** In Alameda County: Fremont, Newark, and Union City are referred to as the Tri-City Area.

** Livermore Valley AVA, California wine region in Alameda County

** Alameda Dam, dam and reservoir in southern Saskatchewan

** The Alameda / Oakland Ferry

** Midway, Alameda County, California, an unincorporated community

** Alameda Aero Club

** Stops: La Plata, Puerta Jerez, Plaza Nueva, Plaza del Duque, Alameda, Macarena, Pino Montano.

** Designated 1974-06-07 in San Joaquin County: I-5 near Tracy to Alameda County

** Designated 1970-02-18 in Alameda County: San Joaquin County to I-205 near Tracy

** Designated 1976-06-25 in Alameda County: San Leandro to I-980 / SR 24 in Oakland

** Designated 1978-06-15 in Alameda County: SR 238 in Fremont to Bernal Avenue in Pleasanton

** Designated 1982-10-22 in Alameda County: Bernal Avenue in Pleasanton to Contra Costa County

** Designated 1982-10-22 in Contra Costa County: Alameda County to SR 24 in Walnut Creek

** Alameda County: Alameda County Arts Commission

** Santa Rita Jail, Dublin, Alameda County, California

** Monte Vista, Alameda County, California

** Secret Harbor

** Skunk Harbor

** Harbor

** The United States enter World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

** Aloha Tower is officially dedicated at Honolulu Harbor in the Territory of Hawai ' i.

** Doris " Dorie " Miller, Americsn sailor, Pearl Harbor survivor ( b. 1919 )

** Attack on Pearl Harbor: Japanese spy Takeo Yoshikawa arrives in Honolulu, Hawaii and begins to study the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.

** Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the United States into World War II.

** While disabled, the submarine tender USS Proteus ( AS-19 ) discharges radioactive coolant water into Apra Harbor, Guam.

** The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor.

** Statue of Liberty, a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886

** Salem Harbor

** Bar Harbor, Maine

** Southwest Harbor, Maine

** Northeast Harbor, Maine

** The Norwalk Harbor at the mouth of the river in southwestern Connecticut

** 25 December: Shifted moores to Owharre Harbor, Huahine, Society Islands

** Pacific Coast Highway ( Harbor Transitway station )

** Coasters Harbor ( a village of Newport )

** Lanoka Harbor

** Laurence Harbor

** Clermont Harbor

** 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 )