* 1981 – Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.

It was soon used in combat — in March 1986 against a Libyan SA-5 site in the Gulf of Sidra, and then Operation Eldorado Canyon in April.

Gaddafi undertook a number of military adventures during the 1970s to 1980s, including the Chadian – Libyan conflict, the Libyan – Egyptian War and the first Gulf of Sidra incident.

* 1989 – Second Gulf of Sidra incident: a pair of Libyan MiG-23 " Floggers " are shot down by a pair of US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation.

Between the productive lowland agricultural zones lies the Gulf of Sidra, where along the coast a stretch of 500 km of wasteland desert extends northward to the sea.

Gulf of Sidra closing line – 32 degrees 30 minutes north.

In August 1981, in the first incident of the Gulf of Sidra, two Libyan jets fired on U. S. aircraft participating in a routine naval exercise over international waters of the Mediterranean Sea claimed by Libya.

Gaddafi claimed the Gulf of Sidra as his territorial water and his navy was involved in a conflict from January to March 1986.

In January 1989, there was another encounter over the Gulf of Sidra between U. S. and Libyan aircraft which resulted in the downing of two Libyan jets.

** 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.

* January 4 – Gulf of Sidra incident ( 1989 ): Two Libyan MiG-23 " Floggers " are engaged and shot down by 2 US Navy F-14 Tomcats.

It lies in the north of the country and borders the Gulf of Sidra.

Sirte District shares its name with the city of Sirte, the historically most important city on the Gulf of Sidra.

Category: Gulf of Sidra

World crises continued to flare and included the downing of two Libyan Su-22s by American F-14s over the Gulf of Sidra, an Israeli F-16 raid to destroy an Iraqi nuclear reactor, two Iranian hijackings, Iranian air raids on Kuwait, and the release of American hostages in Iran.

The basis of the fictional story in the film relates to real life attacks by the United States against Libya over the Gulf of Sidra, which involved U. S. bombings in both 1981 ( see Gulf of Sidra incident ), and 1986 ( see Action in the Gulf of Sidra ).

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

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

During the Gulf War, the HARM was involved in a friendly fire incident when the pilot of an F-4G Wild Weasel escorting a B-52 bomber mistook the latter's tail gun radar for an Iraqi AAA site.

*** 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.

The Gulf of Tonkin incident, or the USS Maddox incident, are the names given to two separate confrontations, one actual and one false, involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin.

The second Tonkin Gulf incident was originally claimed by the U. S. National Security Agency to have occurred on August 4, 1964, as another sea battle, but instead may have involved " Tonkin Ghosts " ( false radar images ) and not actual NVN torpedo boat attacks.

Chart showing the US Navy's explanation of the Gulf of Tonkin incident

Various news sources, including Time, Life and Newsweek, ran articles throughout August on the Tonkin Gulf incident.

On November 30, 2005, the NSA released the first installment of previously classified information regarding the Gulf of Tonkin incident, including a moderately sanitized version of Mr. Hanyok's article.

From 1956-63, Lê played a moderating role between the two factions, but with the death of the South Vietnamese leader Ngô Đình Diệm and the Gulf of Tonkin incident, he became considerably more radical.

Ellsberg served in the Pentagon from August 1964 under Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ( and, in fact, was on duty on the evening of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, reporting the incident to McNamara ).

( see Gulf Breeze UFO incident ).

This incident, with its high death toll, highlighted dramatically the complexities in dealing with Iraq in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War.

* 1981 – In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Bahrain is a member of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf ( GCC ), established on May 26, 1981 with five other Persian Gulf states.

* Collecting Autographs by Herman M. Darvick, Julian Messner, a Simon & Schuster Division of Gulf & Western Corporation, 1981, 96 pages.

On February 14, 1981, white supremacists traveled to the city to join local shrimpers in protesting the growing presence of Vietnamese shrimpers in the Gulf.

Since I Corps was assigned to Fort Lewis in 1981, soldiers from its units have participated in Operation Just Cause in Panama, Desert Shield and Desert Storm during the Persian Gulf War, Operation Provide Comfort for Kurdish Refugees, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

In 1981, former officials of Gulf and Western's Natural Resources Division led a buyout of New Jersey Zinc and made it a subsidiary of Horsehead Industries, Inc.

Sick served on the staff of the National Security Council under President Carter, and was the principal White House aide for Persian Gulf affairs from 1976 to 1981, a period which included the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis.

* Gulf of Sidra incident ( 1981 )

After leaving NASA and the Air Force, he held a number of positions in international and U. S. businesses, and became owner and president of Gulf Coast Coors in 1981.

In the first Gulf of Sidra incident, 19 August 1981, two Libyan Su-22 Fitter attack aircraft fired upon and were subsequently shot down by two American F-14 Tomcats off of the Libyan coast.

The second Gulf of Sidra incident occurred on 4 January 1989 when two U. S. Navy F-14 Tomcats shot down two Libyan MiG-23 Floggers that appeared to have been attempting to engage them, as had happened eight years prior in the first Gulf of Sidra incident, in 1981.

* Gulf of Sidra incident ( 1981 )-Another incident involving F-14s and Libyan fighters

In 1981 Gulf Air became an IATA member and in the following year became the first international airline to land at Riyadh.

He also called numerous summits and inaugurated the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) in 1981 that is seen an outcome of his early visits.