* 1964 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

" Since World War II, every major military action has been technically a U. S. military operation or a U. N. " police action ", which are deemed legally legitimate by Congress, and various United Nations Resolutions because of decisions such as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Authorization for Use of Force.

*** 1964 – In direct response to the minor naval engagement known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident which occurred on August 2, 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, a joint resolution of the U. S. Congress, was passed on August 10, 1964.

* August 7 – Vietnam War: The United States Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on U. S. forces.

* June 24 – The United States Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.

Prior United States military involvement in Vietnam intensified following the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964.

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave the President the exclusive right to use military force without consulting the Senate, was based on a false pretext, as Johnson later admitted.

The outcome of these two incidents was the passage by Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted President Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to assist any Southeast Asian country whose government was considered to be jeopardized by " communist aggression ".

A taped conversation of a meeting several weeks after passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was released in 2001, revealing that McNamara expressed doubts to President Johnson that the attack had even occurred.

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President Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes on North Vietnamese naval bases and Congress approved almost unanimously the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing the president " to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the U. S. and to prevent further aggression.

That same year, the Bremerton Historic Ships Association opened the destroyer USS Turner Joy ( DD-951 ) to public tours at the end of the boardwalk ; the ship was built in the Puget Sound area in 1958, commissioned in 1959 and had played a back-up role in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident that further escalated U. S. involvement in the Vietnam War with the Congressional passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing President Lyndon B. Johnson to send fighting troops in addition to the " advisors " already on the ground in Vietnam.

" Major American military involvement began in 1964, after Congress provided President Lyndon B. Johnson with blanket approval for presidential use of force in the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.

McCarthy's decision to run was partly an outcome of opposition to the war by Wayne Morse of Oregon, one of the two Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.

Kitty Hawk was joined by in May and in June, two months prior to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.

* 1964-Tonkin Gulf incident ; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Known today as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, this event spawned the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 7 August 1964, ultimately leading to open war between North Vietnam and the United States.

In August 1964 Johnson secured almost unanimous support in Congress for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave the president very broad discretion to use military force as he saw fit.

On August 7, 1964, a unanimous House of Representatives and all but two members of the Senate voted to approve the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which led to a dramatic escalation of the Vietnam War.

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed by the United States Congress gives Lyndon B. Johnson a free hand to protect American forces in Vietnam, the pretext for deepening the U. S. military commitment.

Johnson expanded the numbers and roles of the American military following the Gulf of Tonkin Incident ( less than three weeks after the Republican Convention of 1964, which had nominated Barry Goldwater for President ).

US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara failed to inform US President Lyndon B. Johnson that the U. S. naval task group commander in the Tonkin Gulf, Captain John J. Herrick, had changed his mind about the alleged North Vietnamese torpedo attack on U. S. warships he had reported earlier that day.

In August 1964, as a result of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, in which U. S. naval vessels claimed to have been attacked by North Vietnamese patrol boats, President Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes ( Operation Pierce Arrow ) launched against the north.

On 4 August 1964, United States President Lyndon B. Johnson erroneously claimed that North Vietnamese forces had twice attacked American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.

In 1964, using evidence drawn from a close reading and analysis of published accounts, Stone was the only American journalist to challenge President Lyndon B. Johnson's account of the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

After Congress repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in January 1971 and President Richard Nixon continued to wage war in Vietnam, Congress passed the War Powers Resolution () over the veto of Nixon in an attempt to rein in some of the president's claimed powers.

For example, in the United States, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution has been called a blank cheque as it gave the President, Lyndon B. Johnson, the power to " take all necessary measures " to prevent " aggression " in Southeast Asia.

* August 7-The United States Congress passes the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, authorizing President Lyndon B. Johnson to use conventional military force in Southeast Asia.

) The building was dedicated by President Lyndon B. Johnson, who delivered his famous “ Gulf of Tonkin Speech ” on the Newhouse Plaza.

Thus in light of the speculation concerning the Gulf of Tonkin Incident and the possible abuse of the authorization that followed, in 1973 Congress passed the War Powers Resolution, which requires the President to obtain either a declaration of war or a resolution authorizing the use of force from Congress within 60 days of initiating hostilities with a full disclosure of facts in the process.

In response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident when the USS Maddox of the United States Navy engaged North Vietnamese ships, sustaining light damage as it gathered electronic intelligence while in the international waters of the Gulf of Tonkin, U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered Operation " Pierce Arrow " which was conducted on August 5.

* August 4: US President Lyndon B. Johnson claims that North Vietnamese naval vessels had fired on two American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.

He was present at the August 4, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident, spent 7-1 / 2 years under torture as a POW in North Vietnam, later became President of The Citadel military college, and eventually ran for Vice-President of the United States with Ross Perot heading the ticket.

In December 1883, during a review of the Second Legion Battalion on the eve of its departure for Tonkin to take part in the B? c Ninh Campaign, General François de Négrier pronounced a famous mot: Vous, légionnaires, vous êtes soldats pour mourir, et je vous envoie où l ’ on meurt!

* 1964 – Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U. S. destroyers and.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow – American aircraft from carriers and bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U. S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.

* 1964 – Gulf of Tonkin incident: U. S. destroyers and report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.

At first the movement grew most in the Russian empire and eastern Europe, but soon spread to western Europe and beyond: to Argentina in 1889 ; to Canada in 1901 ; to Algeria, Chile, Japan, Mexico, and Peru in 1903 ; to Tunisia in 1904 ; and to Australia, the United States, Guinea, Indochina, New Zealand, Tonkin, and Uruguay in 1905.

The Foreign Legion's First Battalion ( Lieutenant-Colonel Donnier ) was sent to Tonkin in the autumn of 1883, during the period of undeclared hostilities that preceded the Sino – French War ( August 1884 to April 1885 ), and formed part of the attack column that stormed the western gate of Son Tay on 16 December.

The Second and Third Infantry Battalions ( chef de bataillon Diguet and Lieutenant-Colonel Schoeffer ) were also deployed to Tonkin shortly afterwards, and were present in all the major campaigns of the Sino-French War.

The treaty ending the war, put France in a protectorate over northern and central Vietnam, which it divided into Tonkin and Annam.

Her parents died within a few hours of each other from malignant fever, whereupon Grace and her two sisters were adopted by John Tonkin, a surgeon in the town.

Davy's boyhood was spent partly with his parents and partly with Tonkin, who placed him at a preparatory school kept by a Mr. Bushell, who was so much struck with the boy's progress that he persuaded Davy's father to send him to a better school.