancouver Bay in Jervis Inlet was named after him when Capt.

** Shenzhen Bay Control Point

** Terrace Bay ( HPB20 )

** Möwe Bay ( HPB21 )

** Intrusive-related Ni-Cu-PGE, typified by Voisey's Bay, Canada and Jinchuan, China

** On the Gulf of Mexico Coast, the Tampa Bay Area, consisting of Tampa, Clearwater, and St. Petersburg

** The San Francisco Bay Area, anchored by the cities of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose.

** The Bay of Pigs Invasion ( 1961 ) – an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.

** The Wilhelm Gustloff, with over 10, 000 mainly civilian Germans from Gotenhafen ( Gdynia ) in the Gdansk Bay, is sunk by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea ; up to 9, 400 are thought to have died – the greatest loss of life in a single ship sinking in war action in history.

** The prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland are sunk by the RAF in Lübeck Bay.

** WWII ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, China, and others from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, on board the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

** WWII: Japanese marines land at Milne Bay.

** A BOAC scheduled passenger flight, a DC-3 with registration G-AGBB, ( formerly KLM PH-ALI, Ibis ), enroute between Lisbon and Bristol, is attacked over the Bay of Biscay by German fighters.

** The Hacienda in Las Vegas is imploded to make way for the Mandalay Bay.

** In Florida, the Liberian freighter Summit Venture hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay.

** Yangtze River Floods: In China the Yangtze River breaks through the main bank ; before this, from August 1 – 5, peripheral levees collapsed consecutively in Jiayu County Baizhou Bay.

** The Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba begins ; it fails by April 19.

** The BC Ferries company, later to become the second-largest ferry operator in th world, commences service between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay, British Columbia, Canada.

** Frances Bay, Canadian actress ( d. 2011 )