** Operation Atalanta, from 2008 ( Gulf of Aden ) – 202 soldiers

** Operation Active Endeavour, from 2001 ( Mediterranean and Strait of Gibraltar ) – 220 soldiers

** Operation Unified Protector, from 2011

** Axis & Allies: while playing as the Axis powers in campaign mode ( which has the Axis powers winning the war ), Operation Sea Lion is the mission following the failed invasion of Normandy.

** Britain Stands Alone: Operation Sealion, 1940, GMT Games ( 1994 ), boardgame

** Empire Earth: the last mission of the German campaign is to carry out Operation Sea Lion

** Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain and Operation Sea Lion, GDW ( 1982 ), boardgame: part of GDW's Europa system.

** Britain Invaded !, aka Operation Sealion, Tk Computerware ( 1985 )

** The Terminator 2029: Operation Scour, 1993 expansion pack for The Terminator 2029

** 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.

** Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul during Operation Ripper.

** Operation Grapple: At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb, which fails to detonate properly.

** Operation Magic Carpet to transport Jews from Yemen to Israel begins.

** WWII: The 27th Polish Home Army Infantry Division is re-created, marking the start of Operation Tempest by the Polish Home Army.

** Operation Bagration: A general attack by Soviet forces clears the German forces from Belarus, resulting in the destruction of German Army Group Centre, possibly the greatest defeat of the Wehrmacht during WWII.

** British forces launch Operation Goodwood, an armoured offensive aimed at driving the Germans from the high ground to the south of Caen.

** Operation Pluto: The world's first undersea oil pipeline is laid between England and France.

** Liberation of Paris: The Allies enter Paris, successfully completing Operation Overlord.

** Operation Market Garden ends in an Allied withdrawal.

** WWII – Operation Varsity: Two airborne divisions capture bridges across the Rhine River to aid the Allied advance.

** Operation Manna: British Lancaster bombers drop food into the Netherlands to prevent the starvation of the civilian population.

** Operation Torch: United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.

** WWII: Operation Chastise by RAF 617 Sqdn are carried out on German dams.

** Nuclear testing: In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the surplus USS Saratoga is sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, when the United States detonates the Baker device during Operation Crossroads.

** international: country code-56 ; submarine cables provide links to the US and to Central and South America ; satellite earth stations-2 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean ) ( 2007 )

** Festa da Conceição da Praia, celebrating Yemanjá, Queen of the Ocean ( Salvador, Bahia )

** Ocean Terminal

** international: satellite earth stations-2 Intelsat ( 1 Indian Ocean and 1 Pacific Ocean )

** Satellite earth station: Intersputnik ( Indian Ocean Region ) Intelsat, Asiasat-1

** international: country code-82 ; 10 fiber-optic submarine cables-1 Korea-Russia-Japan, 1 Korea-Japan-Hong Kong, 3 Korea-Japan-China, 1 Korea-Japan-China-Europe, 1 Korea-Japan-China-US-Taiwan, 1 Korea-Japan-China, 1 Korea-Japan-Hong Kong-Taiwan, 1 Korea-Japan ; satellite earth stations-3 Intelsat ( 1 Pacific Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean ) and 3 Inmarsat ( 1 Pacific Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean )

** Ocean track, in flight planning, the path of an aircraft as determined by heading, slip, and wind effects

** Prototethys Ocean ( c. 550 – 330 Ma )

** Paleotethys Ocean ( c. 445 – 75 Ma )

** Neotethys Ocean ( c. 300 – 100 Ma )

** Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88.

** Ocean Park opens in Hong Kong.

** Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (" Ocean of Storms "), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

** American adventurer Richard Halliburton delivers a last message from a Chinese junk, before he disappears on a voyage across the Pacific Ocean.

** Twenty-four ships are sunk by German bombers and submarines after Convoy PQ 17 to the Soviet Union is scattered in the Arctic Ocean to evade the German battleship Tirpitz.

** An Aeroperú Boeing 757 crashes into the Pacific Ocean when the instruments fail just after takeoff from Lima Airport, killing all 70 on board.

** Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.

** An annular solar eclipse is seen on Atlantic Ocean and Africa.

** Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.